May 2-9

Treasure Beach Forum: Inspirational Thoughts: May 2-9
Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By glasceta honeyghan on Sunday, May 02, 2004 - 01:04 pm: Edit Post

MASTER PLAN

I formed a master plan for life
In the green year's dawning glow,
Not comprehending naively
The truth I could not know.

I only planned for happy hours,
I sketched in sunny days,
On my horizon not a cloud
Presaged the storm God's ways.

I left no place, no room at all,
For grief could not foresee,
That pain and loss were down the way,
Just waiting there for me.

I could not know my firstborn son
Would have a stay so brief,
And leave behind an emptiness
Akin to a fallen leaf.

I hadn't left space for loss,
I only planned for gain,
But I expected rainbows,
Though unprepared for rain.

My plan was aimed for large success,
No page contained defeat.
No slow discouraged footsteps
Trudged down my private street.

Then when life didn't follow through,
On the blueprint I had made,
I couldn't understand at all,
And found myself dismayed.

But life wrote other plans for me
Which, wisely, it withheld,
Until I learned I needed more
Than what I'd blithely spelled.

And now in life's gray twilight,
By pain and sorrow blessed,
I know how wisely life was planned,
I know its plan was best.

~ Gladys Lawler (Age 93)


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By glasceta honeyghan on Tuesday, May 04, 2004 - 11:52 am: Edit Post

FOR A BIGHTER LIFE

Go forth with each new dawning day
With faith in God and you,
And you will find that all your fears
Will disappear from view.

Go forth with faith in heard and mind
And confidence anew,
And there is nothing in this world
You'll find you cannot do.

Look at the brighter side of life,
Cast out glooms and despair,
And when you need a helping hand
You'll find God always there.



~ Harold F. Mohn ~


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By glasceta honeyghan on Monday, May 10, 2004 - 11:46 am: Edit Post

NOBODY

If nobody smiled and nobody cared
and nobody helped us along.
If every moment looked after itself and
good things always went to the strong;

If nobody cared just a little about you
and nobody cared about me,
and we stood alone, in the battle of life,
What a dreary old world this would be.

Life is sweet, just because of
friends we have made
and the things which in common we share.
We want to live on, not because of ourselves,
but because of the people who care.

It is doing and giving for somebody else
on which all of life's splendor depends.
The joy of this world, when you've
summed it all up,
is found in the making of friends.

--Lade Thomas Conlee