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A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor’s book.

~ Irish Proverb

 

 

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Don't look where you fall, but where you slipped.

~ African Proverb

 

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If you surrender to the wind, you can ride it.

~ Toni Morrison

 

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Don't get your knickers in a knot.  Nothing is solved and it just makes you walk funny.

~ Kathryn Carpenter

 

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“A problem is your chance to do your best.”

- Duke Ellington

 

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God has two dwellings: one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.

~ Izaak Walton

 

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“Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.”

- W.T. Purkiser

 

Happy Thanksgiving from the Spiritual Care Department! May all your days be blessing in action!

 

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If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

~ Benjamin Franklin

 

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Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

- Goethe

 

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Love blinds us to faults, hatred to virtues.

- Moshe ibn Ezra

 

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Moral action is the meeting place between the human and the divine.

- Leon Roth

 

Today is UN Universal Children’s Day.  For more information about making the world a better and safer place for children, please consider http://www.un.org/en/events/childrenday/

 

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You can't wring your hands and roll up your sleeves at the same time.

~ Pat Schroeder

 

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If you've lost your enthusiasm, there's no better place to find it than on a skipping excursion.  And, you might just find your lost youth as well!

~ Jessi Lane Adams

 

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Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.

- Basil King

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For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation?

~ Thornton Wilder

 

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Try not to become a [person] of success. Rather become a [person] of value.

- Albert Einstein

 

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Put your thoughts to sleep, do not let them cast a shadow over the moon of your heart.

- Rumi

 

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Achieving world peace begins with each of us taking the steps necessary to reach a place of inner peace by loving and empowering ourselves.

~ Carol Hansen Grey

 

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Life is not about how fast you run or how high you climb but how well you bounce. 

~ Vivian Komori

 

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All it takes is one bloom of hope to make a spiritual garden.

~ Terri Guillemets

 

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Family Circus comic strip creator Bil Keane died yesterday. May his wisdom and joy live on.

 

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There is no better path to happiness than the pursuit of helping others find joy.

~ Steven Spitz

 

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There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.

~ Henry Van Dyke

 

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Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.

~ Percy Shelley

 

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When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves. 

~ Victor Frankl

 

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The wings of hope carry us, soaring high above the driving winds of life. 

~ Ana Jacob

 

Spiritual Care Services (formerly Pastoral Care) hopes you have found meaning in some of the resources and special prayers that we’ve offered for Spiritual Care Week 2011.  Please know that we are always available to you!

 

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The value of consistent prayer is not that [God] will hear us, but that we will hear [God].

~ William McGill

 

We are continuing with Spiritual Care Week.  We hope you take a few moments to reflect on how to connect your spiritual life to you work and beyond.  Please let us know how we can support you in this journey.

 

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When the heart is open, the present moment is more than enough. When the heart is closed, it's never enough.

- Michael Jeffreys

 

We are continuing in Spiritual Care Week.  Please know that we are always available to you!  We can always be reached by paging 7803.

 

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Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

- Mother Teresa

 

Today is the last day we will have a display table in the lobby for Spiritual Care Week but there are still opportunities to connect with us.  Please let us know how we may be of support to you!