I’ve not encountered one person who does not have problems. It’s a good reason to cut each other some slack and to let the small issues slide. Some of the people we will meet today have the strength to deal with their problems, others are overwhelmed by the smallest of challenges. A word of encouragement and prayer go a long way in making someone’s day a lot better. The more we can make life easier for each other, the brighter the day will be for all of us..
Encouragement
Today’s Inspiring Quote – Never Quit, Try One More Time
“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” – Thomas A. Edison
Thinking Out Loud
A Word of Encouragement Lights the Fire
In her work, Optimism, Helen Keller writes, “With the first word, I used intelligently, I learned to live, to think, to help. Darkness cannot shut me in again. I have had a glimpse of the shore, and can now live by the hope of reaching it. P. 10
NOTE: Some years ago, I was beginning a new job with great responsibility. Shortly after I began working one of the people who reported to me (he had been in his position for many years) came to me and said, “Ray, you have five daughters and a wife. This job will kill you. You should quit. He left me and I was at a loss for words. I called my wife and told her what happened. She simply said, “You can do this.” That’s all I needed, a word of encouragement from the one I most trusted. I did do it and I did it well. One word of encouragement is all most of us need to open the door to the talent we already have. There is someone in your life who needs a word of encouragement, offer it and you will make all the difference.
Photo of the Day ~ Offer a Helping Hand
Offer a hand or an encouraging word. Most times
that’s all another needs to push on and not quit.
Today’s Positive Thought ~ Never Give Up
“Survival can be summed up in three words – never give up. That’s the heart of it really. Just keep trying (Bear Grylls).”
Never give up, never quit. In the times when you feel so low you can’t sink any lower, never give up. Sunshine and rainbows are waiting for you. Hang in a little longer. Don’t let go. Fight on. You’ll surprise everyone.
Today’s Poem ~ Encouraged
Encouraged
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Because you love me I have much achieved,
Had you despised me then I must have failed,
But since I knew you trusted and believed,
I could not disappoint you and so prevailed.
Had you despised me then I must have failed,
But since I knew you trusted and believed,
I could not disappoint you and so prevailed.
Today’s Poem ~ The First Step
The First Step
Constantine P. Cavafy
The young poet Evmenis
complained one day to Theocritus:
“I’ve been writing for two years now
and I’ve composed only one idyll.
It’s my single completed work.
I see, sadly, that the ladder
of Poetry is tall, extremely tall;
and from this first step I’m standing on now
I’ll never climb any higher.”
Theocritus retorted: “Words like that
are improper, blasphemous.
Just to be on the first step
should make you happy and proud.
To have reached this point is no small achievement:
what you’ve done already is a wonderful thing.
Even this first step
is a long way above the ordinary world.
To stand on this step
you must be in your own right
a member of the city of ideas.
And it’s a hard, unusual thing
to be enrolled as a citizen of that city.
Its councils are full of Legislators
no charlatan can fool.
To have reached this point is no small achievement:
what you’ve done already is a wonderful thing.”
complained one day to Theocritus:
“I’ve been writing for two years now
and I’ve composed only one idyll.
It’s my single completed work.
I see, sadly, that the ladder
of Poetry is tall, extremely tall;
and from this first step I’m standing on now
I’ll never climb any higher.”
Theocritus retorted: “Words like that
are improper, blasphemous.
Just to be on the first step
should make you happy and proud.
To have reached this point is no small achievement:
what you’ve done already is a wonderful thing.
Even this first step
is a long way above the ordinary world.
To stand on this step
you must be in your own right
a member of the city of ideas.
And it’s a hard, unusual thing
to be enrolled as a citizen of that city.
Its councils are full of Legislators
no charlatan can fool.
To have reached this point is no small achievement:
what you’ve done already is a wonderful thing.”
Today’s Poem ~ Encouraged
Encouraged
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Because you love me I have much achieved,
Had you despised me then I must have failed,
But since I knew you trusted and believed,
I could not disappoint you and so prevailed.
Had you despised me then I must have failed,
But since I knew you trusted and believed,
I could not disappoint you and so prevailed.
