Rod McKuen Quotes

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Strangers are just friends waiting to happen.

Ideas are few, another might not come by soon.

American Rod McKuen (1933-2015) was a distinguished poet, songwriter, and actor.  During the late 1960s, his poetry was some of the most sought after.  

Monday Memories: Love Fills a Heart

From 1 Corinthians 13:4-7, 13:  “Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude.  It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth.  It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.  And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love.”

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Struggling with life, feeling lost

Dark wilderness all around

Thirsting for someone to come

Waiting, hoping to be found

 

Love arrives from a white knight

Riding through the timberland

Accepting me as I am

Reaching out, touching my hand

 

Hearing my cries, God provides

This honorable knight stands

Sealing my heart with his love

Hour glass fills with precious sand

 

Life can feel like a desert

Leaving only loneliness

Faithful light comes to delight

Shining from God’s holiness

 

Two lives shall become just one

Uniting through a Holy Lord

Happiness now fills a home

Love singing a blissful chord

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Nora Roberts Quotes

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Good fiction creates its own reality.

You can’t edit a blank page.

Nora Roberts (born 1950) is an American author who has written well over 200 romance novels.  She has also written under the pseudonyms of Jill March and Sarah Hardesty.

Billy Graham Quote

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Troubles we bear truthfully can bring us a fresh vision of God and a new outlook on life–an outlook of peace and hope.

From Isaiah 40:28-29:  “Have you not known?  Have you not heard?  The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth.  He does not faint or grow weary; His understanding is unsearchable.  He gives power to the faint, and strengthens the powerless.”

Looming Transition

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Transition covers landscape

For both nature and man

Blusterous day taking shape

Coming change to life’s plan

 

Barren trees swinging with joy

Wind’s steady, rhythmic beat

Nature’s energy deploys

Tearing up day’s game sheet

 

Remnants of tall grass bending

Nature’s tempo shifting

Clouds reveal storm descending

Sending man’s plans drifting

 

Birds scattering far away

Man ignores storm’s warning

Day’s contest declines to play

Clouding nature’s morning

 

Storms can never be delayed

Nature stays in control

Man’s delight begins to fade

Gazing through life’s porthole

 

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Curious Trivial Facts (4/2)

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This informative post will be posted on Saturday along with my usual writing.  We can all appreciate some of the lesser known facts from around the world.

The first ten moves of chess can be played roughly 170,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 possible ways.

Illinois Avenue has been mathematically proven to be the square on the Monopoly game board that the highest probability of being occupied by a player.  The “Go” square comes in second.

These facts have been discovered in I NEVER KNEW THAT by David Hoffman (2009).

Daniel Webster Quote

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Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

From Proverbs 22:24-25:  “Make no friends with those given to anger, and do not associate with hotheads, or you may learn their ways and entangle yourself in a snare.”

Daniel Webster (1782-1852) was one of America’s greatest orators and statesmen.  He served in the United States Congress for 18 years as well being Secretary of State under three different Presidents.

Wilferd Peterson Quote

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As long as a person keeps his faith in God and in himself, nothing can permanently defeat him.

From Proverbs 24:16:  “For though they fall seven times, they will rise again; but the wicked are overthrown by calamity.”

One Step

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Too many tasks

Where to begin?

Overwhelming

Life in tailspin

 

Slowing down, breathe

Dividing tasks

One at a time

Patience unmasks

 

Never alone

Dad’s words come back

Remembering

Wisdom unpacks

 

Taking one step

Then another

Bringing success

Like none other

 

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