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For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
For the Lord God is a sun and shield: the Lord will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
O Lord of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee.
(Psalm 84:10-12)
Katelyn and her latest project, Mocha:
For those of you wondering what color Mocha is, she’s a chocolate roan! (A chocolate roan is a black-based horse with a silver dapple gene as well as a roan gene.)
Believe it or not, this is Smokey! Click here to see his foal pictures from back in April. My, how he’s grown in only three months!
You can teach a student a lesson for a day, but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue to learn as long as he lives.
Clay Bedford
If you do something out of duty it will deplete you. But if you do something out of love it will energize you.
Author Unknown
Courage does not always roar. Sometimes it’s the quiet voice at end of the day saying, “I will try again tomorrow.”
Mary Anne Radmacher
I took the stones that had been hurled at me and I built an altar. There, I gave thanks to the One who, through it all, never left my side.
Dean Jackson
The sin that is most destructive in your life right now is the one you are most defensive about.
Tim Keller
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
Frederick Douglass
People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Maya Angelou
One thousand aves and as many credos, said standing with arms outstretched before the shrine of the Virgin, may help thee to remember that the Creator hath given us two ears and but one mouth, as a token that there is twice the work for the one as for the other.
The White Company, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Smokey is a pretty ingenuitive little horse; he found a stick in the brush pile to use as a back scratcher:
Daddy and Katelyn:
Josh practicing his balancing act:
How can a man have too much religion?” cried Alleyne earnestly. “It is the one thing that availeth. A man is but a beast as he lives from day to day, eating and drinking, breathing and sleeping. It is only when he raises himself, and concerns himself with the immortal spirit within him, that he becomes in very truth a man. Bethink ye how sad a thing it would be that the blood of the Redeemer should be spilled to no purpose.
The White Company, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Then must you strive to be worthy of her love. Be brave and pure, fearless to the strong and humble to the weak; and so, whether this love prosper or no, you will have fitted yourself to be honored by a maiden’s love, which is, in sooth, the highest guerdon which a true knight can hope for.
The White Company, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
There, too,” remarked Alleyne, as they rode on again, “that which seems to the eye to be dead is still full of the sap of life, even as the vines were. Thus God hath written Himself and His laws very broadly on all that is around us, if our poor dull eyes and duller souls could but read what He hath set before us.
The White Company, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
God He knows that I am not worthy to be her humble servant. It is easy, lady, for a man to ride forth in the light of day, and do his devoir when all men have eyes for him. But in a woman’s heart there is a strength and truth which asks no praise, and can but be known to him whose treasure it is.
The White Company, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Baby okra plants!
A fascinating mutation found in the bean row:
“God help me! I am the weakest of the weak,” groaned Alleyne. “I pray that I may have more strength.”
“And to what end?” she asked sharply. “If you are, as I understand, to shut yourself forever in your cell within the four walls of an abbey, then of what use would it be were your prayer to be answered?”
“The use of my own salvation.”
She turned from him with a pretty shrug and wave. “Is that all?” she said. “Then you are no better than Father Christopher and the rest of them. Your own, your own, ever your own! My father is the king’s man, and when he rides into the press of fight he is not thinking ever of the saving of his own poor body; he recks little enough if he leave it on the field. Why then should you, who are soldiers of the Spirit, be ever moping or hiding in cell or in cave, with minds full of your own concerns, while the world, which you should be mending, is going on its way, and neither sees nor hears you? Were ye all as thoughtless of your own souls as the soldier is of his body, ye would be of more avail to the souls of others.”
“There is sooth in what you say, lady,” Alleyne answered; “and yet I scarce can see what you would have the clergy and the church to do.”
“I would have them live as others and do men’s work in the world, preaching by their lives rather than their words. I would have them come forth from their lonely places, mix with the borel folks, feel the pains and the pleasures, the cares and the rewards, the temptings and the stirrings of the common people. Let them toil and swinken, and labor, and plough the land, and take wives to themselves—-“
“Alas! alas!” cried Alleyne aghast, “you have surely sucked this poison from the man Wicliffe, of whom I have heard such evil things.”
“Nay, I know him not. I have learned it by looking from my own chamber window and marking these poor monks of the priory, their weary life, their profitless round. I have asked myself if the best which can be done with virtue is to shut it within high walls as though it were some savage creature. If the good will lock themselves up, and if the wicked will still wander free, then alas for the world!”
The White Company, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
“You are like a star upon my path which guides me on the upward way,” said he. “Our souls are set together upon the finding of honor, and how shall we hold each other back when our purpose is the same?”
Sir Nigel, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
What a blow it must be when a man with imagination marries the beautiful bundle of clothes that he’s been building ideals around, and finds that she’s just a weak, whining, cowardly mass of affectations!
“Bernice Bobs Her Hair” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Great excellences, my dear Prue,” I sometimes allow myself to say, “lie concealed in the depths of character, like pearls at the bottom of the sea. Under the laughing, glancing surface, how little they are suspected! Perhaps love is nothing else than the sight of them by one person.”
“Titbottom’s Spectacles” – George William Curtis
In truth, I have observed, down town, that the fact of your ancestors doing nothing is not considered good proof that you can do anything.
“Titbottom’s Spectacles” – George William Curtis
He seemed to love them: to know how to separate the little good that was in them, from that hard crust of evil, which misery had put around their hearts.
I Will Repay, Baroness Emmuska Orczy
Diana Johnston says
Wow, you have really inspired me to read “The White Company” – thanks!!
marian zimmerman says
your quote on being curious, hmm your in love, can’t wait to see how it works out!
Briana Thomas says
Haha…maybe I am in love…time will tell. 😉
Sandy says
Beautiful and thankful for encouraging words
Victoria says
I love all those quotes!! And the pictures! Now I want to read those books by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle…
Dana says
Love this post. It was so soothing to my soul this morning! And Mocha is gorgeous! What a great picture of her.
Dianne Cozart says
I always enjoy reading your words, quotes and looking at your pictures. I enjoy your recipes and cookbook, too! 🙂