December 17, 2011 (Love is the key)

Love is the golden key
that fits all locks!
Photo by Lee Keefer
(trip to Haiti)

“Many dull, unsusceptible ears,
when other charmers have
failed to charm, have been arrested
and won by the music of kindness.
By it . . .
old-age renews its youth,
sick pillows are smoothed,
burdens are eased,
tears are turned into smiles,
dirges are turned into songs.”
- John MacDuff

Show kindness and practice goodness.

“Cold words freeze people,
and hot words scorch them,
and bitter words make them bitter,
and wrathful words make them wrathful.
Kind words also produce their image on men’s souls;
and a beautiful image it is.
They smooth, and quiet, and comfort the hearer.”
- Blaise Pascal