MAKING IT HAPPEN

t is not my ability, but my response to God’s ability, that counts.
—Corrie ten Boom (1892–1983)

Alas for those who never sing, but die with all their music in them.
—Wendell Holmes (1809–1894)

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma—which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most importantly, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
—Steve Jobs (1955–2011)

Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you’re alive, it isn’t.
—Richard Bach (b. 1936)

Don’t be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.
—Belva Davis (b. 1932)

Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

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Numbers 23:19 ESV / God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?

Isaiah 45:7 ESV / I form light and create darkness, I make well-being and create calamity, I am the Lord, who does all these things.

1 Peter 2:1-5 ESV / So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation— if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good. As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.