A potpourri of quotes,
poems and things to ponder

“Being in a hurry. Getting to the next thing without fully entering the thing in front of me. I cannot think of a single advantage I've ever gained from being in a hurry. But a thousand broken and missed things, tens of thousands, lie in the wake of all the rushing .... Through all that haste I thought I was making up time. It turns out I was throwing it away.”

- Ann Voscamp

"Whenever I see grace, I'm moved."
Bono

Question: What memory from the last few years makes you smile the most?

“The prayers we weave into the matching of socks, the stirring of oatmeal, the reading of stories, they survive fire.”
- Ann Voscamp

Question: Is there anything you regret not doing and if you had a second chance, would you take it?

Let It Go

Let it go,
Let it out,
Let it all unravel,
Let it free
And it will be
A path on which to travel.
- Michael Leunig

Chaos calls but all you really need
Is to
just
Breathe.
- Jonny Diaz

“Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable - if anything is excellent or praiseworthy - think about such things.”
- Philippians 4:8

"In response to your question, 'What is worth doing and what is worth having?' I would like to say simply this. It is worth doing nothing and having a rest.
- Michael Leunig

"If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough."
- Ophrah Winfrey

Question: What truly makes your heart sing?

"When you tell your story and say, 'This is what happened to me', then people can identify with it and make the change ... I think the biggest thing is just providing hope; if you talk about life experiences ... then hope comes out of that, because people don’t feel so alone."
- Sir John Kirwan

To be, or not to be: that is the question:
- William Shakespeare

Love Is Born

Love is born
With a dark and troubled face
When hope is dead
And in the most unlikely place
Love is born:
Love is always born.
- Michael Leunig

"I find beauty in the words of God. I find beauty in the masterful universe, this creation ... Creation’s just crying out."
- Dave Dobbyn

Question: What lesson did you learn the hard way?

Touch is
how our bodies
feel seen and heard
on the inside.

Touch is how our bodies feel
seen and heard on the inside.