
The greatest gift you can ever give another person is your own happiness.
It is impossible to control conditions that others have created.
Esther Hicks (born 1948) is an American inspirational speaker and author.

The greatest gift you can ever give another person is your own happiness.
It is impossible to control conditions that others have created.
Esther Hicks (born 1948) is an American inspirational speaker and author.

You have to listen to the sound of your own breathing and honor the truth inside you.
Everyone messes up, lets people down, and makes mistakes. Not because we’re inadequate or fundamentally inept, but because we’re imperfect and fundamentally human.
Daniell Koepke is an American writer.

Fragile, yet unbroken
Remaining soft-spoken
Perplexed, yet answers found
Feeling free, homeward bound
Deadlocked, yet finding key
Moving on, let it be
Homeless, yet seeing light
Making nightly campsite
Troubled, yet finding peace
Forging life’s brand new lease
Hidden, yet discovered
Finding future covered
Misplaced, yet always found
Sleeping on softest ground
Wounded, yet walking free
Earning final degree
Useless, yet finding worth
Flying high above earth
Hungry, yet always fed
Tasting life’s daily bread
Shortchanged, yet now fulfilled
Making steps, always thrilled
Forgotten, yet now loved
Sharing days with beloved


There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.
But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well.
Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855) was an English novelist and poet. Many of her writings are considered classics in English literature.

Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.
From Philippians 3:13-14: “Brothers and sisters, I do not consider that I have laid hold of it, but one thing I have laid hold of: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal, toward the prize of the heavenly call of God in Christ Jesus.”
George Whitefield (1714-1770) was an English-born pastor and Christian evangelist. He spent the second half of his life in the American colonies.

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field–and keep on doing it.
Happiness doesn’t come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do.
Wilferd Peterson (1900-1995) was a prolific American author. While he published nine books, his inspirational essays filled the pages of a national Sunday newspaper supplement, THIS WEEK.

Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.
Rainier Maria Rilke (1875-1926) was a Austrian poet and novelist. He has been widely recognized as a significant writer in the German language.

God allows us to go through trials so our faith will grow; then we can help others while glorifying Him.
From 1 Peter 1:6-7: “In this you rejoice, even if now for a little while you have had to suffer various trials, so that the genuineness of your faith—being more precious than gold that, though perishable, is tested by fire—may be found to result in praise and glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.”
Waiting
Endless wilderness
Lessons in patience
Mercy rewards faith’s journey
Perseverance

Feeding
Resurrection breathes
Faith carries righteousness
Mercy reigns over Cross
Redemption

Witnessing
Father’s love
Person to person
Sharing Spirit’s blessed light
Reflections

Every precious day
With another step taken—
Rhythm’s magic leads

Three strikes and you’re out
New inning, second chances—
Back in batter’s box

Feeling reclusive
Feeds introvert’s humbleness—
Autographing prose
