Gifts

"The things we really need come to us

only as gifts, and in order to receive them as gifts

we have to be open”.

-Thomas Merton

Adversity

“The occasion is piled high with difficulty, 

and we must rise with the occasion.

As our case is new, so we must think anew 

and act anew”.


-President Lincon, in a time of great adversity.

Our Doubts

"Our doubts are traitors 

and make us lose the good we oft 

might win, 

by fearing to attempt" - William Shakespeare

Jeremiah 1:5

“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.”