“I am more stretch marks than the skin, more growth than shame.”

I must learn to separate my bad days from who I am – we are not the same.

Embrace your own reality.

And as the rain fell and the birds kept singing, I realized that freedom is a choice.

Though thunder clouds hover tight like a cage, the sun never stops rising on the ones who chase healing.

Wildflowers need water, so I too must not chase away the rain.

Drowning in grey days rising up into blue, I will choose to love myself in all colors.

Some days I am okay, and some days I am not but always, I am worth every struggle.

A note to all that yearns within me: every breath is a possibility.

And although the strands of your soul feel weary today, your worth remains the same – you are graceful amidst pain.

Wherever you are let life find you.

Nature has become a part of me when I am lifeless, I go to her – she is life.

I am breathing in light when light is present. I am choosing to let joy in.

I am giving the present the opportunity to hold just as much joy as the past.

Through the haze, I am journeying. To the light, I am clinging.

I am welcoming a new phase of life with confidence in my potential to progress in spite of my fears.

Though I crave roots grown deep, the truth is I’m something of a wanderer.

My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

Where you are now, is not where you will always be.

He who lives only unto himself withers and dies, while he who forgets himself in the service of others grows and blossoms.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

Money… is like a beautiful thoroughbred horse – very powerful & always in action, but unless this horse is trained when very young, it will be an out-of-control & dangerous animal when it grows to maturity.

You know, I grew up in two American internment camps, and at that time I was very young.

Faith grows when it is planted in the fertile soil of God’s Word.

Hatred conquers the sea in which is growing thee them tiny pearls struggling a little trying to solve the final riddle.