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More Upbeat and Inspirational
We have fun around here. This is Caidi dressed in her borrowed Panda costume for Halloween 1997.
If you click on the line, you will be at the subject.
Be an angel
Being satisfied with what you have
Friendship
God is Love
Steps to happiness
Potential splendors
Ways to make a perfect yearToday in our paper down here (Florida Today, Gannett News) Dinah Eng, a Chinese-American columnist whose columns I generally love, wrote a column headlined Practice being angels for each other's needs. She began by saying while visiting a church, she held the hand of a woman crying next to her. Turns out Dinah was staying at the hotel the woman worked at.
Here's a quote:
"....The joy in making such connections is recognizing that we are all angels for each other.
"This holiday season, wherever you are, take time to see the goodness in your soul, and others. Lend an ear to someone who needs to talk. Share a funny story with a stranger. Do something you always wanted to do, but were too scared to try. Practice accepting the joy you really deserve.
"Know that no matter what's going on in your life, you are not alone.
"Love surrounds you.
"Wisdom lies within you.
"And God's moment is now."
Remember that things are happening to your referral whether you know it yet or not. This is happening and will happen.
God bless! Top.
Being satisfied with what you have
I love what I have, and I have what I love. Violet Ker Seymour, from a friend of Karin's told to Karin 8-8-96. Top.
No birth certificate is issued when a friendship is born. There is nothing tangible. There is just a feeling that your life is different an that your capacity to love and care has miraculously been enlarged without any effort on your part. It’s like having a tiny apartment and somebody moves in with you, but instead of becoming cramped and crowded, the space expands, and you discover rooms you never knew you had until your friend moved in with you. Steve Tesich, in a speech, Reader’s Digest Jan 98 p 13. Top.
"He is the Good, the unchangeable, overflowing fountain of good that sends forth nothing but good to all eternity. He is the Love itself, the unmixed, unmeasurable Love, doing nothing but from love, giving nothing but gifts of love to everything that He has made; requiring nothing of all his creatures but the spirit and fruits of that love which brought them into being. Oh, how sweet is this contemplation of the height and depth of the riches of divine Love! With what attraction must it draw every thoughtful man to return love for love to this overflowing fountain of boundless goodness." William Law, an English clergyman in the 1700s, wrote this of God, quoted in Anne Fremantle, ed., The Protestant Mystics, 1964 p119. Top.
Everybody Knows:
You can't be all things to all people.
You can't do all things at once.
You can't do all things equally well.
You can't do all things better than everyone else.
Your humanity is showing just like everyone else's.So:
You have to find out who you are, and be that.
You have to decide what comes first, and do that.
You have to discover your strengths, and use them.
You have to learn not to compete with others,
Because no one else is in the contest of *being you*.
Then:
You will have learned to accept your own uniqueness.
You will have learned to set priorities and make decisions.
You will have learned to live with your limitations.
You will have learned to give yourself the respect that is due.
And you'll be a most vital mortal.Dare To Believe:
That you are a wonderful, unique person.
That you are a once-in-all-history event.
That it's more than a right, it's your duty, to be who you are.
That life is not a problem to solve, but a gift to cherish.
And you'll be able to stay one up on what used to get you down.
author unknown Top."...we see what was truly remarkable about Wordsworth's 'high powers of imagination': He was able to perceive the potential splendors in the ordinary particulars of daily life." From a review by Merle Rubin CSM. Top.
If I had my life to live over again, I'd smile more and worry less...
I'd spend more time making others happy...
I'd think more on my blessings instead of my problems...
I'd take more time to listen to a child's words and hear them...
I would care more about mankind and less about the dirty dishes in the sink...
I'd eat more cake and ice cream and less beans and potatoes...
I'd take more picnics and watch the butterflies flutter through the breeze...
I'd listen to the birds sing...
I'd take long walks with a dear friend...
I'd walk in the summer rain and let the water cool my face...
I would go to the beach and watch the waves roll to the shore and stand amazed in God's magnitude...
I'd climb more mountains, pick more wild flowers, watch more sunsets, and look for more rainbows...
I'd walk barefoot in the park, take more vacations, and relax in a
hammock on a warm summer day...
You see, life's too short to let it pass you by -- Life has many
blessings -- All we must do is find them.Author unknown Top.
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