Megan- Daleen

      ” We are all in this world for something greater than self. We each have a mission, an assignment, a calling, a vocation that is ours and ours alone. The best description I ever read of vocation is by writer and theologian Frederick Buechner. It helped me to fine-tune my focus in life. To paraphrase Beuchner, the place God chose for you is the intersection where your greatest joy and the world’s greatest need meet.”

   ” It doesn’t matter what has happened to you, it matters what you do with what has happened to you. Life is like a poker game. You don’t get to choose the cards your dealt, but it’s entirely up to you how you play the hand. One of my favorite lines from Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is when the great sage Dumbledore tells Harry, “It is not our abilities that show what we truly are. It is our choices.”

    ” Choice, not chance, determines your destiny. It’s up to you to decide what you are worth, how you matter, and how you make meaning in the world. No one else has your gifts- your set of talents, ideas, and interests. You are an original. A masterpiece. “

      ” No one feels completely confidant or secure. We get mere moments of that. We’re all afraid of making the mistake that will ruin our lives. There’s probably no such thing. Even if we made every mistake we feared would ruin us, our lives wouldn’t be ruined. They would be changed.”

       ” We’re all scared that we’re doing it wrong, that people don’t like us, that we’ll never be smart enough, good enough, successful enough, attractive enough. Don’t fight it. Make it roller-coaster scary. Enjoy the bumps, the wild turns, the ups and downs, the almost-lost-my-lunch lurches. Life will kick you around like a World Cup soccer ball. Keep your bounce. Enjoy the ride. Fear and excitement are best friends. Stay in good company.”

     ” Don’t try to fill anyone else’s shoes. The world doesn’t need you to be Mother Theresa, Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Michael Jordan, Maya Angelou, or Bill Gates. The world needs you to be you.”

- Regina Brett- from God Never Blinks.

notyourbestday:

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.

Where there is hatred, let me sow love;

where there is injury, pardon;

where there is doubt, faith;

where there is despair, hope;

where there is darkness, light;

and 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 receive;

it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;

and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen.