Love

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.

~Oscar Wilde~

Power Thought of The Day

You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.

~Dale Carnegie~

Treating Others with Care and Attention

I wanted to share this beautiful anecdote with you, having practiced this too all throughout my life. I hope you will enjoy it as much as I did :-)

During my second year of nursing school school our professor gave us a quiz. I breezed through the questions until I read the last one: "What is the first name of the woman who cleans the school?" Surely this was a joke. I had seen the cleaning woman several times, but how would I know her name? I handed in my paper, leaving the last question blank. Before the class ended, one student asked if the last question would count toward our grade. "Absolutely," the professor said. "In your careers, you will meet many people. All are significant. They deserve your attention and care, even if all you do is smile and say hello." I've never forgotten that lesson. I also learned her name was Dorothy.

~Joann C. Jones~

Power Thought of The Day

Without forgiveness, love has no meaning. We must always pray to see the truth about a relationship: not just our truth but God's truth. "May God's will be done, not my own" is the prayer for ultimate fulfillment, because it seeks an emotionally higher ground than the fulfillment of our immature desires.

~Marianne Williamson~

Power Thought of The Day

Pray for your friends, but by all means, pray for your enemies. And don't pray that they"ll change; pray that you might change--from an accusatory mind to a loving one.

~Marianne Williamson~

Strength

 

When your strength is failing,

And you are faltering in your faith, 

Pause for a moment, take a deep breath,

And God your Father who is the source of your strength, will refresh and re-kindle your faith.

Remember the battle is not yours,

It is the Lord's battle and He is fighting for you.

Don't ever forget to wait on the Lord.

God will continually give you strength to overcome every trial, and sustain you in your weakest moments.

~Margaret C. Mullings~

Thank You, God for Everything

Thank You, God for everything......

The big things and the small

For "every good gift comes from God,"

The Giver of them all.

  

And all too often we accept

Without any thanks or praise,

The gifts God sends as blessings

Each day in many ways.

                           

And so at this Thanksgiving time,

We offer up a prayer,

To thank You, God, for giving us

A lot more than our share.

                           

First, Thank You for the little things

That often come our way

The things we take for granted,

But don't mention when we pray.

The unexpected courtesy,

The thoughtful, kindly deed,

A hand reached out to help us

In the time of sudden need.

Oh, make us more aware, Dear God,

Of little daily graces

That come to us with "sweet surprises"

From never-dreamed-of places.

                             

Then thank You for "the miracles"

We are much too blind to see, 

And give us new awareness 

Of our many gifts from Thee......

                              

And help us to remember

That the key to life and living,

Is to make each prayer a prayer of thanks.

And every day Thanksgiving.

                                     ~Helen Steiner Rice~