Spiritual Quotation Good morning, friend! Here's your quotation just for today,
i’ll stay focused
on right now. . . . today is another day full of possibility for us, and we hope that you’re able to recognize what is possible and make it yours. what things might you do to brighten up someone else’s day, if even in a very small way? what things might you do to help someone who needs it, even if that help seems trivial and unimportant? these are the things that make our days brighter. I once heard a sermon in which the priest said that most of us confess the same sins again and again. It was such a welcome relief for me to hear these words because I thought that I was the only one who was unable to overcome these chronic “sins�?and shortcomings. Because we keep these wounded aspects of ourselves so well hidden from others, we assume that we are unique in failing to overcome them, but we are not. Hence, the good news is twofold. First, the overwhelming majority of us face a few areas of ongoing struggle, so you and I are not moral anomalies when we experience recurring setbacks. Second, God is with us in the struggle, always offering us love, acceptance, and forgiveness with the hope that we, in turn, will offer love, acceptance, and forgiveness to ourselves.
Gary Egeberg 
Life rushes us along and few people are strong enough to stop on their own. Most often, something unforeseen stops us and it is only then we have the time to take a seat at life’s kitchen table. To know our own story and tell it. To listen to other people’s stories. To remember that the real world is made up of just such stories. Until we stop ourselves or, more often, have been stopped, we hope to put certain of life’s events “behind us�?and get on with our living. After we stop we see that certain of life’s issues will be with us for as long as we live. We will pass through them again and again, each time with a new story, each time with a greater understanding, until they become indistinguishable from our blessings and our wisdom. It’s the way life teaches us how to live.
Rachel Naomi Remen And our quick thought of the day:
| Patience is power. With time and patience,
the mulberry leaf becomes silk.
Chinese proverb 
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