Just keep swimming...

The school year is fast approaching and some new and not so new challenges are ahead.

Here is some wisdom to help along the way.

Usually I look like the one on the left, but sometimes that's me on the right.

The Holy Fathers and the Saints always tell us, "It is important to get up immediately after a fall and to keep on walking toward God." Even if we fall a hundred times a day it does not matter; we must get up and go on walking toward God without looking back. What has happened has happened-it is in the past. Just keep on going, all the while asking for help from God.

Elder Thaddeus of Votovnica