Patrick Overton
To those who believe,
no
explanation is necessary.
To those who do not
believe,
no explanation is
possible.
You are not
called to be a canary in a cage.
You are called to
be an eagle,and to fly, sun to sun, over
continents.
H.W.Beecher
GOALSFAR AWAY, THERE,
IN THE SUNSHINE,
ARE MY HIGHEST
ASPIRATIONS.
I MAY NOT REACH THEM,
BUT
I CAN LOOK UP AND SEE THEIR BEAUTY,
BELIEVE IN THEM
AND TRY TO FOLLOW
WHERE THEY LEAD.
Louisa May
Alcott
MAY THOSE THAT LOVE
US,
LOVE
US,
AND THOSE THAT DON'T LOVE US,
MAY GOD TURN
THEIR HEARTS;
AND IF HE CAN'T TURN THEIR
HEARTS,
MAY HE TURN THEIR ANKLES
SO WE'LL KNOW
THEM BT THEIR LIMP ~~
Old Irish
prayer
The teacher said
to the students:
"Come to the
edge..."
They replied: "We might
fall"
The teacher said again:
"Come to
the edge..."
And they responded:
"It's
too high."
"Come to the edge..."
the
teacher demanded.
And they came
and the
teacher pushed them...
...and they
flew.
I am your friend and my love for
you goes
deep. There is nothing I can give you which you have
not got: but there is much, very much, that, while I
cannot give it, you can take.
No heaven
can come to us unless our hearts find rest in today.
Take heaven! No peace lies in the future which is not
hidden in this present little instant. Take
Peace!
The gloom of the world is but a
shadow. Behind it, yet within our reach, is Joy!
There is a radiance and glory in the darkness, could
we but see ~ and to see we only have to look. I
beseech you to look.
Life is so generous a
giver but we, judging its gifts by the covering, cast
them away as ugly or heavy or hard. Remove the
covering and you will find beneath it a living
splendor, woven of love, by wisdom, with
power.
Welcome it, grasp it, and you touch
the angel's hand that brings it to
you.
Everything we call a trial, a sorrow,
or a duty, believe me, the angel's hand is there; the
gift is there, and the wonder of an overshadowing
Presence.
Our joys too; be not content
with them as joys. They too conceal diviner gifts.
Life is so full of meaning and purpose, so full of
beauty ~ beneath its covering ~ that you will find
earth but cloaks your heaven.
Courage then
to claim it; that is all; but courage you have and
the knowledge that we are pilgrims together, wending
through unknown country ~ home.
And so, at
this time, I greet you. Not quite as the world sends
greetings, but with profound esteem and with the
prayer that for you, now and forever, the day breaks,
and the shadows flee away.
Brother
Giovanni
A BUTTERFLY LIGHTS BESIDE
US
LIKE A SUNBEAM
AND FOR A BRIEF
MOMENT,
ITS GLORY AND BEAUTY BELONG TO OUR
WORLD.
BUT THEN IT FLIES ON AGAIN
AND
THOUGH WE WISH IT COULD HAVE STAYED,
WE FEEL
SO BLESSED TO HAVE SEEN IT.
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