Hidden in all that mess was something beautiful. I almost missed it because all I could see was the mess which had wrapped itself around it; all I could see were the burdens which weighed it down.

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.” Helen Keller

I believe God gave us all the ingredients to have the things we want, to have peace on earth — the cure to disease, the solution to hunger, the remedy for sadness — right here under our noses. He filled our cabinets. We just have to come up with the recipe.

Granted, there are days when it seems every piece of river trash gets hung up on your branch, days when you do what’s right and still get called wrong. That’s life. That’s everyone’s life.

She who finds happiness at the bottom of a bag of fries can find happiness everywhere she looks.

It was unkind. It was uncaring. It was rude. It was unnecessary, like most unkind, uncaring, and rude things people say and do. I judged him without knowing him.

Sometimes the most beautiful moments of our lives come from what may seem like utter nothingness, times of total darkness swirling winds and thunderous storms.

Who could imagine just how evil evil could be. As I watched and listened, I recorded these quotes broadcast that day — to remember the courage, to remember the unity, to never forget those lost to us forever.

God works through the rescue workers, through friends and relatives, through medical personnel, through strangers who perform acts of mercy. God is present in the time of turmoil, to give the believer an inner confidence, an assurance that in the face of something so horribly wrong, that we find a sense of peace.