02/05…of the day

Verse of the Day:
“This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. ¹⁰ This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. ”
~I John 4:9-10

Quote of the Day:
“O my child, the heart is a perilous thing.
The heart crowns all paradoxes of God;
made of muscle and steel and fire, but frail as the sparrow’s wing.”
~Bethany Joy Galeotti

Video of the Day:

Currently listening to “Red River Blue” by Blake Shelton

02/13…of the day

Verse of the Day:
“This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters.”
~1 John 3:16

Quote of the Day:
“Prayer is not so much an act as it is an attitude—an attitude of dependency,
dependency upon God.”
~Arthur W. Pin

Lyrics of the Day:
“There’s gotta be something more
Gotta be more than this
I need a little less hard time
I need a little more bliss
I’m gonna take my chances
Taking a chance I might
Find what I’m looking for
There’s gotta be something more ”
~“Something More” by Sugarland

currently listening to “Play On” by Carrie Underwood

02/07…of the day

Verse of the Day:
“See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know Him.”
~1 John 3:1

Quote of the Day:
“Ted: Okay, I’m going to say something out loud that I’ve been doing a pretty good job of not saying out loud lately. What you and Tony have, what I thought for a second you and I had, what I know that Marshall and Lily have, I want that. I do. I keep waiting for it to happen. I’m waiting for it to happen. I guess I’m just tired of waiting. And that is all I’m going to say on that subject.
Stella: I know that you’re tired of waiting. And you might have to wait a little while more but, she’s on her way, Ted. And she’s getting here as fast as she can.”
~ How I Met Your Mother

Video of the Day:

“Father, let my heart beat after you” favorite line.

currently listening to “Barton Hollow” by The Civil Wars

01/19…of the day

Verse of the Day:
“As for you, see that what you have heard from the beginning remains in you ”
~1 John 2:24

Lyrics of the Day:
“Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.”
~Benjamin Franklin

Video of the Day:

oh that voice.

currently listening to “The Best of the Song Books” by Ella Fitzgerald

01/10…of the day

Verse of the Day:
“to love one another—is the same message you heard before. Yet it is also new. Jesus lived the truth of this commandment, and you also are living it. For the darkness is disappearing, and the true light is already shining.”
~1 John 2:7-8

Quote of the Day:
“Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”
~Booker T. Washington

Lyrics of the Day:
“I’m just trying to understand
It’s all in someone else’s hands
There’s always been a bigger plan
But I don’t need to understand

I’m still learning how to bend
How to let you in
In a world full of tears
We’ll conquer all our fears”
~“Learning How to Bend” by Gary Allan

currently listening to “My Kind of Party” by Jason Aldean

12/14…of the day

Verse of the Day:
“We have an advocate who pleads our case before the Father. He is Jesus Christ, the one who is truly righteous. He himself is the sacrifice that atones for our sins—and not only our sins but the sins of all the world. ”
~1 John 2:1-2

Quote of the Day:
“If there’s one generational difference I notice between my parents’ generation and mine, is that my generation values time over money. And not because we’re lazy either, but because we’re not willing to trade time with the people we love most for a gold watch at retirement.”
~Brett McKay in “A Generation of Men Raised by Women” on The Art of Manliness

Lyrics of the Day:
“Cause you and I are not the same,
and neither can be held to blame,
it’s just the way the story has to end.
Being here and being there,
there’s no space for being where
I feel I should be”
~“Fan of Shades” by Kyle Forester a hauntingly beautiful song from the movie “Breaking Upwards”

currently reading to “The Time Traveler’s Wife” by Audrey Niffenegger

12/07…of the day

Verse of the Day:
“God is light, and there is no darkness in him at all. So we are lying if we say we have fellowship with God but go on living in spiritual darkness; we are not practicing the truth.”
~1 John 1:5-6

Quote of the Day:
“If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.”
~Thomas Paine

Video of the Day:

currently listening to “Eyes Open” by Snow Patrol

11/30…of the day

Verse of the Day:
“We proclaim to you the one who existed from the beginning, whom we have heard and seen. We saw him with our own eyes and touched him with our own hands. He is the Word of life.”
~1 John 1:1

Quote of the Day:
“The goal of a Christ-follower isn’t to avoid the consequences of an action, it’s to reflect the image of God.”
~James Granger

Lyrics of the Day:
“Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.
No other road, no other way.
No day but today.”
~“No Day But Today” by Jonathan Larson in RENT

currently listening to “Brendan James” by Brendan James – Particularly like “The Lucky Ones” “The Fall” “Changing Us”