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Finding Strength

“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength.”

- Corrie Ten Boom -

Like corrosion on a battery, worry drains our energy, saps us of our motivation and drive. Pay attention to the attitudes and activities that give you energy. Cultivate those things and nourish your strength. A strong spirit is the best defence against worry.

Personal: I pray for help to renew & restore my spirit so that I may face each day with the strength required.

Note:  Thank you for your calls, smses, IMs  & emails. I’m truly grateful & touched by your support, care, understanding, friendship, love & prayers.

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Update: 17 Sept 2007 

Happy Birthay to Angele & _butt.

May both your birthday wishes come true!

My Mother’s Love

Rhyming couplets

A local newspaper (in England) ran a competition asking for a rhyme with the most romantic first line… but the least romantic second line.

Here are some of the entries they received.

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My feelings for you no words can tell,

Except for maybe “go to hell”.

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Roses are red, violets are blue, sugar is sweet, and so are you.

But the roses are wilting, the violets are dead, the sugar bowl’s empty and so is your head.  

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Oh loving beauty you float with grace,

If only you could hide your face.

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Kind, intelligent, loving and hot;

This describes everything you are not.

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I want to feel your sweet embrace,

But don’t take that paper bag off of your face.

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I love your smile, your face, and your eyes -

Damn, I’m good at telling lies!  

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I see your face when I am dreaming.

That’s why I always wake up screaming.

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My love, you take my breath away.

What have you stepped in to smell this way?

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Don’t Give Up

Let the positive forces in your life take over.

You have to risk rejection to get what you want.

You have to risk failure to find success.

Learn to cherish, not lament.

Find the ally, not the enemy.

Remember your long-term goals during your short-term problems.

Instead of imagining negative things that fill you with terror, invent positive things that fill you with purpose.

Don’t give up, give more.

I yield to the good.

I come from strength.

I give my best.

my answer

Actually, my friends have been questioning me…. not my Mum…

il Venerdi Compleanno

 

 Sono stanco!!!

*I’m tired!!!

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Buon compleanno, Crystal!!!

May all your birthday wishes come true!

(esp. your Italian Dream)

Be Still

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to do nothing at all. Stillness is difficult because we’re trained to always be on the go. We live in a restless age, with many distractions. Stillness can help us see and hear more clearly our inner concerns.

Sometimes all we need to do to attend to a worry is to acknowledge it. Listen quietly to your worries and they will lose some of their power over you.

Create moments of stillness in your day. Whether you’re at home, at the office, in a park, in a traffic jam, even the busiest days will offer some opportunity for a moment of stillness.

“Don’t just do something – sit there.”

As I rest in stillness, I ask God to help me attend to my worries and thereby to put them to rest.

Her Words of Wisdom

 

Mother Teresa (Aug 26, 1910 – Sept 5, 1987)

When we choose words of wisdom to live by, we can’t go wrong with Mother Teresa quotes. After all, she was one of the most remarkable women to ever walk the earth. We can learn a lot from her kindness, patience, generosity and gentleness of spirit.

These 18 Mother Teresa quotes are perfect examples of why this woman was so special and how many of us can learn from her example.

1. “It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.”

2. “Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world.”

3. “I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.”

4. “We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.”

5. “If we really want to love we must learn how to forgive.”

6. “We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls.”

7. “Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God’s kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.”

8. “There is more hunger in the world for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.”

9. “Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.”

10. “Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.”

11. “Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.”

12. “I know God will not give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish that He didn’t trust me so much.”

13. “I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?”

14. “Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”

15. “We, the unwilling,led by the unknowing,are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much,for so long,with so little,we are now qualified to do anything with nothing.”

16. “God doesn’t require us to succeed; he only requires that you try.”

17. “People are generally irrational, unreasonable and selfish. They deserve to be loved, anyway.”

18. “Despite giving your best to the world, you may be kicked in the teeth. Give the best you’ve got anyway.”

It is evident from the wisdom in her words that Mother Teresa was truly a gift to the world. If only the world would live by her wisdom, it would finally be a loving and peaceful place where humanity could enjoy a Utopian existence.

 

Today marks the 10th Anniversary of Mother Teresa’s death.

I must live

I’ve learned that if someone says something unkind about me, I must live so that no one will believe it.

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