The week in review: Nov 1-8, 2019

“As a man thinketh in his heart so is he.” As the plant springs from, and could not be without, the seed, so every act of a man springs from the hidden seeds of thought." ~ James Allen

"Behavior is the Blossom of thought, and joy and suffering are its fruits. We reap the harvest - sweet or bitter - of our inner garden." ~ James Allen

Choice. Choose wisely: “Average is always a safe Choice, and it is the most dangerous Choice you can make...We Choose a career or job; we choose a city or place to live...but in all the things we factor in as we Craft our futures, we make the people in our lives a commodity of, at best, secondary importance. We would take a job and give up our people rather than Choose a tribe and give up the job... If we Choose to live a small life, we do not make enough room for a big GOD.” ~ Erwin Raphael McManus, The Last Arrow: Save Nothing for the Next Life

Dilemma: "The life you want may not be the life God wants for you. This is why the process must begin by loving God first. It is in loving God with all your heart and mind and soul that he begins to shape your passions. When God has your heart, you can trust your desires. His will is not a map; it is a match. He shows you the way by setting you on fire..." * see "Y" for the rest of the quote from:

Erwin Raphael McManus' book, The Last Arrow: Save Nothing for the Next Life

 FRESH New London to celebrate the end of the growing season, share food and fun, and begin to plan for 2020!

Gratitude for connectedness and "seeds" that are even better than breadcrumbs for leading me ...

Home to the place in my Heart 

"I wish..." Final line from the musical Into the Woods Important meditation: what do we truly wish?

James Allen: "Mind is the master power that molds and makes; We are min, in one of the guises it takes. Taking the tool of thought, we sculpt what we will, Shaping our lives for ills. We think in secret, and it comes to pass; The world is our reflection -- the mind's looking-glass."

"...Keep underestimating how much God wants to do in us and through us. Too many of us have believed the lies we have been told: that we’re not good enough, we’re not smart enough, we’re not talented enough, we’re just not enough. One of the facets of God that makes him extraordinary is his ability to do the impossible through ordinary, everyday, common people like you and me.” ― Erwin Raphael McManus

Last Arrow: Save Nothing for the Next Life

Maple key:  source in honor of Aunt Madeline

 November 7, 1897 to November 16, 1988

Open door: "Every moment is an Open door to fulfillment" ~ Deepak Chopra's 21 Day Meditation Experience

Quiver empty: a very important message from The Last Arrow: Save Nothing for the Next Life

Room with a view indeed! Reminds me of where I get to sit on Thursday evenings of late

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Shakespeare Sonnet 104: 

"To me, fair friend, you never can be old / For as you were when first your eye I eyed / Such seems your beauty still." 

Unitarian Universalism (UU) is a liberal religion characterized by a "free and responsible search for truth and meaning". source

Valerie Lorimer Contemporary Arts

"Which Way?" But I keep thinking and typing as "Which Why?"
eXpect miracles is step 2. Asking for them in prayer is step 1.

"You will know God’s desire for you by the fire in you! The fire in you will light the way.” ― Erwin Raphael McManus, The Last Arrow: Save Nothing for the Next Life

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"Zunzuncito: the world's itty bittiest birdie"