“Use what you have, use what the world gives you. Use the first day of fall: bright flame before winter's deadness; harvest; orange, gold, amber; cool nights and the smell of fire. Our tree-lined streets are set ablaze, our kitchens filled with the smells of nostalgia: apples bubbling into sauce, roasting squash, cinnamon, nutmeg, cider, warmth itself. The leaves as they spark into wild color just before they die are the world's oldest performance art, and everything we see is celebrating one last violently hued hurrah before the black and white silence of winter.” WorldGivingFirstsArtUseLastsNightDiesFallBlackWhiteSilenceFireTreeStreetsColorGoldPerformancesFilledWinterSmellNostalgiaCelebrateFlamesKitchenApplesAutumnWarmthSparksBlack And WhiteHarvestOrangeSauceAmberSquashCinnamonPerformance ArtCiderRoasting Author:Shauna Niequist
“I want you to stop running from thing to thing to thing, and to sit down at the table, to offer the people you love something humble and nourishing, like soup and bread, like a story, like a hand holding another hand while you pray. We live in a world that values us for how fast we go, for how much we accomplish, for how much life we can pack into one day. But I'm coming to believe it's in the in-between spaces that our lives change, and that the real beauty lies there.” PeopleWorldWantBelieveRealStoriesHandsRunningLyingValuesSpaceOur LivesPrayingOne DayOffersTablesHumbleAccomplishBreadLife ChangingI Want YouPacksSoupReal BeautyHand Holding Author:Shauna Niequist
“This is how the world changes - little by little, table by table, meal by meal, hour by hour. This is how we chip away at isolation, loneliness, fear. This is how we connect, in big and small ways - we do it around the table.” WorldWayLittlesBigsHoursLonelinessTablesMealsIsolationChips Author:Shauna Niequist
“The world is alive, blinking and clicking, winking at us slyly, inviting us to get up and dance to the music that’s been playing since the beginning of time, if you bend all the way down and put your ear to the ground to listen for it.” IfsWorldWayAliveEarsDown AndGet UpInvitingWinking Book:Cold Tangerines: Celebrating the Extraordinary Nature of Everyday Life Source: Cold Tangerines: Celebrating the Extraordinary Nature of Everyday Life
“I believe still today what I have always believed: that God is good, that the world He made is extraordinary, and that His comfort is like nothing else on earth.” WorldBelieveMadeStillsTodayEarthI BelieveComfortExtraordinaryAlways Believe Author:Shauna Niequist