Saturday, March 9, 2019

Does Your House Have a Wet Basement, Too?

6 comments:

  1. AN ANTIDOTE to the FEAR of CHAOS ENGENDERED by CONFUSION, –– the PRODUCT of LACK of FAITH and the FALSE BELIEF that WE are ALONE.

    Amazing grace! How sweet the sound
    That saved a wretch like me!
    I once was lost, but now am found;
    Was blind, but now I see.

    ’Twas grace that taught my heart to fear,
    And grace my fears relieved;
    How precious did that grace appear
    The hour I first believed.

    Through many dangers, toils, and snares,
    I have already come;
    ’Tis grace hath brought me safe thus far,
    And grace will lead me home.

    The Lord has promised good to me,
    His Word my hope secures;
    He will my Shield and Portion be,
    As long as life endures.

    Yea, when this flesh and heart shall fail,
    And mortal life shall cease,
    I shall possess, within the veil,
    A life of joy and peace.

    The earth shall soon dissolve like snow,
    The sun forbear to shine;
    But God, who called me here below,
    Will be forever mine.

    When we’ve been there ten thousand years,
    Bright shining as the sun,
    We’ve no less days to sing God’s praise
    Than when we’d first begun.


    ~ John Newton (1779)

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  2. The mind of the Dreamer
    _____ is a Secret Storehouse
    __________ wherein may dwell
    _______________ all youthful fond illusion ––
    The Embryo of each utterance of Hope ––
    _____ each word of Comfort ––
    __________ and each Song of Joy.


    The mind of the Cynic
    _____ is a well-known Asylum
    __________ wherein lies Disenchantment ––
    _______________ Destruction and Despair ––
    The insidious, lisping Voice of the Serpent.


    O, foolish Man! Why choose Strife,
    _____ when only what you choose to dwell upon
    __________ has Life?


    ~ FreeThinke, c. 1960

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  3. A Rx for Endurance and Ultimate Triumph over Chaos

    God, grant me the Serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
    to change what i can, and the Wisdom to knw the difference

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  4. Make determination always to follow The Golden Rule, and you WILL be all right.

    Do Unto Others What You Would Have Them Do Unto You.

    what does that mean?

    Abandon Selfishness, Live by Empathy Engendered by Constant Consideration of Others.

    Paradoxically, if you work to forget SELF, and live to acquire greater Skill, Knowledge and Enlightenment with Enthusiasm in a Realm you honestly Love, you are most likely to achieve Fulfillment.of your potential.

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  5. _________ On Christmas Day _________

    On Christmas Day the King of Kings is born
    New each year since first appeared the Star.
    Children breathlessly await the morn,
    Hope for gifts, not knowing that they are
    Royally endowed with rich rewards
    Internally. because our God above
    Sent His Son, the tiny Lord of Lords
    To demonstrate the power of His Love.
    Mammon calls, and parents feel they must
    Afford material delights that glow
    Seductively inflaming vicious lust
    Denying Mind and Spirit’s need to grow.
    A trough not fit for kin that nourished kine
    Yields again the King of Love Divine.


    ~ FreeThinke - The Sandpiper, Christmas 1995

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  6. I sincerely believe there is more truth IN poetry than in all the sheets and sheets of drily presented Facts and Figures "scientists" want to regard as facets of TRUTH.

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