This photo was taken from our backyard one evening this summer. Sometimes when the sun sets and the light cuts through the sky just right and that "glow" is in the air, it just stops me in my tracks. I think of Heaven, and my heart longs for all that I have not yet seen but can only imagine from the previews that we sometimes glimpse here...I read this quote at the YMCA a few weeks ago. It struck a chord with me...
"People are often unreasonable, illogical, & self-centered;
Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives;
Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies;
Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;
Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;
Give the world the best you've got anyway.
You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God;
It was never between you and them anyway."
-Mother Theresa
