Words That Carry

What Love Can Do

LOVE

There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer;
    no disease that enough love will not heal;
    no door that enough love will not open;
    no gulf that enough love will not bridge;
    no wall that enough love will not throw down;
    no sin that enough love will not redeem...
    It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble;
    how hopeless the outlook; how muddled the tangle; how great the mistake.
    A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.
    If only you could love enough you would be
    the happiest and most powerful being in the world...

    ~Emmet Fox~

Hope well defined

Hope

defined in a poem by Emily Dickinson

 

Part One: Life 

XXXII

HOPE is the thing with feathers

That perches in the soul,

And sings the tune without the words,

And never stops at all, 

   

And sweetest in the gale is heard; 

And sore must be the storm

That could abash the little bird

That kept so many warm.

 

I ’ve heard it in the chillest land,

And on the strangest sea;

Yet, never, in extremity,

It asked a crumb of me.

From Emily Dickinson (1830–86). Complete Poems. 1924.

Grace defined

Grace as defined by Answers.com

1. Seemingly effortless beauty or charm of movement, form, or proportion.
2. A characteristic or quality pleasing for its charm or refinement.
3. A sense of fitness or propriety.
4. a. A disposition to be generous or helpful; goodwill.
b. Mercy; clemency.
5. A favor rendered by one who need not do so; indulgence.
6. A temporary immunity or exemption; a reprieve.
7. Graces Greek & Roman Mythology. Three sister goddesses, known in Greek mythology as Aglaia, Euphrosyne, and Thalia, who dispense charm and beauty.
8. a. Divine love and protection bestowed freely on people.
b. The state of being protected or sanctified by the favor of God.
c. An excellence or power granted by God.
9. A short prayer of blessing or thanksgiving said before or after a meal.
10. Grace Used with His, Her, or Your as a title and form of address for a duke, duchess, or
archbishop .
11. Music. An appoggiatura, trill, or other musical ornanment in the music of 16th and 17th century England.

Harmony

Harmony
- a poem by Kelle Groom

It’s different when you’re not here —
for instance, there is always
too much food
and the waitress does not speak French.

C’est bon, avoir, oubliette, the only words I remember.
Once I lived with a man who came back from Paris
And gave me poems in French about water — but he was angry
at the grape juice
on his couch, a scratch on the mirror, dust — when I left,
he said, stay.

I am sitting at a table in a French café
in Florida —
earlier I sat in a French café in New York
with a man who criticized the smudges on my sunglasses,
the sand in my hair —
the table is the same size, a melody,
and the men at the next table converse:
Man One: I got the gist, but are the maps really what the logistics world
is worried about

Cows make me feel human because we’re
so different — two voices that blend, two colors.
These trees — red with gray,
weird, off-key, palmetto vs. ocean line

or two people: letting a person have a bad time, the other
person making room, arms can hold you and
things that are sweet together.

A Favorite definition of FAITH

Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.

-Rabindranath Tagore

Who is Rabindranath Tagore?

Indian Poet, Playwright and Essayist, Won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913, 1861-1941

Forgiveness- the answer to a dream

Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is again made clean.

- Dag Hammarskjold

Beauty- Can It Stand Alone?

When looking for definitions of beauty, I found that it can’t stand alone. Consider the quotes below:

Things are beautiful if you love them. - Jean Anouilh

What ever beauty may be, it has for its basis order, and for its essence unity. - Father Andre

I don't know if my conclusion is correct, or not, but I like it.