Amy's Place ... Poetry and Potpourri ... March, 2009

3-1-09 | JustAmy; St.Louie1; MamaBear; Billie

[jaycee]

Billie, we must have posted at the same time!

[Billie]

Okay, I found the official video for the single on YouTube - he is singing the same thing he sang on Ellen yesterday. :)

What's Right is Right ~ Taylor Hicks (YouTube)

[Billie]

I think we did. :) I’m signing off now - enjoy the video. You’ll swoon. :)

[yorkie]

No, I missed it! I love his voice. I had one fear while he was on American Idol - that they would somehow ‘find out’ that he was older than 35 and he would be disqualified. (He sure looks older, with that grey hair!) What a handsome man and good singer, he is!!!

[WayzataJOHNN]

HAPPY FRIDAY!!!

Breakfast is on the counter.

Hot cereal with brown sugar and creme

Fried ham steaks
Petite Steaks
Eggs Benedict with hollandaise
Thick sliced Bacon wrapped Scotch Eggs
Fried Potatoes
Toast or rolls
Cinnamon Rolls or Carmel Rolls (warm with butter)

Its a buffet, so eat what and how much you want, (I sent all the calories and cholesterol to Congress, so eat and fill up the arteries of a tax and spend type!)

Now while you eat, something to contemplate.

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For my loving wife.

As It Begins

soft sweet, the kiss of first expectations rose
as heart and needs, do commingle and flows
love’s first blush, and boldness springs anew
as new love begins the long road to do

Time and experiences mature the surge
and they learn when to hoard, or splurge
and they find the pace to grow closer still
and so together, seek and find their fill

Tested over time, and polished smooth and sweet
their love still blooms to Life’s gentle needful beat
a strength, and a shelter, amid the strife of life
exploring always together the joys, and the strife

Long the years of shared trust and passions free
each separate, and yet part of all a love can be
the treasures of the heart, held in their very souls
carrying them beyond even life’s demanding tolls

[The Mayor]

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March 13, 2009

To Be Or Not To Be

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READ: 2 Corinthians 1:3-11

We were burdened beyond measure, . . . so that we despaired even of life. —2 Corinthians 1:8

When I was a child, kids on the playground jokingly quoted Shakespeare’s famous line: “To be or not to be—that is the question!” But we really didn’t understand what it meant. Later I learned that Shakespeare’s character Hamlet, who speaks these lines, is a melancholy prince who learns that his uncle has killed his father and married his mother. The horror of this realization is so disturbing that he contemplates suicide. The question for him was: “to be” (to go on living) or “not to be” (to take his own life).

At times, life’s pain can become so overwhelming that we are tempted to despair. The apostle Paul told the church at Corinth that his persecution in Asia was so intense he “despaired even of life” (2 Cor. 1:8). Yet by shifting his focus to his life-sustaining God, he became resilient instead of overwhelmed, and learned “that we should not trust in ourselves but in God” (v.9).

Trials can make life seem not worth living. Focusing on ourselves can lead to despair. But putting our trust in God gives us an entirely different perspective. As long as we live in this world, we can be certain that our all-sufficient God will sustain us. And as His followers, we will always have a divine purpose “to be.”

Lord, give us grace to trust You when
Life’s burdens seem too much to bear;
Dispel the darkness with new hope
And help us rise above despair. —Sper

Trials make us think; thinking makes us wise; wisdom makes life profitable.

Bible in One Year: Deuteronomy 20-22; Mark 13:21-37

[WayzataJOHNN]

Great words this morning, Mayor, timely and on target.

thanks!

[The Mayor]

My pleasure!

[pollywog]

A excellent, devotional this morning. I have never been to the brink of suicide as some may, but I can tell you I have been in the valley of " despair"!...am there now.

I quoted to my sister yesterday, a saying from the classic " Anne of Green Gables"...

Marilla Cuthbert...responding to Anne's depression, when Anne asks Marilla, "Do you ever find yourself in the depths of despair?" Marilla answers her very plainly: "No. To despair is to turn your back on God."

We all feel it at one time or another....the valley of despair....but it is wonderful to ultimately know that God will take up through and on Eagles Wings at that!!

Okay Polly, now your preaching!! LOL

Have a good morning all.

Polly

Ps Johnn , Yorkie...any poems on despair and trust??

[pollywog]

Johnn,
You write so well!! Do you have a book of Poems published.
Polly

[pollywog]

A Cinnamon Roll please with my coffee!

[jaycee]

DESPAIR OF THE EARLY MORNING

Despair of the early morning
Despair of the darkness
Despair of the Despair
Despair of Old Age
Despair of the road closed
Despair of nothing to do
Despair of nowhere to go
Despair of endless errands
Despair of money running out
Despair of the message of Despair
One transmits to those one loves.

Despair that has to be resisted
Despair that the light of the day
Will help me overcome
Despair I will pray my way out of
Despair I will in the course of the day
Sometime overcome.

Not the great Despair
The unending Despair
The final Despair.

The small Despair of who I am and where I am now.
The Despair that still can be resisted,
By the writing of a few awkward lines
Early in the morning.

Shalom Freedman

[WayzataJOHNN]

“A Cinnamon Roll please with my coffee!”

On the way, fresh out of the oven and the coffee is fresh!

[jaycee]

Polly, that poem includes about everything...the things we despair over lots of times...just things we don’t need to despair over, but we are all human.

I was in a hurry or I could have found something better. I have Red Hats luncheon today and I am the hostess today and I have “despaired” over that....LOL!

[pollywog]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BN9JALQRMb0

[pollywog]

Good Morning Jaycee.Perfect poem on despair.Now on to giving Thanks to God.

[jaycee]

Polly, I have a little Prayer Book that I turn to constantly. If I am sad, lonely, worried, or when I'm happy, there is something in my prayer book concerning each of those things in the form of Bible verses. I love my little prayer book. I found several for today but have chosen this one!

Though you have made me see troubles, many and bitter, you will restore my life again, from the depths of the earth you will again bring me up. Psalms 71:20

[MEG33]

Rejoicing in the day God has made.

We have had about 4 inches of wonderful rain..It was
widespread rainfall in Texas..and some areas got more
Lake Waco was up a foot yesterday ..was down 3 feet
Pastures are soaked..It is still raining.
Praise God from whom all blessings flow.

[Majie Purple]

Thanks for Your gif and reply,very nice!

[geologist]

...” As long as we live in this world, we can be certain that our all-sufficient God will sustain us. And as His followers, we will always have a divine purpose “to be.” “ ...
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Excellent. As always.

Praise our HOLY, God.