For It Is In Giving That We Recieve

"People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.

If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.

If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.

The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway.

For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway."

— Mother Teresa

Searching will lead to finding - How certain is the life of a saint so beautifully laid out in the words of Mother Teresa. This is how we are called to live. Called to love and serve. Created to love and to be loved. I think a lot about how to live without negativity and judgement, but let me be the first to admit that most of the time my failures end up defining me in a very real way. I will fall, continuously, but I make my promise as to get up with a smile knowing I have been made stronger.

Take Care of the Little Things and The Big Things Will Take Care of Themselves

Lately it feels like every conversation I have now seems to always end up being about the future. What it holds, who we'll be, who we'll know; we're doing what we can now to promise that future. . .or hinder it. We're faced with a minimal amount of certainty and knowledge of how everything will play out.

The guarded side of reality isn't quite so guarded anymore.

Hold on to your hopes and dreams, they parallel the the desires of your heart and are the motivation to finish these last two yersr that base the studies for the rest of your life.

And while the future is not garanteed, it is ours to dream of and make our own in the direction that we are called because we are going to spend the rest of our lives there. I firmly believe that we are not meant to see it because it is up to us to ensure that we are strong enough to enable it.

Hold Strong, There is a plan.

Dear Life, I Accept the Challenge

It's I Got Your Number, I Got Your Back When Your Back's Against the Wall

Maybe I'm not in the best position to say this, but I'm proud to be a Cardinal, city champs or not, I was there to support and what a ride!! Forgetting the shoulda, coulda, woulda's--proud of the fair play, the traditions and even the cheerleaders I guess.
=)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UIdI8khMkw


And now I'll start on my own ride as another kind of Cardinal..6 months of basketball. It's more than a sport..it's an honour, a team, life-long friends, inside jokes.

Your Chances of Scoring Go Way Up if You Hit the Net

Here's what I love about going to watch my brothers hockey games (yes, besides scoping the stands for good-looking older brothers...=P)  It's when parents yell out some call that they think is completely BLATANTLY obvious and the ref is RIDICULOUS not to call it..for example: "OFFFFSIIIIDEEEE REF!!!!!!!!" ....thennn after what they have just yelled out is not called by the ref, they then feel the need to justify to the rest of the parents on the bench why they were right in yellling out what they did and how CLEARLY it was offside.

 I just laugh...I think it's HILARIOUS! Happens allll the time!!!

Good game little brother..4 straight wins is pretty impressive=)

Of All the Years We Stood On the Sidelines, Waiting for Right Now

I know it's worse than you thought it would be. The grass in this case was ANYTHING but greener on the other side. I hope with all my heart that you find the happiness you deserve. You are a beautiful creation who deserves all the love your perfect God can give. Have a little more faith and you'll see that the stars shine for you.

Your joy seemlessly masks your pain.

"Fake it til you make it"...I'm there too in that place, thinking when does my smile become genuine because for right now it feels so forced and fake, but I also believe I can get there.."at first I had to pretend I was strong, but after a while I just became strong."

‎"Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you

go.” - Joshua 1:9