Remember that you are not called to
produce successful, upwardly mobile,
highly educated, athletically talented machines…
Giving your children great opportunities is good;
it is not, however, the goal of parenting.
Christlikeness is.
Above all, seek to raise children
who look and act a lot like Jesus.”.
~Chip Ingram
Your first family is your blood family and you always be true to that. That means something. But there’s another family and that’s the kind you go out and find. Maybe even by accident sometimes. And they’re as much blood as your first family. Maybe more so, because they don’t have to look out for you and they don’t have to love you. They choose to.
Everyone has a secret they haven’t shared. Everyone has a past no one’s heard about. Everyone has talents that people don’t notice. Everyone has weaknesses hidden inside. Everyone has a story left untold, so never start judging someone thinking you know them back to front. Because the truth is, you probably don’t.
God never slams a door in your face without opening a box of Girl Scout cookies
Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
Your biggest challenge isn’t someone else. It’s the ache in your lungs and the burning in your legs, and the voice inside you that yells ‘CAN’T’. But you don’t listen, you just push harder. And then you hear the voice whisper ‘can’, and you discover that the person you thought you were is no match for the one you really are.
I came here to tell you, that in the entire span of your life, whatever immediate problem you’re facing… it’s just a blip on the radar, unless you do something stupid, that turns it into a defining moment.
This is an important lesson to remember when you’re having a bad day, a bad month, or a shitty year. Things will change: you won’t feel this way forever. And anyway, sometimes the hardest lessons to learn are the ones your soul needs most. I believe you can’t feel real joy unless you know what it means to fail. You can’t know what it’s like to feel holy until you know what it’s like to feel really fucking evil. And you can’t be birthed again until you’ve died.
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Kelly Cutrone from her book If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You (via nouveau-soleil)
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