“Sow a thought, reap an act; sow an act, reap a habit;
sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny”
“When I give something I do not possess, I give a false and dangerous gift, a gift that looks like love but is, in reality, loveless — a gift given more from my need to prove myself than from the other’s need to be cared for. One sign that I am violating my own nature in the name of nobility is a condition called burnout. Though usually regarded as the result of trying to give too much, burnout in my experience results from trying to give what I do not possess — the ultimate in giving too little! Burnout is a state of emptiness, to be sure, but it does not result from giving all I have; it merely reveals the nothingness from which I was trying to give in the first place.”
Parker Palmer
- Serving one another is vital for personal growth (C.S.Lewis)
- This is a family not an event (Galatians 6:10, Mark 3:33-35, Psalm 92:14)
“We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”
C. S. Lewis