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Bill's Blog - Monthly Summary
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Hello! Here's a summary of my posts from the past month. I'm glad you're with me on the journey. My goal for this journey through life is to "wake up, remember and come alive," and help others do the same. So to that end, take what's helpful here and leave the rest! (Looking forward to reading some of your post comments as well.) |
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"The good life starts only when you stop wanting a better one." Bertrand Russell I stumbled upon this quote this week that "hit me like a ton of bricks". I live a lot of my life in the future. In some ways in my life right now I feel stuck and I want something better. That's a part of my …
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The Other Seven Wonders A group of students were asked to list what they thought were the present “Seven Wonders of the World.” Though there were some disagreements, the following received the most votes: Egypt’s Great Pyramids Taj Mahal Grand Canyon Panama Canal Empire State Building St. Peter’s Basilica China’s Great Wall While gathering the votes, the teacher noted that …
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Don't Expect Applause (Ellen Bass) And yet, wouldn't it be welcome at the end of each ordinary day? The audience could be small, the theater modest. Folding chairs in a church basement would do. ...Just a short earnest burst of applause that you got up that morning and, one way or the other, made it through the day. You soaped …
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The Black Dot One day a professor entered the classroom and asked his students to prepare for a surprise test. They waited anxiously at their desks for the test to begin. The professor handed out the question paper, with the text facing down as usual. Once he handed them all out, he asked his students to turn the page and …
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"Christ be with me, Christ within me,
Christ behind me, Christ before me,
Christ beside me, Christ to win me,
Christ to comfort and restore me.
Christ beneath me, Christ above me,
Christ in quiet, Christ in danger,
Christ in hearts of all that love me,
Christ in mouth of friend and stranger."
Saint Patrick
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It's one of my favorite poems, "Tired of Speaking Sweetly" by Hafiz. A poem with striking images reminding us about how essential and important it is to get rid of all our erroneous beliefs about and distorted images of God so that with God's help we will come to, "know this love that surpasses knowledge." Tired of Speaking Sweetly (Hafiz) Love wants to …
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Soul Identity: "You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body." - George MacDonald
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The Cracked Pot A legend tells of a man who used to carry water every day to his village, using two large pots tied on either end of a piece of wood, which he placed across his shoulders. One of the pots was older than the other and was full of small cracks; every time the man came back along the path …
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First Lesson (Phillip Booth) Lie back daughter, let your head be tipped back in the cup of my hand. Gently, and I will hold you. Spread your arms wide, lie out on the stream and look high at the gulls. A dead- man's float is face down. You will dive and swim soon enough where this tidewater ebbs to the …
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“God, grant me the serenity
To stop beating myself up for not doing things perfectly,
The courage to forgive myself because I’m working on doing better,
And the wisdom to know that You already love me just the way I am.”
Eleanor Brownn
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We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." Anaïs Nin (Also attributed to Talmud, Immanuel Kant, G. T. W. Patrick, H. M. Tomlinson and Steven Covey.) So if I am... angry fearful confused scared unloving unkind nonaccepting rude What will I see or project onto others? The same. To change the world without, change the …
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A poor man lived with his wife and six children in a very small one-room house. They were always getting in each other’s way and there was so little space they could hardly breathe! Finally the man could stand it no more. He talked to his wife and asked her what to do. “Go see the rabbi,” she told him, …
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Blessing the Dust - A Blessing for Ash Wednesday (Jan Richardson) All those days you felt like dust, like dirt, as if all you had to do was turn your face toward the wind and be scattered to the four corners or swept away by the smallest breath as insubstantial - did you not know what the Holy One can …
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"God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.
Living one day at a time;
Enjoying one moment at a time;
Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace;
Taking, as He did, this sinful world
as it is, not as I would have it;
Trusting that He will make all things right
if I surrender to His Will;
That I may be reasonably happy in this life
and supremely happy with Him
Forever in the next.
Amen."
Reinhold Niebuhr
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