All things beautiful

quarta-feira, 10 de agosto de 2022

Pearls and Lace

terça-feira, 9 de agosto de 2022

People hide their incompetence behind their authority.’

Jean was out walking with his grandfather in Paris.

At one point, they saw a shoemaker being insulted by a customer who claimed that there was something wrong with his shoes.

The shoemaker calmly listened to his complaints, apologised and promised to make good the mistake.

Jean and his grandfather stopped to have a coffee.

At the next table, the waiter asked a man if he would mind moving his chair slightly so that he could get by.

The man erupted in a torrent of abuse and refused to move.

‘Never forget what you have seen,’ said Jean’s grandfather.

‘The shoemaker accepted the customer’s complaint, while this man next to us did not want to move.

‘People who perform some useful task are not bothered if they hear some critics to their work, but people who do no useful work at all always think themselves very important and hide their incompetence behind their authority.’

segunda-feira, 8 de agosto de 2022

Fashion Patterns

domingo, 7 de agosto de 2022

Grace

Homebaking - If baking is any labor at all, it's a labor of love. A love that gets passed from generation to generation. Regina Brett

How to Win at Life

sábado, 6 de agosto de 2022

Tea Time, make beautiful and pleasurable.

Here's a dozen of my favorite things never to apologize for:

1) Never apologize for acting on your instincts.
2) Never apologize for being passionate.
3) Never apologize for being smart.
4) Never apologize for demanding respect.
5) Never apologize for saying no.
6) Never apologize for not embracing someone else's agenda.
7) Never apologize for disagreeing.
8) Never apologize for your faith.
9) Never apologize for your own sense of creativity.
10) Never apologize for ordering dessert.
11) Never apologize for being funny.
12) Never apologize for living your truth.

Every one of us casts a shadow.

There hangs about us, a sort of a strange, indefinable something, which we call personal influence--that has its effect on every other life on which it falls. It goes with us wherever we go. It is not something we can have when we want to have it--and then lay aside when we will, as we lay aside a garment. It is something that always pours out from our lives . . . as light from a lamp, as heat from flame, as perfume from a flower.

The ministry of personal influence is something very wonderful. Without being conscious of it, we are always impressing others by this strange power that exudes from us. Others watch us--and their thinking and actions are modified by our influence."

"Be very careful, then, how you live--not as unwise but as wise, making the most of every opportunity." Ephesians 5:15-16

~J. R. Miller, "The Shadows We Cast"