life s lessons

Define your path and travel on this path.

— Lailah Gifty Akita

For things, I am not thankful for―experiences I would never volunteer to relive―I recognize how they have changed me. My depth of compassion and humility, the sincerity of my empathy and understanding, and the duration of my patience have all been refined by bitter suffering. I thank God for the lessons learned. I am a better person for it, but I still abhor those awful trials.

— Richelle E. Goodrich

Little Joe was still behind him. Eli could feel it. He wanted to look back, but he couldn’t. The tears were too close. If he were Fancy, he’d turn around and kick and buck and moo and do just about anything to keep his calf near. But Eli wasn’t Fancy; he was a farmer.

— Sandra Neil Wallace

We live that we might have experience; that through it, we might gain wisdom, compassion, faith, and inner strength.

— Richelle E. Goodrich

When you have acceptance of who you are there is no need to discuss your past.

— Mark Donnelly