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We Seem to forget sometimes who we are and what our ture soul is really about.

Come Sit for a Spell

Recently I have been in a position to really think about these things. In our growth we try out one thing and when it doesnt work we toss it out and try again.

It wasnt long ago that I had about given up and wanted my children to know what I believed in my soul and what I had attempted to live by. Kind of leave them a spiritual legacy so I will share it with you. I didn't fullfill my beliefs at all times but they are firm in my heart and I believe them to be true. So let me share.

AFTER A WHILE After a while you learn the subtle difference between holding a hand and sharing a life . And you learn that love doesn't mean possession.... and company doesn't mean security and loneliness is universal.. And you learn that kisses aren't contracts and presents aren't promises.. and you begin to accept your defeats with your head up and your eyes open.. with the grace of a woman not the grief of a child.... And you learn to build your hope on today as the future has a way of falling apart in mid-flight.. because tomorrow's ground can be too uncertain for plans.... yet each step taken in a new direction creates a path toward the promise of a brighter dawn.. And you learn that even sunshine burns if you get too much.... So you plant your own garden and nourish your own soul instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.. And you learn that love, true love, always has joys and sorrows seems ever present, yet is never quite the same.. becoming more than love and less than love so difficult to define.... And you learn that through it all you really can endure.. that you really are strong that you do have value.. and you learn to grow, with every goodbye you learn. Author unknown~~ ~~

There is a comfort in the strength of love; t'will make a thing endurable which else would overset the brain, or break the heart. ~~William Wordsworth

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved. ~Victor Hugo ~

~ On whom should I lean, if not on you? My weary mind turns for refreshment to the thought of you as a dusty traveller might sink onto a soft and grassy bank. ~~~Gustave Flaubert, 1853

~You will find, as you look back uopn your life, that the moments that stand out, the moments when you have really lived, are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of Love. ~~~Henry Drummond

Love seeks one thing: the good of the one loved. It leaves all secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therfore, is it's own reward. ~~~Thomas Merton

Love is what you've been through with somebody. ~~~James Thurber

Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel you've done a permanent job.

The bridge you burn now may be the one you later have to cross.

Love has it's reasons which reason does not understand. ~~~Blaise Pascal

The way to love someone is to lightly run your fingers over that person's soul until you find a crack, and then gently pour your love into that crack. ~~~Keith Miller

When God measures a man, he puts the tape around the heart instead of the head.

1 Samuel 16:7b...the Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.

Patience is the ablity to keep your motor idling when you feel like stripping your gears.

Proverbs 16:32 He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.

Decisions can take you out of God's will but never out of His reach.

2 Timothy 2:13 (NIV) If we are faithless, He will remain faithful, for he cannot disown himself.

Falling down doesn't make you a failure, but staying down does.

Proverbs 24:16a For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again...

The cure of crime is not the electric chair, but in the high chair.

Proverbs 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

1 Timothy 6:6,7 But godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we carry nothing out.

Friends

1 Corinthians 13:13 (NIV) And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

Corinthians 13:7, 8 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. Charity never faileth...

Romans 12:18 If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.

The measure of a man is not how great his faith is but how great his love is.

Hebrews 12:2 (NASB) Fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

God can heal a broken heart, but he has to have all the pieces.

Proverbs 23:26a My son, give me thine heart... The secret of contentment is the realization that life is a gift not a right.

True faith and courage are like a kite an opposing wind raises it higher.

Isaiah 40:31 But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

Excerpts from "God's Little Instruction Book". An inspirational collection of quotes and Scriptures that will motivate you to live a meaningful, productive and happy life.

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I don't know what today will bring, but I know there is beauty to be found in it. Open my eyes, Lord. Don't let me miss even one of the miracles you created just for today.

YESTERDAY

"You shall not go out with haste, . . . for the LORD will go before you, and the God of Israel will be your rear guard" (Isaiah 52:12).
Security from Yesterday. ". . . God requires an account of what is past" (Ecclesianstes 3:15). At the end of the year we turn with eagerness to all that God has for the future, and yet anxiety is apt to arise when we remember our yesterdays. Our present enjoyment of God's grace tends to be lessened by the memory of yesterday's sins and blunders. But God is the God of our yesterdays, and He allows the memory of them to turn the past into a ministry of spiritual growth for our future. God reminds us of the past to protect us from a very shallow security in the present.
Security for Tomorrow. ". . . the LORD will go before you . . ." This is a gracious revelation----that God will send His forces out where we have failed to do so. He will keep watch so that we will not be tripped up again by the same failures, as would undoubtedly happen if He were not our "rear guard." And God's hand reaches back to the past, settling all the claims against our conscience.
Security for Today. "You shall not go out with haste . . ." As we go forth into the coming year, let it not be in the haste of impetuous, forgetful delight, nor with the quickness of impulsive thoughtlessness. But let us go out with the patient power of knowing that the God of Israel will go before us. Our yesterdays hold broken and irreversible things for us. It is true that we have lost opportunities that will never return, but God can transform this destructive anxiety into a constructive thoughtfulness for the future. Let the past rest, but let it rest in the sweet embrace of Christ.

Leave the broken, irreversible past in His hands, and step out into the invincible future with Him.
Received from John R. London

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