Love is a force. It is not a result; it is a cause. It is not a product; it produces. It is a power, like money, or steam or electricity. It is valueless unless you can give something else by means of it. --Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Love and feeling loved--how often both elude us! We have taken the first step, though. Let's be grateful for our recovery; this is an act of love. We have chosen to love ourselves, and the program opens the way to our loving others. Love and loving are balms for the soul sickness we experience. We are being healed. We are healing one another.
Loving others means going beyond our own selfish concerns, for the moment, and putting others' concerns first. The result is that others feel our love. They feel a caring that is healing. And our spiritual natures are likewise soothed.
We find God and ourselves through touching the souls of one another. Our most special gift is being loved and giving love. Every moment we spend with another person is gift-giving time.
Every day is a gift-giving holiday, if I will but make it so.
Phil said
Aug 16, 2005
A COWBOY'S GUIDE TO LIFE
- Don't name a pig you plan to eat.
- Country fences need to be horse high, pig tight, and bull strong.
- Life is not about how fast you run, or how high you climb, but how well
you bounce.
- Keep skunks and bankers at a distance.
- Life is simpler when you plough around the stump.
- A bumble bee is faster than a John Deere tractor.
- Words that soak into your ears are whispered, not yelled.
- Meanness don't happen overnight.
- Forgive your enemies. It messes with their heads.
- Don't sell your mule to buy a plough.
- Don't corner something meaner than you.
- It don't take a very big person to carry a grudge.
- You can't unsay a cruel thing.
- Every path has some puddles.
- When you wallow with pigs, expect to get dirty.
- The best sermons are lived, not preached.
- Most of the stuff people worry about never happens.
- Don't squat with your spurs on.
- Don't judge people by their relatives.
- Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
- Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back,
you'll enjoy it a second time.
- Don't interfere with something that ain't botherin' you none.
- Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance.
- It's better to be a has-been than a never-was.
- The easiest way to eat crow is while it's still warm. The colder it gets,
the harder it is to swaller.
- If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop diggin'.
- If it don't seem like it's worth the effort, it probably ain't.
- It don't take a genius to spot a goat in a flock of sheep.
- Sometimes you get and sometimes you get got.
- The biggest troublemaker you'll probably ever have to deal with watches
you shave his face in the mirror every morning.
- If you get to thinkin' you're a person of some influence, try orderin'
somebody else's dog around.
- Don't worry about bitin' off more'n you can chew; your mouth is probably
a whole lot bigger'n you think.
- Only cows know why they stampede.
- Always drink upstream from the herd.
- If you're ridin' ahead of the herd, take a look back every now and then
to make sure it's still there with ya.
- Good judgment comes from experience, and a lotta that comes from bad
judgment.
- Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier than puttin' it back in.
- You can't tell how good a man or a watermelon is 'till they get thumped.
- Never miss a good chance to shut up.
Ok-Ile Shut up now:)
nancyjo59 said
Aug 16, 2005
Lots of good stuff to think about!
Some of my favorites:
You made your bed...now lay in it.
If you go to bed with dogs...you"ll wake up with fleas.
If you want to play the fiddle...You gotta pay the fiddler's fee
I had a "wooden whistle"...and it "wooden whistle"...I had a "steel whistle" and it steel wooden whistle...I had a" tin whistle"..."tin you whistle"?
Love and feeling loved--how often both elude us! We have taken the first step, though. Let's be grateful for our recovery; this is an act of love. We have chosen to love ourselves, and the program opens the way to our loving others. Love and loving are balms for the soul sickness we experience. We are being healed. We are healing one another.
Loving others means going beyond our own selfish concerns, for the moment, and putting others' concerns first. The result is that others feel our love. They feel a caring that is healing. And our spiritual natures are likewise soothed.
We find God and ourselves through touching the souls of one another. Our most special gift is being loved and giving love. Every moment we spend with another person is gift-giving time.
Every day is a gift-giving holiday, if I will but make it so.
Lots of good stuff to think about!
Some of my favorites:
You made your bed...now lay in it.
If you go to bed with dogs...you"ll wake up with fleas.
If you want to play the fiddle...You gotta pay the fiddler's fee
I had a "wooden whistle"...and it "wooden whistle"...I had a "steel whistle" and it steel wooden whistle...I had a" tin whistle"..."tin you whistle"?
Nancy Jo