"Come unto Me, all ye that are heavy laden, and I will give you rest."
- Jesus Christ

"I'll be your candle on the water, my love for you will always burn. I know you're tired, and drifting. But the fog is lifting. Don't give up, you have someplace to turn."
- Pete's Dragon

"Keep your face to the sunshine, and you will not see the shadows."
- Helen Keller

I asked God...

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength indefeatable."
- Helen Keller

"For He shall give His angels charge over thee in all thy ways."
Psalm 91:11

"There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy."
- Ralph H. Blum

A Different Kind of Prayer

"If God brings you to it, He will bring you through it."
- author unknown

"When we are going out of our mind, we are being directed back to our heart."
- G.Gordon-Hall

"The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom."
- James Allen

God's Billboards

"Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we are here we might as well dance."
- author unknown

"No man is an island. No man stands alone. Each man's joy is joy to me. Each man's grief is my own. We need one another. So I will defend. Each man as my brother. Each man as my friend."

PROOF
If radio's slim fingers Can pluck a melody
From night, and toss it over A continent, or sea;
If the petaled white notes Of a violin
Are blown across a mountain, Or a city's din;
If songs, like crimson roses, are culled from thin blue air,
Why should mortals wonder
If God hears prayer?
- Ethel Romig Fuller

God's Wings


"May today there be peace within.
May you trust your highest power that you are exactly where you are meant to be.
May you not forget the infinite possibilities that are born of faith.
May you use those gifts that you have received, and pass on the love that has been given to you.
May you be content knowing you are a child of God.
Let this presence settle into our bones, and allow your soul the freedom to sing, dance, praise and love.
It is there for each and every one of you."
- Theresa prayer

"Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength."
-Unknown

RAINBOW OF HOPE
Lord, let me carry a rainbow of hope
to the victims of life's storms...
Make my life a bridge from your caring heart to the world.
- B.J. Hoff

"Winners"

"Stop telling God how big your problems are, and start telling your problems how big your God is."
- Unknown

"My barn having burned to the ground, I can now see the moon."
- Unknown

Author and lecturer Leo Buscaglia once talked about a contest he was asked to judge. The purpose of the contest was to find the most caring child. The winner was a four year old child whose next door neighbor was an elderly gentleman who had recently lost his wife. Upon seeing the man cry, the little boy went into the old gentleman's yard, climbed onto his lap, and just sat there. When his Mother asked what he had said to the neighbor, the little boy said, "Nothing, I just helped him cry"

Refiner's Fire

"Be comfortable with a wrinkled face — never a wrinkled soul."
- Life's Little Instruction Calendar

"I should've been a plumber."
- Albert Einstein

"You really shouldn't say 'I love you' unless you mean it. But if you mean it, you should say it a lot. People forget."
- Jessica - age 8

Three Trees

"The lost I will seek out, the strayed I will bring back, the injured I will bind up, the sick I will heal."
- Ezekiel 34:16

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
- Maya Angelou

"When Satan is knocking at your door, simply say, "Jesus, could you get that for me?"

May You Always Feel Loved

"I am not afraid of the storm, for I am learning how to sail my own ship."
- Louisa May Alcott

THE OWL MANTRA
O... I OWN it.
W... I’m WORTHY of it.
L... I LET it happen.
- Allene Remington

Hearing Your Song

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take but by the moments that take our breath away."
- Unknown

"You can determine, with no limitations, the person you are inside. And as you do, that person comes to life on the outside as well."
- Ralph S. Marston, Jr.

"If you want to learn to love better, you should start with a friend who you hate."
- Nikka - age 6 (we need a few million more Nikka's on this planet)

Being Afraid of Being Yourself

"Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness.
Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret,
how to acquire without meanness.
- George Sand

"We must be willing to let go of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us."
- Joseph Campbell

Who's packing your parachute?

"Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain."
- Author Unknown

Blessings

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be so brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a Child of God. Your playing small doesn’t serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone and as we let our light shine we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
- Nelson Mandela, 1994 Inaugural Speech

I Wish For You

"Expect Miracles"

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
- Eleanor Roosevelt

The Daffodil Principle - One Step at a Time

HEAVENLY FATHER
Help us to remember that the jerk who cut us off in traffic last night is a single mother who worked nine hours that day and is rushing home to cook dinner, help with homework, do the laundry and spend a few precious moments with her children.
Help us to remember that the pierced, tattooed, disinterested young man who can't make change correctly is a worried 19-year-old college student, balancing his apprehension over final exams with his fear of not getting his student loans for next semester.
Remind us, Lord, that the scary looking bum, begging for money in the same spot every day (who really ought to get a job!) is a slave to addictions that we can only imagine in our worst nightmares.
Help us to remember that the old couple walking annoyingly slow through the store aisles and blocking our shopping progress are savoring this moment, knowing that, based on the biopsy report she got back last week, this will be the last year that they go shopping together.
Heavenly Father, remind us each day that, of all the gifts you give us, the greatest gift is love. It is not enough to share that love with those we hold dear. Open our hearts not to just those who are close to us, but to all humanity. Let us be slow to judge and quick to forgive, show patience, empathy and love."
- author unknown

A Prayer For You

"The ego looks for what to criticize. This always involves comparing with the past. But love looks upon the world peacefully and accepts.

"The ego searches for short-comings and weaknesses. Love watches for any sign of strength. It sees how far each has come and not how far he has to go.

"How simple it is to love and exhausting it is to always find faults, for every time we see a fault we think something needs to be done about it. Love knows that nothing is ever needed but more love. It is what we all do with our hearts that affects others most deeply. It is not the movements of our body or the words within our mind that transmit love.

We love from heart to heart."
- Maharishi

A Reminder

"She would rather light candles than curse the darkness."
- Adelai Stevenson, regarding Eleanor Roosevelt

"When there is nothing left but God, that is when you find out that God is all you need."
- author unknown

I can still bring you out!

The Seven Wonders of the World:
1. to see;
2. to hear;
3. to touch;
4. to taste;
5. to feel;
6. to laugh;
7. to love."
- a child

"Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day
is the rest we take between two deep breaths."
- Etty Hillesum

You Are So Blessed!

"To the world you might be one person, but to one person you just might be the world"
- unknown

"Be still, and know that I am God."
- God

"Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions."
- Great Sufi Master Hafiz

The Weathered Old Barn

Learn To Flutter...
"I will break loose and fly On the waves of joy and fulfillment Which I will help create.
"I shall renew and refresh my spirit daily by enjoying the earth and the people I find here.
With the smell of the air, the sway of the leaves, if for only 10 minutes a day I will enjoy life
even more, love more, give more and become happier every day."
- Judy Jeffery

"To love for the sake of being loved is human,
but to love for the sake of loving is Angelic."
- Alphonse de Lamartine

Apples

"Don't cry because it's over; smile because it happened."
-author unknown

"A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour."
-author unknown

The Awakening

"We could learn a lot from crayons:
some are sharp, some are pretty,
some are dull, some have weird names,
and all are different colors....but
they all exist very nicely in the same box."
-author unknown

"Thousands of candles can be lighted by one single candle,
and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
Happiness is never decreased by sharing with others."
-author unknown

Save the Earth