Best friends
“The friend of my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.”
– Ulysses S. Grant

Mastery of hardships
“A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.” – Helen Keller

Self-giving when it hurts
God’s unconditional love for you
“The supreme happiness of life consists in the conviction that one is loved; loved for one’s own sake – let us say rather, loved in spite of one’s self.” – Victor Hugo

God loves “YOU”!
Life is full of surprises
“If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.” –Eleanor Roosevelt

Life’s full of surprises
Planting seeds
- “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” –Robert Louis Stevenson
A shout out to the moms and dads out there…the seeds that you plant today in your children will bear tremendous fruit in their adult lives!
