Pray Hard. Live Easy.

Look to this day, for it is life, the very breath of life. In its brief course lie all the realities of your existence; the bliss of growth, the glory of action, the splendor of beauty. For yesterday is only a dream, and tomorrow is but a vision. But today, well lived, makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day. Ancient Sanskrit This is the day the LORD has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.  Psalm 118:24 

“A relaxed attitude lengthens a man’s life…” - Proverbs 14:30

I do not ask to walk smooth paths nor bear an easy load. I pray for strength and fortitude to climb the rock strewn road. Give me such courage and I can scale the hardest peaks alone, And transform every stumbling block into a stepping stone. ---- Gale Brook Burket

"Choosing courage again and again, the more courageous we become."

To love is to recognize yourself in another.  -Eckhart Tolle

One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself. ---Lucille Ball

"The heart has its reasons,   which reason knows not of." -  Blaise Pascal 23:03 The rescue is always within reach. Don't be shy to ask for help, within or around you. Consider Pascal's call to life:   "If you bet on God,   and open yourself to his love,   you lose nothing, even if you're wrong.   But if instead you bet that there is no God,   then you can lose it all, in this life and the life to come."  

"My soul is from elsewhere and I intend to end up there." - Rumi

"Surely the one true representation of who we are is in the way we treat others." - Pray Hard, Live Easy  "It's in our hearts that the evil lies, and it's from our hearts that it must be plucked out." - Albert Einstein

  Sometimes the best thing, the only thing we can do, is to just keep learning and growing and moving. "Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory."  ---- Gandhi

"Vulnerability isn't weakness vulnerability is strength in who we are." - M ike Pilav   #focuswestcoast

"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you will know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints." Ephesians 1:17-18

Oh - "that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, read more.and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God." Ephesians 3:16-19 

"May the Lord cause you to increase and abound in love for one another, and for all people, just as we also do for you." 1 Thessalonians 3:12

Turning a new corner tonight, taking on a new adventure. I won't be perfect. I'll be me. And thankfully, I won't be alone. - Pray hard. Live easy.

"Tension is who you think you should be; relaxation is who you are." Chinese Proverb

You were born to shine. The light we cast out illuminates our view of the world, so turn it on. Give to the world what you want to see and give all you can. And then sit back when you need to, let it warm you, watch it glisten.  - Pray Hard, Live Easy

  One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.  - Benjamin Disraeli

Today's a great day, now's a great time, to climb on up and live boldly. Photo captured by a sweet friend,  Naomi Stolow “The purpose of life is not  to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul. - Ella Wheeler Wilcox

"I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. Simple in actions and in thoughts, you return to the source of being. Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are. Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world." -Tao Te Ching