Patience

The principle part of faith is patience.

--George MacDonald

Gratitude

Gratitude is the memory of the heart. 

 --Jean Baptiste Massieu

Gifts

To be rich in admiration and free from envy, to rejoice greatly in the good of others, to love with such generosity of heart that your love is still a dear possession in absence or unkindness - these are the gifts which money cannot buy.

--Robert Louis Stevenson

Safe

Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away.

--George Eliot

I will always sing

 I will always sing, even if I must gather my roses in the very midst of thorns – and the longer and sharper the thorns the sweeter shall be my song. – St. Thérèse of Lisieux

Feast of the Precious Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ

We beseech Thee, therefore, help Thy servants, whom Thou hast redeemed with Thy Precious Blood.

Waiting

. . . But the faith and the hope and the love are all in the waiting.

--T.S. Eliot