"To get something you never had, you have to do something you never did" wow! i just loved this sentence..thx for sharing with us

that is a very inspiring sentence - love it

Thanks, I needed that!

SO TRUE! Thank you so much for those thoughts!

Glad you like that smryna!!!

Hi lala !!! Glad it is inspiring to you!

burnsj!!! Happy to see you!

Hi Ivee!!! You're Welcome

Amen...Amen!

:jumpin; cinadanni!!!

cinadanni!!!

amen!

so true!

that last sentence is amazing. i'm not a religious person, but even i can feel something akin to grace out there...
anyway, nice post. i've noticed you always have a nice mix of different kinds of postings

VS!!!

Justinerd!!!

elle

I love this and the picture!!

I am glad that you like it kimanne!!!

This reminds me of something my grandmother told me: "When your hand is open from giving, it is open to receive."

I guess it's similar.

That is beautiful td!!!

- It makes sense to those who do agree, but not in my whole life experience would I value the sentence, 'To get something you never had, you have to do something you never did.' For one example, some kids were fortunate enough to receive something and they never did anything to get it because their parents could afford it. Or another one could be your sibling did something bad, but you received the punishment.

- 'When God takes something from your grasp, He's not punishing you, but merely opening your hands to receive something better.'
That could be the worst thing you could say to a grieving parent who lost their child in a ghastly accident to a drunk driver or murder or drug use.
OR it doesn't have to be so violent. Sudden Infant Death Syndrome(SIDS) is when a baby dies during their sleep. Its no ones fault. Even if the mother or care taker was doing everything by the book.
So what's the death of a baby or the cost of another grown life going to do better for the parents? Or the whole family? Or the spouse they left?
OR a victim(s) who survived a gang-rape/rape, bride burnings, torture, Agent Orange, Gulf War illness, post-traumatic syndrome, genocide? What do you tell these people who lost a part of themselves to trauma or chemical poisoning? Some people can't rebuild their lives, again. How is that better for the victim?

Concentrate on this sentence... 'The will of God will never take you where the Grace of God will not protect you.'
I do not believe in god, because my parents were not religious. They were from Japan and their views on religion is different from North Americans. Anyways, I did go to church four times in my whole life.
* Once because they were offering free food when I was eight or nine. I never saw them, again.
* Second because my friend's parent was a pastor and out of respect I went with them. Later, I found out the pastor/friend's father was sexually molesting little girls and sometimes I wonder if he married his wife only because she was very, very young.
* Third time was also due to another friend who wanted to 'convert me' and I chose not to. I have this ability where when you speak rudely to me or speak bullsh*t I go deaf. The friend's pastor and this pastor were the same. I am not joking about going deaf when someone utters bullsh*t or is verbally being mean to me. This "ability" was from being raised by a parent who would lose temper and for punishment yell at me all obscenities. The term verbal abuse was never a concept to me because I was so young and things like this "never happened in a small community" type of mentality. Anyways, I just adapted to my parent's rage and never took anything seriously.
*Fourth time was because there was a death in the family. My inlaws' grandmother died in June 2007. I loved her and it took nearly four or five months to accept she was physically dead and sometimes it still makes me sad that she is gone. The family wanted her to be buried in the family plot in a small town in Georgia. Very quickly, her body was moved to the small town where she was born and where her husband is buried. Now, the church we went to was one of the families so the ceremony was done there. The pastor didn't know her and of course this would be my 3rd time going "deaf" to religion because the pastor did not know her (i.e he was lying) did not do a very good sermon about her. This one liked to hear himself talk so I despised him because instead of making us remember Granny's memory I still remember this man spewing forth everything he got to impress me (out of all people).

I don't like your concept and its rather a cruel and absurd thing to say/write about.