The Noel Letters

Humility is the power to admit that you may be wrong. Admitting to false beliefs is not weakness, it is the first step on the path to truth. And make no mistake, there is no such thing as individual truth, only individual perception. Perception is subjective, but truth isn’t.

Life, to be fully lived, must be lived free. The key to freedom is forgiveness. Forgiveness is a virtue often misunderstood. It is not to close our eyes to wrongs, rather to truly open them and see the wider picture. Forgiveness is release—to unlock the cage of another’s folly to set ourselves free. To not forgive is to chain oneself to people and circumstances of the past. In doing so,

In the end, and, if this is, indeed, my end, remember this: Christmas is the story of a Father reaching out to His children. Nothing more. Nothing less.

We can bemoan what we have lost, or we can be grateful to have been blessed with something to mourn.

grateful. To live each day in gratitude is to live in power. Gratitude is the opposite of despair

Life's book is written on the heart.

Forgiveness is release — to unlock the cage of another’s folly to set ourselves free. To not forgive is to chain oneself to people and circumstances of the past. In doing so, our past becomes our future.

Those who fail to plan are planning to fail.

To avoid love because of the possibility of losing it is like poisoning ourselves to avoid being murdered. Tabula

If the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children. —Madeleine L’Engle

Take a good book to bed with you—books do not snore. —Thea Dorn

between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.’ ” She looked up.