Is it time to rethink love?
Recently, I attended a talk with Kevin Rice, a student of “A Course in Miracles,” who offered a very atypical view of life, religion and especially love. Kevin opined that the laws of romantic relationships and traditional courtship are mostly man-made, self-created notions. And, that the rules, demands and forms that we place on those relationships are not always the true, natural expressions of the underlying love. Or better, one person’s expectations + another person’s expectations = frustration. He presented a picture of love that I think resonates much truer than the examples passed down and most often presented. He suggested there are five truths about love that common practice and the ego directly oppose.
1. Love is Now - What is often felt is that fear is now and fear pulls us into the past and into speculation about the future. But, to do so crucifies us between past regrets and future expectations. The answer is to stop thinking. You cannot change the past and you do not have the future. What you have is the present. That’s where love is.
2. Love is Within - on our journey it can feel like love is somehow outside of us, or not complete without companionship. That causes us to project; we seek outside of ourselves the love or fulfillment that may be lacking within. But, love is us. If we treat ourselves with the love within, we will treat our partner with that love.
3. Love is Substance - common practice teaches us that love is form. The exclusive love relationships we create often draw a line around the two participants; inside the lines is the love and if we step out, there is no love. But that takes our eyes off love and places it on the form of the love: the friendship, the marriage, the parent/child or teacher/student relationship. But, love is all and knows no levels or degrees. The experience of the relationship is how the love is being expressed. It is not the love. Love is the end, the means may be the marriage or special relationship.
4. Love is Release - Love is often likened to imprisonment (”ball and chain,” anyone?). However, love does not bring bondage. And if we know forgiveness, we know that mistakes are in the past. So if I bind my partner to those mistakes, I, too, am bound to the past where love is not because love is here, in the present. Love is the freedom to be and to be now: honest, giving, exposed, excited, encouraged, motivated … loved.
5. Love is Creation - Fear and time suggest love can be extinguished. When we are fighting with our loved one, angry or at “wit’s end” we assume it is because the “love is gone.” But, love IS. Love has not and cannot go anywhere. So the true and real challenge is to step back in those angry, helpless moments and recognize “I don’t know what this is” and ask “what would LOVE do?”
So, if we ask ourselves “what is the purpose of this relationship?” we should find it is not because we want or need something, Kevin says. Because love is, and love is inside us, we have everything we need to be happy and complete right now. The purpose of the relationship and the soul mate “experience” (as he called it, not subscribing to the man-made idea of soul mates), is the potential to awakening to love with this person more than with any other.
Admittedly, I was left with many questions, e.g., if love does not have any degrees how do I explain the “in-love” feeling? Don’t I have to reconcile the different levels between romantic, platonic and filial love? But I liked how he was able to boil it down. There are two emotions: love and fear. One created by God, one created by humans. It is impossible to experience love and fear at the same time. God is love, so it follows that it is impossible to look to God, or Love, and experience doubt, lack, limitation or fear at the same time. So in any relationship, condition or confusing time in life we have a choice of which emotion to express. Next time ask, “what would love do?”
PEACE.LOVE.HAPPINESS
Friday, February 20, 2009
Thursday, February 19, 2009
JAMES RUCKER COLOROFCHANGE.ORG
TO ALL WHO READ THIS. I WANTED YOU TO KNOW THAT IF YOU EVER GET CONTACTED BY A JAMES RUCKER OF COLOR OF CHANGE ORG. IGNORE AS IF HE HAD AIDS. HE IS A LIAR AND BULLSHIT ARTIST. WHAT WAS KNOWN BACK IN THE 70's AS A POVERTY PIMP. HE IS NOT TO BE TRUSTED.
HE USED THE INAUGURATION OF PRESIDENT OBAMA TO OBTAIN THE NAMES, ADDRESSES AND EMAILS OF PEOPLE TO FURTHER HIS OWN PERSONAL AGENDA BY SAYING HIS ORGANIZATION WAS GIVING AWAY FREE OBAMA STICKERS.
DO NOT TRUST THIS MAN.
PEACE.LOVE.HAPPINESS
HE USED THE INAUGURATION OF PRESIDENT OBAMA TO OBTAIN THE NAMES, ADDRESSES AND EMAILS OF PEOPLE TO FURTHER HIS OWN PERSONAL AGENDA BY SAYING HIS ORGANIZATION WAS GIVING AWAY FREE OBAMA STICKERS.
DO NOT TRUST THIS MAN.
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ELIZABETH JENNINGS - Civil Rights Activist 1800's
ELIZABETH JENNINGS
A black woman refused to give up her seat on a bus. She was brutally attacked and thrown off...and she took the case to court.
Rosa Parks? No. Her name was Elizabeth Jennings. It happened in New York City, downtown on the corner Pearl and Chatham Streets.
At least that's where it started. It was on a Sunday, July 16, 1854. Elizabeth Jennings lived 100 years before Rosa Parks. She was a 24-year-old schoolteacher on her way to the First Colored Congregational Church on Sixth Street and Second Avenue where she was to perform as the organist.
Most people don't realize how long buses have been around. The first route began on 4th Avenue in 1831. In the early years, there were two ways to travel--omnibuses and railroad cars. Both were pulled by horses. The omnibuses were cheaper. The railroad cars, larger and heavier, had more entrances and exits, moved on fixed tracks, and were more comfortable.
In the 1830s, New York City barely reached 14th Street, but it was growing. By the 1850s, Manhattan stretched to 59th Street and there were car tracks on most the major avenues, from First to Eighth.
This created a dilemma for African American New Yorkers. In the 1830s and early 1840s, African Americans didn't use public transportation. The driver decided if you could ride or not, and African Americans weren't welcome. With the motto "walk," community leaders suggested using other means.
Bucking the segregated system was also dangerous Drivers carried whips and used them to keep African Americans off. Threats of legal retaliation were laughed at.
By the late 1840s, there were special public buses on which African Americans could ride. They had large "Colored Persons Allowed" signs on the back or in a side window. But these vehicles ran infrequently, irregularly, and often not at all.
Just as Rosa Parks was involved in the civil rights movement of her day, Elizabeth Jennings was part of a movement in her day too. Such notable black New Yorkers as her father Thomas Jennings, the Rev. J.W.C. Pennington, the Rev. Henry Highland Garnet, the Rev. Peter S. Ewell, Peter Porter, and a host of others were in the movement to end this discrimination. Like Rosa Parks, Elizabeth Jennings won a landmark local judicial decision.
Here's how the New York Tribune reported the Jennings incident in a February 1855 article: "She got upon one of the Company's cars last summer, on the Sabbath, to ride to church. The conductor undertook to get her off, first alleging the car was full; when that was shown to be false, he pretended the other passengers were displeased at her presence; but (when) she insisted on her rights, he took hold of her by force to expel her. She resisted. The conductor got her down on the platform, jammed her bonnet, soiled her dress and injured her person. Quite a crowd gathered, but she effectually resisted. Finally, after the car had gone on further, with the aid of a policeman they succeeded in removing her."
The African American community was outraged, and the following day there was a rally at Jennings' church. A letter she had written telling her account of the incident was read aloud: "Sarah E. Adams & myself walked down to the corner of Pearl & Chatham Sts. to take the 3rd Ave cars," she wrote. She described how the conductor, thought to be one Edwin Moss, and the driver had attacked her. "I told him [Moss] I was a respectable person, born and raised in this city, that I did not know where he was from and that he was a good for nothing impudent fellow for insulting decent persons while on their way to church."
"Then," Jennings continued, "the (police) officer without listening to anything I had to say thrust me out and tauntingly told me to get redress if I could. I would have come up [to the rally] myself but I'm quite sore & stiff from the treatment I received from those monsters."
Jennings sued the company, the driver, and the conductor. Messrs. Culver, Parker, and Arthur represented her. Arthur was Chester A. Arthur, then a novice 21-year-old lawyer and future President of the United States. This law firm was hired because it had demonstrated some talent in the area of civil rights the year before.
Jennings was well off and well connected. Her father, Thomas Jennings, was an important businessman and community leader who had associations with Abyssinian and St. Phillips, two major African American churches. As a tailor, he held a patent on a method for renovating garments and maintained a shop on Church Street.
He and others who had been involved in the fight to end transit discrimination helped raise money for Jenningsʼ lawsuit. News of the trial reached all the way to San Francisco, where an African American group called the Young Men's Association passed a resolution condemning Jennings' treatment.
In 1855, Judge Rockwell of the Brooklyn Circuit Court ruled in Jenningsʼ favor, stating that: "Colored persons if sober, well behaved and free from disease, had the same rights as others and could neither be excluded by any rules of the Company, nor by force or violence."
Elizabeth Jennings claimed $500 worth of damage. The majority of the jury wanted to give her the full amount, but, as the Tribune put it, "Some jury members had peculiar notions as to colored people's rights." They eventually agreed to give her $225, and the court added 10 percent plus her expenses.
Within a month of the Jennings decision, an African American named Peter Porter was barred from an Eighth Avenue rail car. He too sued and the company settled out of court. From then on, African Americans were allowed to ride on rail cars on an equal basis.
The Rev. J.W.C. Pennington was an important force in the New York movement for equality in public transportation, although he suffered one of the few anti-discrimination losses after Jennings' breakthrough when he brought suit against the Sixth Avenue Rail Company. However, by 1860 Pennington was able to advise the community that the First, Second, Third, possibly the Fourth, and certainly the Eighth and Ninth Avenue lines were open to all. At the outbreak of the civil war, this discriminationary practice had finally ended.
"I feel like this is an issue for young people. History is something they should carry with them," says Sue Ortega, who directs a small art school and presently has a "Harmony in the Community" mural at 91st & Columbus. "It's important for them to know that real, everyday people had a lot to do with the struggle to make life in this city better."
Elizabeth Jennings taught in the city's African American schools in the 1850s and 1860s, probably in African Free School #5 and then in the New York City public school system. As Mrs. Elizabeth Graham, she once again made a mark on our history, this time as the result of a tragedy.
In July 1863, a resolution was passed allowing wealthier New Yorkers to buy their way out of the Civil War draft. An angry white mob rioted over a four-day period. More than 70 blacks were lynched. Many were killed, including Jennings' young son.
As the riot continued to swirl around them, Elizabeth Graham and her husband, helped by a bold white undertaker, fearlessly managed to get their boy to Greenwood Cemetery in Brooklyn for a proper burial. The Rev. Morgan Dix of Wall Street's Trinity Church read the burial service
PEACE.LOVE.HAPPINESS
A black woman refused to give up her seat on a bus. She was brutally attacked and thrown off...and she took the case to court.
Rosa Parks? No. Her name was Elizabeth Jennings. It happened in New York City, downtown on the corner Pearl and Chatham Streets.
At least that's where it started. It was on a Sunday, July 16, 1854. Elizabeth Jennings lived 100 years before Rosa Parks. She was a 24-year-old schoolteacher on her way to the First Colored Congregational Church on Sixth Street and Second Avenue where she was to perform as the organist.
Most people don't realize how long buses have been around. The first route began on 4th Avenue in 1831. In the early years, there were two ways to travel--omnibuses and railroad cars. Both were pulled by horses. The omnibuses were cheaper. The railroad cars, larger and heavier, had more entrances and exits, moved on fixed tracks, and were more comfortable.
In the 1830s, New York City barely reached 14th Street, but it was growing. By the 1850s, Manhattan stretched to 59th Street and there were car tracks on most the major avenues, from First to Eighth.
This created a dilemma for African American New Yorkers. In the 1830s and early 1840s, African Americans didn't use public transportation. The driver decided if you could ride or not, and African Americans weren't welcome. With the motto "walk," community leaders suggested using other means.
Bucking the segregated system was also dangerous Drivers carried whips and used them to keep African Americans off. Threats of legal retaliation were laughed at.
By the late 1840s, there were special public buses on which African Americans could ride. They had large "Colored Persons Allowed" signs on the back or in a side window. But these vehicles ran infrequently, irregularly, and often not at all.
Just as Rosa Parks was involved in the civil rights movement of her day, Elizabeth Jennings was part of a movement in her day too. Such notable black New Yorkers as her father Thomas Jennings, the Rev. J.W.C. Pennington, the Rev. Henry Highland Garnet, the Rev. Peter S. Ewell, Peter Porter, and a host of others were in the movement to end this discrimination. Like Rosa Parks, Elizabeth Jennings won a landmark local judicial decision.
Here's how the New York Tribune reported the Jennings incident in a February 1855 article: "She got upon one of the Company's cars last summer, on the Sabbath, to ride to church. The conductor undertook to get her off, first alleging the car was full; when that was shown to be false, he pretended the other passengers were displeased at her presence; but (when) she insisted on her rights, he took hold of her by force to expel her. She resisted. The conductor got her down on the platform, jammed her bonnet, soiled her dress and injured her person. Quite a crowd gathered, but she effectually resisted. Finally, after the car had gone on further, with the aid of a policeman they succeeded in removing her."
The African American community was outraged, and the following day there was a rally at Jennings' church. A letter she had written telling her account of the incident was read aloud: "Sarah E. Adams & myself walked down to the corner of Pearl & Chatham Sts. to take the 3rd Ave cars," she wrote. She described how the conductor, thought to be one Edwin Moss, and the driver had attacked her. "I told him [Moss] I was a respectable person, born and raised in this city, that I did not know where he was from and that he was a good for nothing impudent fellow for insulting decent persons while on their way to church."
"Then," Jennings continued, "the (police) officer without listening to anything I had to say thrust me out and tauntingly told me to get redress if I could. I would have come up [to the rally] myself but I'm quite sore & stiff from the treatment I received from those monsters."
Jennings sued the company, the driver, and the conductor. Messrs. Culver, Parker, and Arthur represented her. Arthur was Chester A. Arthur, then a novice 21-year-old lawyer and future President of the United States. This law firm was hired because it had demonstrated some talent in the area of civil rights the year before.
Jennings was well off and well connected. Her father, Thomas Jennings, was an important businessman and community leader who had associations with Abyssinian and St. Phillips, two major African American churches. As a tailor, he held a patent on a method for renovating garments and maintained a shop on Church Street.
He and others who had been involved in the fight to end transit discrimination helped raise money for Jenningsʼ lawsuit. News of the trial reached all the way to San Francisco, where an African American group called the Young Men's Association passed a resolution condemning Jennings' treatment.
In 1855, Judge Rockwell of the Brooklyn Circuit Court ruled in Jenningsʼ favor, stating that: "Colored persons if sober, well behaved and free from disease, had the same rights as others and could neither be excluded by any rules of the Company, nor by force or violence."
Elizabeth Jennings claimed $500 worth of damage. The majority of the jury wanted to give her the full amount, but, as the Tribune put it, "Some jury members had peculiar notions as to colored people's rights." They eventually agreed to give her $225, and the court added 10 percent plus her expenses.
Within a month of the Jennings decision, an African American named Peter Porter was barred from an Eighth Avenue rail car. He too sued and the company settled out of court. From then on, African Americans were allowed to ride on rail cars on an equal basis.
The Rev. J.W.C. Pennington was an important force in the New York movement for equality in public transportation, although he suffered one of the few anti-discrimination losses after Jennings' breakthrough when he brought suit against the Sixth Avenue Rail Company. However, by 1860 Pennington was able to advise the community that the First, Second, Third, possibly the Fourth, and certainly the Eighth and Ninth Avenue lines were open to all. At the outbreak of the civil war, this discriminationary practice had finally ended.
"I feel like this is an issue for young people. History is something they should carry with them," says Sue Ortega, who directs a small art school and presently has a "Harmony in the Community" mural at 91st & Columbus. "It's important for them to know that real, everyday people had a lot to do with the struggle to make life in this city better."
Elizabeth Jennings taught in the city's African American schools in the 1850s and 1860s, probably in African Free School #5 and then in the New York City public school system. As Mrs. Elizabeth Graham, she once again made a mark on our history, this time as the result of a tragedy.
In July 1863, a resolution was passed allowing wealthier New Yorkers to buy their way out of the Civil War draft. An angry white mob rioted over a four-day period. More than 70 blacks were lynched. Many were killed, including Jennings' young son.
As the riot continued to swirl around them, Elizabeth Graham and her husband, helped by a bold white undertaker, fearlessly managed to get their boy to Greenwood Cemetery in Brooklyn for a proper burial. The Rev. Morgan Dix of Wall Street's Trinity Church read the burial service
PEACE.LOVE.HAPPINESS
Monday, February 9, 2009
APHORISM: A SHORT POINTED SENTENCE EXPRESSING A WISE OR CLEVER OBSERVATION
1. The nicest thing about the future is that it always starts tomorrow.
2. Money will buy a fine dog, but only kindness will make him wag his tail.
3. If you don't have a sense of humor, you probably don't have any sense at all.
4. Seat belts are not as confining as wheelchairs.
5. A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
6. How come it takes so little time for a child who is afraid of the dark to become a teenager who wants to stay out all night?
7. Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.
8. Why is it that at class reunions you feel younger than everyone else looks?
9. Scratch a cat and you will have a permanent job.
10. No one has more driving ambition than the boy who wants to buy a car.
11. There are no new sins; the old ones just get more publicity.
12. There are worse things than getting a call for a wrong number at 4 AM. - It could be a right number.
13. No one ever says 'It's only a game.' when their team is winning.
14. I've reached the age where the happy hour is a nap.
15. Be careful reading the fine print. There's no way you're going to like it.
16. The trouble with bucket seats is that not everybody has the same size bucket..
17. Do you realize that in about 40 years, we'll have thousands of Senior Citizens running around with tattoos? (And rap music will be the Golden Oldies ! )
18. Money can't buy happiness -- but somehow it's more comfortable to cry in a Corvette than in a Yugo.
19. After 60, if you don't wake up aching in every joint, you are probably dead!
Always be yourself. Because the people that matter, don't mind.
And the one's that do mind don't matter
PEACE.LOVE.HAPPINESS
2. Money will buy a fine dog, but only kindness will make him wag his tail.
3. If you don't have a sense of humor, you probably don't have any sense at all.
4. Seat belts are not as confining as wheelchairs.
5. A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
6. How come it takes so little time for a child who is afraid of the dark to become a teenager who wants to stay out all night?
7. Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.
8. Why is it that at class reunions you feel younger than everyone else looks?
9. Scratch a cat and you will have a permanent job.
10. No one has more driving ambition than the boy who wants to buy a car.
11. There are no new sins; the old ones just get more publicity.
12. There are worse things than getting a call for a wrong number at 4 AM. - It could be a right number.
13. No one ever says 'It's only a game.' when their team is winning.
14. I've reached the age where the happy hour is a nap.
15. Be careful reading the fine print. There's no way you're going to like it.
16. The trouble with bucket seats is that not everybody has the same size bucket..
17. Do you realize that in about 40 years, we'll have thousands of Senior Citizens running around with tattoos? (And rap music will be the Golden Oldies ! )
18. Money can't buy happiness -- but somehow it's more comfortable to cry in a Corvette than in a Yugo.
19. After 60, if you don't wake up aching in every joint, you are probably dead!
Always be yourself. Because the people that matter, don't mind.
And the one's that do mind don't matter
PEACE.LOVE.HAPPINESS
Friday, February 6, 2009
Top 5 Fox News Uncle Toms
Top 5 Fox News Uncle Toms
By Casey Gane-McCalla February 4, 2009 4:59 pm
Being a Republican does not make you an Uncle Tom. If you believe in fiscal responsibility and social conservatism, it is your right to be a republican. However if you are a black republican, it should be your duty to stand up to your party when it becomes blatantly racist against your own kind. You should also realize it when they only use you to attack other black people and never to offer any other points of view.
These African Americans have made a living off of going on Fox News and smearing black leaders and culture. They often are the mouthpieces for the things that even Fox is to racist to say. They always attack another black person and never stand up to any of Fox’s or the GOP’s racism.
1. Juan Williams.
Despite the fact that Williams cried after Obama’s election he has returned to his sell out ways. He called Michelle Obama Stokely Carmichael in a designer dress and has done nothing to speak up against Fox’s racism.
2. Reverend Jesse Lee Peterson
Jesse Lee Peterson is the walking embodiment of the Boondocks Uncle Ruckus. He is constantly used by O’Reilly and Hannity to expose black self hate on the TV. He did not give any credit to Barack Obama for winning the election and credited his victory to “racist blacks and guilty whites,” saying that 95% of all blacks are racist.
Listen to Reverend James Lee Paterson Thank God For Slavery
3. Larry Elder
Larry Elder originally supported Obama before learning about Reverend Wright. He was recently on Fox News defending Rush Limbaugh and his racist song Barack The Magic Negro. Elder is a regular commentator on Fox News but is only used to attack Barack Obama and defend right wing racism.
Watch Larry Elder Defend Barack the Magic Negro on The Bill O’Reilly Show
4. Angela McGlowan
When the bigots at Fox news need to attack on a black woman they call on Angela. Angela attacked Michelle Obama on the Bill O’Reilly Show comparing her to gangster rappers. She neglected to make any comments about O’Reilly’s claim that he isn’t bringing out the lynch mob on Michelle Obama.
“in our community, a lot of folks believe that America is against them. The gangster rappers, the whole nine yards. And Michelle Obama was preying on that, saying in essence, this is the first time she’s ever been proud of a country that’s given her so much opportunity”
Watch Angela McGlowan Attack Michelle Obama on the Bill O’Reilly Show(2 minutes in)
5. Erick Rush
Rush came into prominence by attacking Barack Obama on his connections to Reverend Jeremiah Wright and Trinity Church. He encouraged the GOP to play the race card on Obama, criticized his ties with Ludacris and called him a scary guy all while ignoring Fox News’ racism and the GOP’s ties to Limbaugh. He also recently wrote a book encouraging an American invasion of Mexico, “Annexing Mexico: Solving the Border Problem Through Annexation and Assimilation”
Fox News Attacks Black President While Defending Magic Negro
Watch Erick Rush Attack Obama on the Hannity Show(2 minutes in)
Watch a Clip detailing Fox’s War on Blacks
Fox News Should Use The Boondocks Uncle Ruckus as a Commentator For His Black Hate
SEE VIDEOS THAT ACCOMPANIED THIS ARTICLE AT:
http://newsone.blackplanet.com/nation/top-5-fox-news-uncle-toms/
PEACE.LOVE.HAPPINESS
Monday, February 2, 2009
I Believe... Author Unknown
I Believe...
A Birth Certificate shows that we were born!
A Death Certificate shows that we died!
Pictures show how we lived!
I Believe...
That just because two people argue,
doesn't mean they don't love each other.
And just because they don't argue,
doesn't mean they do love each other.
I Believe...
That sometimes when I'm angry I have the right to be angry,
but that doesn't give me the right to be cruel.
I Believe...
That we don't have to change friends if
we understand that friends change.
I Believe...
That no matter how good a friend is, they're going to hurt you every once in a while and you must forgive them for that.
I Believe...
That true friendship continues to grow, even over the longest distance.
Same goes for true love.
I Believe...
That you can do something in an instant
that will give you heartache for life.
I Believe...
That it's taking me a long time
to become the person I want to be.
I Believe...
That you should always leave loved ones with
loving words. It may be the last time you see them.
I Believe...
That you can keep going long after you think you can't.
I Believe...
That we are responsible for what
we do, no matter how we feel.
I Believe....
That either you control your attitude or it controls you.
I Believe...
That heroes are the people who do what has to be done when it needs to be done, regardless of the consequences.
I Believe...
That money is a lousy way of keeping score.
I Believe..
That my best friend and I can do anything, or nothing, and have the best time.
I Believe...
That sometimes the people you expect to kick you When you're down, will be the ones to help you get back up.
I Believe...
That maturity has more to do with what types of experiences you've had, and what you've learned from them.....and less to do with how many birthdays you've celebrated.
I Believe...
That it isn't always enough to be forgiven by others.
Sometimes, you have to learn to forgive yourself.
I Believe...
That no matter how bad your heart is broken the world doesn't stop for your grief.
I Believe...
That our background and circumstances may have influenced who we are,
but we are responsible for who we become.
I Believe...
That you shouldn't be so eager to find
out a secret. It could change your life Forever.
I Believe...
Two people can look at the exact same
thing and see something totally different.
I Believe...
That your life can be changed in a matter of
hours by people who don't even know you.
I Believe...
That even when you think you have no more to give, if
a friend cries out to you........you will find the strength to help.
I Believe...
That credentials on the wall do not make you a decent human being.
I Believe...
That the people you care about most in life are taken from you too soon.
I Believe...
The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything;
They just make the most of everything.
Thank you God for all the wonderful people who help us throughout the journey of life..
PEACE.LOVE.HAPPINESS
A Birth Certificate shows that we were born!
A Death Certificate shows that we died!
Pictures show how we lived!
I Believe...
That just because two people argue,
doesn't mean they don't love each other.
And just because they don't argue,
doesn't mean they do love each other.
I Believe...
That sometimes when I'm angry I have the right to be angry,
but that doesn't give me the right to be cruel.
I Believe...
That we don't have to change friends if
we understand that friends change.
I Believe...
That no matter how good a friend is, they're going to hurt you every once in a while and you must forgive them for that.
I Believe...
That true friendship continues to grow, even over the longest distance.
Same goes for true love.
I Believe...
That you can do something in an instant
that will give you heartache for life.
I Believe...
That it's taking me a long time
to become the person I want to be.
I Believe...
That you should always leave loved ones with
loving words. It may be the last time you see them.
I Believe...
That you can keep going long after you think you can't.
I Believe...
That we are responsible for what
we do, no matter how we feel.
I Believe....
That either you control your attitude or it controls you.
I Believe...
That heroes are the people who do what has to be done when it needs to be done, regardless of the consequences.
I Believe...
That money is a lousy way of keeping score.
I Believe..
That my best friend and I can do anything, or nothing, and have the best time.
I Believe...
That sometimes the people you expect to kick you When you're down, will be the ones to help you get back up.
I Believe...
That maturity has more to do with what types of experiences you've had, and what you've learned from them.....and less to do with how many birthdays you've celebrated.
I Believe...
That it isn't always enough to be forgiven by others.
Sometimes, you have to learn to forgive yourself.
I Believe...
That no matter how bad your heart is broken the world doesn't stop for your grief.
I Believe...
That our background and circumstances may have influenced who we are,
but we are responsible for who we become.
I Believe...
That you shouldn't be so eager to find
out a secret. It could change your life Forever.
I Believe...
Two people can look at the exact same
thing and see something totally different.
I Believe...
That your life can be changed in a matter of
hours by people who don't even know you.
I Believe...
That even when you think you have no more to give, if
a friend cries out to you........you will find the strength to help.
I Believe...
That credentials on the wall do not make you a decent human being.
I Believe...
That the people you care about most in life are taken from you too soon.
I Believe...
The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything;
They just make the most of everything.
Thank you God for all the wonderful people who help us throughout the journey of life..
PEACE.LOVE.HAPPINESS
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