This week's reflection
I believe the second half of one's life is meant to be better than the first half. The first half is finding out how you do it. And the second half is enjoying it.
Frances Lear
Reflection of the week bank
Reflection for October 23 2020
I believe the second half of one's life is meant to be better than the first half. The first half is finding out how you do it. And the second half is enjoying it.
Frances Lear
Reflection for October 16 2020
I am even more deeply pleased if it has helped to encourage the young people that have followed our generation to express their pride in our heritage more openly, more joyfully than I would have ever dared to think possible.
Daphne Odjig
Reflection for October 09 2020
Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn't you - all of the expectations, all of the beliefs - and becoming who you are.
Rachel Naomi Remen
Reflection for October 02 2020
We give thanks that Jesus' ministry of healing and reconciliation continues every day as people are healed, accompanied and supported. Bless all those who continue the ministry of healing in Catholic health care.
Unknown
Reflection for September 28 2020
Be you. One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
Chinua Achebe
Reflection for September 18 2020
Cultural differences should not separate us from each other, but rather cultural diversity brings a collective strength that can benefit all of humanity.
Robert Alan
Reflection for September 11 2020
There is only one way to look at things until someone shows us how to look at them with different eyes.
Pablo Picasso
Reflection for September 04 2020
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
The Buddha
Reflection for August 28 2020
When suffering happens, it forces us to confront life in a different way than we normally do.
Philip Yancey
Reflection for August 21 2020
Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.
Cesar Chavez
Reflection for August 14 2020
Not everything can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.
James Baldwin
Reflection for August 07 2020
Love is something we must have. We must have it because our spirits feed upon it.
Chief Dan George
Reflection for July 31 2020
Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?
Desmond Tutu
Reflection for July 24 2020
There are times of great uncertainty in every life. When a friend comes with words of encouragement, a light and lightness visit you and you begin to find the stairs and the door out of the dark.
John O'Donohue
Reflection for July 17 2020
Healing takes time, and asking for help is a courageous step.
Mariska Hargitay
Reflection for July 10 2020
Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.
Desmond Tutu
Reflection for July 03 2020
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
Dalai Lama XIV
Reflection for June 26 2020
We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.
Anne Frank
Reflection for June 19 2020
Our future, and the well-being of all our children rests with the kind of relationships we build today.
Chief Dr. Robert Joseph, O.B.C O.C
Reflection for June 12 2020
There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone's life.
Sister Mary Rose McGeady
Reflection for June 05 2020
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
Booker T. Washington
Reflection for May 29 2020
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
Albert Einstein
Reflection for May 22 2020
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi
Reflection for May 15 2020
Believe in yourself and all that you are, know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.
Christian D. Larson
Reflection for May 08 2020
I love my mother as trees love water and sunshine. She helps me grow, prosper, and reach great heights.
Terri Guillemets, The Quote Garden
Reflection for May 01 2020
Love is the bridge between you and everything.
Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi
Reflection for April 24 2020
Light a candle as a sign of hope and to shine light where there is darkness.
Unknown
Reflection for April 17 2020
Loving God, we place into your care all our doctors, nurses and healthcare workers. Give them courage of heart and strength of mind and body. Keep them safe from harm.
Unknown
Reflection for April 09 2020
Jesus did not come to make God's love possible, but to make God's love visible.
Unknown
Reflection for March 27 2020
We must rediscover the concreteness of little things, small gestures of attention we can offer those close to us, our family, our friends. We must understand that in small things lies our treasure. They are familiar gestures of attention to the details of everyday life that make life meaningful and that create communion and communication among us.
Pope John Francis
Reflection for March 20 2020
The very last thing we need right now is a mindset of mutual distancing... We actually need to be thinking in the exact opposite way. Every hand that we don't shake must become a phone call that we place. Every embrace that we avoid must become a verbal expression of warmth and concern. Every inch and every foot that we physically place between ourselves and another must become a thought as to how we might help that other, should the need arise. Let's stay safe. And let's draw one another closer in a way that we've never done before.
Rabbi Yosef Kanefsky
Reflection for March 13 2020
It only takes a split second to smile and forget, yet to someone that needed it, it can last a lifetime.
Steve Maraboli
Reflection for March 06 2020
Lent is about becoming, doing and changing whatever it is that is blocking the fullness of life in us right now.
Sr. Joan Chittister, OSB
Reflection for February 28 2020
..you also carry the potential to have a mighty influence in the world. The seeds of that potential already live within you and around you.
Jim Cathcart
Reflection for February 21 2020
Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.
Joseph Campbell
Reflection for February 14 2020
One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.
Bryant H. Mcgill
Reflection for February 07 2020
God of compassion, be to me the lifter of burdens, for illness weighs me down in body, mind and soul. As I find rest in your love, renew my life with hope. Amen.
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Reflection for January 31 2020
God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.
Billy Graham
Reflection for January 17 2020
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
Harry Truman
Reflection for January 10 2020
We join in prayer and concern for those grieving the loss of 176 people in the plane that crashed near Tehran, Iran. We grieve with those who grieve. We mourn with those who mourn. We offer our hearts and our hands with love and support. We pray for comfort for those who feel the pain most deeply. We honour those whose lives were taken too soon. We will remember them.
Dalai Lama XIV
Reflection for January 03 2020
Let your joy be in your journey - not in some distant goal.
Tim Cook