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Learn ...
as if you were going to live
forever.

LIVE ...
as if you were going to die
tomorrow.



We do not remember days ...
we Remember moments.
Make Moments worth Remembering.



Yesterday is history ...
Tomorrow is a mystery ...
but
Today is a Gift.
That's why we call it
the Present.

As children bring their toys
with tears for us to mend,
I brought my broken dreams to God,
because He was my Friend.
But then, instead of leaving Him in Peace
to work alone,
I hung around and tried to help
with ways that were my own.
At last I snatched them back and cried,
"How can You be so slow?"
"My child," He said, "what could I do?
You never did let go."



The difficulties in Life
are intended to make us
Better ... not bitter.



~A heart is not judged by how much you love
but by how much you are loved by others~.

-The Wizard of Oz

Lord, Enter Thou my home with me
Until I enter Thine with Thee.



When you cannot Pray as you would,
Pray as you can.

He still Hears ...



Every charitable act
is a stepping-stone toward heaven.

-Henry Ward Beecher

Somebody did a golden deed,
Somebody proved a friend in need,
Somebody sang a cheerful song,
Somebody smiled the whole day long!
Somebody thought, "Tis Sweet to Live."
Somebody said, "I'm glad to give."
Was that Somebody You?



The river would cease to Sing ...
If God removed the rocks!



O God ...
Help me to worry less about the end of life,
or the terrible things that may happen tomorrow,
so that I may Live to the FULL
each Moment of TODAY!



Yesterday is but today's memory,
And tomorrow is today's dream!

Thinking

If you think you are beaten, you are.
If you think you dare not, you don't.
If you'd like to win but you think you can't,
It's almost a cinch you won't.

If you think you'll lose, you're lost.
For out of the world we find
Success begins with a fellow's will --
It's all in the state of mind.

If you think you're outclassed, you are;
You've got to think high to rise;
You've got to be sure of yourself before
You can ever win a prize.

Life's battles don't always go
To the stronger or faster man;
But sooner or later the man who wins,
Is the one who thinks he can.

-Walter D. Wintle

Men are wise in proportion,
not to their experience,
but to their capacity for experience.



Love God with all your soul and strength,
With all your heart and mind;
And love your neighbor as yourself:
Be faithful, just, and kind.

Deal with another as you'd have
Another deal with you:
What you're unwilling to receive,
Be sure you never do.

-Isaac Watts

Let us, then, be up and doing,
with a Heart for any fate;
still achieving, still pursuing,
learn to labor ... and to wait.

-Henry W. Longfellow

Kindness in words creates Confidence.
Kindness in thinking creates Profoundess.
Kindness in Giving creates LOVE.



Friends, set aside a time each day
To meditate and pray;
Rise to this vantage point with God
Above the clouds of gray.

Above the fog, the sky is clearer
And we have a broader view.
Above the fog, troubles are smaller
And the day much brighter, too.

-Sister Mary Gemma Brunke

You do not find Love by looking for it.
You find Love -by Loving.



Faith is a Confidence so rooted in God,
that no matter how dark the night,
we will Trust to morning.



Every day is a gift from God!
Welcome it Joyously!
Clasp it to you!
Spend it wisely.
Waste none of it in idleness.
Save some for Contemplation.
And when evening comes --
Thank God for His Gift ...
The day you have just lived!



Prayer is the Key of the Morning ...
the Bolt of the Night!



When people are serving,
Life is no longer meaningless.



Sorrow knocked at the door.
Faith answered,
And found no one there.

-Japanese Proverb

A Word

A CARELESS word may kindle strife;
A CRUEL word may wreck a life.
A BITTER word may hate instill;
A BRUTAL word may smite and kill.
A GRACIOUS word may smooth the way;
A JOYOUS word may Light the day.
A TIMELY word may lessen stress;
A LOVING word may heal and Bless.



Faith is to the human spirit
what an Anchor is to a ship
in time of storm.



In times of grief, Remember:
we walk through the Valleys ...
we are not meant to live there.



Happiness is like perfume!
You cannot spray it on others
without getting some on yourself!



The earth has its music
for those who will listen;
Its bright variations
forever abound.
With all of the wonders
that God has bequeathed us,
There's nothing that thrills
like the magic of sound.

-Reginal Holmes

Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise,
Thou canst not tell ... nor yet surmise;
Pass, therefore, not today in vain,
For it will never come again.

-Omar Khayyam

"Peace I leave with you ...
my Peace I give unto you:
not as the world giveth, give I unto you.
Let not your heart be troubled ...
neither let it be afraid ..."
-John 14:27



Quiet my heart, Lord;
make me keenly aware
of the Blessings of Beauty all around me
and continually grateful for
the Confirmation of Your Love
in all of Life.



Walk on a rainbow trail,
walk on a trail of song,
and all about you will be beauty.
There is a way out of every dark mist,
over a rainbow trail.

~Navajo Song~

A day without Prayer
is a day without Blessing,
and a Life without Prayer
is a life without POWER!



A man's True Wealth is the Good he does
in the world.



Afflictions, though they seem severe,
are oft in Kindness Sent:
they fit us for God's Service here,
and are, for Blessings, meant.



Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot Heal ...



Beware of desparate steps.
The darkest day, lived till tomorrow,
will have passed away.

-William Cowper

Teach me to feel that Thou art always nigh;
Teach me the struggles of the soul to bear,
To check the rising doubt, the rebel sigh,
Teach me the Patience
of unanswered Prayer.



"In His Hand is the Life of every living thing
and the Breath of ALL Mankind!"
Job 12:10



My very Best for Jesus
is the least that I can do,
And in His Service I would bring
my steadfast Love and True;
For all that I can render
is not half that is His due,
So help me, Lord, to Honor Thee
in all that I pursue.

Better, Wiser, Happier

Do you wish the world were better?
Let me tell you what to do;
Set a watch upon your actions,
Keep them always straight and true;
Rid your mind of selfish motives;
Let your thoughts be clean and high,
You can make a little Eden
Of the sphere you occupy.

Do you wish the world were wiser?
Well, suppose you make a start,
By accumulating wisdom
In the scrapbook of your heart.
Do not waste one page on folly;
Live to learn, and learn to live.
If you want to give men knowledge
You must get it, ere you give.

Do you wish the world were happy?
Then remember day by day
Just to scatter seeds of kindness
As you pass along the way;
For the pleasures of the many
May be ofttimes traced to one,
As the hand that plants an acorn
Shelters armies from the sun.

-Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Tomorrow may be quite a challenge ...
but it's exciting to think about,
because tomorrow is really in God's Hands!
And GOD is UNlimited!!!

~Prayer~

Dear Lord and Father of mankind,
Forgive our foolish ways!
Reclothe us in our rightful mind,
In purer lives Thy service find,
In deeper reverence, praise.

Drop Thy still dews of quietness,
Till all our strivings cease;
Take from our souls the strain and stress,
And let our ordered lives confess
The beauty of Thy peace.

-John Greenleaf Whittier

Life is not measured by years.
LIFE is measured by Quality ...
the Quality with which it is Lived!



The soul's joy lies in doing.

-Henry Drummond

"The Lord's Compassions fail not!
They are NEW every morning!!!"

-Lamentations 3:22 & 23

The greatest use of life
is to spend it for something
that will outlast it.

-William James

Lives are made of chapters.
After one is written, it cannot be revised.
But we can write a NEW chapter
with each NEW day!



The brook that flows over stones
makes the Sweetest Music!



All I have seen Teaches me to Trust
The Creator for all I have not seen.

Emerson

He answered prayer;
Not in the way I sought ...
Not in the way I thought He ought;
But in His own Good Way (and I could see),
He Answered in the fashion best for me.
And I was glad that I had such a share
In His Parental Love -and Gracious Care,
That He thus answered prayer!



Love wasn't put in your Heart to stay ...
Love isn't Love till you give it away!



Each day is God's Gift to YOU.
Make it Blossom and Grow
into a thing of Beauty!

My Daily Prayer

Dear God, as I begin this day
Let me turn my thoughts to You,
And ask Your help in guiding me
In everything I say and do.

Give me the Patience that I need
To keep my peace of mind.
And with life's cares, I hope, Dear God,
Some Happiness to find.

Let me live but for Today,
Not worrying what's ahead,
For I have trust that You will see
I get my "Daily Bread".

Give me Courage to face life's trials
And not from troubles run.
Let me keep this thought in mind,
"Thy Will", not "Mine", be done.

And if some wish I do not get
Though I have prayed to Thee,
Help me to believe and understand
You know what's best for me.

I've failed You many times, I know.
But when tonight I rest,
I hope that I can kneel and say,
"Dear God, I've tried my best."

-Helen Smith

Keep Your Dreams!

Keep your dreams - they're richer far
Than the facts discovered are.

Keep your dreams, for in them lies
Joy denied to men grown wise.

Still build castles in the air!
Still see white ships sailing there!

Still have something to pursue,
Something which you wish you knew!!!

-Edgar A. Guest

Some have so much, and some have more,
Some are rich, and some are poor.
Some have little, some have less,
Some have not a cent to bless.
Their empty pockets, yet possess
True riches in true Happiness.

-John Oxenham

Kind words are jewels
that live in the heart and soul
and remain as Blessed Memories.

-Marvea Johnson

Give your ideas Wings ...
Share them!!!



When we dream alone, it remains only a dream.
When we dream together, it is not just a dream.
It is the beginning of reality.

-Dom Helder Camara

Music

There's music in the sighing of a reed;
There's music in the gushing of a rill;
There's music in all things, if men had ears;
The earth is but the music of the spheres!

-George Gordon, Lord Byron

Reach up as far as you can
and God will reach down
all the rest of the way!