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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~~
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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
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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.
Copyright by Honor Books, Inc.
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.
Award gratefully acepted from Angel on January 6, 1998. His site is a must see.
