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Just for this morning, I am going to smile when I see your face and laugh when I feel like crying. Just for this morning, I will let you choose what you want to wear, and smile and say how perfect it is. Just for this morning, I am going to step over the laundry, and pick you up and take you to the park to play. Just for this morning, I will leave the dishes in the sink, and let you teach me how to put that puzzle of yours together. Just for this afternoon, I will unplug the telephone and keep the computer off, and sit with you in the backyard and blow bubbles.. Just for this afternoon, I will not yell once, not even a tiny grumble when you scream and whine for the ice cream truck, and I will buy you one if he comes by. Just for this afternoon, I won't worry about what you are going to be when you grow up, or second guess every decision I have made where you are concerned. Just for this afternoon, I will let you help me bake cookies, and I won't stand over you trying to fix them. Just for this afternoon, I will take us to McDonald's and buy us both a Happy Meal so you can have both toys.. Just for this evening, I will hold you in my arms and tell you a story about how you were born and how much I love you. Just for this evening, I will let you splash in the tub and not get angry. Just for this evening, I will let you stay up late while we sit on the porch and count all the stars. Just for this evening, I will snuggle beside you for hours, and miss my favorite TV shows. Just for this evening when I run my finger through your hair as you pray, I will simply be grateful that God has given me the greatest gift ever given. And when I kiss you goodnight I will hold you a little tighter, a little longer. It is then, that I will thank God for you, and ask him for nothing, except one more day... |
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"We learn through the inspiration and guidance of the Lord" |
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"In this life we can do no great things, only small things with great love" [Mother Teresa] |
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"Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly." |
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"Good friends are like stars. You don't always see them, but you know they are always there" |
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"The man who is born with a talent which he is meant to use, finds his greatest happiness using it" [Johann Von Goethe] |
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"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honourable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well" [Ralph Waldo Emersson] |
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"Well done is better than well said" [Benjamin Franklin] |
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"It is better to understand a little than misunderstand a lot" |
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"Be still before the Lord, and wait patiently for him" |
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"Take delight in the Lord, and He will give you the desires of your heart" |
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"Regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties" [Jonathan Carroll] |
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"If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible example" [Catherine Aird] |
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",,,for the Lord watches over the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish" |
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"Life is like a grindstone; whether it grinds you down or polishes you up depends on what you've made of" [Jacob M. Braude] |
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"But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace towards me has not been in vain" |
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"I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several attack me at once" [Jennifer Unlimited] |
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"Only the suppressed word is dangerous" [Ludwig Borne] |
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"...so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and succeed in the thing for which I sent it" |
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"it is good to give thanks to the Lord, and to sing praises to your name, O Most High..." |
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"It is easier to stay out than get out" [Mark Twain] |
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"Return to the Lord, your God, for He is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and relents from punishing" |
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"Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin" |
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"Beware of practising your piety before others in order to be seen by them; for then you have no reward from your Father in Heaven" |
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"Those who trust in the love of God, have no fear of what may happen or what is in the preceding future" |
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"Meeting my team will be like seeing a woman for the first time, you wonder how it'll be" [Sven Goran Erikisson, as he prepares to meet his English football squad for the first time 02/02] |
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"We love to see you smile" [McDonald's American advertising slogan] |
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"Make everything as simple as possible but not simpler" [Albert Einstein] |
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"Those who love me (God), I will deliver; I will protect those who know me know my name" |
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"Any identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience" [James Baldwin] |
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"...if you confess with your lips that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved" |
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"Never mistake motion for action" [Ernest Hemingway] |
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"People come into your life for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. When you figure out which it is, you know exactly what to do. When someone is in your life for a REASON, it is usually to meet a need you have expressed outwardly or inwardly. They have come to assist you through a difficulty, to provide you with guidance and support, to aid you physically, emotionally, or spiritually. They may seem like a godsend, and they are. They are there for the reason you need them to be. Then, without any wrong doing on your part or at an inconvenient time, this person will say or do something to bring the relationship to an end. Sometimes they die. Sometimes they walk away. Sometimes they act up or out and force you to take a stand. What we must realise is that our need has been met, our desire fulfilled; their work is done. The prayer you sent up has been answered and it is now When people come into your life for a SEASON, it is because your turn has come to share, grow, or learn. They may bring you an experience of peace or make you laugh. They may teach you something you have never done. They usually give you an unbelievable amount of joy. Believe it! It is real! But, only for a season. LIFETIME relationships teach you lifetime lessons; those things you must build upon in order to have a solid emotional foundation. Your job is to accept the lesson, love the person/people (anyway); and put what you have learned to use in all other relationships and areas of your life. It is said that love is blind but friendship is clairvoyant. Thank you for being a part of my life." |
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"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it by not dying" [Woody Allen] |
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"Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat" [Robert Frost] |
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"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid" [Soren Aabye Kierkegarrd] |
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"Seek the Lord while He may be found, call upon Him when he is near..." |
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"The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?" |
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"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty" [Sir Winston Churchill] |
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"Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous, you get knocked down by traffic from both sides" [Baroness Margaret Thatcher] |
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"People take different roads seeking fulfilment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost" [H. Jackson Brown jn] |
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"Be glad in the Lord and rejoice, O righteous, and shout for joy, all you upright in heart" |
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"The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love and something to hope for" [Allan K. Chalmers] |
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"Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything" [Muhammad Ali] |
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"Dreams, ideas, and plans not only are an escape, they give me a purpose, a reason to hang on" [Steven Patrick Callahan] |
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"If you love someone let it go, if it comes back its yours to love, if not it was never yours to love in the first place" |
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"Everyone has a strength, an inspiration, something they believe is invincible" |
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"Only love can make a memory, only love can make a moment last. The broken dreams, the tears are part of life, a life without love is nothing" |
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"Pure morality is only an instinctive adjustment which the soul makes" [D H Lawrence] |
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"May those who sow in tears, reap with shouts of joy" |
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"Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep" [Scott Adams] |
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"Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in Heaven, and glory in the highest Heaven!" |
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"I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive" [Henry Miller] |
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"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door we do not see the one which has opened for us" [Helen Keller] |
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"Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead" [Scottish proverb] |
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"When you are sad, I will dry your tears. When you are scared, I will comfort your fears. When you are worried, I will give you hope. When you are confused, I will help you cope. And when you are lost and can't see the light, I will be your beacon shining ever so bright." |
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"Make today the best day of your life" |
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"Work as if you don't need the money, love as if you've never been hurt and dance as if no-one is watching" |
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"Who can give law to lovers, love is a greater law to itself" [Boethius] |
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