Tag: Words of Wisdom

  • Weekly Word of Wisdom

    Weekly Word of Wisdom

    Why Tolerate? When I’m forced to tolerate issues in my present situation, I look for the benefits of tolerating them, because I know tomorrow will become the now and those issues would have lessened or disappeared altogether. As with anything in life, toleration comes with unfavorable and favorable results. The unfavorable is: feeling you have

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  • Weekly Word of Wisdom

    Alone in a Corner When I was a little boy, teachers ridiculed me and I was often told to stand in a corner. I felt ashamed of myself;  then one day a kindly Angel took me, by the hand, to a mirror. “Look at yourself, you are beautiful, you need never be ashamed of yourself;

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  • Weekly Word of Wisdom.

    A Fork in The Road “There is no tragedy in life, only a fork in the road ahead. Tragedy is no more than a fork in the road demanding a change of course in our lives. A fork in the road demands we take one of three directions. Go back into the cave of our

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  • The Vicissitudes of Life

    The Vicissitudes of Life

    “Oh! That the vicissitudes of life would come, A preamble to a higher elevation To worlds more real and dear From whence we derive more virtue and pleasure!” ENOCH JOHN  Friday, February 15, 2008 * I suppose that you and I would better understand the meaning of vicissitudes of life as mishaps, troubles and woes

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  • Trust Yourself, You Did The Right Thing

      For what it’s worth I have found there is some commonness in the severity levels of events and how we humans respond to them. One scale said that the following events stressed humans more than others (Laid out in order of their severity): Death of a loved one. Divorce. Moving. Major illness or injury.

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  • Don’t Die Too Soon – continued

      Continued from previous publication. (click for link) One grey rainy morning at the age of seventy one (I had just been retired from my job of twelve years with no more than handshake and thirty days’ notice pay!) gazing out of the window, I wondered, fearfully what was going to become of me. I

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  • Don’t Die Too Soon……

    It is interesting that in our age, longevity is a sought after state, with this product or that process offering to lead us to that sought after place. It is also noteworthy that the Bible talks about certain men living to extraordinary ages. Methuselah takes the lead having died at the age of over 900

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  • Why Write? – Part Nine

    Please Note This Course is Completely Free of Charge If you have just joined us, then you need to read previous editions in the series, you will find these here: With each publication in this series, I was giving you assignments to do and asked you to return these to me for editing. This way

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  • Whiffle Golf

    Three young men waited for the club secretary’s selection of a fourth player to join them in the Wednesday Club Competition. “Meet Roger Forsythe, he’s looking to join some young blood.” A smiling club secretary greeted them. Roger’s face lit up as he faced the group. “Love playing with young blood; won many a prize

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  • Lockdown – Day Seventy One.

    “The Giant Arises’ ‘Humanity plans, but the universe orders the outcome of these plans.’ It is a most wonderful thing to realize that irrespective of what our governments put into place, only the universe will allow what is beneficial for all humanity, whether this is for today, tomorrow, or forever. I live next to an

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