Reflections Archive
Spring song: As my eyes search the prairie
I feel summer in the spring.
~ from the Chippewa tradition
If you have a mom, there is nowhere you are likely to go where a prayer has not already been.
~ Robert Brault
Open your heart—
open it wide;
someone is
standing outside.
Mary Engelbreit
“Walk with the dreamers,
the believers,
the courageous,
the cheerful,
the planners,
the doers,
the successful people
with their heads in the clouds
and their feet on the ground...
Wilferd A. Peterson
Everyone can be great because anyone can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve...
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples. Then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea...
George Bernhard Shaw
The most beautiful people we have known are those who
have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known
loss, and have found their way out of the depths...
Elizabeth Kubler Ross
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
–Francis of Assisi
Praise is like
sunlight to the
human spirit, we
cannot flower
and grow
without it.
– Jess Lair
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
Anne Frank
God has not promised skies always blue, flower-strewn pathways all our lives through; God has not promised sun without rain, joy without sorrow, peace without pain...
-Annie Johnson Flint
Forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.
Lewis B. Smedes
Listening
moves us closer;
it helps us become
more whole, more
healthy, more holy...
Margaret J. Wheatley
Comparison is the thief of joy.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
God, you always
take good care
of the work of your hands.
I acknowledge your
presence in my life,..
~ R. Gauthier.
No one has ever seen God;
but if we love one another,
God lives in us and his love
is made complete in us.
~ 1 John 4:12
An individual has not started living until he can
rise above the narrow confines...
~Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes
from an indomitable will.”
~ Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men’s blood and probably themselves will
not be realized...
~ Daniel Burnham
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
