During the past year how often have we longed to return to “normal?” But when we look back with a clear mind and not just a longing for the familiar can we see that we are being called to build something better? So where do we start? We start with ourselves by being sure weContinue reading “Building Something Better”
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Sometimes Hope Whispers
Even in the darkest night we can hear the gentle voice of hope whispering to us if we listen closely. We end March with one of my favorite old hymns, Whispering Hope, sung by Mary Duff and Daniel O’Connell.
Turn our Common Suffering into Hope
“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
All Great Things are Simple
“All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.” – Winston Churchill
Hope Can be a Powerful Force
“Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there’s no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.”― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone
There is Always Hope
“When you have lost hope, you have lost everything. And when you think all is lost, when all is dire and bleak, there is always hope.”― Pittacus Lore, I Am Number Four
There is still much that is fair
“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
where there’s life there’s hope
“However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. Where there’s life, there’s hope.” — Stephen Hawking
enjoying the roses
. “One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon — instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.” — Dale Carnegie
healing in the repeated refrains of nature
“There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature—the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.” — Rachel Carson
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