Tending Roses (Tending Roses #1)

by Lisa Wingate

What we cannot change, we must endure without bitterness.

Sometimes we cannot raise our chins and see eye to eye, so we must bow our heads and have faith in one another.

“We are like this lilac tree. We cannot change where God has put us. If we are to bloom at all, we must bloom where we have been planted.”

Your children are the greatest gift God will give to you, and their souls the heaviest responsibility He will place in your hands. Take time with them, teach them to have faith in God. Be a person in whom they can have faith. When you are old, nothing else you’ve done will have mattered as much.”

Pride and resentment do not create bread that will rise. Bread, like a good life, can only be created by honest measure, patience, warmth, and time.

Sometimes we must try to view the actions of those around us with forgiveness. We must realize that they are going on the only road they can see.

Within each of us, there is an empty room, and when we open the door, light flows in. The wider we open it, and the longer we leave it open, the brighter our souls become.

“The secret to a happy life is not in getting what you want. It is in learning to want what you get.