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

Maybe we simply need to look at whatever we are viewing without fear to change our mood and see it with the eyes of love.

P. 117, Journey to the Heart, Melody Beattie

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