Modern Family

  • Alex: What's Jägermeister?
  • Phil: Um, well you know how in a fairy tale there's always a potion that makes the princess fall asleep and then the guys start kissing her? Well, this is like that, except you don't wake up in a castle — you wake up in a frat house with a bad reputation.
When I understand that everything happening to me is to make me more Christlike, it solves a great deal of anxiety. — AW Tozer
I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it’s the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It’s probably the most important thing in a person. — Audrey Hepburn

Love this.

But even if it doesn’t, when we wait patiently for what we long for — and what we’re longing for conforms to God’s design — God uses the waiting to align our desires with His and refine us in the process.
Tragedies don’t die easy deaths. They tend to go into hiding, at the backs of our minds, laying dormant. They can be reawakened to traumatize us, again. And so it is that today murderous violence brings not only the horror of new losses, but opens old wounds and traumas that had partly, mercifully healed over. — Reliving the Virginia Tech Nightmare By Dr. Keith Ablow

Winter

Winter is the time where everything dies and almost goes into a sleep of sorts. The leaves fall, the flowers fade, the colors mute, the air becomes brittle, the animals hibernate, and the water turns to ice. Life seems to just fade. I find this very thing called “winter”, happening sometimes in my own heart. The cold moves in, the hardness comes, the distance happens, the love becomes dormant. All the life with in me seems to just die, or as winter would put it, it becomes frozen. I am learning that the only thing that cures my cold, is allowing the Sun to melt it away. That it is the very essence of God that warms the inner most places within. That when we let his warm light in, it melts away the cold darkness, and out of the heart the spring once again comes forth and the water erupts.

- Shawn Mcdonald

There wasn’t any reason why we shouldn’t fall in love. — Vonette Bright
If you love me at my good, then you have to love me at my bad. And if you don’t then you can’t love me at all.