We cannot possibly be ”the light of the world” if we are known to be dishonest.

Beside the still waters, Titus Yoder

Pleasures are meaningless.

Why would we forsake what no on can take away, to pursue what we cannot keep?
Beside the Still Waters, Rodney Hostetler

From the traditional to the alternative, healers and healing energy can take many forms.

We each have the power to transmit healing energy to others and ourselves, regardless of our profession. We each have the ability to awaken the power and use it in the world around us through our chosen field of worm.

p. 123, Journey to the Heart, Melody Beattie

With comfort comes nurturing, genuine acceptance, and love. Comfort doesn’t involve any expense. it comes from the heart. It goes right to the heart.

p. 122, Journey to the heart, Melody Beattie

Love begins with it the gift of freedom. Love teaches us to allow the person we love to do as he or she chooses. It teaches us to encourage the people we love to freely make there own choices, to seek their own path, to learn their lessons their way in their own time.
p. 122, journey to the heart, melody beattie

Change is the way nature, the universe, and the Divine move use through each period of our lives and into Destiny. We are led to our next lesson, our next adventure. There’s no need to deny change, to fear it, or fight against it. Change is inevitable. Just as the earth is constant motion and transformation, so are we.

p. 119, Journey to the Heart, Melody Beattie

Find the value, the words and prayers of your religion, the thoughts that work for you, that connect to your center.

These will help you discover your connection with the universe, the flow of life, the certainty that all is well.

You and your life are on track.
Know you’ll be given all the guidance and grace you need.

p. 118, Journey to the Heart, Melody Beattie

To see a need and have the ability to meet that need – is a calling.

Beside the Still Waters

The student is not above the teacher, nor the servant above his master