Allow Your Dreams A Place

Live Every Day To Fulfill Your Personal Mission. God Has A Reason For Whatever Season You Are Living Through Right Now. A Season Of Loss Or Blessing? A Season Of Activity Or Hibernation? A Season Of Growth Or Incubation? You May Think You're On A Detour, But God Knows The Best Way For You To Reach Your Destination.

A Thin Line Separates Laughter And Pain, Comedy And Tragedy, Humor And Hurt. Our Lives Constantly Walk That Line. When We Slip Off On One Side Or The Other, We're Taken By Surprise. But Who Said There Wouldn't Be Surprises? Knowing God Just Means That All The Rules Will Be Fair; At The End Of Our Life Drama, We'll See That. We Never Know How Things Will Turn Out, But If We Know With Certainty They Will Make Sense Regardless Of How They Turn Out, We're On To Something.

Teaching Literature Is Teaching How To Read. How To Notice Things In A Text That A Speed-reading Culture Is Trained To Disregard, Overcome, Edit Out, Or Explain Away; How To Read What The Language Is Doing, Not Guess What The Author Was Thinking; How To Take Evidence From A Page, Not Seek A Reality To Substitute For It.

Growing Is A Lifetime Job, And We Grow Most When We're Down In The Valleys, Where The Fertilizer Is.

Life Is A Refining Process. Our Response To It Determines Whether We'll Be Ground Down Or Polished Up. On A Piano, One Person Sits Down And Plays Sonatas, While Another Merely Bangs Away At "chopsticks." The Piano Is Not Responsible. It's How You Touch The Keys That Makes The Difference. It's How You Play What Life Gives You That Determines Your Joy And Shine.