Quotes from Francine Rivers

You can cry a river, but can you build a bridge? - Mitzi

blue-green, pink, and mauve rosettes of echeveria and spiked agave spilled over two large terra-cotta pots.

Puedes hacer todos los planes que quieras,pero el propósito del Señor prevalecerá. PROVERBIOS 19:21

the floor was expensive cream-colored travertine

In Him we live and breathe. In Him we will one day find one another again. In Him we are one. In this life we will not love perfectly. In the next, God promises we will. I hold to that hope. I cling to that dream.

Somehow the waiting is harder than the battle itself.

Oh, God, it's not the way I had things planned. But then, what of real, lasting value ever is?

In spring, Granny would send me off to pick bluets, violets, and windflowers. As the weeks passed, she'd ask for yellow lady's slippers and bleeding hearts, then roses and white rhododendron clusters that grew along the stream. She'd always seem to know the day when the mayflies danced and died. When I'd come back from whatever venture she'd sent me on, she'd talk about how life was precious.

Listen to me, friend. Lay aside your pride or it will entangle you in sin. Anger is your worst enemy.

We will praise God first thing every morning.

Don't let a day go by without seeing some wonder in it, Cadi. Stop moping around the house wishing for things to change between ye and yer mama. Go out and see what's there for ye." God was there. God was everywhere.

During the ice storms and long bleak nights of winter, she'd tell me the mountains were like sleeping giants that'd come awake again soon. "God'll see to it." And God did. Those mountains always did wake up, without fail. Year after year, the earth came back to life again with what Granny called "God-green.

love the way you take on new things, your drive to learn. I love how you work, how you have this little-girl look on your face when you finish something you've never tried before. I love watching you skip across the meadow with Ruth. I love seeing you laugh with Miriam and hang on Elizabeth's wisdom. I love the whole idea of growing old with you and waking up to you every morning for the rest of my life.

Perhaps he had already sensed God's leading, and been troubled and unsure why.

For the Bible is the very breath of God, giving life eternal to those who seek him.

was no accident, no coincidence, that the seasons came round and round year after year. It was the Lord speaking to us all and showing us over and over again the birth, life, death, and resurrection of His only begotten Son, our Savior, Jesus Christ, our Lord. It was like a best-loved story being told day after day with each sunrise and sunset, year after year with the seasons, down through the ages since time began.

Sólo porque algo te parece difícil,no pienses que es imposible. MARCO AURELIO

In the passing of the seasons; in the way flowers spring forth, die, and drop seeds for life to begin again; in the sunset and sunrise. Jesus' sacrifice is reenacted every day of our lives if we but have the eyes to see." "But can't you see? That's simply the natural order of things." "No, Marcus. That's God speaking to all mankind. And he will return.

Boas is only a man, my dear, and men are not always S strong as they portray themselves. - Noami

Word of the Lord

A person standing alone can be attacked and defeated, but two can stand back-to-back and conquer. Three are even better, for a triple-braided cord is not easily broken. ECCLESIASTES 4:12

God has said, "I will never fail you. I will never forsake you." That is why we can say with confidence, "The Lord is my helper, so I will not be afraid. What can mere mortals do to me?" HEBREWS 13:5B-6

May your heart soften like rich, plowed earth in which God will plant His seeds of truth and wisdom.

Falling in love meant you lost control of your emotions and your will and your life. It meant you lost yourself.