Remember I am usually over at www.xanga.com/madewyn where I write more than just other folks' words - I try some of my own.

"True love never forces." She squeezed his hand and sat back.

"But, if I understand what you're saying, the consequences of our selfishness are part of the process that brings us to the end of our delusions, and helps us find you. I that why you don't stop evil?"

"If only it were that simple. Mackenzie. Nobody knows what horrors I have saved the world from 'cuz people can't see what never happend. All evil flows from independence, and indendence is your choice."

"Evil is the chaos of this age that you brought to me, but it will not have the final say. Now it touches everyone that I love, those who follow me and those who don't. If I take away the consequences of people's choices, I destroy the possibility of love. Love that is forced is no love at all."

THE SHACK by William P. Young

Currently reading HANNAH COULTER a novel by Wendell Berry. Part of his story about the citizens of Port William, Kentucky.

I come from Iowan folks, but this so reminds me of my Grammy and her life and farmland in Iowa.

"Oftentimes after it no longer matters whether things are clear or not, they become clear."

"The chance you had is the life you've got. You can make complaints about what people, including you, make of their lives after they have got them, and about what people make of other people's lives, even about your children being gone, but you mustn't wish for another life. You mustn't want to be somebody else. What you must do it this: 'Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing. In every thing give thanks.' I am not all the way capable of so much, but those are the right instructions."

Amen!
~Mad

Remember I am usually over at www.xanga.com/madewyn where I write more than just other folks' words - I try some of my own.

One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats. -- Iris Murdoch

~from http://thementalpausechronicles.blogspot.com/

...And - remember - I'm usually over at www.xanga.com/madewyn

Remember, most of the time I am over at www.xanga.com/madewyn.

"Prayer is no fitfull, short-lived thing. It is no voice crying unheard and unheeded into the silence. It is a voice which goes into God’s ear and it lives as long as God’s ear is open to holy pleas, as long as God’s heart is alive to holy things. God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. The lips that utter them may be closed in death, the heart that felt them may have ceased to beat, but the prayers live before God, and God’s heart is set on them. Prayers outlive the lives of those who uttered them; outlive a generation, outlive an age, outlive a world." (E.M. Bounds)

and

"The one concern of the devil is to keep the saints from prayer. He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless work, prayerless religion. He laughs at our toil, mocks our wisdom, but trembles when we pray.? (Samuel Chadwick)

~found at http://www.springofjoy.org/

Without You

Without you, there's no change
My nights and days are grey
If I reached out and touched the rain
It just wouldn't feel the same

Without you, I'd be lost
I'd slip down from the top
I'd slide down so low
Girl you'd never, never know...

Without you, without you
A sailor lost at sea
Without you, woman The world comes down on me

Without you in my life
I'd slowly wilt and die
But with you by my side
You're the reason I'm alive
But with you in my life
You're the reason I'm alive
But without you, without you...

Without you, my hope is small
Let me be me all along
You let the fires rage inside
Knowing someday I'd grow strong Without you, without you
A sailor lost at sea
Without you, woman
The world comes down on me

Without you in my life
I'd slowly wilt and die
But with you by my side
You're the reason I'm alive
But with you in my life
You're the reason I'm alive
But without you, without you...

I could face a mountain
But I could never climb alone
I could start another day
But how many, just don't know
You're the reason the sun shines down
And the nights, they don't grow cold
Only you that I'll hold when I'm young
Only you...as we grow old

Without you in my life
I'd slowly wilt and die
But with you by my side
You're the reason I'm alive
But with you in my life
You're the reason I'm alive
But without you, without you...
~Motley Crue
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