Thought for Today

“The world is full of cactus, but we don’t have to sit on it.” — Will Foley

“Cheers to a New Year and another chance for us to get it right.”– Oprah Winfrey The answer to yesterday’s trivia question is B. 1979. For more information check out a December 22, 1982 Canadian news story about the game.

Thought for Today

“O ye beneath life’s crushing load, Whose forms are bending low, Who toil along the climbing way With painful steps and slow; Look now, for glad and golden hours Come swiftly on the wing; Oh rest beside the weary road And hear the angels sing.” — It Came Upon the Midnight Clear (3rd verse) writtenContinue reading “Thought for Today”

Thought for Today

“Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.” —Mother Teresa

Thought for Today

Light gives of itself freely, filling all available space. It does not seek anything in return; it asks not whether you are friend or foe. It gives of itself and is not thereby diminished. ~Michael Strassfeld

Thought for Today

“It might be easy to run away to a monastery, away from the commercialization, the hectic hustle, the demanding family responsibilities of Christmas-time. Then we would have a holy Christmas. But we would forget the lesson of the Incarnation, of the enfleshing of God—the lesson that we who are followers of Jesus do not run fromContinue reading “Thought for Today”

Thought for Today

“It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty founder was a child himself.” — Charles Dickens

Thought for Today

“We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls.” —Mother Teresa