When your sense of self and happiness comes from within and isn't a roller coaster ride dependent on others or circumstances, you approach life differently. You make better choices. You draw to you the people and situations that matter. The others, they fall away.

Be like the flower, content with its nature.

Sometimes, I am my own worst enemy.

Fear not, brothers and sisters, God, who is full of grace and abounding in steadfast love, meets us in our sin and transforms us for God's glory and the healing of God's world. In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, your sins are forgiven, be now at peace.

If life throws you a few bad notes or vibrations, don't let them interrupt or alter your song.

I decided I would go with them, but it would be at my father's house that I would eat. I would share his food, and his poverty.