Smile

Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
~Mother Teresa


And what a relief to see your friendly smile. It is like seeing the face of God! ~ Genesis 33:10

Love Perserveres

“People are unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway. If you do good, people may accuse you of selfish motives. Do good anyway. If you are successful, you may win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway. The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway. What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway. People who really want help may attack you if you help them. Help them anyway. Give the world the best you have and you may get hurt. Give the world your best anyway.”
“We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.”
“We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love.”
~ Mother Teresa

Your Instrument, Lord

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
Where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master,
grant that I may not so much seek
To be consoled, as to console;
Not so much to be understood as to understand;
Not so much to be loved as to love;
For it is in giving that we receive;
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
It is in dying that we awaken to eternal life.
~ St. Francis of Assisi

Love’s Responsibility

'Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brethren, you did it to me.' *
Christian love is the “possible impossibility” to see Christ in another person, whoever he or she is, and whom God, in His eternal and mysterious plan, has decided to introduce into my life, be it only for a few moments, not as an occasion for a “good deed” or an exercise in philanthropy, but as the beginning of an eternal companionship in God Himself.
. . . each [Christian] has received the gift and the grace of Christ’s love. We know that all persons ultimately need this personal love—the recognition in them of their unique soul in which the beauty of the whole creation is reflected in a unique way.
. . . however narrow and limited the framework of our personal existence, each one of us has been made responsible for a tiny part of the Kingdom of God, made responsible by that very gift of Christ’s love.

Sunday Of The Last Judgement lesson
*Matthew 25:40

Love is Patient

Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.
~Saint Francis de Sales

Habit

I’ve been thinking about habit. If, as they say, it takes 21 days to form a habit this would be a very good one to cultivate: 21 days of seeking change through seeking Him.

Remembering

Gratitude is the memory of the heart.
~Jean Baptiste Massieu
Ideas to help:
Begin a gratitude journal
1000 gifts list