Inspiration!!!

Wow Lil one I love that I gotta think think think lol
But I will get one on here I will
Love ya mom

Wow that is soooo beautiful lil one

Mom

Thank you lil sis, we havent done this since brownleaf was here, and its a wonderful idea!!! HUGS!
I liked this poem, i hope you do too.

Invisible Bars

Sometimes I feel like a prisoner,
Behind invisible bars,
My eyes don't see like they used to,
Where is the moon and the stars?

Who drew this dark curtain,
And left me deaf and blind?
Is it just old age creeping up,
Will I finally lose my mind?

Where are you, Jesus,
Master healer of this earth?
You are my precious Savior,
You died to give me new birth.

Why won't you heal me, Lord?
You healed the Leper and the lame,
Have I overstepped my boundaries,
Have you forgotten my name?

And then I heard a whisper,
Coming from deep within,

"You are being tested, my child,
Stay the course and win,
I know it isn't easy,
I, too, made a frightening trip,
And I arose again to save you,
From Satan's fiery whip.
For when this journey is over,
And we meet on that golden street,
You will no longer be a prisoner,
But free in God's holy retreat.

I wish you all good days.
shell

If you read the front page story of the San Francisco Chronicle on Thursday, Dec 15, 2005, you would have read about a female humpback whale who had become entangled in a spider web of crab traps and lines.

The fifty-foot whale was weighted down by hundreds of pounds of traps that caused her to struggle to stay afloat. She also had hundreds of yards of line rope wrapped around her her tail, her torso and a line tugging in her mouth.

A fisherman spotted her just east of the Farallone Islands (outside the Golden Gate) and radioed an environmental group for help. Within a few hours, the rescue team arrived and determined that she was so bad off, the only way to save her was to dive in and untangle her - a very dangerous proposition. One slap of the tail could kill a rescuer.

They worked for hours with curved knives and eventually freed her. When she was free, the divers say she swam in what seemed like joyous circles. She then came back to each and every diver, one at a time, and nudged them, pushed them gently around - she thanked them. Some said it was the most incredibly beautiful experience of their lives.

The guy who cut the rope out of her mouth says her eye was following him the whole time, and he will never be the same.

May you, and all those you love, be so blessed and fortunate to be surrounded by people who will help you get untangled from the things that are binding you.

And, may you always know the joy of giving and receiving gratitude.

Shell my sis
I love that it is so true
Thanks sis for sharing
Love ya

Here are a few of my favorites. BTW, I love each one of yours, all of them have a wonderful moral. I'm printing them out so I'll have them to read at times I feel down or under so much stress that I think I can't handle one more thing.

"If one dream should fall and break into pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again."  Flavia Weedn

"Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for awhile and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same."  Anonymous

"Never lose faith in your opportunity to lift those who are in need, to give strength to those who are weak, to give encouragement to those who falter by the way." Gordon B. Hinckley

"Life is never a failure until we call it such. There are so many who need your helping hands, your loving smile, your tender thoughtfulness."  Gordon B. Hinckley

"We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere."  Tim McGraw

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If you want a hug, I'll be your pillow. If you need to be happy, I'll be your smile. But anytime you need a friend, I'll just be me."  Anonymous

Thanks for this thread. I love it.

I really do love this thread we had one not more than 3 mths ago started by Brownleaf ( no longer here on travels ) and it was absolutely wonderful to read and re read every day
I woke up each morning and went to that thread first
Started the day of beautifully
Songs and anything was posted
Glad lil one started this back up again
lyn

I had just about printed all of them out I have so many of them right on my walls above computer .......Great inspiration to start the day off ......

Lyn, I loved it! Here's one. . .


If anyone should hurt you and say a thing unkind,
Remember what I tell you, and keep these things in mind;
For every 1 who makes you cry, there are 3 who make you smile,
That smile will last a long, long time, and the tear a LITTLE while!

If someone says a thing that's cruel, don't let it get to you —
There's so much good about you, and your faults are very few;
Don't let someone who hates the world cause you to hate it too,
For behind the cloud's a golden sun and a sky that's bright and blue!

So if a certain someone should act a certain way ...
Just think of THOSE WHO LOVE YOU and don't let it ruin your day.

~ Author Unknown

I agree it is beautiful more later
Lyn

Time Management

One day, an expert in time management was speaking to a group of business students and, to drive home a point, used an illustration those students will never forget. As he stood in front of the group of high-powered over-achievers he said, "Okay, time for a quiz" and he pulled out a one-gallon, wide-mouth mason jar and set it on the table in front of him. He also produced about a dozen fist-sized rocks and carefully placed them, one at a time, into the jar. When the jar was filled to the top and no more rocks would fit inside, he asked, "Is this jar full?" Everyone in the class yelled, "Yes." The time management expert replied, "Really?" He reached under the table and pulled out a bucket of gravel. He dumped some gravel in and shook the jar causing pieces of gravel to work themselves down into the spaces between the big rocks. He then asked the group once more, "Is the jar full?" By this time the class was on to him. "Probably not," one of them answered. "Good!" he replied. He reached under the table and brought out a bucket of sand. He started dumping the sand in the jar and it went into all of the spaces left between the rocks and the gravel. Once more he asked the question, "Is this jar full?" "No!" the class shouted. Once again he said, "Good." Then he grabbed a pitcher of water and began to pour it in until the jar was filled to the brim. Then he looked at the class and asked, "What is the point of this illustration?" One eager beaver raised his hand and said, "The point is, no matter how full your schedule is, if you try really hard you can always fit some more things in it!" "No," the speaker replied, "that's not the point. The truth this illustration teaches us is, "If you don't put the big rocks in first, you'll never get them in at all. What are the 'big rocks' in your life, time with loved ones, your faith, your education, your dreams, a worthy cause, teaching or mentoring others? Remember to put these BIG ROCKS in first or you'll never get them in at all. So, tonight, or in the morning, when you are reflecting on this short story, ask yourself this question, "What are the 'big rocks' in my life?" Then, put those in your jar first.

“Many of life's failures are men who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
--Thomas Edison

“The crisis of yesterday is the joke of tomorrow.”
--H. G. Wells

“A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.”
--Hugh Downs

“If you’re going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.”
--Marie Osmond

“The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes along their way.”
--Unknown

“Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you are right.”
--Henry Ford

“If you don’t think every day is a good day, just try missing one.”
--Cavett Robert

“Too many people miss the silver lining because they’re expecting gold.”
--Maurice Seitter

“In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.”
--Daniel L. Reardon

“Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere”
--Unknown

“One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.”
--Jack Penn

Dear Me,

Over the years, I have resented you for not being athletic enough, brave enough, funny enough, smart enough, talented enough, handsome enough, rich enough, admired enough, educated enough, New York enough, outgoing enough, quiet enough, old enough, young enough, loving enough and loved enough. I have demanded perfection from you and have found you wanting. The result of this obsession with perfection has been to make you terrified of failure and ridicule, angry at any and all obstacles, and finally, incapable of enjoying the bounty that was not only around you, but within you as well. Well, all that’s about to change. From now on, I’m going to make every effort to love and accept you as you are. But since bad habits die hard, I’ll start with something easy. From now on, you’re old enough.

Affectionately,
Me