Words I’m Living By
Everything comes
to him who
hustles while he waits.
Thomas Edison
Overheard in Parenting
by Wendy on January 17, 2011
in Laughable life, Quotes, The Joygirl
4-year-old: “I’m not going to grow up.”
Mom: “Good. I hope you never grow up. Even when you’re old.”
4-year-old: “I’m not going to be old. I’m new.”
Sunday: Strange Mercy
“You can’t conceive, nor can I,
the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.”
—Graham Greene
Advent III: Bright and Wild
This is the irrational season
Where love blooms bright and wild.
Had Mary been filled with reason
There’d have been no room for the child.
Madeleine L’Engle
Sunday: Advent II
I saw a stable, low and very bare,
A little child in a manger.
The oxen knew Him, had Him in their care,
To men He was a stranger,
The safety of the world was lying there,
And the world’s danger.
Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1861-1907)
Sunday: Beautiful Questions
“Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.”
—e. e. cummings
