“Tolerance isn't about not having beliefs. It's about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree with you.” ~ Timothy Keller Thursday, November 16 is National Tolerance Day. On the National Days Calendar sites I found tolerance described in these ways...
ADVENT: LESS HECTIC, MORE HOLY for Adults, Parents, Grandparents, Aunts, Uncles, Singles, etc. At the end of this month begins the season of Advent, and now is the time to reflect upon what Advent means to each of us. As life gets busier, louder and more insistent, it becomes increasingly...
“Autumn scatters the seeds that will bring new growth in the spring… this hopeful notion that Living is hidden in the Dying is surely enhanced by the visual glories of Autumn. What artist would ever have painted a season of dying with such a vivid palette…” ~...
“Grief, in other experiences, is often about grieving the past. Miscarriage is about grieving the future.” ~ Dvora Entin in “How To Grieve a Miscarriage” “Pregnancy loss is often grieving the loss of your baby at the same time as grieving the loss...
This Month is National Mental Illness Month, and National Dyslexia Month. If you know someone with a mental illness, please don't make them feel like they have to prove how unwell they are. They are fighting a misunderstood, invisible illness that is life threatening. Please be kind. Even...
Our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strengths. ~ CH Spurgeon This week’s reading talks about anxiety. I feel it. It builds with stress (which sure seems constant). I never really know what to do with it. I know that I am supposed to be able to...
Use your smile to change the world but don’t let the world change your smile.~ Unknown Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love. ~ Mother Teresa Peace begins with a smile. ~ Mother Teresa This Friday is World SMILE Day! That...
“At the end of the day, it’s not about what you have, or even what you’ve accomplished. It’s about who you’ve lifted up, who you’ve made better. It’s about what you’ve given back.” ~ Denzel Washington While it might seem a chore...
Only after all the noise has spent itself do we begin to hear in the silence of our heart - the still, small, mighty voice of God. ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer While I was on vacation recently, I heard a woman talk about recognizing the voice of God, in a way which made sense to me. I...
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. William Arthur Ward. These words really convict me at times, pointing out how I get so stuck on being right - how everybody else must agree with my perception of something, my take &ndash...
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