Carolina QuotesQuotations with a citation
It is unrealistic to ask the Lord to do in someone else’s life that which we are unwilling for Him to do in ours.
It was as if someone turned on the lights in my mind and heart, and the little fears and worries that had been nibbling away in the darkness like mice and cockroaches hurriedly scuttled for cover. That was when I learned that worship and worry cannot live in the same heart: they are mutually exclusive.
We mothers must take care of the possible and trust God for the impossible. We are to love, affirm, encourage, teach, listen, and care for the physical needs of the family. We cannot convict of sin, create hunger and thirst after God, or convert. These are miracles, and miracles are not in our department.
I bring those whom I love to You, commit each to Your loving care: then carry them away again nor leave them there: forgetting You Who lived to die (and rose again!) care more than I. So back I come with my heart’s load, confessing my lack of faith in You alone, addressing all I cannot understand to You Who do. You know each heart, each hidden wound, each scar, each one who played a part in making those we bring to You the ones they are (and dearer each to You than us, by far), So— now I give them to Your loving care, with thankful heart, —and leave them there.