This is a thread about gaining and maintaining strength for our wonderful calling, Homemaking. As we care for our own health, we grow more capable and competent to care for our families, our neighbors and our communities. As we become more effective, our hopes for ourselves and those we care about get the best chance!
Several of us said we felt stronger in July! I remembered that collection of strength quotes we gathered here several years ago - the kinds of strength we need and how we gain strength. Also the frustration of roadblocks that make us detour to maintain it!
Which thought speaks to you? (I added one from Williams)
"Always remember, there is more strength in you than you ever realized or even imagined. Certainly nothing can keep you down if you are determined to get on top of things and stay there."
-- Norman Vincent Peale
"Somehow I kept my head above water. I relied on the discipline, character, and strength that I had started to develop as that little girl in her first swimming pool."
-- Esther Williams
" It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do."
-- Elbert Hubbard
"Our real problem, then, is not our strength today;
it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow. "
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Each of us should do something every day
That we do not want to do
But we know we should do,
To strengthen our backbone
And put iron in our soul."
-- Henry Hitt Crane