Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.



.....The human condition is that we are individuals in relationship, and there are tensions between individuality and relatedness. A humanist spirituality is not one of complete dependence, nor of complete independence -- neither condition can be defended as primary. Rather, a humanist spirituality is one of interdependence.


......All of the places of our lives are sanctuaries; some of them just happen to have steeples. And all of the people in our lives are saints; it is just that some of them have day jobs and most will never have feast days named for them.



...Energy conveys to us the idea of motion and activity. Inside a living organism we see a source of power, which by some manner is released in terms of movement.... Life is energy... it is the creator or initiator of movement change, development. We are different from moment to moment because the life principle is at work with us.... The spirit of humanity, like the forces of nature, and like the physical life, is at bottom energy.... Spiritual life, therefore, is just as much a development out of what has gone before in the evolutionary process as physical life is; which means that the origin of spiritual life is from within.

In the arms of an Angel she gently lay
Soft caress of down and feathers upon her face
Safe protected without care
nestled in Heaven's grace

In the arms of an Angel she was lifted
beyond the stars in the night sky
In moonlight and moonbeams she was set free to fly
From the arms of an Angel she took a leap of faith
not knowing where she would land
In the instant she did so in the moment she let go
the Angel took her hand

In the arms of an Angel
all was forgiven all was released
all pain all sorrow
and the rainbows appeared in the sky
with a promise of a bright tomorrow

In the arms of an Angel
she wept those unshed tears
for the forgotten dreams of childhood years

In the arms of an Angel she flew
into the sky the heavens so blue
Spirit it lifted her higher
and her soul it did sing
and the gift of compassion love understanding
to her the Angels did bring