Linda Marie
Hope.
Fear can hold you prisoner, HOPE can set you free. Fear locks us in old thoughts and unsuccessful solutions. Hope, I believe, gives us a Future-View and new ways to combined our thoughts and direct our energies to successful solutions.
Grab onto a large idea.
Create Fiction.
How easily I create a fiction around my choice of the moment. I reason a way to escape employing my very best effort in the task before me. Do I give thought to how long my fiction will last?
I Avoid, Child-Like, The Fiction That It Is Me Who Made A Choice.
Faith.
“Your faith is what you believe, not what you know,” said John Lancaster Spalding. Faith is not something I can do, or even what I might reason it should be. Faith is what I believe, who I believe in.
Faith draws us like a ringing bell.
Hope is Like the Sun.
Hope is like the sun, which as we walk toward it, casts a shadow of our burdens behind us…author unknown. Such a relevant and delightful pictorial of the meaning of HOPE.
Daisies seek the sun and cast their cares behind them till the morrow.
To Live In Hope.
Judith Brader said “To live joyfully is to live in hope.” This statement links joy and hope to successful living, to having a fine day.
Today I will take joy and hope with me on my daily trek.
A carriage ride with joy & hope today.
Looking For The Next Adventure? Bear Claw Pottery?
Looking for the next adventure? I found Native American Bear Claw Motif Designed Pottery. If I were more at peace in the moment what would I hear? Surely I would hear from God in my heart. He has plans to give me hope and a future (King James Bible).
Native American Pottery
Letters and Building Relations.
Here is a simple though thought-provoking quotation on relating to others that seems particularly directed at romance. It left me asking when did I last write a lettter to anyone. Emails do not count, as obvious from the date of authorship, email had yet to be by several hundred years.
“More than kisses, letters mingle souls,” John Donne, 1572-1631
Letters mingle Souls!
Continuing With Interacting With One’s Fellow Man.
A vantage-point on interacting with our fellow man contributed in the past and preserved for us in history is as follows. “Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven,” Henry Ward Beacher. Heaven….Humm. Is reaching Heaven some day a motivation for taking time to do a kindness? To listen in kind attention to someone?
Visiting Man, Tall Chair
Continuing the Theme of Doing Good to Neighbors!
“Always do right – this will gratify some and astonish the rest,” said the author of the novel “Tom Sawyer” Mark Twain. Just imagine we can all be ASTONISHING to those we meet today – this could be a new movement! Like SLEDDING up hill.
Astonishing-Sledding
Thoreau and CS Lewis: Beliefs.
Share your Umbrella!
Thoreau states “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.” CS Lewis states that one need not worry how to love your neighbor, just do the next kind act as relates to him or her. One man makes an observation here, and one man shares a way to improve the moment. Asked to choose, what is your selection for this moment?