“Think about the last time someone showed you a small token of appreciation. Perhaps a stranger gave you a compliment, or maybe you got a check-in text from a friend, or received a particularly heartfelt thank-you note from a mentee. Chances are, that tiny act brightened your day”
❤️Small acts of kindness matter more than you think 🙏❤️
You are the right person, this is the right time, you've paid your dues, you're thinking the right thoughts, you're doing the right things, and at this very moment, you’re exactly where you're supposed to be... poised for the greatest breakthrough you have ever had.
“Things happen. People come and go. The scene shifts. Time runs by, runs out. Maybe it is all utterly meaningless. Maybe it is all unutterably meaningful. If you want to know which, pay attention.” ~Frederick Buechner
And if you are someone who still carries hope in your heart, kindness in your eyes and generosity in your fingertips despite terrible people happening to you, thank you. You are one of the few truly pure things left in this world, and you deserve to be protected.
Sometimes we get careless about our time. Sometimes we allow it to be lost, to be wasted, to be squandered like the quarter that we drop and that rolls into the gutter. How we spend our time is, after all, a great indication of what we're becoming as human beings. So much of our time is spent on stuff that simply doesn't matter, just because someone asked us to do something that we might not have wanted to do in the first place.
My beautiful find today - Sept 17/2023 - a rare bird for Ontario Canada 🇨🇦
In the rush and noise of life, as you have intervals, step within yourselves and be still. Wait upon God and feel His good presence; this will carry you through your day’s business.
–William Penn
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
–Thomas Paine
God is gentle with me. I am gentle with myself. I am in awe of God’s power; however it is God’s gentleness that moves me. God’s will for me is that which is best for me; yet God does not force anything upon me. Patiently, God waits for me to be still, to turn within and listen. God’s gentle spirit is my foundation. When the cares of the world seem to overwhelm me and when challenges cause me to forget the truths that support me, God’s spirit gently caresses me, uplifting and sustaining me. Because God is gentle with me, I am gentle with myself and others. I do not condemn or speak hurtful words to others. My actions are ones that encourage the unfoldment of God’s divine plan in myself and others. Through gentleness and love, God’s work is done.
–unknown
“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside of us while we live.”
– Norman Cousins
“Worry is like a rocking chair it gives you something to do but it doesn’t get you anywhere.”
–Dorothy Galyean
There’s as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.
Taking uncertainty on, though, does keep us vital and creative. When things become difficult, we have to think of new ways to cope with problems and issues. The mysteries of life give us a vitality that doing the same things over and over again never can give us. Mystery and uncertainty are important catalysts, inspirational elements of life, and it's up to us to search them out and take them on, if we're to make the most of these lives that we've been given.