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Return to your rest, oh my soul, for the Lord has dealt bountifully with you
 - Psalm 116:7 -

"The secret of happiness is not in doing
what one likes,
but in liking what one does"


"It's a clear as daylight to me that the only worthwile life is one of unconditional surrender to God's will and of living in His way, trusting His love and guidance." 
-Betty Stam-

I'd leave all the hurry,
The noise and the fray,
For a house full of books
And a garden of flowers

"Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house." Henry Ward Beecher

Where words fail, music speaks.     Hans Christian Andersen

"You can take the girl out of Scotland, but you can't take the Scotland out of the girl"

My heart is in the highlands, my heart is not here. . .
                    -Robert Burns-
"But oh! how happy are those who have placed their love on
Him who can never be absent from them! 
They need but open their eyes, and they shall every where
beholds traces of His presence and glory and converse
with Him whom their soul loveth: and this makes
the darkest prison or wildest desert, not only supportable
but delightful to them." 
Henry Scougal. 

"How can you know He does not want you in the far-flung battle line if you do not offer?"    Isobel Kuhn

. . .preach truth to your soul daily. .

"But how to get faith strengthened? 
Not by striving after faith,
but by resting on the Faithful One" 
Hudson Taylor
God created us for this:  to live our lives in a way that makes Him look more like the greatness and the beauty and the infinite worth that He really is.  John Piper