What is the meaning of life? That was all- a simple question; one that tended to close in on one in years. The great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead there were daily little miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark; here was one. -Virginia Woolf
A Blessing, Dawn Will Come
Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up. -Anne Lamott
A Blessing, Strength
We're stronger in the places that we've been broken. -Ernest Hemingway
A Blessing, Courage
We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.
-Helen Keller
A Blessing, Personal Growth
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
-Nelson Mandela
A Blessing, Finding Good in Pain
Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us- and those around us- more effectively. Look for the learning.
-Louisa May Alcott
A Blessing, Acceptance
The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
-Thomas Merton
A Blessing, Restore
One day we will dance with no restraint, and we will love with no fear. For when the King returns, it will be as though our pain was but a dream and our hope is the only reality we know. -T.B. LaBerge