The Songs Along the Way

Some people chase forever
The gold at rainbow's end.
Some never hear a bird sing
Nor the laughter of a friend.
Some search for fields of velvet;
Not watching where they pass.
Some never see a sunrise
Nor the daisies in the grass.
They're always looking elsewhere
For some better day
When it's always right beside them
In the songs along the way.

~Joan Stephen

The World We Make

We make the world in which we live
By what we gather and what we give,
By our daily deeds and the things we say,
By what we keep or cast away.

We make our world by the beauty we see
In a skylark's song or a lilac tree,
In a butterfly's wing, in the pale moon's rise,
And the wonder that lingers in midnight skies.

We make our world by the life we lead,
By the friends we have, by the books we read,
By the pity we shot in the hour of care,
By the loads we lift and the love we share.

We make our world by the goals we pursue,
By the heights we seek and the higher view,
By hopes and dreams that reach the sun
And a will to fight till the heights are won.

What is the place in which we dwell,
A hut or a palace, a heaven or hell,
We gather and scatter, we take and we give,
We make our world - and there we live.

~Alfred Grant Walton (1887 - 1970)

KISS THE RAIN~

YO! ChochO here to post something.
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Go Outside and Play

" Go outside and play!"
said God.
"I have given you Universes as fields to run free in!
And here - take this and wrap yourself in it -
It's called: LOVE
and It will always, always keep you warm.
And stars! The sun and the moon and the stars!
Look upon these often, for they will remind you of your own light!
And eyes... oh, gaze into the eyes of every Lover.
Gaze into the eyes of every other
for they have given you their universes
as fields to run free in.
There.
I have given you everything you need.
Now go, go, go outside
and
play!"
~ 2007 Em Claire

Who Am I

Who am I, and who do I choose to be, in relationship to the starving children of the world? Who am I, and who do I choose to be, in relationship to the oppressed and the downtrodden? Who am I, and who do I choose to be, in relationship to the disaffected and the disadvantaged, the disavowed and the disconnected, the dispossessed and the disenfranchised? Who am I and who do I choose to be?

That is the question. That is what life gives me an opportunity to decide. And likewise, who am I and who do I choose to be in relationship to my own incredibly good fortune, the gifts I have been given, the talents I have been allowed to nurture, the kindness I have been granted, the opportunities I have been offered, the intelligence I have been permitted to possess, the success I have been able to experience?

What do I want to make of this life, and of my Sacred Self in relationship to it? That is the question. That is what life gives me an opportunity to decide. And my life lived is my decision and my answer.

You are faced with the same opportunity. And this much i know. The universe is conspiring in your favour. It is placing before you in every moment of all of the right and perfect people, circumstances, and situations with which to answer life's only question: Who am I.

Have you decided yet?

As I'm sure you know, there are two ways to decide anything. One way is to decide it, and the other way is to not decide it. Yet always remember: Not to decide is to decide.

The important thing is not to allow yourself to be defined by default. If you think you are making no decision by making no decision, you are making a mistake. If you are not careful, the biggest decision you will ever make could be the decision you never made.

So let's be clear: all of life is a deciding. You are deciding... with every truth you embrace, with every thought you birth, with every emotion you express, with every experience you produce... you are deciding Who You Are and Who You Choose to Be.

Every act is an act of self-definition.

Be Good, Have a Heart, Be a GoodHeartz <3

~ When everything changes, change everything by Neale Donald Walsch pp. 266-7.