Simple Joys Are Enough

Circumstances any better?
Not really.
Beauty on the horizon?
Not exactly.
Love in the air?
Not especially.
Fortunes changing?
Not particularly.
Then why this
feeling of well being?
Must be because
God is good and
simple joys are enough:
A friend back safely
A baby born strong
A child getting help
A hug that lasts all day
The sun coming out.
It's the kind of peace
that comes
without shouting.

Isaiah 26:3
Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.

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Did You Ask to Be Born?

If you could have asked
wouldn't you ask to be born?
So you could learn to love?
If you got to choose
wouldn't you choose to be born,
and face both pain and joy?
Not miss a minute
of the love of a child,
a summer wind
or a prayer that sang to the sky
Too, some long lonely days,
sorrow deeper than deep
and longing unfulfilled
Yet I think though you knew
of both the pain and the joy
you would ask to be born
again.

I hear it all the time:  "Well, you know I didn't ask to be born," or she or he "didn't ask to be born." The implication being, so it's not her fault. So don't blame him. So someone should make it up to them.  But I'm not sure that's true.  I am sure that if I could have asked to be born, I would have. Read comments about this question here.

"In God Is Our Trust" -- a Marine Sings the 4th Verse of the Star Spangled Banner

Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

Now, the Marine sings it: (YouTube clip)

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The White Light Around You

There, when you moved your head I saw it.

All around you was a glow.

A halo of white light.

Tremulous at first,

but then growing strong.

There, when you stood

it was above you

your head crowned

with a shimmering

white light . . .

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What to Do With Your Next $100: Give It Away

What is your Financial Mentality? You'll know by the way you manage your money.

Congratulations! You just found a $100 bill on the sidewalk, or got it in the mail. Surprise money, unexpected, and un-budgeted. Now what are you going to do with it? Go out for a great dinner? Pay a bill? Buy

something you desperately need? Hide it? Give it away? What you would do indicates your Financial Mentality, and maybe even your financial future.

Read more here. /what_to_do_with_your_next_100_save.html?cat=3

Simple Joys Are Enough
There is a peace that comes without shouting.
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Did You Ask to Be Born?
People say they didn't ask to be born. But maybe they did.
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