Amy's Place .. Poetry and Potpourri .. October 20 - 21, 2004

10-20-04 | JustAmy, St.Louie1, MamaBear, Billie

[JustAmy]

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[The Mayor]

October 21, 2004

No Unkind Words

Read: Ephesians 4:29-32

Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but what is good for necessary edification. —Ephesians 4:29

Bible In One Year: Isaiah 62-64; 1 Timothy 1

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One of the greatest honors ever offered to me came during one of life's saddest times.

I was heartbroken last year when my good friend and co-worker Kurt De Haan died suddenly while out on his regular lunchtime run. Kurt was managing editor of Our Daily Bread from 1989 until the time of his death. Losing him was a huge blow to each of us at RBC Ministries, but his wife Mary and their four children were suffering the worst pain.

A couple of days before the funeral, I got a call from Mary, who asked if I would share a eulogy of Kurt. I was overwhelmed with this bittersweet privilege.

As I reflected on Kurt's life, one trait continued to surface. It was a remarkable characteristic, and it was something that I focused on in my eulogy. In the 22 years I had known him, worked with him, and talked with him, I never once heard Kurt say a negative word about any other person.

What a remarkable legacy of a true Christian heart! Kurt lived up to the standard of Ephesians 4:29-32. He sought to build up others, showing kindness and tenderheartedness instead of bitterness and malice.

Will others be able to say the same about us? —Dave Branon

Instead of hurling angry words
That wound and stir up strife,
Use words of kindness, filled with love,
That heal and nourish life. —Sper

A kind word is the oil that takes the friction out of life.

[OESY]

Love it, but I am a partisan -- though I never fought with Tito, despite the rumors.

[OESY]

Greetings to all on Thursday, October 21, a day to celebrate:


Electric Light Day (not to be confused with Electricity Day for you bulb changers out there)
Can Can Day (We can what we can, and what we can't we can!)
Caramel Apple Day (Delish!)
Babbling Day (see above)

[Mike Bates]

Babbling Day

Paging Ms Heinz Kerry. . .

[JustAmy]

10-21-04
Graphic by Billie

Journey’s End

The day’s journey back to shore,
Ends much as it begins.
One hopes the boat rides deeper,
In the water that it’s in.

Thanks to the weight of meals aboard,
Still wearing shells and scales.
It is a work environment,
Out in the sea in sails.

Some think that there is pleasure,
Joining the sea and wind,
For those who work the lines at sea,
The joy’s at journeys end.

For any harsh and rough life,
The rule seems much the same,
The harder you work for daily bread,
The less it feels a game.

And while the work has its rewards,
And keeps the table fed,
The journey’s end has great appeal,
After our prayers are said.

NicknamedBob . . . . . . . May 24, 2004
© 2004

[Conspiracy Guy]

Nice oldie.

[JustAmy]

[JustAmy]

Thank you. It is great to have some wonderful oldies to use until after the election.

I think our resident poets are on strike. ;~)

[SAMWolf]

Hi Victoria. Cute :-)

[doug from upland]

She appeals to the DemocRAT mob
And claims Laura has not had a job
She has money, not class
Keeps her head in her ***
On 11-3 she's gonna sob

[JustAmy]

Autumn Woods
by William Cullen Bryant

Ere, in the northern gale,
The summer tresses of the trees are gone,
The woods of Autumn, all around our vale,
Have put their glory on.
The mountains that infold,
In their wide sweep, the colored landscape round,
Seem groups of giant kings, in purple and gold,
That guard the enchanted ground.
I roam the woods that crown
The uplands, where the mingled splendors glow,
Where the gay company of trees look down
On the green fields below.
My steps are not alone
In these bright walks; the sweet southwest, at play,
Flies, rustling, where the painted leaves are strown
Along the winding way.
And far in heaven, the while,
The sun, that sends that gale to wander here,
Pours out on the fair earth his quiet smile --
The sweetest of the year.
Where now the solemn shade,
Verdure and gloom where many branches meet;
So grateful, when the noon of summer made
The valleys sick with heat?
Let in through all the trees
Come the strange rays; the forest depths are bright;
Their sunny colored foliage, in the breeze,
Twinkles, like beams of light.
The rivulet, late unseen,
Where bickering through the shrubs its waters run,
Shines with the image of its golden screen,
And glimmerings of the sun.
But 'neath you crimson tree,
Lover to listening maid might breathe his flame,
Nor mark, within its roseate canopy,
Her blush of maiden shame.
Oh, Autumn! why so soon
Depart the hues that make thy forests glad,
Thy gentle wind and thy fair sunny noon,
And leave thee wild and sad!
Ah! 'twere a lot too blest
Forever in thy colored shades to stray;
Amid the kisses of the soft southwest
To roam and dream for aye;
And leave the vain low strife
That makes men mad -- the tug for wealth and power --
The passions and the cares that wither life,
And waste its little hour.

[JustAmy]

Happy Babbling Day!!

;~

[Conspiracy Guy]

Not striking. Just busy.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thank y'all so much for the beautiful poem and graphic!

[JustAmy]

....

Oldest Profession ....... Noble Profession.

Thanks, Doug.

[tuliptree76]

French Can Can Day?

Jane Avril 1893

by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

[OESY]

Happy Can Can Day!

"I knew Andy very well. The reason he painted soup cans is
that he liked soup." -- Robert Indiana, New York Times, 12/1/02

"If you take a Campbell's Soup can and repeat it fifty times, you are not intrested (sic)
in the retinal image. What interests you is the concept that wants to put fifty
Campbell's Soup cans on a canvas." -- Marcel Duchamp

Happy Babbling Day!

[tuliptree76]

Happy Caramel Apple Day!

[tuliptree76]

LOL! Lots of cans

[MeekOneGOP]

Mornin', everybody ! Happy Thursday!

Have a cup while you Freep !