They Kidnapped my St. Francis.....

...I'll get to that later in my post. First, I'm always writing down quotes in my journal that make me catch my breath....such as when Pita in Man on Fire prayed:

"Dear God, I do not ask for health or wealth. People ask you so often that you can't have any left. Give me, God, what else you have. Give me what no-one else asks for. Amen."

I wrote it on a rock*. It reminds me to not take my prayers for granted. It reminds me to thank God for his blessings and to pray for humility, forgiveness and the weak and the innocent. 

*I paint on rocks with white gesso. It ends up being pretty durable and water resistant.

Here are 2 other quotes, I can't list them all or it would take up an entire blog:

"It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowing and there's this electricity in the air, you can almost hear it. And this bag was, like, dancing with me. Like a little kid begging me to play with it. For fifteen minutes. And that's the day I knew there was this entire life behind things, and... this incredibly benevolent force, that wanted me to know there was no reason to be afraid, ever. Video's a poor excuse, I know. But it helps me remember... and I need to remember... Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world I feel like I can't take it, like my heart's going to cave in." -from American Beauty

"For what it's worth: it's never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There's no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again." -from The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

On another note, isn't it funny that someone broke my St. Francis statue, kidnapped him for a few weeks and THEN returned him with his head glued back together?!