The DAILY SPARK Blog

If you live a life of watching and waiting, you will know what kind of call you have.  You are not called to solve every problem in the world.  Every human being has a call.  I work with mentally handicapped people.  Sometimes I spend hours with one person, and we barely speak.  Does that help people in Bosnia, does that help people in Northern Ireland, does it help people in Somalia?  I don't know, but I think it does.  I think that when I am faithful to one person who is given to me, when I am convinced that 's my vocation, then I am doing more than when I am anxiously trying to put out all the fires all over the world.  And that gives me peace.Quote by Henri NouwenREFLECTION:Are you busy putting out fires - constantly doing?What if helping/serving one person - being fully present is enough?

The future doesn't care whether you're excited or filled with trepidation.  It arrives regardless.  What an opportunity.  Or a threat.  Up to us.Quote by Seth GodinREFLECTION:How do you view your future... excitement or trepidation?How can you turn this into an opportunity to look forward to it with excitement?

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it.  That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing, and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.  Quote by Jiddu KrishnamurtiREFLECTION:Are you living a wholistic life experiencing and engaging with the full spectrum of living - intellectual, creative and emotional pursuits and the challenges of suffering? How are you living?