Inspiration Shared By Lady Braids

Inspiration On 08/31/11

Pain is inevitable.
Suffering is optional.

Change is inevitable.
Growth is optional.

Death is inevitable.
Eternal Life is optional.

Choose ye this day which way ye will go.

 -- Author Unknown

Inspiration On 08/30/11

1. "I'm sorry."
2. "I love you."
3. "Forgive me."
4. "You were right."
5. "Maybe mama was right."
6. "I'll just let it go."
7. "It's not really that important."
8. "It's just ego, I'm acting like a baby."
9. "Let me just calm down."
10."Let me look at it from their point of view."

These are ten things that may help us see a simple solution to
what has been looking like an overly complicated problem.

 -- Excerpted from the MountainWings original issue, "Stupid Fix."
     http://www.mountainwings.com

Inspiration On 08/29/11

It was a cold winter's day that Sunday. The parking lot to the
church was filling up quickly. I noticed as I got out of my car
that fellow church members were whispering among themselves as
they walked to the church.

As I got closer, I saw a man leaned up against the wall outside
the church. He was almost lying down as if he was asleep.
He had on a long trench coat that was almost in shreds and a hat
topped his head that was pulled down so you could not see his
face. He wore shoes that looked 30 years old, too small for his
feet with holes all over them and his toes stuck out.

I assumed this man was homeless and asleep, so I walked on by
through the doors of the church. We all gathered for fellowship
for a few minutes, and someone brought up the man lying
outside. People snickered and gossiped, but no one bothered to
ask him to come in, including me.

A few moments later church began. We all waited for the
preacher to take his place and to give us the Word, when the
doors to the church opened.

In came the homeless man walking down the aisle with his head
down. People gasped and whispered and made faces. He made his
way down the aisle and up onto the pulpit and he took off his
hat and coat.

My heart sank.

There stood our preacher. He was the "homeless man."

No one said a word. The preacher took his Bible and laid it on
the stand.

"Folks, I don't think I have to tell you what I am preaching
about today."

Then he started singing the words to this song:
If I can help somebody as I pass along.
If I can cheer somebody with word or song.
If I can show somebody that he's traveling wrong,
Then my living shall not be in vain.

 -- Author Unknown

Inspiration On 08/26/11

I had taken my three-year-old son to the circus.

The ringmaster, "Casual Cal" was dressed in silver, black and
white with a tall ringmaster's hat.

He led the crowd of mostly kids in one chant after another.

Finally, Casual Cal said, "On the count of three, everyone yell
out what school you go to."

One...
Two...
Three...

Josees was silent as the rest of the kids yelled.
Josees won't start school until the summer.

I yelled out my school.

Am I in night classes? No.
Am I taking postgraduate courses at a local university? No.
Am I taking seminary courses? No.
Am I taking a correspondence course? No.

I yelled out my school.

Perhaps you attend the same school as I do.

Life

 -- MountainWings - The Daily Inspirational Email
     http://www.mountainwings.com

Inspiration On 08/23/11

The purpose of your life is far greater than your
own personal fulfillment, peace of mind, or even
your happiness. It's far greater than your family,
your career, or even your wildest dreams and
ambitions.

If you want to know why you were placed on this
planet, you must begin with God. You were born
BY His purpose and FOR His purpose.

 -- Rick Warren

Inspiration On 8/22/11

 

We are all blessed by our families and by our loving friends who
help us and who give us support.  And we can be daily examples
to each other and nourish each other and help each other . . . in
spite of our differences and also, many times, because of them.

Just as my earthly father is always with his family, so our Father
in heaven is always with His family, which embraces all mankind.

And it seems to me, I've learned this past week that our Lord
must be very, very great indeed to be able to encompass so many
different kinds of feelings and so many kinds of people in His
everlasting love.

 -- John-Boy (played by Richard Thomas)
     "The Sermon" episode of The Waltons
     Originally aired on September 11, 1975

 

Inspiration On 8/19/11

 

When God wants to bless you, He sends a person into your life.

When the devil wants to destroy you, he sends a person into
your life.

How can we tell the difference?  By knowing your people connections.
Your success can depend on the quality of people you are connected to.

There are two types of people you will come in contact with
throughout your lifetime:

1) those who add and multiply, making you more than you are;

2) and those who subtract and divide, thereby devaluing you.

Never allow people into your life without knowing their agenda.
Find out where they came from and why they want to be
connected to you.

When a person is in your life and it results in your life declining,
they are not a God connection.

A healthy connection will protect your self-worth even when
you are experiencing a season of pain or struggling with a
failure in your life.

A true God connection will never abandon their assignment until
you reach your full potential!

 -- Author Unknown

 

Inspiration On 08/18/11

It is true that we often emerge from trouble and pain far better and
stronger and more useful to God and others than we ever would have
without the trouble and pain, but that does not necessarily mean that
God sent the trouble and pain. Trouble and pain come because we live
in a world where there is trouble and pain. But when trouble and pain
come into our life, God, who is always with us, is already there. And God,
goes to work to resurrect something useful out of something awful.

 -- Charles E Poole

Inspiration On 08/17/11

Did you know that you are like a pencil? Here's how:

1. Like a pencil, you can correct your mistakes. You can't
change the past, but you can rectify it. And though you
can't erase history, you can erase guilt and anger with
forgiveness.

2. Like a pencil, painful sharpening can serve to make you
better. Your difficult times can actually sharpen your
skills or shape you into the person you were meant to be.

3. Like a pencil, you can do great things when you allow
yourself to be held in Someone's hand.

4. Like a pencil, you can leave your mark whenever possible.
That is what you're here for -- to leave your mark. It may
be in small ways, it may be in the lives of people you have
touched or nurtured, but you must leave something good
behind whenever you can.

5. Like a pencil, it is what is on the inside that matters.
Whether it is understanding or intolerance, love or
bitterness, peace or unrest, kindness or self-centeredness,
hope or despair, courage or fear, what is on the inside
matters most.

Next time you use a pencil, pause and think about that
little writing tool. It teaches some great lessons about living.

 -- Steve Goodier

Inspiration On 08/16/11

 

If you were busy being kind,
Before you knew it you would find
You’d soon forget to think ’twas true
That someone was unkind to you.

If you were busy being glad
And cheering people who seem sad,
Although your heart might ache a bit,
You’d soon forget to notice it.

If you were busy being good,
And doing just the best you could,
You’d not have time to blame some man
Who’s doing just the best he can.

If you were busy being true
To what you know you ought to do,
You’d be so busy you’d forget
The blunders of the folks you’ve met.

If you were busy being right,
You’d find yourself too busy quite
To criticize your brother long,
Because he’s busy being wrong.

 -- R Foreman