Testimony

Not everyone who goes to church is a Christian, but everyone who goes to church is 'sick.'
Not everyone who is silent lacks antagonism, but most who speak their mind will encounter antagonism.

I have known Christian-turned Agnostics, Atheists, and Buddhists, but the type of fallen Christian that has struck me most is the silent one.

Silent fallen Christians might be church goers, or charity-lovers, but they have Agnostic, Atheistic, and even Buddhist hearts. 

Silent fallen Christians can be the ones that nobody truly knows but everybody loves, the ones who never miss an altar-call because of guilt, the ones who make a greater effort to look nice than do a morning devotional, and they are the ones who somewhere along the way of looking for Jesus were unexpectedly uprooted from a comfort zone into sinful reality.

Silent fallen Christians are the unconverted at heart; they fail to realize or accept God's love, because self is so appealing. Silent fallen Christians are the first kind of fallen.

I think about how it just happened “One Day” that Job’s Worst fears came true, and God was the One who put him up for the challenge. But what do studies from Job say? They say that God calls us to seek responsibility whether we are just facing or in the midst of a storm. So if God calls us to ‘carry on’ so to speak, then He has to have our backs - because He is love.
(while reading God of the Whirlwind: Job, Gerald Wheeler)

Contentment

If you have a voice, you have a sword.

If you have eyes, you have a canvass.
If you have hearing, you have a map.
If you can smell, you have a marker.
If you have memory, you have transportation.
If you can think, you have a passport.
If you can feel any touch, you have a connection.
If you can taste, you have a culture.
If you can breathe, you have grace.

“No one is on their deathbed wishing for more time at work. Enjoy life.”

“No relationship you have in this life will last forever, but the good things that happen through them in you — even through their sorrows, yes even through their collapses — will.”

If you love someone, don’t be with them because they have it all together.
If you love someone, don’t be with them because you want to change their imperfections.
If you love someone, be with them because you love them in spite of who they are and nothing can take that away from you. Love someone because that little thing they do that no one really cares about really means the world to you.

”..both of us wanting to believe in each other, but both of us wanting proof. And that, as they say, ‘was the [heck] of it.’” - Magnum, P.I.