| “Don’t ruin a good today by thinking about a bad yesterday.” ~ Slim Sammy ~ Nothing happens in God’s world by mistake. Not the hard stuff. Not the stuff we didn’t see coming. Not the stuff we’d give anything to change. Acceptance isn’t giving up. It’s putting down the fight with what already was — and finding out there’s a lot more to be gained by putting energy into what is in this moment. The Dude 🐸 Thought for the Day What am I still fighting today that I could just… let be? |
“Grace is giving people more than they deserve, because someone did the same for you.”~Unknown~ Somebody’s gonna mess up right in front of you today. Say the wrong thing. Forget something. Drop the ball. You get to decide what happens next. The natural reaction is to criticize or judge their behavior. But haven’t we been…
“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished”~Lao Tzu~ Not every day is a rapids day. Some days the current barely moves. The water is still. Nothing seems to be happening. You wonder if you’re even going anywhere. You are. The slow river is still the river. Still moving. Still forward. Still taking you somewhere….
“On the road to find out.”~Cat Stevens~ Nobody hands you a map. You just start walking. Wrong turns, dead ends, long stretches of nothing. And then one day something clicks and you realize the road was the point all along. Not the destination. The walking. Keep moving. The Dude 🐸 Thought for the DayYou don’t…
“Be impeccable with your word.”~ Don Miguel Ruiz ~ Five words. The first agreement. Sounds simple. It’s not. Every word is a seed. It lands somewhere — in someone else, in yourself. Say something true, something kind — it grows into that. Say something careless — that grows too. How many times do we say…
“Pray as if everything depends on God; work as if everything depends on you.”~ St. Ignatius of Loyola ~ Yesterday we talked about dreams — the map, the picture in your head of where you’re headed. But a dream without drive is just a nice thought. You can hand the outcome over to something bigger…
“A brain is a lot like a computer. It will only take so many facts, and then it will go on overload and blow up.”~Erma Bombeck~ Sound familiar? You’re not lazy. You’re not broken. You’re just full — running fourteen tabs your brain never asked to open. Computers get a reboot. You get a porch,…