Thom Stecher and Associates is dedicated to assisting schools, educators and students in achieving their highest level of potential. We strive to foster open relationships where the sharing of ideas, philosophy, knowledge, beliefs, values and passion is channeled into creating constructive solutions. We aim to build healthy communities where we grow as instruments for positive change.
You are sacred.
The stress, tension, anxiety, and fear that we experience is the baggage of our life.
Every day, make time to quiet your mind, go within and feel the flow of Divinity.
When you speak and act, remember to the best of your ability, to be understanding.
Practice non-attachment. Let go of your need to control and someone else's need to control.
Cultivate your gifts. Share your joy.
Be kind.
Just be kind.
True friendship is everlasting because true love lives forever. In loving friendship, our hearts speak to each other.
Love continues beyond our physical death. When we love deeply, that love ripples out into the world and touches many other lives.
I still remember with great love, a dear friend who passed four months after high school graduation. That was 52 years ago and I still see his smile and hear his voice.
Love is the essence of our intimacy, trust, and compassion for each other. All those I love live on in my heart and mind.
Let us all have the strength to love each other. Giving and receiving love connects us to the Sacred and brings us to eternity.
"One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in all." Ephesians 4:6
Love and faith respects all people.
Our spiritual family includes every ethnicity, religion, language, and culture.
I pray for the love and faith to respect and be kind to all people.
I communicate acceptance and empathy to all who are different than me.
I am grateful that we are all one in the same spiritual family.
All life and human growth, at some point, asks us to adapt to what is unfamiliar to us. Faith in ourselves and our ability to meet new people and situations is essential for our health, well-being, and growth. Most of us feel safe and secure in our homes. Many of us are comfortable in our own community. When we are in unfamiliar surroundings, we get frightened and feel defensive.
Our faith invites us to adapt and learn when the environment, culture, language, skin color, or food is different.
Our faith is essential in building bridges and closing cultural gaps.
Our faith gives us an opportunity to grow.
Faith is the key to opening our minds and hearts so that we can love each other.
The higher the walls we build, the more we are imprisoned by fear.
If we invest our energy in feeling safe and secure from those we perceive as different, we will paradoxically feel less secure.
Physical walls and psychological walls, which are created to keep the "others" out, also keep us imprisoned in our limited perspective.
The more we invest in security and defensiveness, the greater the cost to our spiritual growth and freedom.
