People are often unreasonable, illogical, and 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 Teresa of Calcutta

Taken from www.inspirationpeak.com :

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light not our darkness that frightens us.

We ask ourselves 'who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? Your are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.

It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Marianne Williamson

Commit to the LORD whatever you do,
       and your plans will succeed.

                    -Proverbs 16:3

        Wow, commitments!! It seems that so many things in our lives demand them.  Sometimes we have so many commitments that we nearly drown in them.  A commitment is work.  If I have made my commitment to the golf team (this is just an example...), it means that I am going to put a large chunk of my energy and time into practicing my swing, going to the driving range, and showing up at tournaments.  The golf team can depend on me. 

         Of course, I don’t just play golf all the time either.  I mean, I also must be committed to my schoolwork, as every teacher so sternly emphasizes on the first day of class.  If I make that commitment, I’m saying that if I get behind in Geometry, then my little heart is going to race through textbook pages all night long if needed until I can get caught up-- haha, how often do we actually do that? 

           And then we have commitments to people:  “We should hang out sometime.”—That is already a dilute form of a commitment.  “You never call me anymore”—That’s demanding a commitment.  And so, with all these things piling up we can feel as though our lives are merely someone else’s agenda book and that we are just a machine. 

         We don’t have anything left to committ to God, do we?  It looks like He thinks differently. He says to committ to Him whatever we do.  Whatever we do?  That’s kind of a lot, isn’t it, God?  I mean, I don’t know that You’ll be able to handle the responsibilities of my job or my schoolwork or all my practices... I just can’t committ everything to You, because my life will be out of control.  And I need control because, frankly, I’ve got to save up for a new car, not to mention for college, and if I can committ myself enough to basketball, I’ll get a scholarship.  If I don’t focus on my studies, then my ACT score will never be good enough to get into a good college, and if I don’t get a degree from a good college, then how will I get a job that pays anything?  And then how will I ever be able to buy a house?

        But this is where God says, “Stop talking!”  He says that our plans will succeed if we committ whatever we do to Him.  He doesn’t say they might.  He says they will.  It’s certain.  Is anything else in life really certain? He’s saying, “Wow, you're driving yourself nuts trying to do this all by yourself.  Don’t worry about anything anymore.  Come work for me, and everything will turn out alright.”  Do you believe this?  Do you believe that the God who created the Earth and the Heavens can make your life turn out? If you do, then why committ yourself to anything else?  Why do you worry about taking care of yourself and your life? Whatever you do, do it for God, and you’ll find that when your life is committed only to Him, He’ll take care of you.

De vez en cuando

Cae un pétalo de rosa en tu cabeza

Y todo el mal olor que te abruma

Se vuelve perfume

Hay milagros en la vida

Se llaman personas

"I read a story about Robert deVincenzo, the great Argentineans golfer:

 A woman approached him, asking for money, saying her child was seriously ill, near death, and she could not pay the doctor's bill. Touched by her plight, deVincenzo gave her the money he'd just won in a gold tournament.

The next week, an official with the golf association told him: "I have news for you. There was no sick baby. She's not even married. She fleeced you, my friend."

"You mean, there is no baby who is dying?" said deVincenzo.

"That's right," said the official.

"That's the best news I've heard all week," he said.

Think of that heart! We can cultivate a heart that experiences the abundance of God, no matter what the circumstances."

(—Rev. Mary Manin Morrissey)