in due season

And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
Galatians 6:9

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scenic

Sometimes the most scenic roads in life are the detours you didn’t mean to take.”
― Angela N. Blount

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kissing the earth

“Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh

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rest time

“Rest time is not waste time. It is economy to gather fresh strength… It is wisdom to take occasional furlough. In the long run, we shall do more by sometimes doing less.”
– Charles Spurgeon

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Prepare the Way

Prepare the Way

Prepare the way, O Zion, your Christ is drawing near!
Let every hill and valley a level way appear.
Greet One who comes in glory, foretold in sacred story.
Oh, blest is Christ that came in God’s most holy name.

He brings God’s rule, O Zion; he comes from heaven above.
His rule is peace and freedom, and justice, truth, and love.
Lift high your praise resounding, for grace and joy abounding.
Oh, blest is Christ that came in God’s most holy name.

Fling wide your gates, O Zion; your Savior’s rule embrace.
His tidings of salvation proclaim in every place.
All lands will bow before him, their voices will adore him.
Oh, blest is Christ that came in God’s most holy name.

Words: Frans Mikael Franzen (1772-1847); tr. Composite; adapt. Charles P. Price (b. 1920)
Music: Bereden väg för Herran, melody from Then Swenska Psalmboken, 1697; harm. Koralbok för Svenska Kyrkan, 1939, alt.

Audio: Stephen Sollars
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that still remains

I don’t think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.”
― Anne Frank

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faith

“Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed or those we enjoy now.”
― A.W. Tozer

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happy thanksgiving!

A very happy and blessed Thanksgiving, from all of us, to all of you!

“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.”
– John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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circumstances

give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.
1 Thessalonians 5:18

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thankful

Rest and be thankful.
William Wordsworth

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