Thought for Today

Mystical Power

“We carry within us all the mystical power we need to transform our world.”― Anthon St. Maarten

When I was young I really enjoyed a good Easter Service with all the music and pagentry. But as I have grown older I go down to the water and watch the sunrise, maybe spontaneously bursting into song. On Easter morning the rising of the sun reminds me that God is always present, even ifContinue reading “Resurrection Sunrise”

Solitude is necessary

Deliberately seeking solitude-quality time spent away from family and friends-may seem selfish. It is not. Solitude is as necessary for our creative spirits to develop and flourish as are sleep and food for our bodies to survive. — Sarah Ban Breathnach The art today is “In the Secret Place.” It has made an appearance hereContinue reading “Solitude is necessary”

In Love With Life

“To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.” ~ Osho

Hope Begins in the Dark

“Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up.” – Anne Lamott

There is Always Light

“The new dawn blooms as we free it. For there is always light if only we’re brave enough to see it, if only we’re brave enough to be it.” — National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman

Something Better Awaits Us

“Hope is that thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us if we have the courage to reach for it and to work for it and to fight for it.” —Barack Obama

Dark Enough to See the Stars

“But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.” —Martin Luther King, Jr. We are returning to daily blog posts. New posts go up at 3:00 AM Central Tiime unless I make a typo when scheduling. Please stop by and begin your day with a little espiration. You mayContinue reading “Dark Enough to See the Stars”

Common Suffering

“Our human compassion binds us the one to the other – not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.” – Nelson Mandela