Great Quotes

There are several pertinent quotes I would like to share with you today:

This one I’ve had on a virtual post-it note on my desktop. It has greater meaning to me now than when I first read it.

“It’s not that things are any better, nor have I made any head way, but I *am* gaining perspective.I am holding my situation up to the light as though I am looking at an unusual vase. The vase is beautiful… but I just don’t know what to do with it. I turn it, look and turn it again, looking at it from every angle. I keep looking for an angle I can work with…The vase is simply too beautiful to put on a shelf somewhere… There has to be a perfect place for this vase, perhaps a place low enough that I don’t need a chair to stand upon, but a place that is high enough that it doesn’t get broken… A safe place where the light hits is just right to show the world all of it’s amazing colors… Until I find the best place for the vase, I’m going to stand here and hold it, analyzing all of it’s angles…”

This one too, same place:

“I will be speaking gently to myself this evening, pausing to remember as needed what the Lord’s hand feels like on my forehead.”

My dad sent me this one this afternoon:

“History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.” Bertie C. Forbes

Things to think on.