from the grove

Quotes from the Genesis Study

The less of our energies consumed in asserting ourselves, and scrambling for our rights, and cutting in before other people, so as to get the best place for ourselves, the more we shall have to despair for better things; and the more we live in the future, and leave God to order our ways, the more shall our souls be wrapped in perfect peace. ~ Alexander MacLaren

El Shaddai - God Almighty. In essence... "I am able to fulfill the awesome hopes that I have set before you of a people and a land. There is no need to succumb to passive desperation. There is no need to scale down the promise to match your puny thoughts - no need to resort to fleshly expedience - no need to fulfill the promise in any second-rate way. Everything - all your life, all your future - lies in this: I am God Almighty! ~K. Hughes

10.13.2011