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Category: Jan Karon

God wastes nothing.

self, knowledge

Love is an actual need, an urgent requirement of the heart,” he read aloud from an old essay on marriage that he found in his files.”Every properly constituted human being who entertains an appreciation of loneliness…and looks forward to happiness and content feels the necessity of loving. Without it, life is unfinished…

heart, loneliness, love

Listening is among the most generous ways to give. When a loved one talks to us— whether their words appear to be deep or shallow— listen. For in some way, they are baring their souls.

giving, listening

I thought of you when I read this quote from “Come Rain or Come Shine (A Mitford Novel)” by Jan Karon -“Listening is among the most generous ways to give. When a loved one talks to us— whether their words appear to be deep or shallow— listen. For in some way, they are baring their souls.

giving, listening

As worthless as guilt was known to be, he couldn’t help feeling it, seeing his wife work herself to exhaustion for a parish tea that would last only two hours.

Merry Christmas!’ someone shouted. He wiped his eyes with the back of his hand. ‘Merry Christmas!”Merry Christmas!”C-cookies for ever’body!’ Sammy hollered. And looking both ways, they all fled across to the light, and the warmth, and the books, and the mystery.

books, christmas

Maybe it’s because he never had any control over what was happening to him as a boy. Being late was somehow a way of taking charge.

control, lateness

… for fog was merely a cloud that wasn’t too smitten with itself to visit terra firma.

Love is an endless act of forgiveness.

forgiveness, jan-karon, love

I can’t say I have any confidence in confidence. I have confidence that God is with us in all things, both tender and tough.

confidence, faithfulness, god, trust

Lord, make me a blessing to someone today.

In World War One, they called it shell shock. Second time around, they called it battle fatigue. After ‘Nam, it was post-traumatic stress disorder.

battle-fatigue, post-traumatic-stress-disorder, posttraumatic-stress-disorder, ptsd, shell-shock, veterans, vietnam-war, war, world-war-1, world-war-one, world-war-two