David Given Schwarm

Married, Father, United

Tag: Prayer

  • Healing takes time

    1. Healing takes time
    2. Do not hurry
    3. Prioritize
    4. Make no mistakes
    5. Do not over promise

  • Relax

    1. Relax
    2. Do what you say
    3. Shop slowly
    4. Focus on Family
    5. Movie night

  • Nothing

    1. Nothing
    2. Take time
    3. No 180 mph
    4. Pay attention
    5. Laugh

  • Archimandrite Sophrony


    No one on this earth can avoid affliction; and although the
    afflictions which the Lord sends are not great men imagine them
    beyond their strength and are crushed by them. This is because
    they will not humble their souls and commit themselves to the will
    of God. But the Lord Himself guides with His grace those who are
    given over to God’s will, and they bear all things with fortitude
    for the sake of God Whom they have so loved and with Whom they are
    glorified for ever. It is impossible to escape tribulation in this
    world but the man who is giver over to the will of God bears
    tribulation easily, seeing it but putting his trust in the Lord,
    and so his tribulations pass.

  • 24. Skill

    The good walker stirs up no dust.
    The good speaker incurs no discussion.
    The good reckoner needs no arithmetic.
    The good keeper needs no bolts or bars.
    The good binder needs no rope.
    The wise one is a constant
    and good helper of friends.

    Rejecting nothing,
    she is a good preserver of things;
    disdaining nothing,
    her intelligence is all-embracing.

    Good people guid one another.
    Those people who do not live as they teach
    or cherish their material–
    though they may be called wise
    they are in a state of delusion.

  • Do not procrastinate

    1. Do not procrastinate
    2. Communicate
    3. Inform others
    4. Do not judge
    5. Open minded

  • Color matters

    1. Color matters
    2. Experience
    3. Art is art
    4. Do not control
    5. Observe

  • John of Karpathos

    Do all in your power not to fall, for the strong athlete should not fall. But if you do fall, get up again at once and continue the contest. Even if you fall a thousand times because of the withdrawal of God’s grace, rise up again each time, and keep on doing this until the day of your death. For it is written, ‘If a righteous man falls down seven times’ – that is, repeatedly throughout his life – ‘seven times shall he rise again’ [Prov. 24:16].

  • 39. Fear of Life and Death

    We pass continually from life to death to life;
    and the fears of life are as many
    as are the fears of death.

    It has been said that one who walks in Tao
    can go through life without any protection
    and neither the rhinoceros nor the tiger
    become cause for alarm.
    One who walks in Tao will enter into battle
    without fearing the sword.
    The rhinoceros finds no place to put his horn.
    The tiger finds no place to fix his claws.
    The sword finds no place to thrust itself.

    Why is this?
    Because on who walks in Tao
    has no fear of death.

  • Faith

    1. Faith
    2. Be prepared
    3. Listen
    4. Don’t project
    5. Present tense