Amy's Place ... Poetry and Potpourri ... March, 2011

3-1-2011 | JustAmy; St.Louie1; MamaBear; Billie; Meg33

[JustAmy]

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[JustAmy]

Glad to see you stopped by, Potlatch. We are always happy to see you.

[geologist]

Job is a very interesting book.

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Job 42:1-6 (New King James Version)

Job 42
Job’s Repentance and Restoration
1 Then Job answered the LORD and said:
2 “I know that You can do everything,
And that no purpose of Yours can be withheld from You.

3 You asked, ‘Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?’
Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand,
Things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.

4 Listen, please, and let me speak;
You said, ‘I will question you, and you shall answer Me.’

5 “I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear,
But now my eye sees You.

6 Therefore I abhor myself,”
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Daily read the Bible our future depends on it.

[JustAmy]

Thanks, Yorkie. Happy Monday.

It was so nice to have a normal family weekend. I need to get out and pull some more weeds. All of our rain sure helped them get ahead of me. :)

[Kitty Mittens]

Thank you, Dear Sister in Christ! It's So Good to See you!

(((((((Hugs)))))))

[Kitty Mittens]

Thank you, Sweet Amy!

(((((((A Beautiful Day to All FRiends)))))))

[JustAmy]

LOL

Thank, Dubya. I love Mark Twain quotes.

Happy Monday.

[Kitty Mittens]

Sending Prayers with All my Heart, Dear Gail.

(((((((Hugs and Prayers)))))))

[MEG33]

For your sweet goodnights Sunday.

[JustAmy]

Meg, this is such a beautiful, relaxing scene. Thank you for all you do for Amy’s Place. You are a Gem!

[Kitty Mittens]

(((((((Hugs)))))))

[JustAmy]

Wonderful, Jaycee.

Thank you for Elvis and his music.

Have a beautiful Monday.

[Dubya]

Little David comes home from first grade and tells his father that they learned about the history of Valentine's Day. "Since Valentine's Day is for a Christian saint and we're Jewish," he asks, "will God get mad at me for giving someone a valentine?"

David's father thinks a bit, then says "No, I don't think God would get mad. Who do you want to give a valentine to?"

"Osama Bin Laden," David says.
"Why Osama Bin Laden?" his father asks in shock.

"Well," David says, "I thought that if a little American Jewish boy could have enough love to give Osama a valentine, he might start to think that maybe we're not all bad, and maybe start loving people a little bit. And if other kids saw what I did and sent valentines to Osama, he'd love everyone a lot. And then he'd start going all over the place to tell everyone how much he loved them and how he didn't hate anyone anymore."

His father's heart swells and he looks at his boy with newfound pride.

"David, that's the most wonderful thing I've ever heard."

"I know," David says, "and once that gets him out in the open, the Marines shoot him."

[JustAmy]

March 14, 2011



Graphic by Billie

Why Have I Been Weeping?

I see the faces in the park, and each one tells a story,
Some bitter from the striving, some faded with their glory.
Some look out on the park and see the life inside them,
And some have hurts upon their face with nowhere else to hide them.

A comely matron passes by, her pride protects her pain,
She doesn’t seem to notice that her smile is showing strain.
A pair of schoolgirls next are seen, and giggle as they pass,
I hope their laughter will grow up when laddy meets his lass.

An old man sits near dozing with the sun upon his face,
I know that in his mind he is no longer near this place.
Instead he walks with hand about the love that he once held,
And now he sits with frozen smile where happiness has gelled.

A woman looks into my eyes, a question seems to rise,
Although her lips say nothing it is clearly in her eyes.
“Oh, stranger, do you know the pain I’m feeling in my heart?
Can you tell why I’ve been weeping? Do you know what made me start?”

I only know the answer to a question still unasked,
For it is the answer always for the way we have been tasked.
The answer is to love someone, though someone brought you pain,
Even though you’re hurting now, you still must love again.

For love is still the answer to the way to get through life,
And it doesn't matter if you fail, or if you live in strife.
You must share your pain and loneliness, and laugh it all away,
And you'll find that pain is ebbing as love's tide flows in today.

Step out of the shadow of the pain that brought you grief,
And hold a child, and see her smile, and you will feel relief.
No matter how you're hurting, and no matter what you’ve lost,
There's even more to be received, with negligible cost.

Your life has many turnings, at the end you may look back,
And though you know you lost something, there's nothing that you lack.
The life that seemed so shattered has been made into a whole,
And your audience applauds you for your stunning, starring role.

NicknamedBob . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . April 19, 2004
© 2004 - 2011

[JustAmy]

LOLOL

Brilliant kid ...

Thanks, Dubya.

[JustAmy]

:- )

[tubebender]

Are those Himalayan Blue Poppies? They are very difficult to grow but My wife and I got one plant to bloom in our garden for 2 years and then they failed to come back the next year.

[oldteen]

Such a cutie!

Thank you Kitty!

Gonna have to do some growin' to fit those paws! :)

[Dubya]

Curt and Leroy saw an ad in the Starkville Daily News in Starkeville, Mississippi, and decided to buy a mule for $100. The farmer who owned the mule agreed to deliver it the following day.

The next morning, the farmer drove up and said, “Sorry, fellows - I have some bad news. The mule died last night.”

“Well, then - just give us our money back,” Leroy said.

The farmer replied, “Can’t do that. I went and spent it already.” conservative political humor,clean political jokes,dead donkey “Ok then, the men replied. Just bring us the dead mule.”

The farmer replied, “What in the world ya’ll gonna do with a dead mule?”

Curt replied, “We gonna raffle him off.” The farmer said, “You can’t raffle off a dead mule!” Leroy said, “We shore can! Heck, we don’t hafta tell nobody he’s dead!”

A couple of weeks later, the farmer ran into Leroy and Curt at the Piggly Wiggly grocery store and asked, “What’d you fellers ever do with that dead mule?”

They replied, “We raffled him off like we said we wuz gonna do.” Leroy said, “Shucks, we sold 500 tickets fer two dollars apiece and made a profit of $998.”

The farmer asked, “Didn’t anyone complain?”

Curtis replied, “Well, the feller who won got upset. So we gave him his two dollars back.”

Curtis and Leroy now work for the government. They’re overseeing the Bailout Program.

[Dubya]

Very nice.

[MEG33]

Lovely opening and poetry!.

Happy Monday Everyone
Sorry I must post and run.