Getting distracted by the uncertainty of my future a wee bit today but reminded of this quote I read a few weeks ago in one of my granda's old books again...
"Instead of allowing the future and thoughts of it to grip you, talk to yourself, remind yourself of who you are and what you are, and of what Spirit is within you; and having reminded yourself of the character of the Spirit, you will be able to go steadily forward, fearing nothing, living in the present, ready for the future, with one desire only, to glorify Him who gave His all for you..."
p105 Martyn Lloyd Jones in Spiritual Depression
Also really not wanting to wish away the next few months of my life...
"For a long time it seemed to me that life... was about to begin - real life. But there was always some obstacle to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time to still be served, a debt to be paid. Then life ... would begin. At last it dawned on my that these obstacles were my life."
Alfred Souza (HT: peter)
“The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one’s ‘own,’ or ‘real’ life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one’s real life—the life God is sending one day by day; what one calls one’s ‘real life’ is a phantom of one’s own imagination. This at least is what I see at moments of insight: but it’s hard to remember it all the time." CS Lewis
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