CHERISH YOUR VISION

Cherish your vision; cherish your ideals;

Cherish the music that stirs in your heart;

The beauty that forms in your mind;

The loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts.

If you remain true to them,

Your world will at last be built.

- James Allen

LAMENT OF A GROUCH

I knew

That in heaven

All are happy.

But I wish

I'd known

The reason

Before:

Only

To the happy

Do they

Open the door.

- Carol Lynn Pearson

THE MEDIATOR

"Each of us, lives on a kind of spiritual credit. One day the account will be closed, a settlement demanded. However casually we may view it now, when that day comes and the foreclosure is imminent, we will look around in restless agony for someone, anyone, to help us.........

Unless there is a mediator, unless we have a friend, the full weight of justice untempered, unsympathetic, must, positively must, fall on us. The full recompense for every transgression, however minor or however deep, will be exacted from us to the uttermost farthing.

But know this: Truth, glorious truth, proclaims there is such a Mediator: 'For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus' (1 Timothy 2:5). Through Him mercy can be fully extended to each of us without offending the eternal law of justice. This truth is the very root of Christian doctrine."

- Boyd K. Packer

HUNTERS OF DREAMS

The woods were made for the hunters of dreams

The brooks for the fisher of song

To the hunters who hunt for the gunless game

The streams and the woods belong.

- Sam Walter Foss

THE WELL OF PROVIDENCE

"The well of Providence is deep. 

It's the buckets that we bring to it that are small."

- Mary Webb

THE DESERVING

"You often say, 'I would give, but only to the deserving'...........

Surely he who is worthy to receive his days and his nights is worthy of all else from you......

And he who has deserved to drink from the ocean of life deserves to fill his cup from your little stream."  

- Kahlil Gibran, "The Prophet"