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- Luke 17:21
A blog for posting Light Moment daily emails from Chaplain Lavender Kelley at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago.
“The love of people is at the same time a love for God. For when we love one, we necessarily love one's handiwork.”
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“I'm inspired by the creative abundance of nature, the resiliency of the human heart, and the vision that we can create a world that deserves our children's dreams and laughter.”
~ David Simon
“Joy lies in the fight, in the attempt, in the suffering involved, not in the victory itself”
- Mahatma Gandhi
“To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, but risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.”
- Leo Buscaglia
“We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color.”
- Maya Angelou
Today is World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development. For more information about what this day means, please consider http://www.un.org/depts/dhl/cultural_diversity/
“Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.”
- Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel
Today marks the Jewish holiday of Shavuot. For more information on this holy observance, please consider: http://www.jewfaq.org/holidayc.htm & http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shavuot
“And when we're done crying and shaking our fists at the Universe, we must get up, find the beauty in this life & ourselves and keep going.”
- Cole Kelley
“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear”
~A Redmoon
“Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life.”
- Kahlil Gibran
You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair.
- Chinese Proverb
“If you find in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.”
- Maya Angelou
Painting entitled “Nurture” By Gustave Miller
For more of his work, please visit http://www.gustavemiller.com/
You are younger today than you ever will be again. Make use of it for the sake of tomorrow.
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“All I am or hope to be I owe to my angel mother.”
- Abraham Lincoln
Painting entitled Mother and Child by Vinod Arora
“Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.”
- Frank Outlaw