Life is rarely the ride you plan to get on each morning as you wake, but will you get on anyway?

At an amusement park you can't ride everything at once. 

If a line is long do you wait? If a ride is shut down do you stand and stare, or move on? Do you try a ride that isn't on your list? 

Live a bit more as if you're at an amusement park. 

You can't do everything at once; use patience when it's called for; gracefully step away when needed; give chance to a ride you never expected to get on. 

-Ronda Rae Franklin

Your heart has the capacity to shine its beacon on many shores. Spread the wings of your heart, and you will always be home

Home is where the heart is. 

When you miss home, make home where you are. 

Find your heart, put it into all that surrounds you, and there home is made. 

This doesn't take away from the home you left behind, it simply spreads your love to a new place as well. 

There is no limit to love. 

Spread the wings of your heart - they will cover as much territory as you wish. 

-Ronda Rae Franklin

Photograph by Ronda Rae Franklin

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The Art of a Childlike Heart

"Don't let the strength of your personal convictions 
become so strong and loud as to have those around you scatter and flee. 


Learn the art of stillness; a calm presence, a patient mind, a peaceful soul, a quiet spirit, and a receptive heart.

Act more than you speak. 

Spend your time finding ways to love people who seem unlovable, and judgement will have no time to manifest within you.

This is the art of living with a childlike heart." 

-Ronda Rae Franklin

Photograph by Ronda Rae Franklin

The Art of a Child

There's only one creator ~ and it isn't you. You get to hold the camera...

"There is nothing that you can accomplish that God doesn't have his hand on. 

This isn't to say you aren't accomplishing it, it simply says you don't do things by your means alone. 

You're not that good, and you don't have to be. 
Just go, do, be; learn to accept the outcome and keep moving. 

Be the best you, and accept God's will over yours. 
His will prevails no matter what you choose to accept."

-Ronda Rae Franklin

Photograph by Ronda Rae Franklin

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