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Of all the judgments we pass in life,
~ ~ Nathaniel Brandon ~ ~
Veronica A. Shoffstall
After a while you learn the subtle difference
to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the best I know how the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference."
~ ~ Abraham Lincoln ~ ~
My hands are small. I don't mean to spill my milk. Please slow down so I can keep up with you. Don't slap my hands I don't understand. Please look at me when I talk to you. It lets me know you are really listening. My feelings are tender. Don't nag me all day. Let me make mistakes without feeling stupid. Don't expect the bed I make or the picture I draw to be perfect. Just love me for trying. Remember I am a child, not a small adult. Sometimes I don't understand what you are saying. I love you so much. Please love me just for being me. Not just for the things I can do.
but there is much, very much, that while I cannot give it, you can take. No heaven can come to us unless our hearts find rest in today. Take Heaven! No peace lies in the future which is not hidden in this present instant. Take Peace! The gloom of the world is but a shadow, behind it, yet within reach is joy. There is a radiance and glory in the darkness, could we but see, and to see, we have only to look! I beseech you to look! Life is so generous a giver, but we, judging its gifts by their covering, cast them away as ugly, or heavy, or hard. Remove the covering, and you will find beneath it a living splendor woven of love, by wisdom, with power. Welcome it, grasp it and you touch the angels hand that brings it to you. Everything we call a trial, a sorrow, or a duty, believe me that angel's hand is there; the gift is there, and the wonder of an overshadowing presence. Our joys too; be not content with them as joys. They too conceal diviner gifts. And so at this time, I greet you. Not quite as the world sends greetings but with profound esteem and with the prayer that for you, now and forever the day breaks and the shadows flee away.
~ ~ FRA GIOVANNI ~ ~
There are little eyes upon you, And they are watching night and day. There are little ears that quickly take In every word you say, There are little hands all eager to do Everything you do, And a little child who's dreaming of the day he'll be like you.
You're the little child's idol,
There's a wide eyed little child who
Not a Race"
a garden of the heart, She planted all the good things that gave my life its start. She turned me to the sunshine and encouraged me to dream, Fostering and nurturing the seeds of self-esteem…
And when the winds I am my mother’s garden.
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