QUOTES

Sophia sent this in a response. Even though this blog was just born, I am making a NEW addition to it. Any quotes that speak to our conversation will be posted as blog. Here is the first. Thanks, Soph.

SEPTEMBER 19
"It's not just major challenges that require courage. Even the minor skirmishes with life demand some deep breaths, perhaps hushed prayers, and lots of hope. We'd glide more easily through every day if we'd accept that struggle is part of the process of life; that it offers more opportunities for us to realize our individual potential than any other dimension of life.
Struggles strengthen us, enrich our character, temper our emotions. They enhance our being in untold ways, and yet we plead to be spared them. How ironic that we each long for greater success, at least some recognition for our accomplishments, but recoil from the very experiences that guarantee these personal satisfactions.
MY STRUGGLES TODAY ARE MY GIFTS IN DISGUISE. I WILL GROW ACCORDINGLY."