Just woke up from my nap (actually my sis woke me up by ringing the phone off the hook till I got up to answer it...darn her...but I told her I would go to the movies with her, so I guess it's good she woke me)
Been kinda slacking off on posting the uplifting poems I said I would do each day...so maybe...not every day...but instead, every so often :-)
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The Salution of the Dawn
Listen to the exhortation of dawn!
Look to this day! For it is life,
The very life of life
In its brief course lie all the varieties and realities of your existence.
The bliss of growth
The glory of action,
The splendor of beauty,
For yesterday is but a dream,
And tomorrow is only a vision:
But today well lived
Makes every yesterday a dream of happiness,
And every tomorrow a vision of hope.
Look well, therefore, to this day!
Such is the salutation of the dawn.
--->From the Sanskirt
"Take your needle...and work at your pattern;
it will come out a rose by and by;
Life is like that'
one stich at a time taken patiently,
and the pattern will come out all right
like the embroidery.
---> Oliver Wendell Holmes
Life Is Good
Let me not fail to find that life is good.
Though storms my rage around me, and the dark
Press close upon the heights whereon I've stood,
Let me lift up a song as does the lark
Sure of the warming sunlight when the shower
Is done, and rainbow beauty rims the hill,
For nothing hinders God's almighty power
To summon blessings where and how He will.
From out the stormiest place, the darkest deep,
At His great word a steadfast friend may come,
Or from the loss that once I stayed to weep,
A shining blessing greater than the sum
Of all my woes. I need but take His hand
To see life fair, to see it whole and new,
Touched with His matchless glory, like a land
Of promise such as eager pilgrims view.
I need but trust His love, as all men should,
To know with joy and faith that life is good.
---> Eleanor Halbrook Zimmerman
Let us be of good cheer,
remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear
are those which never come.
---> James Russell Lowell