to be a woman

If you can live each day with the assurance
That a ‘girl’ is something wonderful to be
If you can find a way to meet your problems
With courage and with true maturity

If you can be attractive and in fashion
You are never swayed by vulgar style
If you can choose the finer things life offers
Rejecting what is worthless with a smile…

If you can guard the principles you live by –
Hold fast to truth and honor all through life
And stand for right in every situation
No matter what the world may say or do…

If you can try to offer hope or comfort
To those who seem to need a helping hand
If you can offer little acts of kindness
Or say a word that shows you understand

If you can meet a trying situation
Without complaint and with spirit high
If you can face occasional disappointment
Not yielding to a grumble or a sigh

If you can learn to make a firm decision
And say ‘I will’ – never ‘I may’ or ‘might’
If you can follow in your true vocation
Unswerving, for you know your course is right…

If you can take delight in little children
And be a friend to older folks you know
If you can give your warmth and understanding
To fill the lives of those who love you so…

If you can practice all the arts of living
With gracious kindness and with real integrity
You’re bound to be a happy person, always
And the lovely woman you were meant to be.

-- author unknown --

anyway

This 'creed of Mother Teresa' was left in my comments box from Glimpses Intangible. I like this so much that I post this for keepsake. Thank you Pauline.

People are often

unreasonable, illogical and self-centered.

Forgive them anyway.

....

If you are kind,

people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives.

Be kind anyway.

....

If you are successful,

you will win some false friends and some true enemies.

Succeed anyway.

....

If you are honest and frank,

people may cheat you.

Be honest and frank anyway.

....

What you spend years building,

someone could destroy overnight.

Build anyway.

....

If you find serenity and happiness,

they may be jealous.

Be happy anyway.

....

The good you do today,

people will often forget tomorrow.

Do good anyway.

....

Give the world the best you have,

and it may never be enough.

Give the world the best you've got anyway.

....

You see in the final analysis,

it is between you and God.

It is never between you and them anyway.

...

Mother Teresa (1910-1997)

prayer of peace

Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace;
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
Where there is sadness, joy.

O Divine Master,
Grant that I may not so much seek
To be consoled as to console;
To be understood as to understand;
To be loved as to love.

For it is in giving that we receive;
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
And it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

St Francis of Assisi (1181-1226)

Happy Mother's Day

Today, I took this picture off from blogger Bob --"what about Bob"...without his permission. Please pardon me Bob. Just couldn't resist downloading this for keepsake.

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Happy Mother's Day to all mothers!

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[error on page]: corrected 16 may 2007.