Lacrosse every day this week, and the to-do list never seems to get shorter…
“Dear brothers and sisters, when troubles of any kind come your way, consider it an opportunity for great joy. For you know that when your faith is tested, your endurance has a chance to grow. So let it grow, for when your endurance is fully developed, you will be perfect and complete, needing nothing.” James 1:1-4.
I was struggling with what to fill this space with, only thinking about the to-do list I began to write about, cracked the Bible looking for inspiration, and look what I found. Today will be a good day.
Typically, Lunch Box Quotes are notes I include in the kids’ lunches every day. Number 1 gets a text, and 2-4 get handwritten napkins, but today, everyone gets a text except for Number 4, who goes to school later and gets a note today.
Visual credits to, Featured Image: @Xhej__
Quotes: @DrEliDavid @arealmofwonder @athenaeumbc @Gentleman_Ways
Quotes:
1. “When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn’t become a king. The palace becomes a circus.” – Turkish proverb
2. “— These people have learned not from books, but in the fields, in the wood, on the river bank. Their teachers have been the birds themselves, when they sang to them, the sun when it left a glow of crimson behind it at setting, the very trees, and wild herbs.” – Anton Chekhov
3. “Fires will be kindled to testify that two and two make four. Swords will be drawn to prove that leaves are green in summer.” – G.K. Chesterton
4. “No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
Bonus Quote: “The more humble and obedient to God a man is, the more wise and at peace he will be in all that he does.” – Thomas Kempis
Sources:
“When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn’t become a king. The palace becomes a circus.”
—Turkish proverb pic.twitter.com/JzkDy7cvUK— Dr. Eli David (@DrEliDavid) April 16, 2026
“— These people have learned not from books, but in the fields, in the wood, on the river bank. Their teachers have been the birds themselves, when they sang to them, the sun when it left a glow of crimson behind it at setting, the very trees, and wild herbs.”
~ Anton Chekhov pic.twitter.com/9OR0WL5UYc— Cian McCarthy (@arealmofwonder) April 20, 2026
“Fires will be kindled to testify that two and two make four. Swords will be drawn to prove that leaves are green in summer.”
— G.K. Chesterton pic.twitter.com/y56lFr3QIc
— Athenaeum Book Club (@athenaeumbc) April 16, 2026
“No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche pic.twitter.com/ChJnbinwb9
— Achilles (@Xhej__) April 20, 2026
“The more humble and obedient to God a man is, the more wise and at peace he will be in all that he does.”
-Thomas Kempis pic.twitter.com/pigLZpXayE
— The Ways of A Gentleman (@Gentleman_Ways) April 19, 2026