With 2021 approaching, it’s time to reflect on and learn from the past and prepare for the new year. These past two months have reinforced that the more intentional I am in preparation, the better my chances for motivation, follow through, and success. As we ponder the start of a new year, may the following quotes spur us on in making the changes we need to make in what to add, what to hold on to, and what to eliminate in our lives.
Each of us is an Innkeeper who
decides if there is room for Jesus.
Today I choose to live with gratitude for the love that fills my heart, the peace that rests within my Spirit, and the voice of hope that says all things are possible.
Stay ready, so you don’t have to get ready.
The key to
being happy
is knowing you have the power
to choose what to accept
and what to let go.
~ Dodinsky
To make a difference in someone’s life, you do not have to be brilliant, rich, beautiful, or perfect. You just have to care.
~ Mandy H
“Now as a born-again believer, I’m driven by the gospel of Jesus Christ, so I don’t look for a black solution or a white solution or a blue solution. I look for a God solution.”
~ Tim Scott
“The greatest legacy one can pass on
to one’s children and grandchildren
is not money or material things
accumulated in life,
but rather a legacy of faith and character.”
~ Billy Graham
“Sometimes you have to let go of the picture of what you thought life would be like and learn to find the joy in the story you are actually living.”
~ Rachel Marie Martin
“Joy is a decision,
a really brave one,
about how you are going
to respond to life.”
~ Wess Stafford
“I don’t know what you’re trudging through right now, what you’re facing, what you’re waiting for but THIS I know - God is always right. Our job is to trust him and not our own understanding and then to stand with hands raised and heart filled as God works in us, through us, around us, despite us.”
~ Lisa Appelo
“We can’t always
choose our circumstances,
but we can always choose
our response to them
and choose JOY.”
~ Donna Thompson
“The role of the church is to cultivate a people who can risk being peaceful in a violent world, risk being kind in a competitive society, risk being faithful in an age of cynicism, risk love when it may not be returned… because we have the confidence that in Christ we have been reborn into a new reality.”
~ Stanley Hauerwas
Nothing can dim
the LIGHT
that shines
from within.
~ Maya Angelou
“God doesn’t expect the impossible from us. He wants us to expect the impossible from Him.”
~ Dwight L. Moody
“May we all test positive for hope this week.”
~ Kirk Lewis
He put a new song in my mouth, a hymn of praise to our God. Many will see and fear the Lord and put their trust in him.
Psalm 40:3
See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.
Isaiah 43:19
Because of the LORD’s great love we are not consumed,
for his compassions never fail.
They are new every morning;
Great is your faithfulness.
Lamentations 3:22-23
I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.
Ezekiel 36:26
“A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.”
John 13:34
You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; to be made new in the attitude of your minds; and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.
Ephesians 4:22-24
