A Good Stretch

My strength is made perfect in weakness. — 2 Corinthians 12:9

Physical therapy is a painful necessity after knee-replacement surgery. Part of my routine involved my therapist pulling my knee back into a bent position and holding it taut. "Good stretch?" Mason would ask encouragingly. "No," I winced, "not that good!"

I soon learned, however, how important it is to stretch one's muscles and joints — sometimes causing discomfort — to gain full range of motion.

That wasn't the first time I've been "stretched" outside my comfort zone. God has sometimes urged me to share my faith with someone I didn't know very well, or to give an offering that was far beyond what I usually give or to confront someone about a situation.

Abraham's life illustrates the importance of faith when God asks us to move beyond our comfort zone. "By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called . . . He went out, not knowing where he was going" (Heb. 11:8).

While we stretch our spiritual muscles, we may feel discomfort. But God assures us, "My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness" (2 Cor. 12:9). Our adequacy — our sufficiency — is found in Him (3:5).

When you boldly step out in faith and obedience to God, you may be surprised at how a "good stretch" can strengthen your spiritual life!
~ Cindy Hess Kasper

To stretch our faith, to take the risk,

God says we will succeed

If we but ask Him for the strength
And grace that we will need.
~ D. De Haan

Life Is A Theater

Invite Your Audience Carefully

Not everyone is healthy enough to have a front row seat in our lives. There are some people in your life that need to be loved from a DISTANCE.

It's amazing what you can accomplish when you let go of, or at least minimize your time with, draining, negative, incompatible, not-going-anywhere relationships/friendships.

Observe the relationships around you. Pay attention.

Which ones lift and which ones lean?
Which ones encourage and which ones discourage?
Which ones are on a path of growth uphill and which ones are going downhill?
When you leave certain people do you feel better or feel worse?
Which ones always have drama or don't really understand, know or appreciate you?

The more you seek quality, respect, growth, peace of mind, love and truth around you...the easier it will become for you to decide who gets to sit in the front row and who should be moved to the balcony of Your Life.

"If you cannot change the people around you, CHANGE the people you are around."

Remember that the people we hang with will have an impact on both our lives and our income. And so we must be careful to choose the people we hang out with, as well as the information with which we feed our minds.

We should not share our dreams with negative people, Nor feed our dreams with negative thoughts.
It's your choice and your life..... It's up to you who and what you let in it......

Life Quotes

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.

 

 

Life is like the dice that, falling, still show a different face. So life, though it remains the same, is always presenting different aspects.

Our life's a stage, a comedy: either learn to play and take it lightly, or bear its troubles patiently.

The great blessing of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it.

Govern thy life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one, and read the other.

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.

Life, in all ranks and situations, is an outward occupation, an actual and active work.

Unrest of spirit is a mark of life; one problem after another presents itself and in the solving of them we can find our greatest pleasure.

Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult.

After the game,
the king and the pawn go into the same box.

The acts of this life are the destiny of the next.

Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.
 

Life is like a library owned by the author.
In it are a few books which he wrote himself,
but most of them were written for him.

We make our fortunes, and we call them fate.
Earl of Beaconsfield

The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.
Elbert Hubbard

Life's a voyage that's homeward bound.

The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it.

Life is variable.

Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.

I made my life my monument.

The boundaries which divide life from death
are at best shadowy and vague.
Who shall say where one ends,
and the other begins?

One way to get the most out of life is
to look upon it as an adventure.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

There are no classes in life for beginners: right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.

To live is like to love--all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

One life - a little gleam of time between two eternities.

Life is a pure flame,
and we live by an invisible sun within us.

As I grow to understand life less and less,
I learn to love it more and more.

Famous Life Quotes

Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
Sarah Bernhardt


Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.
Unknown


Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
Anthony Robbins


I look at life as a gift of God. Now that he wants it back I have no right to complain.
Joyce Cary


The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.
Pierre de Courbertin


Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.
Wayne Dyer


Life beats down and imprisons the soul and art reminds you that you have one.
Stella Adler


A man’s life is interesting primarily when he has failed–I well know. For it’s a sign that he tried to surpass himself.
Georges Clemenceau


When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. Then figure out how to sell it for $5.00 a glass.
John Woodman


The most important of life’s battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.
David O. McKay


It’s your life, your one and only life-so take excellence very personally.
Scott Johnson


Life is God’s novel. Let him write it.
Isaac Bashevis Singer


It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
Joseph Campbell


When you live your life with an appreciation of coincidences and their meanings, you connect with the underlying field of infinite possibilities.
William James


Life is too deep for words.
so don’t try to describe it -
just live it.
Unknown


Our life is short, your duties many, your assistance great, and your reward sure; therefore faint not, hold on and hold up, in ways of well-doing, and heaven shall make amends for all.
Thomas Brooks


You’ve got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.
Arthur Ashe


Since life and experience is a matter of trial-and-error, there’s no need to take choosing – or life itself – too seriously.
Soren Lauritzen


We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.
William Osler


It is for the superfluous things of life that men sweat.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca


Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.
John F. Kennedy


To win in life, don’t fear in life.
Unknown


Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life…….Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated. Thus, everyone’s task is as unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.
Franki


The sound of life has divine silence.
Kedar Joshi


I can get sad, I can get frustrated, I can get scared, but I never get depressed – because there’s joy in my life.
Michael J. Fox


A man with outward courage dares to die. A man with inward courage dares to live.
Unknown


Where you end up is not the most important thing. It’s the road you take to get there. The road is what you’ll look back on and call your life.
Tim Willey


Life is about laughing and living, in good and bad times. Getting through whatever comes our way and looking back and smiling.
Unknown


Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.
Albert Schweitzer


At one point in your life you either have the thing you want or the reasons why you don’t
Andy Roddick


There are four questions of value in life… What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.
Unknown


It’s all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.
Philip Green


You can feel the stars and the infinity of the sky since life, in spite of everything, is like a dream.
Unknown


I think self-exploration is one of the journeys in life that we are blessed to be able to have.
Anne Heche