Things to think on...

You are Worthy
******
Do not undermine your worth
by comparing yourself with others.
It is because we are different
that each of us is special.
******
Do not set your goals
by what other people deem important.
Only you know
what is best for you.
*******
Do not take for granted
the things closest to your heart.
Cling to them as you would your life,
for without them,
life is meaningless.
******
Do not let your life
slip through your fingers
by living in the past
nor for the future.
By living your life one day at a time,
you live all the days of your life.
******
Do not give up
when you still have something to give.
Nothing is really over
until the moment you stop trying.

It is a fragile thread
that binds us to each other.

Do not be afraid to encounter risks.
It is by taking chances
that we learn how to be brave.
******
Do not shut love out of your life
by saying it is impossible to find.
*******
The quickest way to receive love
is to give love;
The fastest way to lose love
is too hold it too tightly;
******
In addition,
the best way to keep love
is to give it wings.
*******
Do not dismiss your dreams.
To be without dreams
is to be without hope;
To be without hope
is to be without purpose.
*******
Do not run through life
so fast that you forget
not only where you have been,
but also where you are going.
Life is not a race,
but a journey
to be savored
each step of the way.

She was not beautiful. nothing about her was extraordinary. nothing about her made her stand out in a crowd. she grew up in a family of six, the eldest, she learnt responsibility at an early age. as she grew, stronger, brighter, she instilled a sort of light and cheer to whomever she met.

she was not beautiful, but she made others feel beautiful about themselves. she meets a rebel boy who thinks he is all man. befriending him, she teaches him how to read, a little boost the 'man' needed to go to college.

they become fast friends and she fell, fast in love with her rugged handsome student. the 'man' then finds himself in a dilemma. he soon found himself in love with a girl. a girl who was so beautiful, she turned even the grouchiest men's head. her hair was a halo of light around her, her eyes the bluest blue of the ocean.

'like an angel' he tells his tutor. 'like a beautiful angel.' the girl swallows a lump at her throat.
she was not beautiful. she did not possess the heart of the one he loved but she did not care. as long as he was happy, she would be or so she tried to.

she helped him write the most beautiful letters to his angel, all the time visioning it was she herself receiving those very letters. and so the girl helped him choose the right clothes, say the right words, buy the right gifts for his angel.

his angel brought him much joy and much pain to the girl who cried behind her smiles. but that never stopped her from giving more than she will ever receive.

then one day, all hell broke loose. the angel he loved left him for another man, a richer more successful man. the boy was stunned, was so hurt he did not speak for days. the girl went to him. he cried on her shoulder and she cried with him. he hurt and so did she.

time went by. and so the wounds heal. the boy realizes something about his friend/tutor he never realized before. how her laughter sounded heavenly or how her smiles brightened up the darkest days. or how simply beautiful, yes beautiful she looked to him!

beautiful. this plain, simple girl was beautiful to him. and he began to fall. fall so in love with this beautiful girl. on one day, he picked up all his courage to see her. he walked to her house, nervous and fidgeting, running his thoughts over and over in his head. he was going to tell her how beautiful she was to him. he was going to tell her how wonderfully in love he was with her. he knocked. no one was home.

the next day he found out. the beautiful girl he fell in love with had a brain aneurism that put her into a coma. the doctors were grim and the family decided to let her go.

one final time he got to see her. he held her hand. he stroked her hair. and he cried for this beautiful girl. he cried for he'll never see her smile or hear her speak his name. he cried. but it was too late.

the beautiful girl was buried and the heavens broke out in a beautiful spring shower, a cry for their loss. she was the most beautiful girl in the world and she had taught the rebel boy-man to love and what it is to be loved. she was the most beautiful girl in the world.

look around you. aren't there a lot of plain faces? take a good look. a real good look or you might just miss out that beautiful person forever.

A Definition of Unconditional Love
Unknown Author

I love as you are as you seek to find your own special way to relate to the world, or the way you feel that is right for you. It is important that you are the person you want to be and not someone that I or others think you should be.

I realize that I cannot know what is best for you although perhaps sometimes I think I do. I've not been where you have been, viewing life from that angle you have, I do not know what you have chosen to learn how you have chosen to learn it with whom or in what time period. I have not walked life looking through your eyes so how can I know what you need.

I allow you to be in the world without a thought or word of judgment from me about the deeds you undertake. I see no error in the things you say and do, in this place where I am. I see that there are many ways to perceive and experience the different facets of our world. I allow without reservation the choices you make in each moment.

I make no judgment of this for if I were to deny your right to evolution than I would deny that right to myself and all others. To those who would choose a way I cannot walk, while'st I may not choose to add my power and my energy to this way, I will never deny you the gift of love that God has bestowed within me for all creation, as I love you so I shall be loved, as I sowe, so I shall reap.

I allow you the universal right of free will to walk your own path, creating steps or to sit a while if that is what is right for you. I will make no judgment of these steps, whether they are large or small, nor light or heavy or that they lead up or down, for this is just my viewpoint. I see you do nothing and judge it to be unworthy and yet it may be that you bring great healing as you stand blessed by the light of God.

I cannot always see the higher picture of divine order. For it is the inalienable right of all life to choose their own evolution and with great love I acknowledge your right to determine your future. In humility I bow to the realization that the way I see is best for me does not have to mean that it is also right for you. I know that you are led as I am following the inner excitement to know your own path.

I know that the many races, religions, customs, nationalities and beliefs within our world bring us great richness and allow us the benefit of teachings of such diversedness. I know we each learn in our own unique way in order to bring that love and wisdom back to the whole. I know that if there were only one way to do something, there would need to be only one person. I will not only love you if you behave in a way I think you should, or believe in those things I believe in, I understand you are truly my brother and sister though you may have been born in a different place and believe in another God than I.

The love I feel is for all of God's world. I know that every living thing is part of God and I feel a love deep with every person, and all trees, and flowers, every bird, river, ocean and for all the creatures in all the world. I live my life in loving service being the best me I can, becoming wiser in the perfection of divine truth, becoming happier in the joy of unconditional love.

Counter