You have so much to offer to the world.
There is no limit to the love you can share,
to the happiness you can inspire
and to the peace you can bring..

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“Every now and then,
when the world sits just right,
a gentle breath of heaven
fills my soul with delight…”

~Hazelmarie ‘Mattie’ Elliott

Artist~Bessie Pease Gutmann
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What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.  ~ Saint Augustine

Nobody really knows how much anyone else is hurting.
We could be standing next to someone who is completely broken,
doing their best not to let it show and we’d never know.
So, be kind always.
With yourself, and others..

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Love is really a truly lasting treasure

When its birthplace is a selfless heart

It becomes a beautiful blossoming light

Whose pure loveliness will never depart

It has the ability to inspire each new morning

As its sweet essence showers one’s heart within

With its magical touch one might find heaven

As the new days tender rhapsody happily begins

Its joyous melodies will find a way to provide

The birthing of many new beautiful smiles

While a heart in love gives life to new words

Whose blessing lets one know they are worthwhile.

As one truly acknowledges this precious treasure

They find in this world no value can be placed

On this sweet new power embracing one’s heart

Leaving its mark deep within never to be erased.

July 13, 2017-WAB

“You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen.
But if you are beautiful at sixty,
it will be your soul’s own doing.”

~ Marie Stopes

~ Image by Summer Wuerthner
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Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. Mother Teresa

“Stacking stones claims ordinary moments of life for God and invites those who pass by to
notice the holy ground on which they already stand.”
Jayne Hugo Davis

(a gull sits by a cairn or prayer stone stack found on the shore of Mackinac Island in
Lake Huron, Michigan / Julie Cook / 2017)

During these precious weeks of Summer…
as you make plans to scatter either here, there and yon…

Or if you’re merely daydreaming of doing such….

If you’re eagerly anticipating escaping your hectic pace and grind of an
often monotonous and even overwhelming life…

Simply longing to seek cooler climates, grander vistas, idyllic sandy shores…

Remember one thing as you eagerly unplug, unwind, let go and forget all the
burdens you wish to leave behind…

God never takes a vacation.

He’s always there…wherever you may roam….
always near…
and always reminding you that you’re still His number…