Give It!

... there are  ... [many] ways to practice sacrificial love: listening, helping, encouraging, giving! Think of someone in particular who needs this kind of love today -- and give it!
(The One Year Book Of Bible Readings, 26 September)

When you feel grateful for something others have done for you, why not tell them about it?
(Amy E. Dean, Night Light, 25 December)
23 July 2015

Enjoying Life

If we live each day to the best of our ability, we will soon find we don't have time to worry about the future or regret the past. We will be too busy enjoying life.
(Alateen - Hope For The Children Of Alcoholics in Hope For Today, p. 56, 19 May)

If you feel like you're helping too much, stop it immediately.
(Sondra Smalley in The Color Of Light by Perry Tilleraas, 17 May)

The next time I react to another's behavior, I'll ask myself how many times I've reacted the same way before.
(Hope For Today, 9 January)

Our hopes and desires may be able to weather the criticism of a stranger, but they have a more difficult time surviving when undermined by a friend.
(John C. Maxwell, Leadership, 24 August)

22 June 2015

Take Your Medicine

The best antidote I know for worry is work.
The best medicine for despair is service.
The best cure for weariness is the challenge of helping someone who is even more tired.
(Gordon B. Hinckley, Stand A Little Taller, 1 April)
9 April 2014

Helping Others

Of course I am obligated by compassion and common humanity to help others. But this does not mean I should do for them what they ought to do for themselves. (One Day At A Time in Al-Anon, 29 January)
5 Feb 2010