People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered.
Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives.
Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some unfaithful friends and some genuine enemies.
Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and sincere people may deceive you.
Be honest and sincere anyway.
What you spend years creating, others could [...]
Archive for the ‘mercy’ Category
Press On.
Posted in Religion, creativity, faith, gentleness, lent, life, love, magic, mercy, monastic, work on March 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Easter
Posted in Easter, Religion, art, blogging, faith, family, franciscan, friends, gentleness, holiday, home, just because, lent, life, love, magic, mercy, monastic, rest, seasons on March 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So my Lenten photos kind of trailed off at the end there…
I have to admit that part of it was me getting weirded out by the glasses-freaks (see Lent -27 for the details).
Micki came. We stayed up uber late every night and compensated by drinking much yummy Guatemalan coffee. She got a tattoo and started [...]
Suffer the little children…
Posted in Edjimication, blogging, children's rights, corporal punishment, discipline, faith, family, friends, gentle parenting, gentleness, kids, life, love, me, mercy, peaceful parenting, spanking on January 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Discipline came up on my happy little homeschool yahoo group last week, and I thought I’d share some more since it was on my mind already… you see, I’ve got some pretty hard and fast parenting theology. I came to it the long way around, but it stuck.
I get pretty riled up by the [...]
