True friends

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.  

~Elisabeth Foley

Clover

It's all I have to bring today –

This, and my heart beside –

This, and my heart, and all the fields –

And all the meadows wide –

Be sure you count –

should I forget

Some one the sum could tell –

This, and my heart, and all the Bees

Which in the Clover dwell.
--Emily Dickinson

A very small field

"We cultivate a very small field for Christ, but we love it, knowing that God does not require great achievements but a heart that holds back nothing for self."
-- St. Rose Philippine Duchesne

(Happy birthday, Emilie!)

Time enough

“The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.”

--Rabindranath Tagore

One word

"One word or a pleasing smile is often enough to raise up a saddened and wounded soul."
--Saint Therese of Lisieux

Good people

"What a great favor God does to those He places in the company of good people!"
-Saint Teresa of Avila

The Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

"All glory be to Thee, Jesus, born of the Virgin, with the Father and the Holy Spirit for ever and ever. Amen.
The Holy Mother of God is lifted up on high, above the choirs of angels into the kingdom of Heaven."
--from First Vespers for the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.