The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don’t let it get the best of you.
~ Will Rogers
A blog for posting Light Moment daily emails from Chaplain Lavender Kelley at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago.
The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don’t let it get the best of you.
~ Will Rogers
Here are the two best prayers I know: 'Help me, help me, help me' and 'Thank you, thank you, thank you.'
- Anne Lamott
When you follow your bliss, doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors.
- Joseph Campbell
One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody, everything, every night before you go to bed.
- Bernard M. Baruch
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
~ Leo Buscaglia
Today is World Kindness Day. We hope you are touched by each and every day!
I learned much from my teachers, more from my books, and most from my troubles.
- Kaminer, Baraitot de Rabbi Yitzhak
Humility does not mean you think less of yourself. It means you think of yourself less.
- Ken Blanchard
Pictured above are emergency workers during hurricane Sandy.
If every action you made had loving intentions, if every move we made was born of love, the world would be healed, the world would be whole.
~ Brycen R. R. Couture
Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold; but so does a hard-boiled egg.
~ Unknown
You never will be the person you can be if pressure, tension and discipline are taken out of your life.
~ James G. Bilkey
Patriotism... is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
~ Adlai Stevenson
When guilt rears its ugly head confront it, discuss it and let it go. The past is over. Forgive yourself and move on.
~ Bernie S. Siegel
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
~ John Muir
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
~ Anne Frank
Pictured above are hurricane cleanup volunteers as we continue to hold those effected by hurricane Sandy in our thoughts and prayers.