Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier. Albert Schweitzer

Your smile will give you a positive countenance that will make people feel comfortable around you. Les Brown

A generous man will prosper; he who refreshes others will himself be refreshed. Jewish Proverb

Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway. Mother Teresa

When one door closes another opens, but we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us. Alexander Graham Bell

Learn from the mistakes of others, you can never live long enough to make them all yourself. John Luther

May the road rise to meet you, May the wind always be at your back May the sunshine warm upon your face The rains fall soft upon your fields and until we meet again, May GOD hold you in the palm of His Hand. An Old Irish Blessing

Dare to reach out your hand into the darkness, to pull another into the light. Norman B Rice

There never was any heart truly great and gracious that was not also tender and compassionate. Robert South

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turn outs. Vaclav Havel

Faith goes up the stair that love has made and looks out the window that hope has opened. Charles H Spurgeon

The hotter the fire the purer the gold. Charles Stanley

Faith, like light, should always be simple and unbending; while love like warmth, should beam forth on every side and bend to every necessity of the brethren. Martin Luther

If you want to feel rich, just count all the things you have that money can not buy! Anonymous

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree. Martin Luther

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength Corri Ten Boom

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

Mother Theresa

Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. Psalm 51:10

Joy burst into our lives when we go about doing the good at hand and not trying to manipulate things and times to achieve joy. C. S. Lewis

Opportunities are seldom labeled.

John A Shedd

Hard words, if they be true, are better than soft words, if they be false. Charles H Spurgeon

An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered. GK Chesterton

The Value of Life

The value of life is not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them; a man may live long yet live very little.

Montaigne

How You Choose to See Things

Three men were laboring in a field of boulders and large stones. Sweat ran from their foreheads as they swung their heavy picks again and again. A curious passer-by approached the men and asked each what he was doing. The first man answered in a stern and abrupt voice: Can't you see I'm breaking rocks! The second man replied in a matter of fact way: Can't you see I'm earning my salary! The third man smiled - his eyes gleaming with enthusiasm- and proclaimed: Can't you see I'm helping to build a cathedral! I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. Charles Swindoll

My First Blog!!!

"Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.