Moving forward, stopping only to rest,
Taking care not to wallow in the muck.
Shedding layers along the way,
Making room for joy.
Always more to come,
Feeling peace on my path.
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Love Them Anyway
By Mother Teresa
People are unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered.
Love 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 true enemies.
Succeed anyway.
The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Be good anyway.
Honesty and frankness will make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.
People need help, but may attack you if you try to help them.
Help them anyway.
In the final analysis, it is between you and God.
It was never between you and them anyway.
People are unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered.
Love 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 true enemies.
Succeed anyway.
The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Be good anyway.
Honesty and frankness will make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.
People need help, but may attack you if you try to help them.
Help them anyway.
In the final analysis, it is between you and God.
It was never between you and them anyway.
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Faith or Fear?
I waver between faith and fear, like I'm sure most people do. Even the most faith-filled among us have to fend off fear sometimes. It's all part of the plan. When we use our free will to recognize that we are fearful and that we cannot at the same time have absolute faith, we remember that God is in control. This is both scary and comforting to me. I would like to think I am in control. It provides me with the illusion that everything will be fine because I am so powerful and I can make things happen. That may be true, until I try to control other people, my circumstances or anything other than my own thoughts and actions.
I know God has a plan and I trust that it will be much more rewarding than my own, self-imposed version. I am not able to see the bigger picture of the universe the way God does. When I humble myself enough to truly surrender to the miraculous power and knowing of the universe, I feel serenity.
I know God has a plan and I trust that it will be much more rewarding than my own, self-imposed version. I am not able to see the bigger picture of the universe the way God does. When I humble myself enough to truly surrender to the miraculous power and knowing of the universe, I feel serenity.
Saturday, April 9, 2011
A Seasonal Perspective
A warm spring day, a gentle breeze.
Sun in the clear blue sky, tiny new green leaves.
Lawnmowers running again.
The scent of fresh-cut grass and sunscreen.
Kids at the park, bare feet on the ground.
Laughing and running in the sunshine.
Pleasantly forgetting what I've forgotten.
Birds singing and working, preparing for another beginning.
Sun in the clear blue sky, tiny new green leaves.
Lawnmowers running again.
The scent of fresh-cut grass and sunscreen.
Kids at the park, bare feet on the ground.
Laughing and running in the sunshine.
Pleasantly forgetting what I've forgotten.
Birds singing and working, preparing for another beginning.
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