“God, himself, through his Word, gives us–today’s Christian women–the right to rest! And he not only grants us divine permission to rest our bodies, minds, emotions, and spirits. He also commands us to rest. Rest is scriptural. Rest is a necessity for Christian women today, not a luxury! Throughout Scripture, in word and example, God encourages us, his daughters, to rest. He even teaches us exactly how to rest.”
“A woman can find great rest when she understands that God, not she, is the ultimate caretaker. God is the One in complete control of each person’s life and future. The whole world is his and he takes responsibility for it and everything in it.”
Hughes, Denise. A Woman’s Right to Rest (pg. 22, 155). Leafwood Publishers.
*The photo was taken along the river in the countryside of Gifu-Ken.
“The believer who is like a tree planted by the rivers of water is the one who meditates in the Law of God every free moment; his thoughts turn to the Word of God like steel to a magnet.”
“…Ella’s prescription for contentment:
“Perhaps the most valuable way we profit from adversity is in the deepening of our relationship with God. Through adversity we learn to bow before His sovereignty, to trust His wisdom, and to experience the consolations of His love, until we come to the place were we can say with Job, ‘My ears had heard of you but now my eyes have seen you’ (Job 42:5). We begin to pass from knowing about God to knowing God Himself in a personal and intimate way.”
“The greatest sorrow and burden you can lay not he Father, the greatest unkindness you can do to him is not to believe that He loves you.” 
“One of Satan’s strategies is to blind us to the lies we have bought into—to make us assume that because we know the Truth, we also believe the Truth. But the way we actually live—our choices, our priorities, our response to pain—reveals what we really believe.”
“Maybe grace was all around me, bubbling through, passing under my feet, and I’d never seen it because I’d never tried to see.”
“Biblical meditation is the habit that allows us to pause long enough to be still and to know that God is God. It leads us to spiritual growth, emotional strength, deepening intimacy with the Lord, and soul-steadying peace.”
“What kind of person does God call blessed? One not swayed by ungodly men but whose influence comes from meditating on God’s Word day and night. How does God describe that person? ‘Like a tree planted by streams of water,’ continually nourished, never thirsty. This person yields fruit in season, according to God’s timing. Because his mind and heart delight in God’s Word, his actions are God-centered and divinely prosperous.”
“We all need to understand that we can’t ‘fix’ or ‘change’ our adult children. Only God can make changes that last in anyone. Our job is to release our adult children into God’s hands and then pray for the Lord to make changes in them and their lives according to His will.”
Drinking at the Springs 