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Updated September 21, 2007 Thoughts for Inspiration and Challenge "The
day will come when, after harnessing space, the winds, the tides and gravitation,
we shall harness for God the energies of LOVE. And on that day, for the
second time in the history of the world, we shall have discovered FIRE!"
-- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin "To be a witness ... means to live in such a way that one's life would
not make sense if God did not exist." On the Eucharist "Being
born he have himself as our Companion, "God
is everywhere, in the very air I breathe, yes everywhere, but in His
Sacrament of the Altar He is as present actually and really as my soul
within my body; in His Sacrifice daily offered as really as once offered
on the Cross," - Pope John Paul II, Guardian of the Redeemer, no. 16 Reflections on Peace Peace
I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do
I give it to you. Do not let your hearts be troubled or afraid. There
is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled
by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through
Jesus. -- Archbishop Daniel E. Pilarczyk Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work -- Thomas EdisonWhat reason have atheists for saying that we cannot rise again? Which is the more difficult, to be born or to rise again? That what has never been, should be, or that what has been, should be again? Is it more difficult to come into being than to return to it. -- Blaise Pasal If Easter says anything to us today, it says this: You can put truth in a grave, but it won't stay there. You can nail it to a cross, wrap it in winding sheets and shut it up in a tomb, but it will rise! -- Clarence W. Hall Words to Meditate on: On the night of his betrayal, Jesus washed the feet of his disciples (the dirtiest job reserved for the lowliest of servants) as an example of how we should serve others. "So when he had washed their feet (and) put his garments back on and reclined at table again, he said to them, "Do you realize what I have done for you? You call me 'teacher' and 'master,' and rightly so, for indeed I am. If I, therefore, the master and teacher, have washed your feet, you ought to wash one another's feet. I
have given you a model to follow, so that as I have done for you, you
should also do? " Meditate on Jesus' words, "Do you realize what I have done for you." From
the Fifth Station of the Cross Lord,
make me realize The
effect of prayer is union with God, and, if someone is with God, he
is separated from the enemy. Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade? --Benjamin Franklin "T.R.A.P" -- Nightly Examen Consider this short meditaion each night before you go to sleep:
T hank God
and give him glory for his many blessings, for our gifts and talents
and for those who love us. I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become reality. I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.Yes,
Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and
generosity and devotion exists, and you know that they abound and give
to your life its highest beauty and joy.
Advent is the perfect time to clear and prepare the Way. Advent is a winter training camp for those who desire peace. By reflection and prayer, by reading and meditation, we can make our hearts a place where a blessing of peace would desire to abide and where the birth of the Prince of Peace might take place. -- Edward Hayes Gift of Wonder Each year, God asks us to shed one more coat of awareness, one more dream state and come alive to the vision of God’s plan for each of us and the world-at-large. The older we get, the harder this is to do. As children we had a sense of wonder. Our eyes were wide open and drinking in the fascinating gifts we beheld…Our thirsty souls could not have enough of the wonders of creation. Then, somehow, we grew too old to dream. We tired of the abundance of the world, or at least grew weary of keeping up with the feast of life, and stepped away from the banquet of life. The natural gift of wonder God gave us as children was meant to be kept alive.…Instead we let wonder go to sleep. We entered the typical dream state of most humans. Why else does Jesus tell us today, ‘Stay awake!’…Advent says, ‘Wake up and realize the gifts of love you have received. -- Father Alfred McBride, O Praem Gratitude Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity.... It turns problems into gifts, failures into success, the unexpected into perfect timing, and mistakes into important events. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow. -- Melodie Beattie"Treat the earth well. It was not given to you by your parents; it was loaned to you by your children." -- Oglala Sioux Proverb “Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.” -- Kahlil Gibran
"Stop telling God how big your storm is. Instead, tell the storm how big your God is." If you seek greatness, you will be disappointed. Rather, seek to serve others and greatness will find you. -- Anonymous Vision without action is merely a dream Action without vision just passes time Vision with action can change the world -- Loren Eiseley On the heart . . . "The
worst prison would be a closed heart." "Have
a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tries, and a touch that
never hurts." The
best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched.
They must be felt with the heart "The
heart benevolent and kind The most resembles God." Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines." -Satchel Paige Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted. --Garrison Keillor You command the seed to rise, Lord God, though the farmer is unaware. Grant that those who labor for you may trust not in their own work but in your help. Remembering that the land is brought to flower not with human tears but with those of your Son, may the Church rely only upon your gifts. Here is a test to find out whether your mission in life is complete. If you're alive, it isn't. -- Richard Bach If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Strange that so much suffering is caused because of the misunderstandings of God's true nature. God's heart is more gentle than the Virgin's first kiss upon the Christ. And God's forgiveness to all, to any thought or act, is more certain than our own being. - - St.Catherine of Siena. It is the duty of those who know to inform those who do not know. -- Stephen Crane, Harris Interactive "I touch the
future. I teach." "My captor walked up to me and with his sandal drew a cross in the dirt. Both prisoner and guard stood wordlessly there for a minute or two, venerating the cross, until the guard rubbed it out and walked away. This is my faith. The faith that unites and never divides, the faith that bridges unbridgeable gaps in humanity. That is my religious faith, and it is the faith I want my party to serve and the faith I hold in my country." --Senator
John McCain
Love, and do what thou wilt. Whether thou hold thy peace, through love hold thy peace; Whether thou cry out, through love cry out; Whether thou correct, through love correct; Whether thou spare, through love do thou spare: Let the root of love be within, Of this root can nothing spring but what is good. -- St. Augustine Life without liberty is like a body without spirit." -- Kahlil Gibran “I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.” -- C. S. Lewis One night a father overheard his son pray: Dear God, Make me the kind of man my Daddy is. Later that night, the Father prayed, Dear God, Make me the kind of man my son wants me to be. -- Anonymous If Easter says anything to us today, it says this: You can put truth in a grave, but it won't stay there. You can nail it to a cross, wrap it in winding sheets and shut it up in a tomb, but it will rise! -- Clarence W. Hall Do, or do not. There is no 'try'. - Yoda ('The Empire Strikes Back') Shipwrecked The only survivor of a shipwreck was washed up on a small, uninhabited island. He prayed feverishly for God to rescue him, and every day he scanned the horizon for help, but none seemed forthcoming. Exhausted, he eventually managed to build a little hut out of driftwood to protect himself from the elements, and to store his few possessions. But then one day, after scavenging for food, he arrived home to find his little hut in flames, the smoke rolling up to the sky. The worst had happened -everything was lost. He was stunned with grief and anger. "God, how could you do this to me?" he cried. Early the next day, however, he was awakened by the sound of a ship that was approaching the island. It had come to rescue him. "How did you know I was here?" asked the weary man of his rescuers. "We saw your smoke signal," they replied. It's easy to get discouraged sometimes when things appear to be going badly. But we shouldn't lose heart, because God is at work in our lives, even in the midst of pain and suffering. Remember, next time your little hut is burning to the ground, it just may be a smoke signal that summons the grace of God. Someday ‘Someday’ is a snake whose tongue has mastered the talk of deception. 'Someday,' it hisses, 'I'll take her on that cruise...we'll have time to sit and chat...' But you know the truth before I even write it, don't you? Someday never comes! Wise up! Invest the time. Send the flowers. Write the letter. Make the apology. Take the trip. Purchase the gift. Do it! The seized opportunity brings joy - the neglected one brings only regret! -- Max Lucado "With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the workin, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations." -- Abraham Lincoln (2nd Inaugural Address) Back To Top Of PageGod is Love "Love of widows and orphans, prisoners and the sick and needy of every kind is as essential to her [the church] as ministry of the sacraments and preaching of the Gospel ... For the church, charity is not a kind of welfare activity which could equally be left to others, but is a part of her nature, an indispensible expression of her very being." -- Pope Benedict XIV (Enclyclical on Love, Deus Caritas Est)Slow Me Down, Lord Ease the pounding of my heart by the quieting of my mind. Steady my hurried pace. Give me, amidst the day's confusion, the calmness of the everlasting hills. Break
the tensions of my nerves and muscles with the soothing music of singing
streams that live in my memory. Help
me to know the magical, restoring power of sleep. Teach me the art of
taking "minute vacations"...slowing down to look at a flower,
to chat with a friend, to read a few lines from a good book. Remind
me of the fable of the hare and the tortoise; that the race is not always
to the swift; that there is more to life than measuring its speed. Let me
look up at the branches of the towering oak and know that it grew slowly
and well. Inspire me to send my own roots down deep into the soil of life's
endearing values...that I may grow toward the stars of my greater destiny. Slow
me down, Lord. Back To Top Of Page Handwritten sign found on the wall of Mother Teresa's room:
HERE I AM, LORD Here I am, Lord, send me; Send me to the ends of the earth; Send me to the rough, the savage pagans of the wilderness; Send me from all that is called comfort in earth, or earthly comfort: Send me to death itself, if it be but in Thy service and to promote Thy kingdom. -- Saint Frances Xavier Show Me The Way As I slowly drift
to sleep, for a moment dreams are sacred Show me the way show
me the way Show me the way,
show me the way -- Styx (Show Me
The Way) A happy New Year! Grant that I May bring no tear to any eye When this New Year in time shall end Let it be said I've played the friend, Have lived and loved and labored here, And made of it a happy year. ~Edgar Guest I heard the bells on Christmas Day; their old familiar carols play, and wild and sweet the word repeat of peace on earth, good-will to men! -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exists, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. -- editorial in the New York Sun, 1897, responding to a letter from 8-year-old Virginia O'HanlonInstead of being a time of unusual behavior, Christmas is perhaps the only time in the year when people can obey their natural impulses and express their true sentiments without feeling self-conscious and, perhaps, foolish. Christmas, in short, is about the only chance a man has to be himself. --Francis C. Farley Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. -- From the TV show INVASION - Nov. 23, 2005 If you have a talent, that's God's gift to you. If you use that talent, that's your gift to God. -- Red Skelton On Learning Difficulties It
doesn't matter that you learn differently than others, what matters is
that you know there is greatness inside you and it's up to you to figure
out what that is and share it with the world as your gift. HEAR ME LORD Forgive me Lord Help me Lord, please At both ends of the
road Back To Top Of Page There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus. -- Blaise Pascal On Hope Webster defines Hope as, "To wish for something with expectation of its fulfillment." For us Christians, Hope not a wish, but a belief! It is a belief in the promise of Jesus Christ, that we will rise with him and he will take us to the Father. This belief is founded in Faith and lived in a relationship of Love. - anonymous ". . . a faith and knowledge resting on the hope of eternal life, which God, who does not lie, promised before the beginning of time" -- Titus 1:2 "In each of our lives Jesus comes as the Bread of Life - to be eaten, to be consumed by us. This is how He loves us. Then Jesus comes in our human life as the hungry one, the other, hoping to be fed with the Bread of our life, our hearts by loving, and our hands by serving. In loving and serving, we prove that we have been created in the likeness of God, for God is Love and when we love we are like God. This is what Jesus meant when He said, "Be perfect as your Father in heaven is perfect." - Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta“We are not some casual or meaningless product of evolution. Each of us is the result of a thought of God. Each of us is willed, each of us is loved, each of us is necessary.” —Pope Benedict XVI, homily, April 24, 2005 The true servant heart is oblivious of the sacrifice. -- annonymous I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." -- Galileo Galilei Back To Top Of Page Never tell a young person that something can not be done. God may have been waiting for centuries for somebody ignorant enough of the impossible to do that thing. - Dr. J. A. Holmes If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. - Carl Sagan The Achievement of anything begins with the idea that it is possible. -- John Alston God called Jesus Christ to what seemed unmitigated disaster. Jesus Christ called his disciples to see him put to death; he led every one of them to the place where their hearts were broken. Jesus Christ's life was an absolute failure from every standpoint but God's. But what seemed failure from man's standpoint was a tremendous triumph from God's, because God's purpose is never man's purpose. -- Oswald Chambers - My Utmost For His Highest On Prayer:
We must have Faith in God; Faith that he loves us and wants us to be like him, Faith that there is a part of God in every person we meet, and Faith that it is our ultimate goal in life to become the kind of person God created us to be. -- Anonymous Obstacles are those things we see when we take our eyes off the goal. And the goal? To be one with Jesus. -- Anonymous Do everything for the love of God and His glory without looking at the outcome of the undertaking. Work is judged, not by its result, but by its intention. --Padre Pio of Pietrelcina A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle; and patriotism is loyalty to that principle. ~ George William Curtis Advice From An Old Farmer
What nobler profession than to touch the next generation—to see children hold your understanding in their eyes, your hope in their lives, your world in their hands. In their success, you find your own and so to them, you give your all. --The Essence of Teaching Back To Top Of Page When we leave Mass, we ought to go out the way Moses descended Mt Sinai: with his face shining, with his heart brave and strong to face the world’s difficulties. — Archbishop Oscar Romero Quotes from Khalil Gibran, author of The Prophet
Justice and service are central to who we are as God's people and to how we live our faith at home, in our communities, and in the world. The central message is simple: our faith is profoundly social. We cannot be called truly "Catholic" unless we hear and heed the Church's call to serve those in need and work for justice and peace. We cannot call ourselves followers of Jesus unless we take up his mission of bringing "good news to the poor, liberty to captives, and new sight to the blind" Sayings of Mother Teresa:
Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth; and God has placed in the human heart a desire to know the truth—in a word, to know himself—so that, by knowing and loving God, men and women may also come to the fullness of truth about themselves -- Pope John Paul II; Fides Et Ratio (Faith and Reason) The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little. -- Thomas Merton Back To Top Of Page Quotes of St. Francis of Assissi
The soul must long for God in order to be set aflame by God’s love; but if the soul cannot yet feel this longing, then it must long for the longing. To long for the longing is also from God. — Meister Eckhart If you hurt because you have been abused, abandoned, rejected, persecuted, beaten, unloved, you are not alone. Jesus suffered this and much more. You must do as Jesus did -- forgive them, love them, pray for them. Only in this will you find freedom from your hurt. -- Justin Fatica, Hard As Nails Ministry -- Dicoesan Youth Congress 2005 The Wisdom of Pope John Paul II
If Easter says anything to us today, it says this: You can put truth in a grave, but it won't stay there. You can nail it to a cross, wrap it in winding sheets and shut it up in a tomb, but it will rise! --Clarence W. Hall Back To Top Of Page "So when he had washed their feet and put his garments back on and reclined at table again, he said to them, "Do you realize what I have done for you?" John 13:12 Washing the feet of a weary visitor was a task reserved for the lowest of servants. On Holy Thursday, we reenact the scene of Jesus washing the feet of his disciples. Let us take some time this Holy Week to ponder that awesome question, "Do you realize what I have done for you? When you realize that Jesus Christ has served us to the end of our meanness, our selfishness and sin, nothing that we meet from others can exhaust our determination to serve men for His sake. -- Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest On Faith -- Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. -- St. Augustine Faith is the bird that sings when the dawn is still dark. -- Rabindranath Tagore Santa: "I'll believe it when I see it". Elf: "You're wrong, Santa; until you believe it, you'll never see it". -- From the movie, The Santa Clause Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation. -- Elton Trueblood For we walk by faith, not by sight -- 2 Corinthians (5:7) Never deprive anyone of hope…it might be all they have. — Author unknown It's not about you! -- Harold S. Kushner, "When Bad Things Happen to Good People" Back To Top Of Page On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, “Is it safe?” Expediency asks the question, “Is it politic?” And Vanity comes along and asks the question, “Is it popular?” But Conscience asks the question, “Is it right?” And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must do it because Conscience tells him it is right. — Martin Luther King, Jr. Nor can we practice the Gospel of life only as a private piety. American Catholics must live it vigorously and publicly; as a matter of national leadership and witness, or we will not live it at all. -- Pope John Paul II (The Gospel of Life - Evangelium Vitae) So-called Therapeutic Cloning - creating embryos with the intent of destroying them - is just one more assault on the creator of life, along with abortion, capital punishment and physician-assisted suicide. Life is God's and God's alone. To destroy any life is to shunt God's plan and to deny Him the opportunity to work his plan through that life. -- Anonymous The Light of Christ burns brightest in our darkest hours. The recent tsunami disaster is evidence that God can always be found in the midst of tragedy. The world's focus was instantly diverted from terror and war to one of unprecedented love and caring for one another. -- Anonymous God called Israel of long ago to be a "light to the nations, that my salvation shall reach the ends of the earth". (Isaiah 49:6). Little did they realize that, as God's 'chosen people', they were charged with spreading the Good News to the ends of the earth. It is no less our calling today. -- Anonymous We are asked this week to re-new our Baptismal Vows. (Jan. 9, 2005) As we promise anew those vows first given at our Baptism, we should remember that no matter what our past choices in life, no matter what our sins, God will always find a way to work through us - if we but let him. -- Anonymous Back To Top Of Page How are your Spiritaul Ab's? Like physical exercise, prayer must be regular and consistant. Just 15 minutes a day can make you feel great - and the benefits are cumulative. Why not make a New Year's resolution to spend 15 minutes of each day in private prayer with your God? -- Anonymous Seven hundred years before Christ was born, Isaiah wrote: "Therefore, the Lord himself will give you this sign: the virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall name him Emmanuel." (Isaiah 7:14)Let us rejoice and be glad that what has been foretold has come to be. Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas. -- Calvin Coolidge Right is always right even if everyone thinks it's wrong and wrong is always wrong even if everyone thinks it's right. --Abraham Lincoln When sometimes your children reject your values and turn away from you or from God, and you hurt because you love them so much, take heart - God hears your prayers and understands. He still loves them, even more than you do. God has kids too! -- Anonymous Forgiveness is a spiritual gift which has awesome power and gives each of us an ongoing taste of heaven here on earth. -- Anonymous Back To Top Of Page Only the Church stood squarely across the path of Hitler's campaign for suppressing the truth. I never had any special interest in the Church before, but now I feel a great affection and admiration for it because the Church alone has had the courage and persistence to stand for intellectual and moral freedom. I am forced to confess that what I once despised I now praise unreservedly. -- Albert Einstein Peace isn't the absence of war, it's the presence of love - God's love - the One God! -- Martha Williamson, from the TV Show Touched By An Angel You can waste your money or you can lose it, and if you work hard you can earn it all back . . . but if you waste your time, well then you ain't never gonna get that back! -- Del (D.B. Cooper's partner) from the movie "Up The Creek" When you are at your absolute bottom, when there is nothing else to do and nowhere else to turn, you can discover the awesome power of forgiveness. -- Anonymous It is not so true that "prayer changes things" as that prayer changes me and I change things. -- Oswald Chambers (My Untmost For His Highest) When we are at our wit's end we are at the beginning of God's Wisdom -- Oswald Chambers (My Untmost For His Highest) Back To Top Of Page On Teaching -- by Kalhil Gibran from The Prophet Then said a teacher, "Speak
to us of Teaching." And he said: No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of our knowledge. The teacher who walks in the shadow
of the temple, among his followers, gives not of his wisdom but rather
of his faith and his lovingness. If he is indeed wise he does not
bid you enter the house of wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold
of your own mind. The astronomer may speak to you of
his understanding of space, but he cannot give you his understanding.
The musician may sing to you of the
rhythm which is in all space, but he cannot give you the ear which arrests
the rhythm nor the voice that echoes it. And he who is versed in the science
of numbers can tell of the regions of weight and measure, but he cannot
conduct you thither. For the vision of one man lends not
its wings to another man. And even as each one of you stands alone in God's knowledge, so must each one of you be alone in his knowledge of God and in his understanding of the earth. Life is an instant, forever -- Helmut Newton, world famous photographer Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. -- Robert Frost (1874 - 1963), The Road Not Taken Back To Top Of Page THE LITTLE FROG THAT WOULDN'T QUIT There once was a
bunch of tiny frogs, who arranged a running competition. You heard statements
such as: "Oh, WAY too difficult!!" "They will NEVER make
it to the top." But ONE continued higher and higher and higher... This one wouldn't give up! At the end everyone else had given up climbing the tower. Except for the one tiny frog who, after a big effort, was the only one who reached the top. THEN all of the other tiny frogs naturally wanted to know how this one frog managed to do it? A contestant asked the tiny frog how he had found the strength to succeed and reach the goal? It turned out... That the winner was DEAF!!!! The wisdom of this
story is: Never listen to other people's tendencies to be negative or
pessimistic... Always think of the
power words have. Because everything you hear and read will affect your
actions! Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: Kindness in your face, Kindness in your eyes, Kindness in your smile, Kindness in your warm greeting. It is not how much we
do in our lives that is important; As soon as God sees us conviced of our own nothingness -- He stretches out his hand to us; but if we attempt great things, even under the pretext of zeal, He leaves us alone. It is sufficient threfore to humble oneself and to bear our imperfections meekly; that is true sanctity. -- St. Therese of Lisieux A great leader does not do great things, he inspires others to do great things. -- Ronald W. Reagan Wise men talk becuse they have something to say; fools because they have to say something. -- Plato Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Most people walk in and out of your life......but FRIENDS leave footprints in your heart -- Author unknown WOW……WHAT A RIDE!! Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather: To skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming: "WOW……..WHAT A RIDE!!!" -- Author unknown Back To Top Of Page AMERICAN INDIAN WISDOM Entitled: Two Wolves A Cherokee Elder, was teaching his grandchildren about life. He said to them, "A fight is going on inside me. It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves." One wolf represents fear, anger, hatred, envy, sorrow, regret,greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority and ego. The other stands for joy, peace, love, hope, sharing, serenity, humility, kindness, enevolence, friendship, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith. This same fight is going on inside you and inside every other person too." They thought about it for a minute, and then one child asked, "Which wolf will win, Grandfather?"The Cherokee Elder simply replied, "The one you feed."-- Author unknown "Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Back To Top Of Page "Yesterday is already a dream, and tomorrow is a vision; but today, lived well, makes every yesterday a happy dream and every tomorrow a vision of hope." -- The Sanskrit We are continuously faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems. --- Lee Iacocca A man is not defined by his abilities, but by his choices. -- Dumbledorf (Richard Harris) in Harry Potter and the Chamber Secrets You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help enough other people get what they want. --- Zig Zigler The repetition of small efforts will accomplish more than the occasional use of great talents. --Charles H. Spurgeon Back To Top Of Page There is no limit to what you can accomplish as long as you don't care who gets the credit. -- Abraham Lincoln If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated,let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right. ~Bill Cosby What nobler profession than to touch the next generation-- to see children hold your understanding in their eyes, your hope in their lives, your world in their hands. In their success, you find your own and so to them you give your all. -- Author Unknown (The Essence of Teaching) Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. --Blaise Pascal "I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it." --Thomas Jefferson You can do no great
things, only small things with great love. Worrying
is like being in a rocking chair,
The difference between "involvement" and "commitment" is like an ham-and-egg breakfast: the chicken was "involved", the pig was "committed." -- Anonymous
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