If you learn to respond as if it’s the first day in your life and the very last day, then you will have spent this day very well.

The greatest gift one can give is thanksgiving. In giving gifts, we give what we can spare, but in giving thanks we give ourselves.

"The Holy Spirit . . . wants to flow through us and realize all these wonderful possibilities in the world - if we only open ourselves and allow it to happen."

Gratefulness is not just saying "thank you." It's acting. It is being yourself. A mother is grateful, shows gratefulness by mothering, a scientist by doing science.

Each string of a wind harp responds with a different note to the same breeze. What activity makes you personally resonate most strongly, most deeply?

The hope that is left after all your hopes are gone - that is pure hope, rooted in the heart.

What brings fulfillment is gratefulness, the simple response of our heart to this life in all its fullness.