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  • Weekly Quotation: May 13, 2026: Embracing Who I Am Today

    Weekly Quotation: May 13, 2026: Embracing Who I Am Today

    For your consideration,

    “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”

    – Douglas Adams, author of “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.”

    Embracing where we are today requires a degree of maturity – a perspective on our life’s travels, our ups and downs, our wins and losses, our successes and our mistakes, and a realization that every step was part of a larger purpose. There were times I looked back at my own career and second-guessed nearly every turn I took. Yet my journey back to my faith in Christ has given me a profound understanding of “grace.” It is the grace God extends to me, and the grace I must learn to give myself, acknowledging that being human means being imperfect. Every mistake has been a lesson, shaping me into who I am in this moment. I don’t strive to be “perfect”; instead, I simply pray that each new day finds me more compassionate and wiser than the day before.