I believe the children are our future, Teach them well and let them lead the way, Show them all the beauty they possess inside. Give them a sense of pride to make it easier, Let the children's laughter remind us how we used to be.
Everybody's searching for a hero, People need someone to look up to, I never found anyone who fulfilled my needs. A lonely place to be, And so I learned to depend on me.
I decided long ago, never to walk in anyone's shadows, If I fail, if I succeed At least I'll live as I believe, No matter what they take from me They can't take away my dignity, Because the greatest love of all Is happening to me, I found the greatest love of all Inside of me. The greatest love of all Is easy to achieve, Learning to love yourself It is the greatest love of all.
"He who walks with the wise grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm." - Proverb
"Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them." - W. Clement Stone
MainMessageForToday Do not mix with the wrong crowd, i.e. stay away from the wrong environment. Your environment could lead you to do wrong things.
Wednesday, February 17, 2016
From the song 'Evil' by Stevie Wonder:
Evil, why have you engulfed so many hearts...Evil Evil, why have you destroyed so many minds... Leaving room for darkness, where lost dreams can hide.
Evil, why do you infest our purest thoughts, with hatred. Evil, why have you stolen so much love... Leaving everyone's emotions lost and wandering free.
Evil, why have you taken over God's children's eyes...Evil Evil, before they could really grow to see, That your way, is not the way, to make, life what it should be, Yea, yea, yea Evil, why have you destroyed, you've destroyed so much of this doggone world...Evil Evil, oh, why have you broken so many homes... Leaving everyone's emotions lost and wandering free.
"Man has always been dexterous at confusing evil with good. That was Adam's and Eve's problem, and it is our problem today. If evil were not made to appear attractive, there would be no such thing as temptation." - Billy Graham
"The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be either good or evil." - Hannah Arendt
"All human beings are commingled out of good and evil." - Robert Louis Stevenson
"Everyone spends their lives trying to balance their world between good and evil." - Laurell K. Hamilton
"We're all caught up in circumstances, and we're all good and evil. When you're really hungry, for instance, you'll do anything to survive. I think the most evil thing - well, maybe that's too strong - but certainly a very evil thing is judgment, the sin of ignorance." - Anthony Hopkins
"If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?" - Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago
MainMessageForToday Doing good rather than evil is easier said than done. Lots of people struggle with this.
Tuesday, February 16, 2016
From the song 'Choices' by George Jones:
I've had choices since the day that I was born, There were voices that told me right from wrong, If I had listened, no I wouldn't be here today, Living and dying with the choices I've made.
I was tempted, by an early age I found, I liked drinkin', oh, and I never turned it down, There were loved ones but I turned them all away, Now I'm living and dying with the choices I've made.
Did Eddie Murphy's character do the right thing in the right way in this clip from the movie 'The Golden Child'? It may take courage to do a crazy or wrong thing also.
"To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage." - Confucius
"You have only always to do what is right. It will become easier by practice, and you enjoy in the midst of your trials the pleasure of an approving conscience." - Robert E. Lee
"The Voice
There is a voice inside of you That whispers all day long, "I feel this is right for me, I know that this is wrong." No teacher, preacher, parent, friend Or wise man can decide What's right for you--just listen to The voice that speaks inside."
― Shel Silverstein
"The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it." - H. Norman Schwarzkopf
"Learning what to choose, and how to choose, may be the most important education you will ever receive." - Dr. Shad Helmstetter
MainMessageForToday Strive to do the right thing. It can be a difficult choice.
Monday, February 15, 2016
Song 'Live Like You Were Dying' by Tim McGraw:
He said , "I was in my early forties With a lot of life before me, And a moment came that stopped me on a dime . I spent most of the next days, Looking at the x-rays, Talkin' 'bout the options, And talkin' 'bout sweet time." I asked him, "When it sank in That this might really be the real end How's it hit you When you get that kind of news? Man, what'd you do?"
He said, "I went skydiving, I went Rocky Mountain climbing, I went 2.7 seconds on a bull named Blue Manchu, And I loved deeper, And I spoke sweeter, And I gave forgiveness I'd been denying." And he said, "Someday I hope you get the chance To live like you were dying."
He said, "I was finally the husband, That most of the time I wasn't, And I became a friend a friend would like to have. And all of a sudden going fishin' Wasn't such an imposition, And I went three times that year I lost my dad. I finally read the Good Book, and I Took a good, long, hard look At what I'd do if I could do it all again, And then
I went skydiving, I went Rocky Mountain climbing, I went 2.7 seconds on a bull named Fu Manchu, And I loved deeper, And I spoke sweeter, And I gave forgiveness I'd been denying." And he said, "Someday I hope you get the chance To live like you were dying, Like tomorrow was a gift, And you've got eternity To think about What you'd do with it , What could you do with it, What did I do with it? What would I do with it?
Skydiving, I went Rocky mountain climbing, I went 2.7 seconds on a bull named Fu Manchu, And I loved deeper, And I spoke sweeter, And I watched an eagle as it was flying." And he said, "Someday I hope you get the chance To live like you were dying, To live like you were dying, To live like you were dying."
