You don’t choose your family.  They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.

Desmond Tutu

It is not God who is violent. We are. It is not that God demands suffering of humans. We do. God does not want or need suffering - neither in Jesus nor in us.
-Richard Rohr

The anchor we are searching for is connection, and it is internal.

-Brene Brown. 

The simple act of practicing gratitude disrupts negative thoughts and changes our mindset to see the world in a positive way.

Doug Good Feather