Joy

"Without struggle, success has no value."

"If you didn't earn something, it's not worth flaunting."

"Travel is costly yes, but it pays dividends too."

"Explore, Experience, Then Push Beyond."

"We love our partners for who they are, not for who they are not."

"At some point, you just gotta forgive the past, your happiness hinges on it."

"The freedom of the open road is seductive, serendipitous and absolutely liberating."

"There is strange comfort in knowing that no matter what happens today, the Sun will rise again tomorrow."

"New life, new hope, new joy will start when this is given from the heart."

"Be a team player, not a bandwagon jumper."

"The highway of grace will get you somewhere a whole lot faster then the freeway of spite."

"The high road of grace will get you somewhere a whole lot faster then the freeway of spite."

"True friends don't come with conditions."

"From this point forward, you don’t even know how to quit in life.”~ Aaron Lauritsen, ‘100 Days Drive"

"Life's trials will test you, and shape you, but don’t let them change who you are.”~ Aaron Lauritsen, ‘100 Days Drive"

"If we can’t feel into the heart of grief, we can’t truly move on to experience hope and joy. We can’t be present to what is now, and what is next, because we are bound by the loss and sorrow that holds us to the past. Grief has to flow. It has to be carried, not just by you, but by the others with you, by your community, until it transforms to the next rightful calling of your heart to action."

"A human beings’ perception of reality emanates from viewing the universe, which is in a constant state of creation and destruction. The universe in which we move and work in outlasts human interests, hopes, expectations, and joy, and all forms of aversion, effort, pain, and humiliation. The world outlasts our dreams, love songs, bouts of inanity and anxiety, it outlast regrets, remorse, and shame."

"Satan is a liar. He wants to steal our joy and replace it with hopelessness. When we're up against a struggle and we think we can't keep going, we can change that by praising God. Our chains will fall from us. Meese encouraged me by reminding me of the real reason we have for fully living this life. It's to give everything we have to God--even the heartbreaks and pain. God is our reason to live."

"Hope is a joy of heart."

"Yet something else trickles in between the cracks of this despairing thought. The hope of something to fill that emptiness. The hope that, perhaps, I have found it already. And suddenly hope is a thing alive, soaring in me. Its wings beat against my ribs, wild with the promise of joy."