Sunday - Words I Wish I Wrote

I have a few excuses for my lack of originality right now. Its mostly that I'm an emotional boob. But lately I keep hearing things and I think, "That's exactly how I feel...why couldn't I have written that?"
So, for your brief reading pleasure...a few things that have touched my Spirit over the last few days.


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"Faith in God includes faith in God's timing."
--Neal A. Maxwell

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The Road Not Taken
--Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim
Because it was grassy and wanted wear,
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I marked the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh,
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

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"The Prodigal Son"
--Glenn Rawson

"Now, what I've wondered: How did that father even know he was coming, unless he'd been watching for him? Anxiously that father had watched and waited, and the moment that boy came into view, the father ran all the way out to meet him, quick to forgive.

I believe that so it is with our Heavenly Father. He is not sternly aloof, withholding His love until the very last steps of repentance are walked. He doesn't demand of us to take every return step alone. He loves us so compellingly that our first feeble steps in His direction are answered with marathons in return. I believe that no one returns to the fold alone.

Now, when through repentance people return, if our celebrations could be as festive and forgiving as those in Heaven, maybe more people would undertake the journey."