We want each of you to show this same diligence to the very end, so that what you hope for may be fully realized. We do not want you to become lazy but to imitate those who through faith and patience inherit what has been promised.

Land that drinks in the rain when falling on it and that produces a crop useful to those for whom it is farmed receives the blessing of God.

On the other side of fear is joy.

All we can see is that, for some unknown reason, we can’t seem to move forward in our life. We’re in the dark.

p. 114, Journey to the Heart, Melody Beattie

Powers appear when you open the heart.  We find the powers of love, comfort, faith, joy. There are other powers, too, that come along the way. One of these is the quiet power of trusting what we know.
Open your heart. Let it show you what it knows. Learn to trust what you know. You're wiser than you think.
p. 114, Journey to the Heart, Melody Beattie

Yes, sometimes experiences lead us out of the present moment. But if we stay present for ourselves, we’ll always come back. Changed. Lighter. Healed. And more ready to love.

P. 112, Journey to the Heart, Melody Beattie

Imitating Christ’s Humility

Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others before yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.

Sometimes we have to run out of ideas before we can open to any new ones. The reason we can’t see any further is because our ideas are limited by the past, by past experiences, by what life has been like before. Our future does not have to be limited by our past. Life knows that. Now we can learn it too. We’re not at a dead end. We’ve reached a new beginning.

p. 111, Journey to the Heart, Melody Beattie

The last of one’s freedoms is to choose one’s attitude in any given situation.

Managing Emotions in Times of Uncertainty and Stress, COURSERA, Marc Brackett, Yale

If we can only make it clear that feelings are mentionable and manageable, we will have done a great service to mental health.

Managing Emotions in Times of Uncertainty and Stress, COURSERA, Dr. Marc Brackett, Yale

But there are other times when we need to turn down the sound and listen to silence. Silence can be healing, too.
…the sounds of silence aren’t silent. Each creation that lives sings its own song. It takes a quiet mind, a quiet soul, a quiet heart to hear these songs.

p. 105, Journey to the Heart, Melody Beattie