A Beautiful Story With Out Any Words

Thought For Life

No one can go back and make a brand new start.

Anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.

God didn’t promise days without pain, laughter, without sorrow, sun,

without rain, but He did promise strength for the day, comfort for the tears,

and light for the way.

Dare to Imagine

When people find out that I competed in the Olympics, they assume I’ve always  been an accomplished athlete. But it isn’t true. I was not the strongest, or the fastest, and I didn’t learn the quickest. For me, becoming an Olympian was not developing a gift of natural athletic ability, but was, literally, an act of will.

Start Where You Stand

~unknown author

Start where you stand and never mind the past,
The past won’t help you in beginning new,
If you have left it all behind at last
Why, that’s enough, you’re done with it, you’re through;
This is another chapter in the book,
This is another race that you have planned,
Don’t give the vanished days a backward look,
Start where you stand.

A GIFT FROM MY DAD

I have a special box. It’s a little wooden box with two small, shiny handles and a tiny padlock. It’s simple — no fancy engravings, no high-gloss finish, no felt-covered bottom. The edges don’t fit together well, the hinges on the lid have begun to squeak.  But it’s my box, and every now and again, I take the small key and unlock the padlock. As I raise the lid, the box releases its special memories, and the memories take me back to another time and another place.