Breath of Kindness

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Community’s landscape

Overflowing with needs

Steps of kindness gather

Warming with grace that feeds

 

Invisible to most

Sowing with heavens’ love

Seeds of kindness planted

Sharing peace from above

 

Hope arrives every day

Connecting with traction

Breath of kindness travels

Harvesting each action

 

Slowly outlook changes

Nourishing so many

Light of kindness nurtured

Forwarding with plenty

 

One week, one day, one hour

Volunteering mends hearts

Proof of kindness growing

Doing its faithful part

 

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Anne Rice Quotes

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Be kind.  Always if you have a choice, be kind.

I think love can save the world. When we love, we completely recognize the value of the other.

Anne Rice (1941-2021) was an American author whose themes of fantasy and graphic horror filled many of her novels.

James Thurber Quotes

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Beautiful things don’t ask for attention.

Live life by the abc’s . . . adventure, bravery, creativity.

James Thurber (1894-1961) was an American author, cartoonist, journalist, and playwright.  He was born in Columbus, Ohio.

Thomas Paine Quotes

Some people can be reasoned into sense, and others must be shocked into it.

The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.

Thomas Paine (1737-1809) was an English-American activist, philosopher, and revolutionary.  His pamphlet, “Common Sense,” served as an active voice in support of the American Revolutionary War.

G. K. Chesterton Quotes

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We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.

What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but absence of self-criticism.

Gilbert Keith (G. K.) Chesterton (1874-1936) was an English Christian writer.

Charlotte Bronte Quote

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I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.

From Psalm 121:1-2:  “I lift up my eyes to the hills—from where will my help come?  My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.”

Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855) was an English novelist and poet.  Many of her writings are considered classics in English literature.

Salvation’s Refreshment (Elfchen Series #286)

Quenching

All

Who thirst

Seek living waters

Flowing into believer’s heart

Come

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Enriching

Given

From Jesus

Precious living waters

Flowing from Spirit’s depths

Life

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Praising

Accepting

Christ’s nourishment

Blessed living waters

Flowing outward from heavens

Grace

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From Isaiah 12:3:  “With joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation.”

Charles Swindoll Quote

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When the sovereign God brings us to nothing, it is to reroute our lives.  Now’s the time to start anew.

From Psalm 37:23-24:  “Our steps are made firm by the Lord when He delights in our way; though we stumble, we shall not fall headlong, for the Lord holds us by the hand.”

Charles Swindoll (born 1934) is an American pastor and Christian author.

Maya Angelou Quotes

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If you are going down a road and don’t like what’s in front of you, and look behind you and don’t like what you see, get off the road.  Create a new path!

If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.

Maya Angelou (1928-2014) was an American author, poet, and civil rights activist.  Her body of published work is found in autobiographies, essays, poems, and numerous credits in plays, movies, and television shows.

Joan Didion Quote

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The willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

From Ephesians 4:31:  “Put away from you all bitterness and wrath and anger and wrangling and slander, together with all malice.”

Joan Didion (1934-2021) was an American writer and journalist.