Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.
If we threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else’s, we’d grab ours back.
God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you did or didn’t do.
Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy. To do nothing and have it count for something. To lie in the grass and count the stars. To sit on a branch and study the clouds.
When in doubt, take the next step.
Sometimes you have to disconnect to stay connected. Remember the old days when you had eye contact during a conversation? When everyone wasn’t looking down at a device in their hands? We’ve become so focused on that tiny screen that we forget the big picture, the people right in front of us.
Choice, not chance, determines your destiny. It’s up to you to decide what you are worth, how you matter, and how you make meaning in the world. No one else has your gifts – your set of talents, ideas, interests. You are an original. A masterpiece.
It’s scary to make major changes, but we usually have enough courage to take the next right step. One small step and then another. That’s what it takes to raise a child, to get a degree, to write a book, to do whatever it is your heart desires.
It takes tough love to order kids to step away from the iPhone or iPad during dinner or to take the devices away if they’re interrupting and interfering with everyone else’s pleasure at a movie, concert or other public event.
When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.
No one is in charge of your happiness except you.
Forgive everyone everything.
Even if you have nothing in your wallet, nothing can keep you from having a great summer. You can listen to crickets sing you to sleep, trace the Big Dipper, breathe in the stars, run through a sprinkler, host a cartwheel contest in the front yard.
When it comes to going after what you love in life, don’t take no for an answer.
If baking is any labor at all, it’s a labor of love. A love that gets passed from generation to generation.
No one really has a bad life. Not even a bad day. Just bad moments.
Take a deep breath. It calms the mind.
Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere.
Get rid of anything that isn’t useful, beautiful or joyful.
It’s OK to get angry with God. He can take it.