Maybe I haven't been attentive/receptive enough or (as is usually the case) this was the right time to be reminded of His faithfulness and incredible guidance in my life. To be reminded that he is the ultimate aegis.
Many "on-time word(s)" came into my life during this time. So, this post will be less my words and more a collection of quotes to sum up the lessons I have learned these past two weeks.
"Be still. Get quiet and listen. Let yourself get angry, let yourself get sad. Face the truth; go through the eye of the needle; feel the pain and know that it will slowly fade. The short term pain of facing a truth FAR outweighs the long-term pain of believing a lie." - Mastin Kipp
"We’ve all had major disappointments in life....So, what do we do in the meantime with the feelings that are left over from letdown, heartbreak and disappointment? Well – you have two choices, you can either choose to self-destruct through ramping up your addiction du jour, or you can choose to take the anger, sadness, confusion and disappointment and channel it towards fulfilling your dreams...Using the pain of disappointment to push you even further towards your dreams is a wonderful use of that energy."- Mastin Kipp
If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.” - Henry David Thoreau
The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.” - Robert Kiyosaki
"Acting on your dreams and expressing your gifts is like planting a seed. I love using this example. The seed has potential already within it. With the proper soil, watering, sunlight and TIME, the seed will blossom.
Especially in Western Society, we are so focused on results and NOW, that we can actually impede our seeds’ growth. Imagine planting a seed in the ground and coming back an hour later, digging it up and wondering why it’s not a fully formed tree yet – and perhaps even getting mad/angry or depressed that it’s 'taking so long'... For me patience is the slow, yet perfect unfolding of my dreams one day at a time. It’s embracing the uneasiness of all the things that are still unsettled in my heart...even if I can’t see it or feel it in this moment. Patience is accepting the present fully as it is and then course correcting. Patience is allowing yourself to make mistakes and then learn from them. Patience is removing the word “should” from your vocabulary and instead, understanding that everything that’s happened in your life has been necessary to teach you...When you cultivate this kind of patience, you leave room for miracles." - Mastin Kipp
Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.” - May Sarton
"[God] gives us dreams, desires and calls us to live them out. Deep down we know that [God] will support us to fulfill our purpose, but many times the opinions of others and the collective whole of society are louder than that still voice within... Stand up (in a loving way) to the naysayers in your life. Train yourself to let that still, calm voice within guiding you into the unknown of your dreams to become louder than the negative voices you hear. Surround yourself with fellow travelers who will support you." - Mastin Kipp ("God has been substituted in the place of "the uni-verse" to illustrate the quotes communication to me)
Patience is accepting your friends, mate and partners exactly where they are with no insistence that they change for you." - Mastin Kipp
"One of the most important facets I've learned about love is unselfishness, which is characterized in the Bible as a willingness to sacrifice one's own wishes for those of others. I've learned that true love will always adapt and adjust to the needs and desires of other people.
It's impossible for people who've truly been reduced to love to be selfish. God has taught them how to be totally adaptable and adjustable to others. Selfish people, on the other hand, have hard hearts. It's very difficult for them to learn anything—especially if it involves self-sacrifice. They expect everyone else to adjust to them and their needs. They simply don't know how to adjust to others without becoming angry or upset.
Learning to adapt and adjust to the needs and desires of others was very difficult...[BUT -emphasis mine] Once you've been reduced to love, you'll have no trouble establishing and maintaining good, healthy relationships with others. Your primary goal in life will be to put the wishes of others before your own. You'll learn that true love is all about sacrifice and selfishness will be a thing of the past." - Joyce Meyers
Hope isn’t free, but anything worth having is worth paying for. You see, hope is the foundation of life and it can teach us valuable lessons if we are willing to learn.
Life without hope is called death.
In the waiting and anticipating phase we can grow stronger in mind, body and spirit if we choose to. We know that what we want is on its way but we just have to finish paying our dues. In the time we spend paying the price for the things we want, a sense of pride is built and character is formed. We grow into the person we need to be in order to receive that which we’ve been longing for.
Don’t rush hope or you’ll ruin it.
Hope deferred isn’t hope denied, so keep paying it forward, for that which you are working towards will soon be yours." - Tony Gaskin
Actually there is so much more (yes and this is all in the past two weeks!), but this is already getting to be too long!!!
Checkout Mastin Kipp's blog The Daily Love .
