WHEN YOU DON'T HAVE A LEG TO STAND ON

photo by Mark Hogan

 

You may be busy this week, but at least you didn't leave your prosthetic limb behind on the train?  (I'm assuming.)   But it happens.  Mixed right in there with cell phones, keys, wallets, and laptaps.   And once "a backpack with a mannequin head."  That kind of threw her, says Ruth Moreno, Senior Agent with the Los Angeles  Metro.  Uh, yeah.  I can imagine.     story          

Principle in the type:  "Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit.  Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset."   Francis de Sales

 

SERMONS

Photo by Glacier National Park - HDR

Happy 100th, National Parks!  You don't look a day over ... well, actually, some of you look quite old.  But beautiful!     story

Principle in the type:  Yet is full of charming company, full of God's thoughts, a place of peace and safety amid the most exalted grandeur and eager enthusiastic action, a new song, a lace of beginnings abounding in first lessons of life, mountain-building, eternal, invincible, unbreakable order; with sermons in stones, storms, trees, flowers, and animals brimful of humanity. . . "    John Muir

MOUTHFUL

photo by Satya Murthy

Hopefully this Thanksgiving you can grab a bite easier than our friend Fritz here! . . . Happy Thanksgiving, Peeps!  #atitudeofgratitude - (day? month? year? life?) 






                               

Principle in the type:  "Thankfulness creates gratitude which generates contentment that causes peace.”   Todd Stocker     

AFTER HELL

photo by Dennis Skley

Now 18 years old, Anthony Sukto was stabbed by his father and left for dead as an 8 year-old, immediately following the stabbing death of his mother.  That part of the story is too horrifying to dwell on.   Sukto survived, is well - mentally and emotionally  - and an example to others for sure.  " 'Every time I would think of my dad, I would think of hate," says Anthony. "the only way I could find peace and love within myself was to forgive my father.' "    story          

Principle in the type:  "The spirit must be freed from tethers so strong and feelings never put to rest, so that the lift of life may give buoyancy to the soul. . . . Only forgiveness heals."    Thomas S. Monson