Open Arms

I have reached a point in my life

where I understand the pain and the challenges;

and my attitude is one of standing up

with open arms to meet them all.

Myrlie Evers

www.gratefulness.org

Unmanageable

When I drink, my past becomes my future.

S I T = Stay In Today.

To Be Alive Is To Be Hungry

Our appetite for life is good.
It keeps us reaching, growing, enjoying, and yearning to fulfill our potential.
When our basic needs are satisfied, our hunger propels us to search for more elaborate gratification.

Here is where we often run into trouble.
Instead of progressing through the hierarchy of needs to the spiritual level, we get stuck in an attempt to make quantity - more things, more people, and more activity - substitute for quality.
And quantity alone is never enough.

It's good that we're hungry.
Our appetite motivates us to feed our body in a healthy way and also to feed our mind, heart, and spirit.
Our needs pyramid, and our hunger leads us beyond quantity to the quality experiences that fill our emptiness.
We read, we share, we love, we pray, we listen, we accomplish, we dance, and we feast on the fullness of life.

Today, I will direct my appetite to quality experiences.

Inner Harvest by Elisabeth L.

Saint Isidore of Seville

Our country can well use St. Isidore's spirit of combining learning and holiness.
Loving, understanding knowledge can heal and bring a broken people back together.
We are not barbarians like the invaders of Isidore's Spain.
But people who are swamped by riches and overwhelmed by scientific and technological advances can lose much of their understanding love for one another.

The Flame Within

At times our own light goes out and

is rekindled by a spark from another person.

Each of us has cause to think with

deep gratitude of those who have

lighted the flame within us.

Albert Schweitzer

Changed

C H A N G E D =

Choosing Honesty Allows New Growth Each Day.

Honesty

Honesty isn't an event . . . it's a process.