Miscellaneous Favourites

"Does that mean," asked Mack, "that all roads will lead to you?"
"Not at all,", smiled Jesus as he reached for the door handle to the shop. "Most roads don't lead anywhere. What it does mean is that I will travel any road to find you." (WM. Paul Young, The Shack)

You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves you too full to embrace the present.-Jan Glidewell

 "You don't think your way into a new kind of living. You live your way into a new kind of thinking." (Henri Nouwen)

When you don't like a thing, change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it.  (Maya Angelou)

 (I used to hate doing dishes until I read this on a plaque on my aunt's kitchen wall)

Thank God For Dirty Dishes
Author Unknown

Thank God for dirty dishes;
They have a tale to tell.
While others may go hungry,
We're eating very well
With home, health, and happiness,
I shouldn't want to fuss;
For by the stack of evidence,
God's been very good to us.

 "We live in a world of disposable things but you are not one of them. You are irreplaceable, one of a kind and there will never be another you. You are not disposable. Do not let anyone tell you differently" (unknown)

 

"just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly" (anonymous)

"the secret to having it all is knowing that you already do" (unknown)

"Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." (Howard Thurman)

“If there is to be peace in the world,
There must be peace in the nations.
If there is to be peace in the nations,
There must be peace in the cities.
If there is to be peace in the cities,
There must be peace between neighbors.
If there is to be peace between neighbors,
There must be peace in the home.
If there is to be peace in the home,
There must be peace in the heart.”
― Lao Tzu

“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.”

― Henri J.M. Nouwen, The Road to Daybreak: A Spiritual Journey  

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”
― Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934 

Today You are You,

that is truer than true

there is no one alive

who is Youer than You

(Dr Seus)