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[kelco]

George Gray



I HAVE studied many times
The marble which was chiseled for me—
A boat with a furled sail at rest in a harbor.
In truth it pictures not my destination
But my life.
For love was offered me and I shrank from its disillusionment;
Sorrow knocked at my door, but I was afraid;
Ambition called to me, but I dreaded the chances.
Yet all the while I hungered for meaning in my life.
And now I know that we must lift the sail
And catch the winds of destiny
Wherever they drive the boat. T
To put meaning in one’s life may end in madness,
But life without meaning is the torture
Of restlessness and vague desire—
It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.

Edgar Lee Masters

 

[tulc]

Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in your reading have been like the blast of triumph out of Shakespeare, Seneca, Moses, John and Paul.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

[brinny]

Deep, so deep that it stirs one's soul kelco. Your honed sensitivity in discovering these hidden gems is a gift. If ever you have suffered in life, God is showing the rest of us why. In the suffering He has opened a passageway that resonates His grace from the very depths of the carvings He has forged so deep inside. In the unseen weavings and patterns that are not yet apparent, He designs an exquisite tapestry, the likes of which cannot be imagined.

How beautiful does it shine, His grace through you.

 

[tulc]

(please take a moment to read this, I was...touched? in so many ways by it.

Hello, my name is Billy Evans. I am a very sick little boy. My mother
is typing this for me because I can't. She is crying. The reason she
is so sad is because I'm so sick. I was born without a body. It
doesn't hurt, except when I try to breathe. The doctors gave me an
artificial body. It is a burlap bag filled with leaves. The doctors
said that was the best they could do on account of us having no money
or insurance. I would like to have a body transplant, but we need
more money. Mommy doesn't work because she said nobody hires crying
people. I said, "Don't cry, Mommy," and she hugged my burlap bag.
Mommy always gives me hugs, even though she's allergic to burlap and
it makes her sneeze and chafes her real bad.

I hope you will help me. You can help me if you forward this e-mail
to everyone you know. Forward it to people you don't know, too. Dr.
Johansensteiner said that for every person you forward this e-mail
to, Bill Gates will team up with AOL and send a nickel to NASA. With
that funding, NASA will collect prayers from school children all over
America and have the astronauts take them up into space so that the
angels
can hear them better. They will then come back to earth and go to the
Pope. He will take up a collection in church and send all the money
to the doctors.

The doctors could help me get better then. Maybe one day I will be
able to play baseball; right now I can only be third base. Every
time you forward this letter, the astronauts can take more prayers to
the
angels and my dream will be closer to coming true. Please help me!
Mommy is so sad, and I want a body. I don't want my leaves to rot
before I turn 10.

If you don't forward this e-mail, that's okay. Mommy says you're a
mean, rotten and heartless ******* who doesn't care about a poor
little boy with only a head. She says that if you don't stew in the
raw pit of your
own guilt-ridden stomach, she hopes you die a long, slow, horrible
death and then burn forever in hell! What kind of cruel person are
you that you can't take five freakin' minutes to forward this to all
your
friends so that they can feel guilt and shame about ignoring a poor,
bodiless nine year old boy?

Please help me. I try to be happy, but it's hard. I wish I had a
kitty. I wish I could hold a kitty. I wish I could hold a kitty that
wouldn't chew on me and try to bury its turds in the leaves of my
burlap body. I wish that very much!
Thank you,
Billy "Smiley" Evans

 

[kelco]

Lol!!!!!!

 

[brinny]

Wow tulc, I was touched in so many ways as well.

 

[kelco]

Isa 41:10 Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.

Precious Lord Take My Hand

Precious Lord take my hand
Lead me on, help me stand
I am tired, I am weak, I am worn
Thro' the storm, thro' the night
Lead me on to the light
Take my hand precious Lord, lead me home

When my way grows drear
Precious Lord, linger near
When my life is almost gone
Hear my cry, hear my call
Hold my hand, lest I fall
Take my hand precious Lord, lead me home

When the shadows appear
And the night draws near
And the faith I had is gone
At the river I stand
Guide my feet, hold my hand
Take my hand precious Lord, lead me home.

Thomas A Dorsey

 

[tulc]

Why not let people differ about their answers to the great mysteries of the
Universe? Let each seek one's own way to the highest, to one's own sense of
supreme loyalty in life, one's ideal of life. Let each philosophy, each
world-view bring forth its truth and beauty to a larger perspective, that
people may grow in vision, stature and dedication.
-Algernon Black

 

[John 15:13]

Feel lucky punk? -Clint Eastwood

-and-

There's no crying in baseball! -Tom Hanks

 

[mochagirl]

"Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday" --Anonymous

 

[ouse]

a rolling rock gathers no moss...... i guess you could take this two ways,i think

 

[kelco]

The implications of the name "Immanuel" are both comforting and unsettling. Comforting, because He has come to share the danger as well as the drudgery of our everyday lives. He desires to weep with us and to wipe away our tears. And what seems most bizarre, Jesus Christ, the Son of God, longs to share in and to be the source of the laughter and the joy we all too rarely know.

Michael Card

 

[chris714ndud3]

One I saw on a friend's AIM profile:

"Christmas is not just the birth of a baby; but a heavenly father saying good bye to his only son." - anonymous

 

[tulc]

Drink caffeine! Do stupid things faster, with more energy.

 

[VanillaRose]

My fave quote is:
"If you never walk through the rain you'll never know how good the sun feels."

"I have strong feelings about gun control. If there's a gun around, I want to be controlling it." ~Clint Eastwood

 

[Blessed-one]

"We humans do not understand compassion. In each moment of our lives, we betray it. Aye, we know its worth, yet in knowing we then attach to it a value, we guard the giving of it, believing it must be earned. T'lan Imass. Compassion is priceless in the truest sense of the word. It must be given freely. In abundance."

- "Memories of Ice" by Steven Erikson

 

[cygnusx1]

"Arm yourselves, and be ye men of valor, and be in readiness for the conflict; for it is better for us to perish in battle than to look upon the outrage of our nation and our altar."
- Prime Minister Winston Churchill

 

[freespirit2001]

"It is though myths that men are lifted above their captivity in the ordinary, attain powerful visions of the future, and realize such visions."

---Peter Berger, Pyramids of Sacrifice

"This life is a comedy to those that think, a tradegy to those that feel."

---Horace Walpole

 

[Sipes13]

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln

 

[tulc]

All ... religions show the same disparity between belief and practice, and
each is safe till it tries to exclude the rest. Test each sect by its best
or its worst as you will, by its high-water mark of virtue or its low-water
mark of vice. But falsehood begins when you measure the ebb of any other
religion against the flood-tide of your own. There is a noble and a base
side to every history.
-Thomas Wentworth Higginson