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Our prayer life and rule of prayer will be shaped by the different stages of our spiritual journey as well. Many people who have just come to know Christ find that their words flow easily. Prayer is a joy for them. But, as with romantic relationships, there is a natural movement beyond this honeymoon phase. When feelings of intense connection with God ebb, we have a new opportunity to engage God - not based on cool spiritual vibes but as an expression of our genuine love for God. Times of spiritual dryness are normal for almost everyone, even if we haven't sinned and to the best of our knowledge haven't done anything to wall off our relationship with God. God may allow this dryness so that we can mature in our relationship with him and learn to seek him not for an ecstatic spiritual experience but out of a deeper love and commitment. — Ken Shigematsu

What happened now? he would ask
another man thoroughly exhausted by me. — Elizabeth Gilbert

With no gravitational force to work against, your body not only doesn't need the same amount of muscle and bone, it starts breaking them down. As on Earth, so in space: use it or lose it. And exercise may not solve the problem. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

You are a masterpiece of creation. — Denis Waitley

How difficult it is to get men to believe that any other man can or does act from disinterestedness! — Benjamin Haydon

When bright, it's dark, when darkest, it's gone. When gone for good, so are you.
What am I? — Avi

I was raised on pop music. Anything classical ran together in a complicated blur. — Jane Siberry

Words are meager things, frail and fickle squandered by the privileged tongue — Olsfred James

But this isn't a ghost story: the ghost is in the background, where she has to be. If she was in the foreground she'd be a person. — David Mitchell

Rather than getting nostalgic ... embrace the new opportunities and challenges available to you now. — Richard Branson

Justice is in the hands of the gods, an old poet wrote, mortal hands hold only mercy and the sword. — Ursula K. Le Guin