Category Archives: Thought for Today

Know when to take a break from tech

“The problem is that technology has become an extra limb for some of us. It’s important to utilize this technology, but at the same time it’s important to know when to take a break from it.”— Alex Broches,

Getting in Balance

“Getting in balance is not so much about adopting new strategies to change your behaviors, as it is about realigning yourself in all of your thoughts so as to create a balance between what you desire and how you conduct your life on a daily basis.” —Wayne Dyer

Be Aware of Wonder

“Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life – learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.” – Robert Fulgham   ====== The above fabric art item by Rogene A. Robbins is available in the Espirational Gallery.     f    

That Tricky Little Thing Called Balance

It is difficult to maintain a sense of balance in a world filled with chaos.  The urgency of current events and the resulting upheaval throw us off kilter.  And we are bombarded with the stuff. Turn on your computer and there are written words, images and videos designed to make you angry, fearful and throwContinue reading “That Tricky Little Thing Called Balance”

What “outsiders” teach us about community

Recent attempts in the U.S. to limit what it means to be an American and exclude those who don’t measure up sadden, frighten and disturb me.  When will it stop? Will you make the cut? I’m not sure I will. The example being set by our President that it is okay to bully, belittle, mimic,Continue reading “What “outsiders” teach us about community”

We are all children of God traveling on spaceship earth together

“The seven of us on board [the Space Shuttle] represented five different religions.  But we were all agreed – it just doesn’t make sense how people on earth treat each other.  It doesn’t make any difference what language we speak.  It doesn’t make any difference what country we come from.  It certainly doesn’t make anyContinue reading “We are all children of God traveling on spaceship earth together”

an inescapable network of mutuality

“All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.  Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly.  I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be, and you can never be what you ought to be until I am whatContinue reading “an inescapable network of mutuality”

The Challenge of Social Justice

“The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place.” Marian Wright Edelman Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/topics/community

We are a community

Each of us must rededicate ourselves to serving the common good.  We are a community.  Our individual Fates are linked; our futures intertwined; and if we act in that knowledge and in that spirit together, as the Bible says: “We can move mountains.” — Jimmy Carter