MOTIVATION AND INSPIRATION
Posted by: foxy9 - Mar 8, 1999
HELLO GOD
Hello God, I called tonight
To talk a little while..
I need a friend who'll listen
To my anxiety and trial...
You see, I can't quite make it
Though a day just on my own...
I need your love to guide me,
So I'll never feel alone.
I want to ask you please to keep,
My family safe and sound.
Come and fill their lives with confidence
For whatever fate they're bound.
Give me faith, dear God,
to face Each hour throughout the day,
And not to worry over things
I can't change in any way.
I thank you God, for being home
And listening to my call,
For giving me such good advice
When I stumble and fall.
Your number, God, is the only one
That answers every time.
I never get a busy signal,
Never had to pay a dime.
So thank you, God, for listening
To my troubles and my sorrow.
Good night, God, I love You, too,
And I'll call again tomorrow!
~author unknown~
Posted by: TAH - Mar 9, 1999
I found this at www.iaw.com/~pal/norm/The Eagle
THE EAGLE
There is an ancient Indian myth that tells of an
eagle's nest perched high up on a ledge. One day one of the eaglets fell from the nest to the plains below. The baby eagle was adopted by a family of prairie chickens and nursed back to health. Daily the eagle and the prairie chickens would walk the plains scratching in the dust for fragments of food. One day the eagle, now quite fully grown, looked up above to the high rocky cliff face and saw some wide winged birds gliding overhead. "What are they called?" asked the eagle. "They are eagles," replied the old bird, "but don't ever imagine that you could be like them, you are one of us, a prairie chicken." at which the eagle turned away and went on scratching in the dirt for food. That bird had the capacity to stretch it's wings and fly. We all have the capacity to soar and so few ever do. We become bound by the negative beliefs and notions that suggest "I am what I am, and can never change," or thoughts that tell us "there is really no more to be gained out of life, other than what I already have." You are an eagle, so start to fly.
Posted by: TAH - Mar 9, 1999
Don't Quit
When things go wrong, as they sometimes will, When the road you're trudging seems all up hill, When the funds are low and the debts are high, And you want to smile, but you have to sigh, When care is pressing you down a bit, Rest, you must - but don't you quit
Life is queer with its twists and turns, As everyone of us sometimes learns, And many a failure turns about When he might have won had he stuck it out; Don't give up, though the pace seems slow - You might succeed with another blow.
Often the goal is nearer than It seems to a faint and faltering man, Often the struggler has given up When he might have captured the victor's cup. And he learned too late, when the night slipped down, How close he was to the golden crown.
Success is failure turned inside out - The silver tint of the clouds of doubt - And you never can tell how close you are, It may be near when it seems afar; So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit - It's when things seem worst that you mustn't quit.
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Posted by: Braeden - Mar 10, 1999
A friend past this on to me for any time I feel like I want to give up. With my quit date coming up so quickly I would like to share it with you all as you have shared with me.
Believe in yourself ~ in the power you have to control your own life, day by day. Believe in the strength that you have deep inside and your faith will help show you the way. Believe in tomorrow and what it will bring, let a hopeful heart carry you through. For things will work out if you trust and believe ~ there's no limit to what you can do!
Posted by: Pat Su - Mar 13, 1999
THE RULES FOR BEING HUMAN
You will receive a body.
You may like it or hate it, but it will be yours for the entire period of this time around.
You will learn lessons.
You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called Life. Each day in this school you will have the opportunity to learn lessons. You may like the lessons or think them irrelvant and stupid.
There are no mistakes, only lessons.
Growth is a process of trial and error: Experimentation. The "failed" experiments are as much a part of the process as the experiment that ultimately "works".
A lesson is repeated until learned.
A lesson will be presented to you in various forms until you have learned it. When you have learned it, you can then go on to the next lesson.
Learning lessons does not end.
There is no part of life that does not contain its lessons. If you are alive, there are lessons to be learned.
"There" is no better than "here".
When your "there" has become a "here," you will simply obtain another "there" that will again look better than "here."
Others are merely mirrors of you.
You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects something you love or hate about yourself.
What you make of your life is up to you.
You have all the tools and resources you need. What you do with them is up to you. The choice is yours.
Your answers lie inside you.
The answers to Life's questions lie inside you. All you need to do is look, listen and trust.
You will forget all this.
You can remember it whenever you want.
Anonymous
Posted by: lynne516 - Mar 15, 1999
A person's greatest strength develops at the point where he or she overcomes his greatest weakness.
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