I wondered about the explorers whod sailed their ships to the end of the world. How terrified they must have been when they risked falling over the edge how amazed to discover instead places they had seen only in their dreams.
Heres a funny questionWhat is your favorite wordThink about itmaybe its a word that makes you absolutely happy or a word that sounds gloriously beautiful or a word that evokes awe and wonder. Maybe you are reminded of a great time when you hear it or maybe it represents your lifes dream.So what is it What is your favorite word of all wordsThought about it yetGood.And now think why.
Lord make me an instrument of thy peace.Where there is hatred let me sow loveWhere there is injury pardonWhere there is doubt faithWhere there is despair hopeWhere there is darkness lightAnd where there is sadness joy.O Divine Master grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console to be understood as to understand to be loved as to love.For it is in giving that we receiveIt is in pardoning that we are pardonedand it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.