Quotes about Awareness

We want big directional signs from God. God just wants us to pay attention.

When we seek God, we see God.

Humility opens the ears of opportunity.

Truth has a powerful way of interrupting our runaway feelings if only we'll get it in front of us.

We can't live in an alternate reality and expect what's right in front of us to get better.

What we look for is what we will see, what we see determines our perspective, and our perspective determines our reality.

Numb souls are never growing souls.

Just that morning I'd been praying and asking God to show Himself to me. I asked the God of the universe to intersect my life with His revelation, then got up from my prayers and forgot to look. Forgot to seek Him. Forgot to keep my heart in tune with His voice and His invitation.

And we don't allow their choices to harm us and start drawing our heart into places of compromise, devastation, or deception. Again, we all need grace when we mess up. But we also need the awareness that there is a difference between an occasional slip in behavior and an ongoing pattern of behavior.

The short time we actually focus on today's journey is often wasted on complaining, grumbling, wishing to be in a different place, or simply and mindlessly going through the motions of life.

Some will live their whole lives missing the chance to see all the good God has placed around them just for them. Partly because the hard stuff has demanded so much of their attention. And the seeming permanence of some of the heartbreak has stolen their affection for life.

We need to keep a gauge on our hearts so we can process, clarify, and understand our lives and relationships more deeply.