Learn to like what does not cost much. Learn to like reading, conversation, music. Learn to to like plain food, plain service, plain cooking. Learn to like people, even those who may be very different from you. Learn to shelter your family with love, comfort and peace. Learn to keep your wants simple. Refuse to be owned and anchored by things and opinions of others. Learn to like the sunrise and the sunset, the beating of rain on the roof and windows, the gentle fall of snow in winter. Learn to hold heaven near and dear. Learn to love God, for He surely loves you. -Anonymous
“Today more of us in America than anywhere else in the world have the luxury of choice between simplicity and complication of life. And for the most part, we, who could choose simplicity, choose complication.” -Anne Morrow Lindbergh
“Teach us to delight in simple things, And mirth that has no bitter springs: Forgiveness free of evil done, And love to men ‘neath the sun!” -Kipling (1865-1936)
“Most of us tend to bite off much more than we can chew in life. And because we cannot chew what we have bitten off, we tend to take life in lumps and have difficulty digesting it at all. Too many of us take on too much. We are overly ambitious, overly acquisitive, overly possessive. We are much better off to take just a little of anything at a time, taste if fully, and suck all the sweetness from it. Enough is a feast.- W. Phillip Keller
“Happiness is making the most of what you have”-Rosamunde Pilcher
“As the years pass, I am coming more and more to understand that it is the common, everyday blessings of our common everyday lives for which we should be particularly grateful. They are the things that fill our lives with comfort and our hearts with gladness-just the pure air to breathe and the strength to breathe it; just warmth and shelter and home folks; just plain food that gives us strength; the bright sunshine on a cold day; and a cool breeze when the day is warm.”Laura Ingalls Wilder
I am a first time visitor…and so very much appreciate your heart. No doubt, you bless many with your blog. I pray you are likewise blessed in all that you do. I also pray our Savior’s comfort for you. And, that you will trust, in faith, that He is with you always.