Make a Difference, Vote

Act as if what you do makes a difference.
It does.
- William James

The 4th Tuesday of each September is National Voter Registration Day in the United States.
If you aren't already registered to vote, PLEASE do it TODAY.
Your vote is your voice (and your civic duty).
Please vote in every local and national election and primary.

In many places, every voter is eligible to vote by mail.
Request your vote-by-mail ballot and vote now.

We must remember that one determined person can make
a significant difference,
and that a small group of determined people
can change the course of history.
- Sonia Johnson

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold
is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
- Thomas Jefferson

Voting is an expression of three key life principles -
CHOICE, INTENT, and ACTION.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: All That I May Be

This World, Our Legacy

Fulfilling Your Dreams

Creating Your Legacy
    

Have Faith that God will do what is Right

Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want.
It is the belief that God will do what is right.
- Max Lucado

A person who is fanatic in matters of religion,
and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe,
becomes a person who has no faith at all.
- Alan Watts

I don't doubt God. I have firm faith absolutely in God.
It's religion I'm doubting.
- Bono
(Bono is deeply influenced by the Northern Ireland "Troubles," the 1968-1998 civil war
between Protestant Christians and Catholic Christians in which thousands were killed.)

Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.
- Michel de Montaigne

What does it profit, my brethren,
if someone says he has faith but does not have works?
Can faith save him?
- James 2:14

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

To know a person's religion
we need not listen to his profession of faith
but must find his brand of intolerance.
- Eric Hoffer

Further reading: Know that You have been Blessed

Thank You Prayer

Where there is Great Love

Heaven on Earth
    

Being of Service

Find out how much God has given you
and from it take what you need;
the remainder is needed by others.
- Saint Augustine

Show me your hands.
Do they have scars from giving?
Show me your feet.
Are they wounded in service?
Show me your heart.
Have you left a place for divine love?
- Fulton J. Sheen (Archbishop)

Let us touch the dying, the poor,
the lonely and the unwanted
according to the graces we have received
and let us not be ashamed
or slow to do the humble work.
- Mother Teresa

God expects us to care for His world -
to clean up our sewage and our industrial pollution -
to respect His forests and His wild animals.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: The Universal Sacrament of Compassion

Unity in One Body and One Spirit

Confession of Sins

To Keep the Golden Rule
    

Transformation into Butterfly

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
- Richard Buckminster Fuller

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief
in injustice and tragedy.
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world,
the Master calls the butterfly.
- Richard Bach

"Know thyself."
A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly.
Whoever studies himself arrests his own development.
A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.
- Andre Gide

There are all kinds of futures.
There is a hoped-for future,
there is a feared future,
there is a predictable future,
and there is an unimagined future.
- Werner Erhard

Further reading: Endings

Butterfly

Be an Instrument of Change
    

In the Darkest of Times

Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times,
if one only remembers to turn on the light.
- J.K. Rowling

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
- Aristotle Onassis

It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt

The unknown is like the darkness of a cave -
it can be illuminated by the brief light
of one adventurer's small candle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Create Light for Others

Dark Days

Divine Spark