with broken nib

Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect. ~Oren Arnold

'It is Christmas every time you let God love others through you… yes, it is Christmas every time you smile at your brother and offer him your hand.' ~ St. (Mother) Teresa of Calcutta

O, beautiful rainbow; — all woven of light!

There's not in thy tissue, one shadow of night;

Heaven surely is open when thou dost appear,

And, bending above thee, the angels draw near,

And sing, — "The rainbow! the rainbow!

The smile of God is here."

~Sarah Josepha Hale

*** Yesterday was my parents' wedding anniversary. Thanking God for blessings and asking for continual guidance and grace... This rainbow was a special sign. 😊🌬️ ☁️ 🌈🙏

"Great thoughts come from the heart," not the mind. To the soul alone, therefore, belong the thoughts that reunite, to the mind those that divide. ~Alexandre Vinet

What tongue, human or angelic, may ever describe a power so immeasurable as that exercised by the simplest priest in Mass? Who could ever have imagined that the voice of man, which by nature hath not the power even to raise a straw from the ground, should obtain through grace a power so stupendous as to bring from Heaven to earth the Son of God?” – St. Leonard of Port Maurice

The history of our grandparents is remembered not with rose petals but in the laughter and tears of their children and their children's children. It is into us that the lives of grandparents have gone. It is in us that their history becomes a future.     

-- Charles And Ann Morse

The mind, as you age,

Is an artist, it seems.

Monet paints your mem’ries,

Picasso your dreams.

~Robert Brault

Your life is something opaque, not transparent, as long as you look at it in an ordinary human way.  But if you hold it up against the light of God's goodness, it shines and turns transparent, radiant and bright.  And then you ask yourself in amazement:  Is this really my own life I see before me?  ~Albert Schweitzer

***Happy birthday, Joy! 🎂May you find your purpose and do good with it. 💕May you discover your light and share it with others. 🌞 Found this photo in my archive thought it apt to post. I'm sure Button is sending you birthday kisses from doggie heaven. 🐾

I tell you everything that is really nothing, and nothing of what is everything, do not be fooled by what I am saying. Please listen carefully and try to hear what I am not saying. ~Charles C. Finn

Time spent with friends

Planned impromptu things

On semi confused route

Recurring topic and themes

Nothing changed

But everything is not the same

Songs and noises

Stories and memories

If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality. - - Norman Cousins

We're all ghosts. We all carry, inside us, people who came before us. --Liam Callanan

*** We remember the souls of our loved ones who had gone before us. 🙏

Praying for them. May they continue to guide us and pray for us, too. 🙏💐❤️

We all have a path to take; sometimes it's hidden under the weeds, so you might have to work a little. ~Mike Dolan

He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence. -- St. John Paul II