gifts

Everything we have, everything we are, is a gift. How can we judge and shame ourselves if this is true?

Life is so humbling, when we slow down and witness the gifts.

Some of most valuable gifts come wrapped in the ugliest paper.

Life is a procession of painful lessons, and how precious those lessons are; so precious that we rejoice in the bitter-sweet gift of life.

Here is to all the brilliant minds that love deeply, for they write the stories that make us dream of true love. Here is to all the visionaries that create a miracle when others give up hope. Here is to all the artists, musicians, actors, singers, songwriters, dancers, screenwriters, philosophers, inventors and poetic hearts that create a perspective of heaven we can experience in this lifetime. But most of all, here is to the wild souls that the world calls broken, insane, abnormal, weird or different because they are the ones that renew our faith, by what they overcome and create, in a world that needs a sign that God doesn__ forget the least of us.

The wonderful thing about learning is that you deprive no one else by taking what you learn. The wonderful thing about teaching is that you don__ lose what you give away. Teaching is also the only gift you can give that will live on into eternity. Something you teach becomes another__ who teaches it to another and to another, and on and on and on.

If I'd learned nothing else in my twenty-seven years on this planet, 'd learned that when someone gives you something totally unexpected and undeserved, you don't ask questions. (Dark City Lights)

If I'd learned nothing else in my twenty-seven years on this planet, I'd learned that when someone gives you something totally unexpected and undeserved, you don't ask questions.

Be aware of the high notes, of the blissful faces and their soft messages, and listen for the silent message of a highly decorated gift.

Plan and plant your gifts. Pray and play your role. The harvest is assured when God manifests his anointing power in your passionate actions.

One of the gifts we receive from Jesus is an entirely new foundation upon which to build our lives. Once you receive Him, He becomes your new foundation and every day you walk with Him, you build on it.

Best gifts: love, prayer, books!

The most amazing thing is that all my sorrows, all of my darkest moments, are becoming my gifts.

To some believers, being on the pill or using a condom is a nonverbal way of telling God to go to hell.

We are what we.

And although Frieda B. didn't feel it inside, the belief of her friend gave her courage to try.

When you cling to something from the past, your hands cannot be open to receive the gifts of the future.

Can you lose your inborn talents? Can the gifts you come into this world with be taken away without your even noticing? Maybe it__ my fault for wanting always to stem the fires within me? Perhaps there are some fires that should be allowed to rage on?