Posted on 02/28/2009 10:43:26 PM PST by JustAmy
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Billie, we must have posted at the same time!
I think we did. :) I’m signing off now - enjoy the video. You’ll swoon. :)
No, I missed it! I love his voice. I had one fear while he was on American Idol - that they would somehow ‘find out’ that he was older than 35 and he would be disqualified. (He sure looks older, with that grey hair!) What a handsome man and good singer, he is!!!
HAPPY FRIDAY!!!
Breakfast is on the counter.
Hot cereal with brown sugar and creme
Fried ham steaks
Petite Steaks
Eggs Benedict with hollandaise
Thick sliced Bacon wrapped Scotch Eggs
Fried Potatoes
Toast or rolls
Cinnamon Rolls or Carmel Rolls (warm with butter)
Its a buffet, so eat what and how much you want, (I sent all the calories and cholesterol to Congress, so eat and fill up the arteries of a tax and spend type!)
Now while you eat, something to contemplate.
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For my loving wife.
As It Begins
soft sweet, the kiss of first expectations rose
as heart and needs, do commingle and flows
love’s first blush, and boldness springs anew
as new love begins the long road to do
Time and experiences mature the surge
and they learn when to hoard, or splurge
and they find the pace to grow closer still
and so together, seek and find their fill
Tested over time, and polished smooth and sweet
their love still blooms to Life’s gentle needful beat
a strength, and a shelter, amid the strife of life
exploring always together the joys, and the strife
Long the years of shared trust and passions free
each separate, and yet part of all a love can be
the treasures of the heart, held in their very souls
carrying them beyond even life’s demanding tolls
When I was a child, kids on the playground jokingly quoted Shakespeares famous line: To be or not to bethat is the question! But we really didnt understand what it meant. Later I learned that Shakespeares character Hamlet, who speaks these lines, is a melancholy prince who learns that his uncle has killed his father and married his mother. The horror of this realization is so disturbing that he contemplates suicide. The question for him was: to be (to go on living) or not to be (to take his own life).
At times, lifes pain can become so overwhelming that we are tempted to despair. The apostle Paul told the church at Corinth that his persecution in Asia was so intense he despaired even of life (2 Cor. 1:8). Yet by shifting his focus to his life-sustaining God, he became resilient instead of overwhelmed, and learned that we should not trust in ourselves but in God (v.9).
Trials can make life seem not worth living. Focusing on ourselves can lead to despair. But putting our trust in God gives us an entirely different perspective. As long as we live in this world, we can be certain that our all-sufficient God will sustain us. And as His followers, we will always have a divine purpose to be.
Great words this morning, Mayor, timely and on target.
thanks!
My pleasure!
I quoted to my sister yesterday, a saying from the classic " Anne of Green Gables"...
Marilla Cuthbert...responding to Anne's depression, when Anne asks Marilla, "Do you ever find yourself in the depths of despair?" Marilla answers her very plainly: "No. To despair is to turn your back on God."
We all feel it at one time or another....the valley of despair....but it is wonderful to ultimately know that God will take up through and on Eagles Wings at that!!
Okay Polly, now your preaching!! LOL
Have a good morning all.
Polly
Ps Johnn , Yorkie...any poems on despair and trust??
Johnn,
You write so well!! Do you have a book of Poems published.
Polly
A Cinnamon Roll please with my coffee!
DESPAIR OF THE EARLY MORNING
Despair of the early morning
Despair of the darkness
Despair of the Despair
Despair of Old Age
Despair of the road closed
Despair of nothing to do
Despair of nowhere to go
Despair of endless errands
Despair of money running out
Despair of the message of Despair
One transmits to those one loves.
Despair that has to be resisted
Despair that the light of the day
Will help me overcome
Despair I will pray my way out of
Despair I will in the course of the day
Sometime overcome.
Not the great Despair
The unending Despair
The final Despair.
The small Despair of who I am and where I am now.
The Despair that still can be resisted,
By the writing of a few awkward lines
Early in the morning.
Shalom Freedman
“A Cinnamon Roll please with my coffee!”
On the way, fresh out of the oven and the coffee is fresh!
Polly, that poem includes about everything...the things we despair over lots of times...just things we don’t need to despair over, but we are all human.
I was in a hurry or I could have found something better. I have Red Hats luncheon today and I am the hostess today and I have “despaired” over that....LOL!
Though you have made me see troubles, many and bitter, you will restore my life again, from the depths of the earth you will again bring me up. Psalms 71:20
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Thanks for Your gif and reply,very nice!
...” As long as we live in this world, we can be certain that our all-sufficient God will sustain us. And as His followers, we will always have a divine purpose to be. “ ...
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Excellent. As always.
Praise our HOLY, God.
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