IF you can keep your head when all about you panic..
IF you can stand your ground when many others doubt...
IF you can wait, and not be tired of waiting...
IF you can resist all lies and blame and hating...
IF you can dream, and not make dreams your master...
IF you can think, and not make thoughts your aim...
IF you can hear the truth when it is spoken...
IF you can humble your life when things are broken...
IF you can start again when faced with loss...
IF you can look beyond the here and now...
IF you can walk with the crowd and keep your virtue...
IF you can hold on when there is nothing in you...
IF you can fill each minute with all that it can hold...
IF you can truly care for those who hurt you...
THAN YOU WILL HAVE COME FAR, MY FRIEND.
(Adapted from Rudyard Kipling Poet and Novelist)
Doing the right thing
regardless of the
consequences and
knowing God will turn
the ultimate effect to
good.
Reliance on the certainty
that God has a patteren
for my life when
everything seems
meaningless.
Confidence that God is
acting for my highest
good when He says no
to my prayers.
Realizing that I am useful
to God not in spite of my
scars but because of
them.
Accepting the fact that
God knows better tehn I
do what is ultimately
good for me.
Living with the
unexplained.
The way to please God.
The universe does not
make sense without
God.
E. Stanley Jones
If God sends us stony
paths,
He will provide us with
strong shoes.
Alexander Maclaren
We must accept finite
disappointments,
but we must never lose
infinite hope.
Martin Luther King Jr.
The only way to learn
strong faith is to endure
strong trials.
George Mueller
Happy and strong and
brave shall we be--
able to endure all
things, and to do all
things--
if we believe that every
dy, every hour, every
moment of our life is in
God's hands.
Henry Van Dyke
WE ARE PRESSED ON EVERY SIDE BY TROUBLES,
but we are not crushed and broken.
WE ARE PERPLEXED,
but we dont give up and quit.
WE ARE HUNTED DOWN,
but God never abandons us.
WE GET KNOCKED DOWN,
but we get up again and keep going.
(From 2 Corinthians 4:8-9)
For every hill I've had to climb,
For every stone that bruised my feet,
For all the blood and sweat and grime,
For blinding storms and heat,
My heart sings but a grateful song--
These were the things that made me strong!
Author Unknown
When tears are the only language you know, God hears.
When darkness envelops your way, God sees.
When pain forces you off course, God stabilizes.
When loss wears you down, God comforts.
When grief suspends your progress and saps hope, God remains.
(Kari West From "Dare To Trust, Dare To Hope Again")
Excellence is willing to be wrong,
Perfection is being right.
Excellence is risk,
Perfection is fear.
Excellence is powerful,
Perfection is anger and frustration.
Excellence is spontaneous,
Perfection is control.
Excellence is accepting,
Perfection is judgment.
Excellence is giving,
Perfection is taking.
Excellence is confident,
Perfection is doubt.
Excellence is flowing,
Perfection is pressure.
Excellence is journey,
Perfection is destination.
Author Unknown
1. I will examine the future and let it guide what I do in the present.
2. No matter what happens, I will not allow myself to be defeated. I will keep
on trying and will not give up.
3. I am a fortunate person, regardless of what I have experienced.
4. I will take advantage of every available opportunity.
5. I can accept my imperfections and learn to enjoy life and give to others.
6. I can find meaning in situations and events that involve suffering or great loss.
7. I will not allow myself to behave as a victim.
8. I'm determined to keep pushing ahead.
9. I am willing to grow, change, and learn new roles.
10. I want to be involved with people who will build me up and help me grow.
11. I can face the challenges of life and handle the stresses and crises of life
without denying their existence or giving up.
(H. Norman Wright Condensed From "Will My Life Ever Be The Same?")
Copyright (c) Nikola C. Giovani
When faced with the unthinkable...
a world that's gone insane,
there always is a Hope,
When nothing else remains.
When questions go unanswered
and our words cannot suffice,
when innocents with lives to live
pay such a dreadful price..
When Evil seems to win the Day
and Good must bow its head,
when families are ripped apart
and left grieving for their dead,
There is still a Hope for all,
a Comfort and a Light,
A knowledge that the Wickedness
will never win the fight.
There is still a Refuge
even at the time of Death...
a Place in God where souls live on
and still can draw a breath,
where hearts can be made whole again---
bathed in Love and Grace.
There always is a Hope for us,
a sure and steady Place.
May all who hurt find peace this day
and mercy fill their souls.
May we who bear the Light of God
help make the nation whole.