Quote of the Day 3/6/14

"Life is often so confusing and full of metaphors and vague concepts. Very few things are concrete. How does anyone grasp these concepts, like trusting and believing and loving and worshiping, and put them into practice? How does anyone really apply them rather than just talk about them ?But I’m finding the deeper I think on this, that more than anything God is just saying, “Just give me your hows.” When I give up all of those "how" questions, I am no longer in control, which in this case is a very, very good thing. Placing these questions in His care is the absolute best thing I can do."

Quote(s) of the Day 2/14/14

Happy Valentines Day! 

Whatever your current status is and however you may feel about Valentine's Day, I think its an extra opportunity to be reminded of how many blessings and how much love we all have in our lives. Today we should be reminded and encouraged to simply give a little extra love, a little extra attention and a little extra care to everyone; to those we know and to those we don't know. Everyone can always use a little more love in their lives!

And some quotes for today:

"I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love."  [Mother Teresa]

"A loving heart is the truest wisdom." [Charles Dickens]

If you wished to be loved, love. [Lucius Annaeus Seneca]

Hope for love, pray for love, wish for love, dream for love…but don’t put your life on hold waiting for love. [Mandy Hale]

There is no remedy for love but to love more. [Thoreau]

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” 
[Lao Tzu]

"Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could."  [Barbara de Angelis]

Quote of the Day 1/27/14

"This year, mend a quarrel. Seek out a forgotten friend. Dismiss suspicion and replace it with trust. Write a letter. Give a soft answer. Encourage youth. Keep a promise. Forgo a grudge. Forgive an enemy. Apologize. Try to understand. Examine your demands on others. Think first of someone else. Be kind. Be gentle. Laugh a little more. Express your gratitude. Welcome a stranger. Gladden the heart of a child. Take pleasure in the beauty and wonder of the earth. Speak your love and then speak it again." [Howard W. Hunter]

Quote of the Day 1/23/14

"Unexpected kindness is the most powerful, least costly, and most underrated agent of human change."  [Bob Kerrey]

Quote of the Day 1/21/14

“Today is your big moment. Moments, really. The life you’ve been waiting for is happening all around you. The scene unfolding right outside your window is worth more than the most beautiful painting, and the crackers and peanut butter that you’re having for lunch on the coffee table are as profound, in their own way, as the Last Supper. This is it. This is life in all its glory, swirling and unfolding around us, disguised as pedantic, pedestrian non-events. But pull of the mask and you will find your life, waiting to be made, chosen, woven, crafted. Your life, right now, today, is exploding with energy and power and detail and dimension, better than the best movie you have ever seen. You and your family and your friends and your house and your dinner table and your garage have all the makings of a life of epic proportions, a story for the ages. Because they all are. Every life is. You have stories worth telling, memories worth remembering, dreams worth working toward, a body worth feeding, a soul worth tending, and beyond that, the God of the universe dwells within you, the true culmination of super and natural. You are more than dust and bones. You are spirit and power and image of God. And you have been given Today.” [Shauna Niequist - Cold Tangerines: Celebrating the Extraordinary Nature of Everyday Life]

Quote of the Day 1/15/14

To everything there is a season,
a time for every purpose under the sun.
A time to be born and a time to die;
a time to plant and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
a time to kill and a time to heal ...
a time to weep and a time to laugh;
a time to mourn and a time to dance ...
a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing;
a time to lose and a time to seek;
a time to rend and a time to sew;
a time to keep silent and a time to speak;
a time to love and a time to hate;
a time for war and a time for peace.

[Book of Ecclesiastes]

Quote of the Day 1/13/14

“There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. All hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.”     [John Lennon]

Quote of the Day 1/11/14

“Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.”     [Eleanor Roosevelt]

Quote of the Day 1/10/14

“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.”       [Elisabeth Kübler-Ross]

Quote of the Day 12/31/13

An excellent reminder as 2014 approaches (and my favorite quote of all)….

"People are often unreasonable, illogical and self centered;

Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives;

Be kind anyway.

If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies;

Succeed anyway.

If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;

Be honest and frank anyway.

What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;

Build anyway.

If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;

Be happy anyway.

The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;

Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;

Give the world the best you've got anyway.

You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and your God;

It was never between you and them anyway."

[Mother Teresa]

Quote of the Day 12/30/13

“The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.”

[Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to a friend, reminding us that friendships matter]

Quote of the Day 12/26/13

“The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.”      [Reinhold Niebuhr]

Quote of the Day 12/20/13

"If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 

And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 

If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.

Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things." 

Quote of the Day 12/18/13

"And then I will look a little more carefully with a little more love at my surroundings, to listen to what can be heard in the depths of the wreckage. The footsteps of friends on the deck. The calls on my phone from family. The texts of kindness. The emails of opportunity. The likes and the comments and the hearts and the replies from every other broken heart. When the army doesn’t come for you, when no one chooses to fight for you, when no one dives in after you with fairy tales and promises, you write a different story. You write a tale of adventure and chaos, of survival and fortitude, and instead of wishing to be saved, you save yourself. "        [Kelton Wright]

Quote of the Day 12/17/13

"A woman who walks with God will always reach her destination."             [Author Unknown]

Quote of the Day 12/13/13

"My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her."    [George Washington]