Showing your tears
“We need never be ashamed of our tears.” Charles Dickens
Sometimes, it is ok and even a really good thing to let the tears flow freely….don’t be afraid to show your humanity!

Theological Virtue of Hope
Keep getting back up
“Fall seven times, stand up eight.”
– Japanese Proverb

Theological Virtue of Faith
Life is too short…
“Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.” Charlotte Bronte (Jane Eyre)

Offering affirmation
True friendship
“Only friendliness produces friendship. And we must look far deeper into the soul of man for the thing that produces friendliness.” G.K. Chesterton

Spiritual horseflies
Perseverance
“In everything worth having, even in every pleasure, there is a point of pain or tedium that must be survived, so that the pleasure may revive and endure… all human vows, laws and contracts are so many ways of surviving with success this breaking point, this instant of potential surrender.” G.K. Chesterton
