“Sometimes our ‘stop-doing’ list needs to be bigger than our ‘to-do’ list.”
~ Patti Digh
Saturday, March 09, 2024
“I just learned to try to just keep shining like the sun and never keeping score.”
Gwyneth Paltrow on being a stepmom to husband Brad Falchuk’s kids:
“I really like to talk about this because it’s one of my biggest learnings as a human being. And my area of growth personally came from the initial difficult relationship I had with my step-kids, and now they’re like my kids.”
She added, “I just learned to try to just keep shining like the sun and never keeping score.”
Marie Claire.com, 3/7/2024
https://www.marieclaire.com/celebrity/gisele-bundchen-on-being-a-stepmother/
Friday, March 08, 2024
“What I’ve learned from Trump world, no one’s ever going to be as vicious as he is"
Haley ran a near perfect race. She just couldn’t figure out Trump.
By Natalie Allison, 03/07/2024, Politico
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/07/nikki-haley-2024-campaign-failures-donald-trump-00145535
"More than anyone else’s, [Nikki] Haley’s candidacy — her traditional campaign approach, the discipline of her advisers, the big money she attracted as she built her coalition — raises the question of whether there was any political solution for defeating Trump." . . .
"'What I’ve learned from Trump world, no one’s ever going to be as vicious as he is, but you better come close if you want to have a shot,' DuHaime said."
Monday, March 04, 2024
Prayer of Protection
Prayer of Protection
Richard Foster begins his time of contemplation with this prayer of protection:
“By the authority of almighty God,
I surround myself with the light of Christ,
I cover myself with the blood of Christ,
and I seal myself with the cross of Christ.
All dark and evil spirits must now leave.
No influence is allowed to come near to me
but that it is first filtered through the light of Jesus Christ,
in whose name I pray.
Amen.”
Richard Foster. Prayer: Finding the Heart's True Home. San Francisco: Harper Collins, 1992, page 157.
Pray first before doing anything worthwhile.
Pray first before doing anything worthwhile.
"Listen, Child of God, to your teacher’s wisdom. Pay attention to what your heart hears. Make sure you freely accept and live out the loving Father’s directions.
Pray first before doing anything worthwhile. Then persist and never falter in prayer. God loves us as his own children, and forgives us, so we must not grieve him by rejecting that love and doing evil.
We must always make the best use of the good things God gives us."
~ St. Benedict, c. 480-550 AD in Italy, a patron saint of Europe and students
A Student’s Prayer, St. Thomas Aquinas
A Student’s Prayer
Come, Holy Spirit, Divine Creator,
true source of light and fountain of wisdom!
Pour forth your brilliance upon my dense intellect,
dissipate the darkness which covers me, that of sin and of ignorance.
Grant me a penetrating mind to understand,
a retentive memory, method and ease in learning,
the lucidity to comprehend, and abundant grace in expressing myself.
Guide the beginning of my work, direct its progress,
and bring it to successful completion.
This I ask through Jesus Christ,
true God and true man,
living and reigning with You and the Father,
forever and ever.
Amen.
~ St. Thomas Aquinas
“Anxiety is the residue of perceived or desired control when we have none.“
“Anxiety is the residue of perceived or desired control when we have none.“
~ Seth Scott
She writes down everything that worries her and her greatest fears, then burns the paper
“Anne Hathaway taught me this thing on the set of 'Ocean’s 8.'
She takes a piece of paper and writes down everything that worries her and her greatest fears. At the end of it, she burns [the paper].
I do it a couple times a year. I go out to my backyard, because I’m not trying to set my house on fire, and I get a candle and burn it.”
~ Mindy Kaling
https://www.wsj.com/style/mindy-kaling-sex-lives-of-college-girls-oprah-advice-083067bd
“Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.”
“Do the best you can until you know better.
Then when you know better, do better.”
~ Maya Angelou
Wednesday, February 21, 2024
"We find a solution together using threats and guilt."
Toula seeks to avoid a family argument with her aunt Voula:
Toula: "Can we please not discuss it?"
Voula: "No. That's not what we do.
We yell and scream.
We find a solution together
using threats and guilt."
from "My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3"
Director: Nia Vardalos
Writer: Nia Vardalos
Stars: Nia Vardalos, John Corbett, Louis Mandylor
Release Date: 2023-09-08
“Your life as a Christian . . . "
“Your life as a Christian should make non-believers question their disbelief in God.”
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Today is My Birthday, Lord
Today is My Birthday, Lord
Of all the gifts I've
received
I hold the gift of Your
Love
closest to my heart.
Of all the friends I've
known,
I cherish above all Your
Friendship.
There have been difficult
days on this journey called Life,
even sorrow,
but You have been there
for me.
There has been joy and
laughter
and I've seen Your presence there.
You breathed life into my
soul
and You chose me to live!
I hope You are pleased
with me.
I ask that You forgive me
when I fail You.
Today is my birthday,
Lord,
and I offer this day to You.
I ask only that You walk
with me.
Lead me home, O Lord,
where we will celebrate
this journey
of friendship and love
in the everlasting life
prepared by You.
Thank You for this birthday, Lord!
~ Author Unknown
Saturday, February 10, 2024
Saturday, February 03, 2024
"If you fail to plan, you plan to fail/Strategy sets the scene for the tale"
Taylor Swift, "Mastermind"
"If you fail to plan, you plan to fail/
Strategy sets the scene for the tale"
from her latest album, "Midnights"
Thursday, December 28, 2023
"God gave me a plan."
"God gave me a plan."
~ Phyllis Duncan, Schwenkfelder Mission Church, 9/25/2022
Marriage - Martin Luther
Marriage
"There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.
Let the wife make the husband glad to come home,
and let him make her sorry to see him leave."
~ Martin Luther
Albert Einstein quote about "a holy curiosity"
Albert Einstein quote about "a holy curiosity"
Curiosity
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.
~ Albert Einstein
https://www.azquotes.com/author/4399-Albert_Einstein/tag/curiosity
"democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried"
Winston S. Churchill said the following famous quip about democracy (House of Commons, 11 November 1947)—but he was quoting an unknown predecessor (note bold face below). Credit Churchill as publicist for an unsourced aphorism.
From Churchill by Himself, 574:
"Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.…"
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2023/12/08/democracy-worst/
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)