The secret of your own heart you can never know;
but you can know Him who knows its secret.
-George MacDonald

Thursday, January 27, 2011

Celebrating Springtime While Shoveling Snow


"Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers." ~Veronica A. Shoffstall

Friday, December 31, 2010

A New Year


"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream." ~ C.S. Lewis

Monday, December 13, 2010

Fire Gazing


It was so wonderful to be there, safe at home, sheltered from the winds and the cold. Laura thought this must be a little bit like Heaven, where the weary are at rest. She could not imagine that Heaven was better than being where she was, slowly growing warm and comfortable, sipping the hot, sweet, ginger tea, seeing Ma, and Grace, and Pa and Carrie, and Mary all enjoying their own cups of it and hearing the storm that could not touch them here." -Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Long Winter

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Appearances Can Be Deceiving


"Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it." -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Friday, November 26, 2010

The Search


"Maybe Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store..." -How The Grinch Stole Christmas

Sunday, November 21, 2010

No One Person Can Do It All


"If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one." - Mother Teresa

Tuesday, November 16, 2010