This Is Kristin

I am reading another Brennan Manning book.  I really love his books.  He quotes Francis of Assisi in a chapter, and it really spoke to me:

” Keep a clear eye toward life’s end.  Do not forget your purpose and destiny as God’s creature.  What you are in his sight is what you are and nothing more.  Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that you have recieved- fading symbols of honor, trappings of power- but only what you have given: a full heart enriched by honest service, love, sacrifice and courage.”

“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul – and sings the tunes without the words – and never stops at all.”

~Emily Dickinson

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”

~William Shakespeare

“The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.”
~Flora Whittemore

“The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment.”
~Anthony Robbins

“The Christian commitment is not an abstraction. It is a concrete, visible, courageous, and formidable way of being in the world, forged by daily choices consistent with the truth……… the one who talks, especially if he talks to God, can affect a great deal, but the one who acts really means business and has more claims on our attention.”
~ Brennan Manning.

“Music washes away from the soul, the dust of everyday life.”

— Berthold Auerbach

~ Brody and I don’t go out much, we wait and save for something that we really want to do. When we saw that Damien Rice was coming to town, we decided we had to go. So, we get to go on a date, get out of the house for awhile, and listen to some music that we love.

“I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.”

~Rose Kennedy

“It’s never too late to be who you might have been.”

~George Eliot

“Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time. ”
— Steven Wright