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
You are damned, and we wish to share your damnation.
If itβs going to be a world with no time for sentiment, itβs not a world that I want to live in.
Healthcare should be a human right and not a commodity for sale.
Wanderers eastward, wanderers west, Know you why you cannot rest? 'Tis that every mother's son Travails with a skeleton. Lie down in the bed of dust; Bear the fruit that bear you must; Bring the eternal seed to light, And morn is all the same as night.
It is safe to assert that no government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination.
If no one else, the dying must notice how unreal, how full of pretense, is all that we accomplish here, where nothing is allowed to be itself.
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