Quotes from June Cotner

Drop Thy still dews of quietness, Till all our strivings cease; Take from our souls the strain and stress, And let our ordered lives confess The beauty of Thy peace.

We have so much to be thankful for when we remember our reasons for gratitude—the blessings we may take for granted, the blessings we would miss bitterly if they vanished.

We ask Your help in remembering to practice an attitude of gratitude today and every day. —suzanne c. cole

Magical things happen every day, if we allow it. Think of daylight, of the stars at night, a flower. A dandelion is a miracle. PAMELA TRAVERS (1899–1996)

WELCOMING ANGELS In the arduous simplicity of this moment I open my heart, mind, and soul to stillness. In the deeper quiet I sense the greater Life that is my life. I do not live only; I am lived. I do not breathe only; I am breathed. I am not only the one I appear to be but also the One who appears as me. —rabbi rami m. shapiro

LISTEN Listening to your heart, finding out who you are, is not simple. It takes time for the chatter to quiet down. In the silence of "not doing" we begin to know what we feel. If we listen and hear what is being offered, then anything in life can be our guide. Listen. —author unknown

THIS BODY Happy, I listen to the tinny sounds of the great music I still hear. Dazzling clear pure upper tones have disappeared but I am alive, silvery and achy—like Beethoven I listen with my imagination not my senses to the cascading notes that play on the cosmos, I listen with my heart and dance to the bliss I would never have known without this human body. JANINE CANAN

RENEWAL Imagine not that life is all doing. Stillness, too, is life; and in that stillness the mind cluttered with busyness quiets, the heart reaching to win rests, and we hear the whispered truths of God. —rabbi rami m. shapiro

the way life will when we learn what to hold, what to let go

Art is the imagination completing its mission here on earth. —PAULA TIMPSON