Quotes from Donna VanLiere

They're not just recipes. They are family stories and memories.

If we're open it, God can use even the smallest thing to change our lives.

It is predictable that God will take care of us. What's unpredictable is how he will do it.

I've always been a very good judge of people. That's why I like so very few of them.

It is predictable that God will take care of us. What's unpredictable is how he will do it.

I've always been a very good judge of people. That's why I like so very few of them.

Death's power is limited -- It cannot eradicate memories Or slay love It cannot destroy even a threadbare faith Or permanently hobble the smallest hope in God It cannot permeate the soul And it cannot cripple the spirit It merely separates us for a while That is the only power death can claim --No more

Grief never ends Ã¢â'¬Â¦ But it changes. It's a passage, not a place to stay. Grief is not a sign of weakness, nor a lack of faith. It is the price of love. —AUTHOR UNKNOWN

If we're open to it, God can use even the smallest thing to change our lives... to change us. It might be a laughing child, car brakes that need fixing, a sale on pot roast, a cloudless sky, a trip to the woods to cut down a Christmas tree, a school teacher, a Dunhill Billiard pipe...or even a pair of shoes. Some people will never believe. They may feel that such things are too trivial, too simple, or too insignificant to forever change a life. But I believe. And I always will.

I know the well of my maternal incompetence is deep but I am determined to siphon up a calm and breathing hope for him.

The problem with unfilled dreams is that they give us tunnel vision. We focus on ourselves, and that can be depressing and discouraging place to look.

Am I crazy Loretta?" "A little," she says. I glance up at her. "Sometimes we're called on to do crazy things.

If we're open it, God can use even the smallest thing to change our lives...

I don't know what sort of occasion I was waiting for...because everyday was a special occasion with your father.

We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be. —C. S. Lewis It

Donna VanLiere's "A Christmas Blessing" "Don't ever take your EYES off the FINISH line. If you take your eyes off the GOAL, you'll never make it to the END.

Christmas isn't a parade or concert but a piece of home you keep in your heart wherever you go.

There comes a time when you don't know what your capable of anymore. Looking back, you can remember what you were capable of then, how you thought, what you did, who you loved, who people said you were. Then something happens and takes all that away, the basket of good intentions you've been toting around, the trunk of dreams you've been pulling behind you, all of its gone in an instant, and its just you, naked, bare, exposed.

Time passes way too slow when you're waiting for the unknown

Some things may never change but other things can be so completely different that they make the things that don't change bearable.

Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue. —Eugene O'Neill My

Everybody wants to know why we're here, so we search for that answer. We want to know who we belong to so we search for those people and all the while God is whispering, 'Here I am.

Everybody wants to know why we're here, so we search for that answer. We want to know who we belong to so we search for those people and all the while God is whispering, 'Here I am.

If we're open to it, God can use even the smallest thing to change our lives...