When lost, I look for gas stations for counsel. by Laurel Lea

When lost, I look for gas stations for counsel.

Laurel Lea

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...appetite turns common food into the fare of kings. by Laurel Lea

...appetite turns common food into the fare of kings.

appetite kings common

A personal offense is like a scratch on a phonograph record. I couldn't move my thoughts beyond my pain. It kept repeating, as if I were stuck within its grooves. There was only one way to play beyond it. I had to forgive them, so my heart could take its form again.

pain heart moving

The way of surviving is to find meaning in suffering. by Laurel Lea

The way of surviving is to find meaning in suffering.

find-me suffering way

Life and death in a relationship depend on attitudes. by Laurel Lea

Life and death in a relationship depend on attitudes.

depends life-and-death attitude

Plans can be like a winged horse, but their execution plods along... by Laurel Lea

Plans can be like a winged horse, but their execution plods along pulling carts.

execution planning horse

I wonder if we climb to heaven over the ruins of many cherished s... by Laurel Lea

I wonder if we climb to heaven over the ruins of many cherished schemes.

ruins planning heaven

It isn't fair that there's pressure exerted on those who choose to live on the edges of the bell-shaped curve of normal.

bells curves pressure

Marriage is the learning of someone else's habits. by Laurel Lea

Marriage is the learning of someone else's habits.

marriage habit

(Home) is you in things. by Laurel Lea

(Home) is you in things.

home

Charm is the enchanted dart, light and subtle as a hummingbird. But it is deceptive in one thing: like a sense of humor, if you think you've got it, you probably haven't.

sense-of-humor light thinking

Books have always been to me like a kind of embalmed mind. The dead may be scattered, and who can find them, but their voices live in the library.

voice mind book

I want the privilege of guiding the arrows of my children and giving them the exhortations that can shoot them into the high place.

arrows giving children

A disease and its treatment can be a series of humiliations, a ch... by Laurel Lea

A disease and its treatment can be a series of humiliations, a chisel for humility.

series treatment disease humility

Humor has always been important to me. If there is a shield of faith that you can keep up against difficulties, humor is the Teflon coating.

me you humor faith

It was my dream that I had clenched in a fist of discontent and wouldn't release. But time had now pried every finger open. There is peace in an open and upraised hand that isn't grasping for anything.

now dream time peace

I've traveled to 50 countries, but I've never been to heaven. by Laurel Lea

I've traveled to 50 countries, but I've never been to heaven.

been never traveled heaven