Life Can Be

Living

Motion

A journey

A miracle

Aliveness

Existence

Sentience

A treasure

Not our own

Very simple

A laboratory

Architecture

Very complex

Worth living

A sacred trust

Christ’s life

A contribution

A life rescued

An unread poem

Intensely real

Sometimes hard

A gracious gift

A happy journey

The gift of God

Time management

What we make it

A proving ground

A thing of truth

A wondrous thing

An enduring race

Moulded by faith

The best teacher

Very interesting

A beautiful thing

A great adventure

About the moments

An amazing wonder

But a day at most

Empowering others

The greatest gift

A learning process

A work in progress

An ongoing process

Enduring endeavour

Given to all of us

A ladder, not a bed

An important matter

Filled with seasons

A battle and a march

A constant education

A glorious adventure

A stranger's sojourn

A constant experiment

A period of existence

A process of learning

A series of surprises

A wondrous phenomenon

Mysterious and sacred

One grand, sweet song

Practicing for heaven

Too short to be small

A collection of habits

A glorious opportunity

A series of adventures

A series of recoveries

Not easy for any of us

Shaped by our thoughts

Surviving what happens

To be lived for others

Too short not to smile

95 percent anticipation

A mission, not a career

A picnic on a precipice

About finding our place

An opportunity to serve

Mostly froth and bubble

The greatest art of all

The leader's laboratory

A glorious cycle of song

A marathon, not a sprint

A present, not a promise

Enjoying the gift of God

Filled with endless hope

Made up of little things

Memories and experiences

A long lesson in humility

A series of awkwardnesses

A vast consequential epic

Great when we’re in shape

Hidden with Christ in God

Something that we receive

The greatest blessed gift

What our thoughts make it

A garden forever in flower

A process, not a substance

An object lesson to others

Like a stroll on the beach

Nothing without friendship

Shaped from the inside out

The train, not the station

To be enjoyed, not endured

Too short for a long story

A challenge we must take on

A life, no matter how small

A test one way or the other

Beautiful in its simplicity

Full of great opportunities

Full of happiness and tears

Made up of minute fractions

To be lived, not controlled

A destination, not a journey

A lot of everyday adventures

An art, not an exact science

Brighter on the lighter side

Determined by its activities

Fragile - handle with prayer

Sustained by the word of God

The space between our things

Too short to be frowned away

Too short to dust every week

Too short to read a bad book

A succession of readjustments

About moments, not milestones

Full of endless possibilities

Not what we expected it to be

The result of all our choices

A collection of happy memories

A daring adventure, or nothing

A journey through a wilderness

A matter of choice, not chance

A talent committed to our care

Always moving toward something

An adventure to enjoy creating

An opportunity to benefit from

Too short to sleep it all away

Very tough if we don't laugh

A message scribbled in the dark

A mountain of solvable problems

A work in progress

A series of commas, not periods

About holding on and letting go

Largely a matter of expectation

Not a haphazard, emotional life

Not life at all without delight

Observable, something possessed

The ability to start over again

To be entered upon with courage

Trusting in God, no matter what

A character-building opportunity

A collaboration, not a solo act

A matter of really tough choices

A preparation for what’s to come

An adventure, not a package tour

Filled with love for God and others

Full of challenges and surprises

God’s, to be treated as such

More important than architecture

Not living, but living in health

Not measured by the time we live

An expression of all our thoughts

Good when we have a good sandwich

The best gift, with the rest as extra

Too complicated not to be orderly

Trying things to see if they work

Worth living when we find purpose

A continuous process of adjustment

Like a garden, we reap what we sow

To be lived for God and for others

A balance between rest and movement

A long pilgrimage from fear to love

A mirror of our consistent thoughts

A question in the form of an answer

A series of relapses and recoveries

A series of things that just happen

Filled with varied responsibilities

Painting a picture, not doing a sum

A bunch of nows, one after the other

A passage through a museum of beauty

A series of a thousand tiny miracles

About contribution, not accumulation

Beautiful, when we make it beautiful

Like the ocean - it goes up and down

Problems, living is solving problems

The art of drawing without an eraser

Too short to be wondering 'what if?'

Too short to stress the small things

An echo - what we send out comes back

For participating, not for spectating

Short, but its ills make it seem long

So urgent it necessitates living slow

The moments that take our breath away

The past, the present and the perhaps

Too short for aught but high endeavor

Too short to be vengeful or malicious

What happens when we make other plans

What's happening while we're worrying

A series of collisions with the future

An adventure that is best lived boldly

An eternal journey in search of beauty

As simple or complicated as we make it

Time given to us to learn how to live

To be inspired by deeper, truer motive

A journey with almost limitless detours

A process of trading hopes for memories

Accepting what is and working from that

Like a long journey with a heavy burden

Opportunities, to earnestly be improved

Fearing God and keeping His commandments

Growing and improving and getting better

Lived forwards, but understood backwards

Measured by its depth, not by its length

Not nearly as stable as we want it to be

Relationships - the rest is details

So hard, how can we be anything but kind

A life taken from sin and given to Christ

A sermon either for Christ or against Him

A tapestry woven by the decisions we make

An unending engagement on the battlefield

Like walking - we take one step at a time

Meant to be fun and joyous and fulfilling

Generally something that happens elsewhere

Not a journey we want to make on autopilot

To be lived through action not by dreaming

Too short to dwell on what might have been

What happens when we're doing other things

A big collaboration we can't navigate alone

Consecrated to doing the will of God

A perpetual instruction in cause and effect

Lived in moments, not hours, days, or years

More about the journey than the destination

Sad enough without people writing sad books

Short but there is always time for courtesy

The application of noble and profound ideas

The management of risk, not its elimination

Very simple - what we give out, we get back

A gift to respond to with grace and courtesy

About becoming a better version of ourselves

About what we have to give, not what we have

Beautiful if we are on the road to somewhere

Defined by what we give, not what we achieve

Like walking through snow - every step shows

Too short to not be happy and grateful today

A thing which can never be replaced when lost

Frittered away by detail - simplify, simplify

Hard enough without us embellishing the drama

Not a checklist of acquisition or achievement

A process of continually reordering priorities

A series of lessons that have to be understood

About giving, not about giving up or giving in

Easier when we are comfortable in our own skin

Easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice

Full of surprises, some good, some not so good

Simple, but we insist on making it complicated

About embracing each moment that is given to us

Getting up an hour earlier to live an hour more

Only meaningful when we are striving for a goal

Not accountable to us - we are accountable to it

Of little value unless it be consecrated by duty

Something that everyone should try at least once

What happens while we’re busy making other plans

A continuous exercise in creative problem solving

Lived in the present and directed toward a future

Not the mountaintops, it's the walking in between

Never easy for anyone - be gentle with one another

Not all trials - there are victories and blessings

Not so much a matter of position as of disposition

Not so much what we accomplish as what we overcome

Simple unless we find a way to make it complicated

5 percent what happens, and 95 percent how we react

An experience to be had, not a problem to be solved

Lived on the inside - what's outside doesn't matter

What comes along after we’ve planned something else

An adventurous story filled with triumph and tragedy

Futile unless it be directed towards a definite goal

Like a bicycle we keep moving on to maintain balance

Something that the Giver takes back again to himself

Too short to learn everything by personal experience

Daily surrender, submission, and continual overcoming

A dream come true of a dream we never knew we even had

A matter of choices, and every choice we make makes us

Too short to paint something we don’t have feeling for

What happens to us while we're planning something else

A series of choices that are made in the present moment

Not so short but that there is always time for courtesy

A gift to be grateful for and not a property to cling to

A succession of moments - to live each one is to succeed

God's gift to us - what we do with it is our gift to God

Hard, but it's even harder when we don't want to face it

Not a solitary activity - live well by living for others

The manifestation of God Himself, the source of all life

Too solemn to be absorbed in temporal or earthly matters

Much more interesting when we make a little bit of effort

A life of warfare in which we must watch and pray and toil

Always beautiful when we focus on the greatness of our God

Bristling with thorns, remedied by cultivating one’s garden

A succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood

Characterized by thoughtful attention to the needs of others

A thing of beauty in the midst of a lost and despairing world

10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we react to it

Not made by the dreams we dream, but by the choices that we make

Punctuated by the successful completion of many little recovery plans

Thickly sown with thorns, to be remedied by passing quickly through them

The Lord’s - invested with a responsibility that we do not fully comprehend

An intensely solemn thing in view of the account which all must render to God

Trying, failing, learning, trying, failing, learning, trying, failing, learning

A mysterious and sacred trust with precious opportunities to faithfully be improved

Too valuable, too full of solemn, sacred responsibilities, to be wasted in pleasing self

Entering a narrow, self-denying path and pressing on through difficulties and discouragements

The capacity for growth, reaction to stimuli, metabolism, energy transformation, and reproduction

A characteristic of something that preserves, furthers or reinforces its existence in the given environment

Too short for us to turn our feet in any path that imperceptibly leads away from the only true and safe path

Chaotic – often unbearably so but relieved by dividing some of that chaos into lists to make the onslaught manageable

A quality that distinguishes matter that has biological processes, such as signaling and self-sustaining processes, from matter that does not

A process of becoming more and more like Christ in which we exercise our endurance by fixing our eyes on him, the author, and the finisher of our faith

Not made up of great sacrifices and duties but of little things in which smiles and kindness given habitually are what win and preserve the heart and secure comfort

Valuable only as it is used for investing our powers so that they may yield the greatest profit, and doing our most for the glory of God and the benefit of others

God's manifest action in us and our obedient response to God reverently rendered by our action toward others and, together with them, toward the good of all creation

More than many take it to be - it does not consist wholly in gentleness, patience, meekness, and kindliness, but also of courage, force, energy, and perseverance