Dear Heavenly Father thank you for new friends and for this evening of fellowship. We ask that you guide our conversations and that theyll be pleasing to you. We thank you for this food and ask your blessing on it and on the hands that prepared it. In Jesus name Amen

I wish to paint in such a manner as if I were photographing dreams.

Our prayers are granted as soon as we have prayed even though the process of fulfilling our requests has not yet begun.

As a very young man I thought of Europe as a place that could not exist except in the imagination in glorious dreams and through the careful lies of the silver screen.

Praying about everything in our lives and keeping quiet can keep us out of a lot of trouble.

It occurred to him to say the viddui the prayer before death. He struggled to remember it. Blessed are You who has bestowed me with many blessings. May my death atone for all I have done . . . and may I shelter in the shadow of Your wings in the World to Come.

I just know when I quit looking to other people for directions I found my own map.

No question no problem no concern is too big or too small for God to handle

History doesnt start with a tall buildingand a card with your name written on it but jokes do. I think someone is takingus for suckers and is playing a mean game.

let your desires be His prayer in you. trust them. let them take you by the hand.let them walk you forward into the next moment and the next and the next and the next...