You’re Best Is Enough

“It was the worst day we have ever seen, but it brought out the best in all of us.”~ Senator John McCain ~ Today we pause. Twenty-five years ago, everything changed in a single morning. Nearly 3,000 lives lost. Countless more forever altered. We remember them… A moment of silence and reflection …never forget. The…

“A tree grows tall because it has strong and solid roots.”~ Chinese Proverb ~ Everything’s pulling at you today — the notifications, the noise, six directions at once wanting an answer right now. Before anything can grow up, it has to grow down first. Nobody sees the roots. They just see the tree standing tall,…

“Fellowship is heaven; lack of fellowship is hell.”~ William Morris ~ True fellowship has become a lost art in this world. Not networking, not being in the same space as somebody while you’re both looking down — real fellowship. Interacting with your fellows on a human level. That ability hasn’t gone anywhere. It’s still there,…

“Be gentle with yourself. You are doing the best you can with what you have today.”~ Unknown ~ Some days go the way you planned. Some days don’t. Today might’ve been one of the ones that didn’t — and that’s not a failure, that’s just a day. You don’t have to have it figured out…

“The opposite of addiction is not sobriety. The opposite of addiction is connection.”~ Johann Hari ~ We breathed. We opened our eyes to change. We made a commitment. Now here’s the part nobody tells you. All of that inner work — it doesn’t mean anything if we’re still doing it alone. The phone in your…

“Gratitude turns what we have into enough.”~Anonymous~ Before you list what’s missing, list what’s already here. The coffee that was hot. The sun came up. The knees that still bend. Small stuff, easy to skip past on the way to the big complaint. Gratitude isn’t pretending everything’s fine. It’s just refusing to let the little…good…