Life Still Has A Meaning

If there is a future there is time for mending-

Time to see your troubles coming to an ending.

If there is time for wishing then there is time for hoping-

When through doubt and darkness you are blindly groping.

Though the heart be heavy and hurt you may be feeling-

If there is time for praying there is time for healing.

If with harvest over there is grain enough for gleaning-

There is a new tomorrow and life still has meaning.

The Gossip

A woman repeated a bit of gossip about a neighbor. Within a few days the whole community knew the story. The person it concerned was deeply hurt and offended. Later the woman responsible for spreading the rumor learned that it was completely untrue. She was very sorry and went to a wise old sage to find out what she could do to repair the damage.

"Go to the marketplace," he said, "and purchase a chicken, and have it killed. Then on your way home, pluck its feathers and drop them one by one along the road."
Although surprised by this advice, the woman did what she was told.
The next day the wise man said, "Now go and collect all those feathers you dropped yesterday and bring them back to me."

The woman followed the same road, but to her dismay, the wind had blown the feathers all away. After searching for hours, she returned with only three in her hand.
"You see," said the old sage, "it's easy to drop them, but it's impossible to get them back.
So it is with gossip. It doesn't take much to spread a rumor, but once you do, you can never completely undo the wrong."

Memory's Friend

Should your past be a lifetimes’ trial
Of lessons trained in joy and tears

Such recall of this lifetimes’ style

Is help to those with similar fears

No time, in its quality, is the same

Some good, or bad, in mood’s reflection

Remembered are the ways one overcame

The worst of times in recollection

Smile at those hours when all was dark

How you fought your way into the light

How bold ideas became inspired spark

Which then became a tool of insight

Should a friend need such confidence

Who sits in dark times, all alone

Help shoulder the burden of such torments
Sift your mind when time felt the groan.

Bring forth the trial you similarly face

Infuse your friend with advice of time

Help in constructive ways, memory traced

Take away bad and allow the good to climb.

Often the past can be put to the good

What seemed bad is well in the end

Your memory can be nourishing food

If put to good use when helping a friend.

FRIEND

'JUST ME'

Accept me as I am-I have no guarantee.
A claim to perfection I have not.
Perfect I cannot be.
I, like you.... ,am human.
Prone to make mistakes.
Failure is not a character flaw,
Just a part of the human makeup.
I live, I laugh and I also learn.
My knowledge is incomplete.
I am searching all the time,
in waking hours as well as sleep.
I have a long road to travel,
as well as you do.
We learn our lessons on the way.
Wisdom we shall acquire.
Accept me as I am
Because I am ....me.
And You are you.
No one like me in the world.This is my only guarantee.

Real strength

She lays her head on my shoulder
She lets free all her fears
I do my best to hold her
And end the trembling tears

We sit there in silence
Then we talk for a while
I say something funny And I make her smile
And she asks, "Why are you always so happy?"
"How can you never be sad?"
"You're always here to catch me."
"But who's got your back?"

I just shrug and laugh
I push the conversation on, I hold it all in
And I break down when she's gone
I'm never really that happy

I'm almost always down
But I just hold it all in, until no one else is around
You wouldn't cry to me
If you didn't think I was strong

So I can't break down, unless you're gone
You'd have to be like me
And never shed a tear
If you didn't think, that I had no fears
I always feel so empty

But I guess you'll never know I’m always swallowing my pain
So that it won't show I'm never really that happy...

New Year 2007

May your life be filled with
fragrance of roses in this New Year

I wish you Peace In this New year

Resolution on this New Year:
Choose to love-rather than hate.
Choose to smile-rather than frown.
Choose to build-rather than destroy.
Choose to persevere-rather than quit.
Choose to praise-rather than gossip.
Choose to heal-rather than wound.
Choose to give-rather than take.
Choose to act-rather than delay.
Choose to forgive-rather than curse.
Choose to pray-rather than despair