"if you don't mind, i'd like some time to try and play it all."

i come to a certain point, about once or twice a month actually, where i find the need to go back and read my journals. there's so much of ME in there...so much personal growth visible, just spilled out onto the page. this weekend i plan to delve back into my more recent journals, and really just notice how i've changed. also...it helps me to remember things i've learned.

many times in my journal i write down quotes, and so i must periodically check through it and find those quotes so i can record them somewhere. (i actually have a blog site just for all my quotes. dorky, i know, but it's the best organizing system i could think of.) so, here are a couple of the quotes i found when i went digging today. they really struck me.

"We were afraid of crude salvationism, afraid of a breach with the spirit of the age, afraid of ridicule, afraid (above all) of real spiritual fears and hopes." --C.S. Lewis
"Will you come with me to the mountains? It will hurt at first, until your feet are hardened. Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows. But will you come?" -C.S. Lewis
"The weakness of so many modern Christians is that they feel too much at home in the world. In their effort to achieve restful "adjustment" to unregenerate society they have lost their pilgrim character and become an essential part of the very moral order against which they are sent to protest. The world recognizes them and accepts them for what they are. And this is the saddest thing that can be said about them. They are not lonely, but neither are they saints." --A.W. Tozer
"joy is love exultant, peace is love in repose, and long suffering is love enduring. It is all love, you see, a gentleness is love in society, and goodness is love in action, and faith is love on the battle-field, and meekness is love at school, and temperance is love in training."--D.L. Moody

and in honor of valentine's day...LOL...a quote that i thought was just really sweet:
"I never told her she was perfect...and she was perfect every day." --Liam Neeson, 'Love Actually'

more random thoughts from this crazy lady at another time. enjoy your day, everyone, and peace out homies! :)