The DAILY SPARK Blog

Some people get addicted to chain-smoking their problems.  They spend all day going from sorrow to sorrow.  It doesn't have to be that way.  You can live each day going from joy to joy - like a sunflower that turns to face the sun as it moves across the sky.  It's not about having a problem-free life, but about focusing on the light.  Sunflowers still have shadows, but they are always behind them.  Quote by James Clear 3-2-1 Thursday BlogREFLECTION:Are you addicted to sorrow?You have a choice to go from joy to joy!How can you focus on the light today... the joys... little joys of living?

THE PONT DU GARD AQUEDUCT IN NIMES, FRANCE There are two ways to do anything.  We can do it in order to make life better for me, or we can do it in order to make life better for someone else, as well as for me.  The first way gets the thing done; the second way gets the thing done and makes life a sacrament.Quote by Sister Joan Chittister REFLECTION:Do you do things in order to make life better for you?What can you do today to make life better for you AND someone else?

The grain, indeed, has to die in order to bear fruit and when you dare to stand in your suffering, your life will bear fruit in ways that are far beyond your own predictions or understanding.  Quote by Henri NouwenREFLECTION:Suffering is inescapable.  What suffering have you endured that has harvested some fruit?Is there a suffering you are enduring now that you can consider through a new lens... a benefit beyond your current understanding?