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CHALLENGING TIMES

• Even in the bleakest of times, there is a presence of soul.

• In difficult times, the noble soul follows his heart – not the crowd.

• Bless your mistakes! You wouldn’t be where you are today without them.

• Without sadness, how could I ever dance?

• The grace of your tender support when I was most vulnerable is forever pictured in my memory. Thank you for your love.

• When sharing a simple meal, it is in the stories that are told that our beloved comes and sits quietly by our side.

• When we lose someone we love, we often feel alone at the end of the day.
  In your time of grief, please know that I am with you.

• Sometimes we need to be carried.

• The warm saltiness of flowing tears does heal a wounded heart.

• When words fail, prayerful silence will do.

• If eyes are the windows to the soul, then tears come from its depth.

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LOVE

• As I reflect on our friendship, because you are who you are, there is a brilliance in my life that will never fade.

• As the sun sets low and the world slows down, you come to mind yet again. A smile of joy comes over me, for you are my good and dear friend.

• The sweet grace of your friendship allows an honoring of the divine made flesh.

• Giving your heart to someone is not a single but constant revelation of a newly discovered and absolute truth of a far greater heart.

• And the greatest of these is…you!

• Who I am becoming is due in large part by how well I am loved by you.

• Love is the reason you are alive!

• As with God, in you, I rejoice!

• May the love we have be extravagant!

• I love because I am loved.

• The story of my life is filled with memories of you.

• Email will never say: “I love you” like a card with a stamp!

• There is a special magic when I see the first flower of spring. Such is the way I feel each time I see you.

• When I’m with you, my heart rejoices, my soul soars and my feet dance.

• A true friend listens more to the silences than to the beloved.

• The gracefulness of your sweet face presents a profound invitation to enter more deeply the sacredness of life.

• Heaven ceases to be a place beyond whenever you are with me.

• Being held in your tender arms, the angels sing a lullaby to my frantic spirit and I completely surrender.

• I recognize myself in your eyes.

• The twinning of souls begins with awe and deepens with understanding.

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SPECIAL DAYS

• Never since my birth
  Has there been a greater need
  For a Bethlehem Child!
  A blessed Christmas to all!

• With all the crosses we’ve had to bear this year, we gain great comfort and strength in knowing that God’s love will deliver us.
  A Blessed Christmas To All!

• We celebrate the union of your hearts and pray that your love for each other continues to blossom.
  Wedding blessings always!

• Come take my hand and walk with me.
  Tell me stories for miles and miles.
  Then honor you, I will
  Through my tears and smiles
  For a life of integrity.

• As a child, you were this huge man to me.
  And now that I’m an adult, you’re even bigger!
  Happy Father’s Day Dad!

• The pride you have for your children is surpassed only by my admiration and love of you as both husband and father.
  Happy Father’s Day

• When I said “I Do”, I meant that I would love you forever.
  And after all these years, I still do.

• Because of your love for me, I am who I am today. For that reason, today I celebrate the sanctity of your precious life for which I am eternally grateful.

• The day you were born, the heavens parted and a divine gift was bestowed upon us.

• Birthday tradition suggests that I bring a gift to the one having the birthday. Truth is, YOU are the gift to me.

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THOUGHT PROVOKING

• Life can be a balancing act.
  Go for it!

• Constant rubbing only wears both sides down until nothing is left but a hole.

• The great moments of life are those times when you realize there is little difference between a blade of grass, a soaring eagle and you.

• The uniqueness of one’s life needs to be lived heroically.

• May your work elevate your nature.

• The silence in the spaces between the words of a poem is where the voice of God can be heard.

• To embrace your nothingness is really something!

• Try to change me and I will resist you as surely as day follows night. Accept me for who I am and you will see a transformation as surely as spring follows winter.

• The important thing about a 1000 mile journey is the journey itself – not its completion.

• Go thee into the wilderness to discover that which cannot be found in crowded places.

• The greatest of prayers is…WOW!

• Cruelty is the mask of fear. Compassion is the robe of love.

• Naming your fear causes its diminishment.

• May everything you do be a prayer of thanksgiving to God.

• What you do today creates who we become tomorrow.

• Be a collector of stories!

• Imagine your possibilities!

• Choose the roles you play!

• Live your life with an engaged spirit!

• One of the most beautiful ways to bring soulfulness into our lives…is to dream.

• Life is less a spiritual journey than it is a spiritual excavation.

• Vision is essential for direction. Desire is necessary for movement in that direction.

• There can be no tug-of-war if one side refuses to pull.

• I use to pray for someone’s heart to be converted. Now I pray for an expansion of my own.

• Transformation takes place when people see rightly with the heart.

• Happiness is not the absence of difficulties but rather the confidence of endurance and the gratitude of ability.

• Some problems don’t need fixing – they need understanding.

• Using solitude as your canvas and silence as your brush, you will never paint a still-life picture.

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WARM FUZZIES

• I Believe!

• If opposites attract, then we are a perfect pair!

• If God is in the details… Behold!

• When you give voice to your song, a chorus of angels will join you and God weeps with joy.

• For angels to fly, there are three ingredients:
  a. A deep desire
  b. A lightness of being
  c. Enough room to spread their wings.

• I wish my arms were long enough to hug the world. Perhaps it is as well to simply lie prostrate and allow her to hug me.

• The pure melody of laughter lifts the soul to embrace the heavens.

• The answers to life’s most difficult questions are to be found in a well-tended garden or a soothing creek.

• Today is full of possibilities…spend it well!

• May everything you do –
  Be a prayer.

• Walk back with me the paths that once we fled in mindless haste.

• There is no home like place!

• In my ripened years, few things are as comforting as a child’s hug, a good yarn or a perfectly chosen poem.

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