“If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough.”

– Oprah Winfrey

“It’s the things we play with and the people who help us play that make a great difference in our lives.”

– Fred Rogers

“If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do keep moving forward.”

– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul—and sings the tunes without the words—and never stops at all.”

– Emily Dickinson

“Try to keep your soul always in peace and quiet, always ready for whatever our Lord may wish to work in you.”

– Ignatius of Loyola

As this tender year comes to a close, we pray you know the truth of your belovedness and the warmth of love that surrounds you. Merry Christmas from your friends at Charis Collective!

‘“What day is it?” asked Pooh. 

‘It’s today,’ squeaked Piglet.

‘My favorite day,’ said Pooh.” 

― A.A. Milne

“I have a lot of people in my life, and I think there's something key: the thing that leads to intimacy and relationship and connection is tenderness.”

— Father Greg Boyle

“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

— Antoine De Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince

“Look at everything as though you are seeing it either for the first or last time, then your time on earth will be filled with glory.”

― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

“It is not happiness that makes us grateful” but “gratefulness that makes us happy”

– Brother David Steindl-Rast

“If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.” 

– Fred Rogers

“There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called Yesterday and the other is called Tomorrow. Today is the right day to Love, Believe, Do and mostly Live.”

― Dalai Lama XIV

“To live will be an awfully big adventure.”

― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.”

― J.R.R. Tolkien

“There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither.”

– Alan Cohen

“Godly behavior is not so much rule-keeping as it is relationship-keeping”

– Ron Bruner

"Grief is not a disorder, a disease or a sign of weakness. It is an emotional, physical and spiritual necessity, the price you pay for love. The only cure for grief is to grieve."

— Earl Grollman

“When you rest, you catch your breath and it holds you up, like water wings…”

— Anne Lamott

“Grace means that all of your mistakes now serve a purpose instead of serving shame.”

– Brene Brown