Lightbulb Lessons

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Lessons Learned

I pray I never stop learning to be a better human. The opportunities seem endless, since being human in itself already contains all the mistakes and challenges and heartaches and missteps you could imagine. But each one of those mistakes and challenges and heartaches and missteps teaches me something I did not know before . . . and I am better for it every time. The best thing I can do with all of that wisdom? Write it down.

Which One Will Speak to Your Heart?

Welcome to my list of lessons. My aha moments. The words that flipped the lightbulb on. They did not make the list because I am a wise teacher, but instead because I am an observant student.

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Write it all down. Our memories will fail us and we will forget. Yes, both good and bad, it is all worth remembering.
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The only way you will ever be serious about what you love is to take what you love seriously.
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Both friends and enemies can be one decision away from becoming the other. Treat both kindly at all times.
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It all matters.
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God cannot give you anything new if you have no space left to hold it. Be available for His plans.
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The journey is the destination. Don't let planning ahead make you miss the point of your purpose.
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Always make it personal. Making it personal is what we are missing most in this world.
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"I'm sorry" holds a lot of weight but won't hurt you to carry it out.
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There IS someone out there right now who really does understand becuase they are standing where you are standing. Hold on to that.
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Learning is a vulnerable process. Tread lightly with those that are learning.
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Fixing a broken heart is an inside job. No human can do that for you.
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Be willing to play a different game.
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The view you can see is not the only one available.
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Living things grow. It is good to be a living thing.
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You have only one last chance to tell someone you love them.
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In Christ, you can rest without resolution.
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“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.”

Maya Angelou

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“We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.” 

Winston Churchill

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“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.” 

Helen Keller

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"Just as love is a verb, so is faith.”

Nannie Helen Burroughs

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"Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.”

C.S. Lewis

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"To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless."

G.K. Chesterton

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"Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light."

Helen Keller

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"Every experience God gives us, every person He puts in our lives is the perfect preparation for the future that only He can see."

Corrie ten Boom

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“Trust the wait. Embrace the uncertainty. Enjoy the beauty of becoming. When nothing is certain, anything is possible."

Mandy Hale

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“Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time.”

Haruki Murakami

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"If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world."

C. S. Lewis

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"People were created to be loved. Things were created to be used. Most of our troubles come from the fact that we love things, and use people.’"

Martin Burber

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"Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: 'It might have been'." 

John Greenleaf Whittier

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