“To extend compassion to a so-called villain, to forgive those who have wronged you, and to find common ground with someone who has been awfully isolated are not acts typically met with fireworks and swelling violins. More often than not, they are pushed away. To love, really love, is to do them anyway.” ― VironikaContinue reading “Thought for Today”
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Thought for Today
“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt
It’s a Salad Celebration!
May is National Salad Month, but I think a nice fresh garden salad makes any meal a celebration. When you think of a garden salad, or green salad what comes to mind? A bowl of iceberg lettuce with maybe a little purple cabbage or grated carrot mixed in and one slice of tomato on theContinue reading “It’s a Salad Celebration!”
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“Sometimes beautiful things come into our lives out of nowhere. We can’t always understand them, but we have to trust in them. I know you want to question everything, but sometimes it pays to just have a little faith.” ― Lauren Kate, Torment
Thought for Today
“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.” ― Søren Kierkegaard
Thought for Today
“If it’s drama that you sigh for, plant a garden and you’ll get it. You will know the thrill of battle fighting foes that will beset it. If you long for entertainment and for pageantry most glowing, plant a garden and this summer spend your time with green things growing.” – Edward A. Guest, PlantContinue reading “Thought for Today”
Thought for Today
“Be like a flower and turn your face to the sun.” – Kahlil Gibran
Thought for Today
“I have come to accept the feeling of not knowing where I am going. And I have trained myself to love it. Because it is only when we are suspended in mid-air with no landing in sight, that we force our wings to unravel and alas begin our flight. And as we fly, we stillContinue reading “Thought for Today”
Thought for Today
“In a time of destruction, create something.” ― Maxine Hong Kingston
Failure or Lesson?
Our life on this earth is a school and everything we experience here is a lesson. But sometimes we forget that and see things that don’t turn out as planned or hoped for as “failures.” That is a loaded word for most of us. When we see something we tried as a “failure” we mayContinue reading “Failure or Lesson?”
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