Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open.
Interpretation
We should not cling tightly to the things we hold dear, as loss can be painful.
This quote emphasizes the importance of holding our possessions, relationships, and even our expectations with a sense of lightness. By doing so, we prepare ourselves for the possibility of loss, which can be a part of life, and minimize the pain that comes from having to let go when circumstances change.
In practice
During a speech on resilience, you might use this quote to illustrate the need to accept change.
We never know how God will answer our prayers, but we can expect that He will get us involved in His plan for the answer. If we are true intercessors, we must be ready to take part in Godβs work on behalf of the people for whom we pray.
And our wise Father in heaven knows when we're going to need things too. Don't run out ahead of Him.
If you want to hear God's voice clearly and you are uncertain, then remain in His presence until He changes this uncertainty. Often much can happen during this waiting for the Lord. Sometimes, He changes pride into humility; doubt into faith and peace; sometimes lust into purity. The Lord can and will do it.
And for all these people alike, the key to healing turned out to be the same. Each had a hurt he had to forgive.
Today I know that such memories are the key not to the past, but to the future. I know that the experiences of our lives, when we let God use them, become the mysterious and perfect preparation for the work He will give us to do.
God never measures the mind... He always put His tape measure in the HEART
This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air.
All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
Yoga is about the will, working with intelligence and self-reflexive consciousness, can free us from the inevitability of the wavering mind and outwardly directed senses.
To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
To believe in luck, if it were not a solecism so to use the word believe, is skepticism.
If you don't stick to your values when they're being tested, they're not values: they're hobbies.
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