Deep Gratitude for the Spark

At times our own light goes out
and is rekindled by a spark from another person.
Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude
of those who have lighted the flame within us.
- Albert Schweitzer

Friends share our pain and touch our wounds
with a gentle and tender hand.
- Henri Nouwen

A true friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous

A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South

Be thankful to those who have offered us challenges, rather than easy answers.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Today's affirmation: I gratefully accept the light and pay it forward.

Further reading: Regrets, Resentments and the Path to Forgiveness - Stop Anger & Live Happy With Conscious Awareness

Appreciate Your  Friends

Pay It Forward - as an Expression of Universal Gratitude

Give Love and Comfort
      

Your Light Rekindled

At times our own light goes out
and is rekindled by a spark from another person.
Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude
of those who have lighted the flame within us.
- Albert Schweitzer

A true friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous

Friends share our pain and touch our wounds
with a gentle and tender hand.
- Henri Nouwen

A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South

Be thankful to those who have offered us challenges, rather than easy answers.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Today's affirmation: I gratefully accept the light and pay it forward.

Further reading: Pay It Forward - as an Expression of Universal Gratitude

Appreciating Friends

Give Love and Comfort
      

True Friend

A true friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous

At times our own light goes out
and is rekindled by a spark from another person.
Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude
of those who have lighted the flame within us.
- Albert Schweitzer

A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South

Friends share our pain and touch our wounds
with a gentle and tender hand.
- Henri Nouwen

Be thankful to those who have offered us challenges, rather than easy answers.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Today's affirmation: I gratefully accept the light and pay it forward.

Further reading: Appreciating Friends

Pay It Forward - as an Expression of Universal Gratitude

Give Love and Comfort
      

Love Tenderly

Friends share our pain and touch our wounds
with a gentle and tender hand.
- Henri Nouwen

Share your heart as deeply as you can reach.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young,
compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving
and tolerant of the weak and the strong.
Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
- George Washington Carver

This is what the Lord asks of you: only this,
to act justly, to love tenderly,
and to walk humbly with your God.
- Micah 6:8

There never was any heart truly great and generous,
that was not also tender and compassionate.
- Robert Frost

Further reading: What Does Love Look Like?

The Universal Sacrament of Compassion

Feeding the Children

What Does Compassion Look Like?

Proactive in Our Love

Choose to Love Life