There is a cloud over my head this year. Yes, this year, not just this month, or this week. One thing after another has happened. I just think things can’t get worse and, of course, they do.

If only I had a better job. If only I had more money. If only I had a new car. If only I had more time off. If only I had a university degree. If only I had money for a vacation. If only I was skinner. If only I had more clothes.

The Gift of Love
May you find love in your family and your friends. And may you share the love you have to give. When you share your love, it comes back to you in many forms.
“Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within the reach of every hand.” Mother Teresa

“The heights by great men reached and kept
Were not attained by sudden flight;
But they, while their companions slept,
Were toiling upward in the night.”

“I’m awfully worried this morning, said one woman. What is it?” “Why, I thought of something to worry about last night, and now I can’t remember it.” A famous actress once said: “Worry is the foe of all beauty.” She might have added: “It is the foe to all health.”

If Home is where the heart is
Then may your Home be blessed
A shelter from the storms of Life
A place of rest,

Awakening, dawn’s chorus
Welcoming, the day new, untouched
Waiting to be filled….

And will we paint a rainbow
With all its promise
Or dull the canvas
Sadly seen?

I believe in miracles ….
Gulls eating crickets
At Salt Lake City
Burning thickets
Compassion, pity,

When everything seems to go wrong, just push
when the job gets you down, just push
when people don’t react the way you think they should, just push

David Morse — American missionary to India — became great friends there with the pearl-diver, Rambhau. Many an evening he spent in Rambhau’s cabin reading to him from the Bible, and explaining to him God’s way of salvation.