Living for Today
“Forgiveness is the powerful assertion that bad things will not ruin your today even though they may have spoiled your past.”
—Dr. Fred Luskin in Forgive for Good
A Change of Focus
“My central message here is when you bring more positive experiences into your life, your hurts will diminish in importance. In fact, this is the first step to taking responsibility for how you feel and beginning to forgive. If I rent out more and more space in my mind to appreciating my children or the loveliness of a rainy day, there is as a result less space and time for dwelling on the hurts.â€
–Dr. Fred Luskin, Forgive for Good
Learning 2.0
“The Web is no longer just a place to search for resources. It’s a place to find people, to exchange ideas, to demonstrate our creativity before an audience.”
–Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach, blog, 21st Century Collaborative, “Learning 2.0,” http://21stcenturylearning.typepad.com/blog/2007/08/learning-20.html
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Seeing Clearly
“Often the only way to look clearly at this extraordinary universe is through fantasy, fairy tale, myth.”
–Madeleine L’Engle, Margaret A. Edwards Award Acceptance Speech, June 27, 1998.
Quoted in Journal of Youth Services in Libraries, Volume 12, no. 1, Fall 1998.
Nourishers
“To be a librarian, particularly a librarian for young adults, is to be a nourisher, to share stories, offer books full of new ideas.”
–Madeleine L’Engle, Margaret A. Edwards Award Acceptance Speech, June 27, 1998.
Quoted in Journal of Youth Services in Libraries, Volume 12, no. 1, Fall 1998.
Strategic Mistake
“The enemy specializes in taking advantage of any refusal to forgive.”
–Beth Moore, Praying God’s Word Day by Day
A Good Marriage
“A good marriage is the union of two forgivers.”
–Ruth Graham
God’s Faithfulness
“God’s faithfulness is not incapacitated by human circumstances–even human failings.”
–Pastor Ed Allen, sermon, August 5, 2007.
God’s Forgiveness
“When people die, they are forgiven and welcomed home. Then God will help them figure out how to clean up the disgusting messes they have made. God has skills and ideas on how to do this.”
–Anne Lamott, Grace (Eventually), p. 29
Letting Go
“I’ve found that when you give up on using your mind to solve a problem–which your mind is holding on to like a dog with a chew toy–writing it down helps turn off the terrible alertness. When you’re not siphoned into the black hole of worried control and playing fretful Savior, turning the problem over to God or the elves in the glove compartment harnesses something in the universe that is bigger than you, and that just might work.”
–Anne Lamott, Grace (Eventually), p. 27
“Sometimes, when you’re lucky, you get to a point where you’re sick of a problem, or worn down by tinkering with it, or clutching it. And letting it go, maybe writing it down and sending it away, buys you some time and space, so maybe freedom and humor sneak in–which is probably what you were praying for all along.”
–Anne Lamott, Grace (Eventually), p. 32