Jump Start Your Joy

Category: quotes

  • A Love Like That Lights up the Whole Sky

    A Love Like That Lights up the Whole Sky

    The Sun Never Says Even after all this timeThe sun never says to the earth,“You owe Me.”Look what happens withA love like that,It lights the Whole Sky.– Hafiz, from The Gift   I don’t remember the first time I heard this quote, but it has dazzled and amazed me for…

  • The Bravest Thing, Running Through the Fields

    The first thing I read this morning, as I lay in my bed, just waking up was this, shared by my friend Kathy on Facebook. the bravest thing by the beautiful due maybe the bravest thingis opening your eyes in themorning and placing yourtwo feet on the cold floor andrising…

  • Be Content to Simply Be Yourself

    We went to Pacific Grove a few weekends ago. It is along the coast, near the towns of Carmel and Monterrey. It is peaceful there, with beautiful, majestic views of the Pacific Ocean. Zoom loves the beach. He likes to run up to the water’s edge, play tag with the…

  • Wednesday Wanderings: Be the Change You Seek

    For a long time my little retreat team has struggled. With the age group, with finding topics that resonate with others, and with finding the right time … to meet, to have a retreat, the list goes on. I have to admit that one of the things that irks me…

  • Wednesday Wanderings: Joy

    Today I thought I’d share a little Pinspiration around the word Joy. Ready? Here we go! “Joy is prayer. Joy is strength – Joy is love – Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.” – Mother Teresa from Pinterest “Find Joy in the Journey”on Pinterest…

  • Better, not Bitter

    All day, Thursday, I heard my own footsteps saying “Better, not Bitter, Better, not Bitter” as I walked. It was the mantra to my steps as I journeyed to meetings, to lunch, to dinner with my retreat planning group. It wasn’t that I had much to be bitter about, a…

  • Pinterest Quotes: Affirmations That You Are Powerful and Loved

    Every once and awhile, you just need the affirmation that things are good, you are OK, and you are loved, and that you are the key to unlocking the future you deserve and will love. Here are a few quotes from Pinterest for this Friday 🙂 Source: quotehimonthat.tumblr.com via Paula…

  • Live by Grace, a Quote from Brennan Manning

    “To live by grace means to acknowledge my whole life story, the light side and the dark. In admitting my shadow side, I learn who I am and what God’s grace means.” – Brennan Manning

  • Whoever is Happy Will Make Others Happy, too

     “Whoever is happy will make others happy too. He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery.” -Anne Frank This last week I’ve been thinking a lot about the word “courage.” One of the roots of this word, and a term that has been rattling in my…