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A PRAYER FOR THE DAYS OF THE WEEKFrom my Sister-in-law, Janice, in Mississippi
Monday - Wash DayLord, help me wash away all my selfishness and vanity,
so I may serve you with perfect humility through the week ahead.
Tuesday - Ironing Day
Dear Lord, help me iron out all the wrinkles of prejudice
I have collected through the years
so that I may see the beauty in others.
Wednesday - Mending Day
O God, help me mend my ways so I will not set a bad example for
others.
Thursday - Cleaning Day
Lord Jesus, help me to dust out all the many faults
I have been hiding in the secret corners of my heart.
Friday-Shopping Day
O God, give me the grace to shop wisely so I may purchase
eternal happiness for myself and all others in need of love.
Saturday - Cooking Day
Help me, my Savior, to brew a big kettle of brotherly love
and serve it with clean, sweet bread of human kindness.
Sunday - The Lord's Day
O God, I have prepared my house for you.
Please come into my heart as my honored guest so I may
spend the day and the rest of my life in your presence.
THE RULES FOR BEING HUMAN
1. YOU WILL RECEIVE A BODY
2. YOU WILL LEARN LESSONS
3. THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, ONLY LESSONS
4. A LESSON IS REPEATED UNTIL LEARNED
5. LEARNING LESSONS DOES NOT END.
6. "THERE" IS NO BETTER THAN "HERE"
7. OTHERS ARE MERELY MIRRORS OF YOU
8. WHAT YOU MAKE OF YOUR LIFE IS UP TO YOU
9. YOUR ANSWERS LIE INSIDE YOU
From my friend, Nancy Deer With Horns
You may like it or hate it but it will be yours
for the entire period this time around.
You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called life.
Each day in this school you will have the opportunity to
learn lessons. You may like the lessons
or think them irrelevant or stupid.
Growth is a process of trial and error: experimentation.
The "failed" experiments are as much a part of the process
as the experiment that ultimately "works".
A lesson will be presented to you in various forms
until you have learned it. When you have learned it,
you can then go to the next lesson.
There is no part of life that does not contain its lesson.
If you are alive, there are lessons to be learned.
When your "there" has become a "here", you will simply obtain
another "there" that will, again, look better than "here."
You cannot love or hate something about another person
unless it reflects to you something you love or hate in
yourself.
You have all the tools and resources you need...
what you do with them is up to you. The choice is yours.
The answers to life's questions lie inside you.
All you need to do is look, listen, and trust.
"Keep Smiling" and "May You Always Feel Loved"
were sent to me by my new friends,
Nancy and Wendell Deer With Horns
from
Deer With Horns Webpage.
May You Always Feel Loved
May you find serenity and tranquility
May the pain you have known
Always know that there are those whose
May you discover enough goodness in others
Remember the sunshine when the storm seems unending.
Teach love to those who know hate,
May the teaching of those you admire become part of you,
Remember, those whose lives you have touched
May you not become too concerned with material matters,
Find time in each day to see the beauty and love
May you see your future as one filled with promise and possibility.
Learn to view everything as a worthwhile experience.
May you find enough inner strength to determine
May You Always Feel Loved
Keep Smiling
As you travel on life's way
Among the world's expensive things
Happiness comes at times to all,
So, when friends have sadness on their face
in a world you may not always understand.
and the conflict you have experienced
ive you the strength to walk through life
facing each new situation with optimism and courage.
love and understanding will always
be there,
even when you feel most alone.
to believe in a world of peace.
May a kind word, a reassuring touch,
a warm smile be yours every day of your life,
and may you give these gifts as well as receive them.
and let that love embrace you as you go into the world.
so that you may call upon them.
and who have touched yours, are always a part of you,
even if the encounters were less than you would have wished.
but instead, place immeasurable value
on the goodness in your heart.
in the world around you.
Realize that each person has limitless abilities,
but each of us is different in our own way.
What you may feel you lack in one regard
may be more than compensated for in another.
What you feel you lack in the present
may become one of your strengths in the future.
your own worth by yourself, and not be dependent
on another's judgements of your accomplishments.
If at times you feel you want to cry,
And life seems such a trial...
Above the clouds there's a bright
blue sky.
So, make your tears a smile.
With its many ups and downs,
Remember it's quite true to say,
"One smile is worth a dozen frowns".
A smile is very cheap,
And when you give a smile away,
You get one back to keep.
But sadness comes unbidden.
And sometimes a few tears must fall
Among the laughter hidden.
And troubles round them pile,
The world will seem a better place
And all because you smiled.
The following story was sent to me by my sister-in-law,
Janice Crisco, from Mississippi. This is one of those stories
that really make us stop and think.
New York City, on a cold day in December. Hopefully, this is
the kind of thing that happens frequently, everywhere.
A little boy about 10 years old was standing before a shoe
store on Broadway, barefooted, peering through the window,
and shivering with cold.
A lady approached the boy and said, "My little fellow,
why are you looking so earnestly in that window?"
"I was asking God to give me a pair of shoes," was the boy's reply.
The lady took him by the hand, went into the store
and asked the clerk to get half a dozen pairs of socks
for the boy. She then asked if he could give her a basin
of water and a towel. He quickly brought them to her.
She took the little fellow to the back part of the store
and, removing her gloves, knelt down, washed his little feet
and dried them with a towel.
By this time the clerk had returned with the socks.
Placing a pair upon the boy's feet, she purchased him a pair of shoes,
and tying up the remaining pairs of socks, gave them to him.
She patted him on the head and said,
"No doubt, my little fellow, you feel more comfortable now?"
As she turned to go, the astonished lad caught her by
the hand,
and looking up in her face, with tears in his eyes,
answered the question with these words...
"Are you God's Wife?
I found the following gentle words on a lovely home page called Cindy's Place.
They are words we can all attempt to live by.
Thank you, Cindy.
Spend every day preparing for the next.
As you reach forward with one hand,accept the advice of those who have gone before you,
and in the same manner reach back with the other hand to those who follow you:
for life is a fragile chain of experiences held together by love.
Take pride in being a strong link in that chain.
Don't ever be afraid to try to make things better.
Discipline yourself, but do not be harsh.
The pleasures of life are yours to be taken.
Share them with others, but always remember that you, too, have earned the right to partake.
Know those who love you; love is the finest of all gifts and is received only to be given.
Embrace those who truly love you; for they are few in a lifetime....
Then return that love tenfold,
radiating it from your heart to fill their lives as sunshine warms the darkest corners of the earth.
Love is a journey,not a destination;
travel it's path daily.
Do this and your troubles will be as fleeting as footprints in the sand.
When loneliness is your companion and all about you seems to be gone, pause and listen,
for the sound of loneliness is silence, and in silence we hear best of all.
Listen well, and your moments of silence
will always be broken by the gentle words of encouragement spoken by those of us who love you.
BY Tim Murtaugh
Love doesn't make the world go around...love is what makes the trip worthwhile.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
What lies behind you and what lies before you are small matters
compared to what lies within you.
If you always do what you have always done, you will always get
what you have always gotten. (Supplied by my computer guru, Richard)
He who seeks happiness by trying to change anything but himself
is doomed to a life of fruitless effort.(Richard, again)
To worry is to put today's sunshine behind tomorrow's clouds.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. (Albert Einstein)
Never deprive someone of hope. It might be all they have.
It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.
The more you need to get something done, the less you should call it work.
Whether you think you can, or think you can't, you're right.
The only time you have to succeed is the last time you try.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
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(reprinted from Ann Lander's)
Throwaway bottles,
Throwaway cans,
Throwaway friendships,
Throwaway fans.
Disposable diapers,
Disposable plates,
Disposable people,
Disposable wastes.
Instant puddings,
Instant rice,
Instant intimacy,
Instant ice.
Plastic dishes,
Plastic laces,
Plastic flowers,
Plastic faces.
Lord of the living,
Transcending our lives,
Infuse us with meaning.
Recycle our lives.
If you sleep in it...make it up.
If you wear it...hang it up.
If you drop it...pick it up.
If you spill it...wipe it up.
If you eat out of it...wash it up.
If you open it...close it up.
If you empty it...fill it up.
If it rings...answer it.
If it howls...feed it.
If it cries...love it.
