{"author":"Connie Kerbs","author_id":"Connie+Kerbs","total_quotes":36,"quotes":[{"text":"…while God does listen, knowing what He knows about us, and how well we take disappointment, often he'll find a way to save us all the heartache and trouble we unwittingly plead and beseech and continually pester him for; ever a loving, wise Father, he will just simply answer, “no,” by default, by not answering “yes.","author":"Connie Kerbs","tags":["answered-prayers","disappointment","god","heartache","heavenly-father","prayer","unanswered-prayer"],"id":4037,"author_id":"Connie+Kerbs"},{"text":"While some select sobering situations may be unlaughable, there are few circumstances that humor, subtle or candid, can't improve. Afterall, remembering not to take ourselves or others too seriously can put a lot of things into perspective. Laughter is healing. Laughter creates bonds and forges enduring friendships. A healthy sense of humor can quell almost any overwhelming anxiety, and can quench the fires of fury and fear unlike anything else when appropriate. Even more so when not.Connie Kerbs.","author":"Connie Kerbs","tags":["anxiety","attitude","fear","friendship","humor","laughter"],"id":19499,"author_id":"Connie+Kerbs"},{"text":"The importance of cultivating assumption of the best intentions in others cannot be over-estimated. Fostering this principal of, 'goodness of intent,” and committing to seeing others and the world through this lens makes for a successful, happy field of vision. This enables us to put our focus and energy to positive, productive outcomes. It lends to a spirit of cooperation and encouragement which is highly effective and satisfying for most people most of the time. That being said, these 'rose colored glasses,' as vibrant and pleasing as they are, must not become an excuse to look the other way when something needs a different focus, or fixed. We must not let them become blinders which are obviously ineffective, often negative, and occasionally dangerous.","author":"Connie Kerbs","tags":["best-in-others","cooperation","dangerous","effectiveness","focus","good-intentions","negative","positivity","rose-colored-glasses"],"id":20760,"author_id":"Connie+Kerbs"},{"text":"In the most surreal, the most joyful, the most beautiful, the most intense, the most alive moments of life, you are absorbed into the horizon which is at its most invisible, elusive, perfect blend of sky and sea.","author":"Connie Kerbs","tags":["alive","beauty","experience","horizon","joy","life","natural-world","surreal"],"id":27870,"author_id":"Connie+Kerbs"},{"text":"To brim with hope, to cultivate just one small kernel of faith, to sport a touch of confidence, and to have one’s innate material embedded with layers of feisty are all that makes for the plucky kind of courage that means anything in the end.","author":"Connie Kerbs","tags":["confidence","courage","faith","fiesty","hope","overcoming","plucky"],"id":30878,"author_id":"Connie+Kerbs"},{"text":"Three, 300, or 3,000 - these are the number of unknown days, a week, a year, or a decade, each far too precious little and yet, poignantly too much at the same time, to see an irrevocably declined loved one languish and suffer. That fear-ridden, irreversible release lingers in the doorway, but hesitates for reasons we don't understand, leaving us to weep with a mixture of angst and gratitude all at the same time. It is finally ushered all the way in, to comfort and carry our loved one to that Better Place. When the time finally comes, we can be enveloped in a warm cloak of long-awaited acceptance and peace that eases our own pain. It quiets the grief which has moaned inside of us, at least some, every single one of those bittersweet days, weeks... Or years.","author":"Connie Kerbs","tags":["acceptance","aging-parents","bittersweet-life","death","death-and-dying","grief-and-loss","loved-ones","peace","suffering","terminal-illness"],"id":35401,"author_id":"Connie+Kerbs"},{"text":"Motherhood (and fatherhood) is one of the most important, while at the same time being one of the most long-time, unappreciated roles we may ever find ourselves in. Add to that, it seems at times to be taken as much for granted by our society at large, as by the developing young we pour our all into. Quality parenting is also wrought with joy and satisfaction at every turn, being one of the most rewarding, and fulfilling experiences we have the opportunity to know in this thing we call the human condition.","author":"Connie Kerbs","tags":["family","fatherhood","fulfillment","human-condition","motherhood","parenting","satisfaction"],"id":65656,"author_id":"Connie+Kerbs"},{"text":"The most empowering, important belief is the belief in yourself, your capabilities, your strength, your choice, and your most infinite, most divine, most beautiful worth.","author":"Connie Kerbs","tags":["choice-and-attitude","divinity-within","empowerment","inner-beauty","self-esteem","self-worth"],"id":87223,"author_id":"Connie+Kerbs"},{"text":"Experience says you just can’t do it. Pride will say it’s just not worth it. Reason says it’s just too difficult, and logic says it’s too expensive. All while aspiration quickens our heartbeat, faith whispers, “you can do it,” inspiration says you will find a way, and hope fills our soul with the songs of never giving up. The satisfaction of even small success spurs us on, and the fear and thrill of it all fuels the flames of our dreams, ever brightening our path.","author":"Connie Kerbs","tags":["dreams","hope","inspirational"],"id":88302,"author_id":"Connie+Kerbs"},{"text":"The most important vision one can be enlightened with is a glimpse of our own true, inherent divinity, an inkling of our eternal potential, our marvelous capabilities, our unbreakable strength, our enduring choice, and our infinite, divine, worth. To feel a permeating sense of the awe-inspiring inexplicable, indescribable Love and its Light burning ever bright and warm, like an eternal Ember at our deepest core, is a life-enhancing, defining and as positively, mind- altering and fulfilling of an experience as there ever was. It is nothing less than a miracle, a glorious paradigm shift...And that’s just the beginning.","author":"Connie Kerbs","tags":["light","love"],"id":127872,"author_id":"Connie+Kerbs"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":36,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}