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🌾 Today’s Poem ~ To-Day

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To-Day

Douglas Malloch

 Sure, this world is full of trouble—
    I ain’t said it ain’t.
  Lord! I’ve had enough, an’ double,
    Reason for complaint.
  Rain an’ storm have come to fret me,
    Skies were often gray;
  Thorns an’ brambles have beset me
    On the road—but, say,
    Ain’t it fine to-day?

  What’s the use of always weepin’,
    Makin’ trouble last?
  What’s the use of always keepin’
    Thinkin’ of the past?
  Each must have his tribulation,
    Water with his wine.
  Life it ain’t no celebration.
    Trouble? I’ve had mine—
    But to-day is fine.

  It’s to-day that I am livin’,
    Not a month ago,
  Havin’, losin’, takin’, givin’,
    As time wills it so.
  Yesterday a cloud of sorrow
    Fell across the way;
  It may rain again to-morrow,
    It may rain—but, say,
    Ain’t it fine to-day!

🌞 Today’s Inspiration ~ It’s All Going to Work Out

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I love those who can smile in trouble. ~ Leonardo da Vinci

🌞 Today’s Inspiration ~ I Can Do This!

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Problems are guidelines, not stop signs! ~ Robert H. Schuller

🌞 Today’s Inspiration ~ A Brave Choice

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If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.

~ Paulo Coehlo 

🌞 Today’s Inspiration ~ Don’t Look Back

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“Don’t stumble over something behind you.” ~ Seneca the Younger

🌞 Today’s Inspiration ~ Shine On!

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“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.” 

~ Marcus Aurelius 

🌞 Today’s Inspiration ~Always an Inside Job

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“You attract who you are being. When you work at being the type of person that you want to attract, you attract those kinds of people into your life.”

~ Roy T. Bennett

🌞 Today’s Inspiration ~ Try Again and Again

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“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I’ll try again tomorrow.”

~ Mary Anne Radmacher

Today’s Inspiration ~ Hope is Like a Star

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“Hope itself is like a star- not to be seen in the sunshine of prosperity, and only to be discovered in the night of adversity. ” C. H. Sturgeon

Today’s Poem ~ The Loom of Time

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The Loom of Time

Author Unknown

 

Man’s life is laid in the loom of time
To a pattern he does not see,
While the weavers work and the shuttles fly
Till the dawn of eternity.

Some shuttles are filled with silver threads
And some with threads of gold,
While often but the darker hues
Are all that they may hold.

But the weaver watches with skillful eye
Each shuttle fly to and fro,
And sees the pattern so deftly wrought
As the loom moves sure and slow.

God surely planned the pattern:
Each thread, the dark and fair,
Is chosen by His master skill
And placed in the web with care.

He only knows its beauty,
And guides the shuttles which hold
The threads so unattractive,
As well as the threads of gold.

Not till each loom is silent,
And the shuttles cease to fly,
Shall God reveal the pattern
And explain the reason why

The dark threads were as needful
In the weaver’s skillful hand
As the threads of gold and silver
For the pattern which He planned.

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