Hmmmmm

You Belong in San Diego

Laid back and friendly, you were meant to live most of your life on the beach. You usually think everything is "all good"... except when the weather dips under 60F. You stay classy - especially when you're in Tijuana!

Where Does Your Inner Californian Belong?

You Will Live Through Mistakes

Experience is that marvelous thing that

enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

- Franklin P. Jones

Show n Tell

"Sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself. It is as if they are showing you the way."

- Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz, p. ix

Surrender

"The heart of worship is surrender... God wants your life--all of it. Ninety-five percent is not enough.

There are three barriers that block our total surrender to God: fear, pride, and confusion. We don't realize how much God loves us, we want to control our own lives, and we misunderstand the meaning of surrender...The more you realize how much God loves you, the easier surrender becomes...

Another aspect of a fully surrendered life is trust... Instead of trying harder, you must trust more...

The Bible is crystal clear about how you benefit when you fully surrender your life to God. First, you experience peace... next...freedom...Third, you experience God's power in your life...

Victory comes through surrender. Surrender doesn't weaken you; it strengthens you. Surrendered to God, you don't have to fear or surrender to anything else..."

- Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life, p.77-82

More

There is more to your life than you ever thought. There is more to your story than what you have read.

- Max Lucado

Prayer Matters

" I strongly suspect that if we saw all the differences even the tiniest of our prayers make and all the people those little prayers were destined to affect and all the consequences of those little prayers down through the centuries, we would be so PARALYZED WITH AWE AT THE POWER OF PRAYER that we would be unable to get up off our knees for the rest of our lives."

- Peter Kreeft

Everything Is Going to Be Okay

"It happens in life too. I can't list the number of times I thought life was completely over, that I had ruined everything and was going to end up living in a box under a bridge...

Sometimes I wish I could go back in time, sit down with myself and explain things were going to be okay, that everybody loses ground sometimes and it doesn't mean anything. It's the way life works. This is hard to understand in the moment. You get to thinking about the girl/guy who rejected you, the job you got fired from, the test you failed, and you lose sight of the big picture--- the fact that life has a beautiful way of remaking itself every few weeks. The things that matter right now aren't going to matter a month from now, a year from now."

Donald Miller, To Own A Dragon, p. 126