INSPIRATIONS

Wednesday, March 05, 2008

READ EACH SENTENCE SLOWLY AND THINK ABOUT IT.

Love starts with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a tear.


Don't cry over anyone who won't cry over you.


Good friends are hard to find, harder to leave, and impossible to forget.


Don't let the past hold you back, you're missing the good stuff.


BEST FRIENDS are the siblings God forgot to give us.


When it hurts to look back, and you're scared to look ahead, you can look beside you and your BEST FRIEND will be there.


Nobody is perfect until you fall in love with them.


Send this on to everyone special in your life, even the people who really make you mad sometimes and to the! people whose lives you want to be in!!!

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Sunday, November 04, 2007

Reflection

The other day a young person asked me how I felt
about being old. I was taken back, for I do not think of
myself as old. Upon seeing my reaction, she was immediately
embarrassed, but I explained that it was an interesting question, and I would
ponder it, and let her know.

Old Age, I decided, is a gift.......

I am now, probably for the first time in my life,
the person I have always wanted to be. Oh, not my
body! I sometime despair
over my body, the wrinkles, the baggy eyes, and
the sagging butt. And I
didn't need, but looks so avante garde on my
patio. I am entitled to a
treat, to be messy, to be extravagant.

I have seen too many dear friends leave this world
too soon; before they understood the great freedom
that comes with aging.

Whose business is it if I choose to read or play
on the computer until 4 AM and sleep until noon?

I will dance with myself to those wonderful tunes
of the 50's & 60's and if I, at the same time, wish to
weep over a lost love
... I will.

I will walk the beach in a swim suit that is
stretched over a bulging body, and will dive into the waves
with abandon if I choose to, despite the pitying glances from the
jet set.

They, too, will get old.

I know I am sometimes forgetful. But there again,
some of life is just as well forgotten. And I
eventually remember the important things.

Sure, over the years my heart has been broken.
How can your heart not break when you lose a loved one, or
when a child suffers, or even when somebody's beloved pet gets hit by a
car? But broken hearts are what give us strength and understanding
and compassion. A heart never broken is pristine and sterile and
will never know the joy of being imperfect.

I am so blessed to have lived long enough to have
my hair turning gray, and to have my youthful laughs
be forever etched into deep grooves on my face. So many have never
laughed, and so many have
died before their hair could turn silver.

As you get older, it is easier to be positive. You
care less about what other people think. I don't
question myself anymore.
I've even earned the right to be wrong.

So, to answer your question, I like being old. It
has set me free. I like the person I have become. I
am not going to live
forever, but while I am still here, I will not
waste time lamenting what
could have been, or worrying about what will be.
And I shall eat
dessert every single day. (If I feel like it)!!!!

MAY OUR FRIENDSHIP NEVER COME APART ESPECIALLY
WHEN IT'S STRAIGHT FROM THE HEART!

MAY YOU ALWAYS HAVE A RAINBOW OF SMILES ON YOUR
FACE AND IN YOUR HEART FOREVER AND EVER!

Send this to some old person for a smile, and some
young ones for a dose of reality !

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Monday, February 26, 2007

Take Hold of Every Moment

A friend of mine opened his wife's underwear drawer and picked up a silk paper wrapped package:


"This, - he said - isn't any ordinary package."


He unwrapped the box and stared at both the silk paper and the box.


"She got this the first time we went to
New York , 8 or 9 years ago. She has never put it on. Was saving it for a special occasion.
Well, I guess this is it. He got near the bed and placed the gift box next to the other clothings he was taking to the funeral house, his wife had just died. He turned to me and said:


"Never save something for a special occasion. Every day in your life is a special occasion".


I still think those words changed my life.

Now I read more and clean less.

I sit on the porch without worrying about anything.


I spend more time with my family, and less at work.

I understood that life should be a source of experience to be lived up to, not survived through. I no longer keep anything. I use crystal glasses every day. I'll wear new clothes to go to the supermarket, if i feel like it.




I don't save my special perfume for special occasions, I use it whenever I want to. The words "Someday..." and "One Day..." are fading away from my dictionary. If it's worth seeing, listening or doing, I want to see, listen or do it now. I don't know what my friend's wife would have done if she knew she wouldn't be there the next morning, this nobody can tell. I think she might have called her relatives and closest friends.
She might call old friends to make peace over past quarrels. I'd like to think she would go out for Chinese, her favorite food. It's these small things that I would regret not doing, if I knew my time had come.


I would regret it, because I would no longer see the friends I would meet, letters... letters that i wanted to write


"One of this days".


I would regret and feel sad, because I didn't say to my brothers and sons, not times enough at least, how much

"
I love them".

Now, I try not to delay, postpone or keep anything that could bring laughter and joy into our lives..

And, on each morning, I say to myself that this could be a special day..

Each day, each hour, each minute, is special.


If you got this, it's because someone cares for you and because, probably, there's someone you care about.

If you're too busy to send this out to other people and you say to yourself that you will send it "One of these days" , remember that "One day" is far away... or might never come..

This
TANTRA came from India No matter if you're superstitious or not, spend some time reading it.
It holds useful messages for the soul.



Don't keep this message.


This Tantra must leave your hands within 96 hours
.


Send copies and watch what goes on in the next four days
.


You'll have a pleasent surprise.

This is true, even if you're not superstitious.


Now, here's the fun of it:



send this message to at least 5 people and you're life improves.


0-4 people: your life improves slightly.



5-9 people: your life improves according to your expectations
!

9-14 people: you'll have at least 5 surprises in the next 3 weeks.

15 or more people: your life improves drastically and your dreams start to take shape.


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Wednesday, January 03, 2007

GEORGE CARLIN (His wife recently died...)

Isn't it amazing that George Carlin - gross and mouthy comedian of the 70's and 80's - could write something so very eloquent...and so very appropriate.

A wonderful Message by George Carlin:

The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider Freeways , but narrower viewpoints.

We spend more, but have less, we buy more, but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and smaller families, more conveniences, but less time.

We have more degrees but less sense, more knowledge, but less judgment, more experts, yet more problems, more medicine, but less wellness.

We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too little, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom.

We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often.

We've learned how to make a living, but not a life. We've added years to life not life to years.

We've been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet a new neighbor.

We conquered outer space but not inner space. We've done larger things, but not better things.We've cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul.

We've conquered the atom, but not our prejudice. We write more, but learn less. We plan more, but accomplish less.

We've learned to rush, but not to wait. We build more computers to hold more information, to produce more copies than ever, but we communicate less and less.

These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion, big men and small character, steep profits and shallow relationships.

These are the days of two incomes but more divorce, fancier houses, but broken homes. These are days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throwaway morality, one night stands, overweight bodies, and pills that do everything from cheer, to quiet, to kill.

It is a time when there is much in the showroom window and nothing in the stockroom. A time when technology can bring this letter to you, and a time when you can choose either to share this insight, or to just hit delete...

Remember; spend some time with your loved ones, because they are not going to be around forever.Remember, say a kind word to someone who looks up to you in awe, because that little person soon will grow up and leave your side.

Remember, to give a warm hug to the one next to you, because that is the only treasure you can give with your heart and it doesn't cost a cent.Remember, to say, "I love you" to your partner and your loved ones, but most of all mean it.

A kiss and an embrace will mend hurt when it comes from deep inside of you.Remember to hold hands and cherish the moment for someday that person will not be there again.

Give time to love, give time to speak! And give time to share the precious thoughts in your mind.AND ALWAYS REMEMBER:Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

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Wednesday, August 09, 2006

HOPE YOU CAN SEND THE GREEN DOG BACK TO ME!!]

HOPE YOU CAN SEND THE GREEN DOG BACK TO ME!!]

Hope you can send the green dog back to ME!
Read Each One Carefully and Think About It a Second or Two

1. I love you not because of who you are, but
because of who I am when I am with you.

2. No man or woman is worth your tears, and the one
who is, won't make you cry.

3. Just because someone doesn't love you the way you
want them to, doesn't mean they don't love you with
all they have.

4. A true friend is someone who reaches for your
hand and touches your heart.

5. The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting
right beside them knowing you can't have them

6. Never frown, even when you are sad, because you
never know who is falling in love with your smile.

7 To the world you may be one person, but to one
person you may be the world.

8. Don't waste your time on a man/woman, who isn't
willing to waste their time on you.

9. Maybe God wants us to meet a few wrong people
before meeting the right one, so that when we
finally meet the person, we will know how to be
grateful.

10. Don't cry because it is over, smile because it
happened.

11. There's always going to be people that hurt you
so what you have to do is keep on trusting and just
be more careful about who you trust next time
around.

12. Make yourself a better person and know who you are before you try and
know someone else and expect them to know you.

13. Don't try so hard, the best things come when you
least expect them to.

REMEMBER: WHATEVER HAPPENS, HAPPENS FOR A REASON.

True friends: How many people actually have 8 true friends?

Hardly anyone I know ! But some of us have all right
friends and good friends!!!

You have been Tagged by the Green Dog!
,-._,-.
\/)"(\/
(_o_)
ruff!!!!!!

You will Have Good Luck For Two Years if you send
this to 8 people or more and if this is sent back to
you then you are a true friend......

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Sunday, July 16, 2006

The Letter

Sally jumped up as soon as she saw the surgeon come
out of the operating room.

She said: "How is my little boy? Is he going to be all
right? When can I see him?"

The surgeon said, "I'm sorry. We did all we could, but
your boy didn't make it."

Sally said, "Why do little children get cancer?
Doesn't God care any more? Where were you, God, when
my son needed you?"

The surgeon asked, "Would you like some time alone
with your son? One of the nurses will be out in a few
minutes, before he's transported to the university."

Sally asked the nurse to stay with her while she said
good-bye to son. She ran her fingers lovingly through
his thick red curly hair.

"Would you like a lock of his hair?" the nurse asked.
Sally nodded yes. The nurse cut a lock of the boy's
hair, put it in a plastic bag and handed it to Sally.

The mother said, "It was Jimmy's idea to donate his
body to the university for study. He said it might
help somebody else. I said no at first, but Jimmy
said, "Mom, I won't be using it after I die. Maybe it
will help some other little boy spend one more day
with his Mom." She went on,"My Jimmy had a heart of
gold. Always thinking of someone else. Always wanting
to help others if he could."

Sally walked out of Children's mercy Hospital for the
last time, after spending most of the last six months
there. She put the bag with Jimmy's belongings on the
seat beside her in the car. The drive home was
difficult.

It was even harder to enter the empty house. She
carried Jimmy's belongings, and the plastic bag with
the lock of his hair to her son's room. She started
placing the model cars and other personal things back
in his room exactly where he had always kept them. She
laid down across his bed and, hugging his pillow,
cried herself to sleep.

It was around midnight when Sally awoke. Laying beside
her on the bed was a folded letter. The letter said:

Dear Mom,

I know you're going to miss me; but don't think that I
will ever forget you, or stop loving you, just 'cause
I'm not around to say I LOVE YOU. I will always love
you, Mom, even more with each day. Someday we will see
each other again. Until then, if you want to adopt a
little boy so you won't be so lonely, that's okay with
me. He can have my room and old stuff to play with.

But, if you decide to get a girl instead, she probably
wouldn't like the same things us boys do. You'll have
to buy her dolls and stuff girls like, you know. Don't
be sad thinking about me.

This really is a neat place. Grandma and Grandpa met
me as soon as I got here and showed me around some,
but it will take a long time to see everything. The
angels are so cool. I love to watch them fly. And, you
know what? Jesus doesn't look like any of his
pictures. Yet, when I saw Him, I knew it was Him.

Jesus himself took me to see GOD! And guess what, Mom?
I got to sit on God's knee and talk to Him, like I was
somebody important. That's when I told Him that I
wanted to write you a letter, to tell you good-bye and
everything. But I already knew that wasn't allowed.

Well, you know what Mom? God handed me some paper and
His own personal pen to write you this letter. I think
Gabriel is the name of the angel who is going to drop
this letter off to you. God said for me to give you
the answer to one of the questions you asked Him
'Where was He when I needed him?' "God said He was in
the same place with me, as when His son Jesus was on
the cross. He was right there, as He always is with
all His children.

Oh, by the way, Mom, no one else can see what I've
written except you. To everyone else this is just a
blank piece of paper. Isn't that cool? I have to give
God His pen back now. He needs it to write some more
names in the Book of Life. Tonight I get to sit at the
table with Jesus for supper. I'm, sure the food will
be great.

Oh, I almost forgot to tell you. I don't hurt anymore.
The cancer is all gone.

I'm glad because I couldn't stand that pain anymore
and God couldn't stand to see me hurt so much, either.
That's when He sent The Angel of Mercy to come get me.
The Angel said I was a Special Delivery! How about
that?

Signed with Love from:

God, Jesus & Me.



Let's see Satan stop this one. Take 60-seconds and
send this to five other people, within the hour, you
will have caused a multitude of believers to pray to
God for each other. Then sit back and feel the Holy
Spirit work in your life for doing what you know God
loves



sophia

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Saturday, June 24, 2006

Words of Encouragement

Words of Encouragement

There are people ............

There will always be people in life who try to do this to you. . .




But just continue to be strong . . . and keep moving forward!
I just wanted to let you know that even though it sometimes seems
as if for every step we take forward, we're pushed back 10. . .
Just stay strong and we will get where we are destined to be. . .
And never forget that "What God has for you is for YOU". . .
Continue to trust God...

The steps of a good and righteous man are ordered by the Lord . . .
So, Order your steps in His word. . .

Remain encouraged.

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Without God's Love

Without God's Love for U and I, The days of the week would have been:
Mournday,
Tearsday,
Wasteday,
Thirstday ,
Fightday,
Shatterday, &
Sadday .
So we need to give God the Glory Who made the days a Blessing to US! Have a strong conviction that it shall be well with you this year, I am of the opinion that no matter how many obstacles u come across this year you will succeed. You have been destined to make it and you shall surely achieve all your goals this year.

If you believe send it to 7 persons and the person who sent it to you. By doing this you have succeeded in praying for 8 people today. God Bless You.

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