Emilie Richards

You can’t be everyone’s hero. You can’t take away everyone’s pain, solve all their problems, and make them feel happy with themselves and their lives. All you can do is love them, and that’s all you have to do. Just love them in their messiness, their confusion, their grief. See them, hear them, and accept…

“Be the person who breaks the cycle. If you were judged, choose understanding. If you were rejected, choose acceptance. If you were shamed, choose compassion. Be the person you needed when you were hurting, not the person who hurt you. Vow to be better than what broke you—to heal instead of becoming bitter so you…

“Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets. So, love the people who treat you right, forgive the ones who don’t and believe that everything happens for a reason. If you get the chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said it would be easy, they just…

“Do you believe in miracles? Well, you should. In fact, life itself is a big miracle. There are so many things that are beyond our understanding. There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle. -Albert Einstein, physicist

“It is hard for me to understand a culture that not only hates and fights his brothers but even attacks Nature and abuses her. Man must love all creation or he will love none of it. Love is something you and I must have. We must have it because our spirit feeds upon it. Without…

Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, storytellers, and singers of song.” – Unknown Happy Father’s Day to fathers and to the men who have been “fathers” to so many just by their kindness and willingness to help and mentor other people’s children all over the world.

In Memoriam   “There is something deeply hypocritical about praying for a problem that you’re not willing to resolve.” -Miroslav Volf  

GANDHI Said: Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your WORDS. Keep your words positive  because your words become your BEHAVIOR. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your HABITS. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your VALUES. Keep your values positive because your values become your DESTINY.

Let us pray for: The mothers too tired to enter or too busy to care. This is for all the mothers who froze their buns off on metal bleachers at soccer games Friday night instead of watching from cars, so that when their kids asked, “Did you see my goal?” they could say, “Of course, wouldn’t…