tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70436262283962432102024-03-06T00:23:50.679-05:00The Top Line Is...This is a blog about Life, Leadership & LiteracySporty Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12925185128599492472noreply@blogger.comBlogger112125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7043626228396243210.post-53251796334580258552011-08-03T16:33:00.000-04:002011-08-03T16:33:23.773-04:00How I Feel Affects Other People...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div closure_uid_revft3="100">NC Update:</div><div closure_uid_revft3="100">All is well. Things are starting to pick up with my Dept of Defense contract. Contract is through a program called The Yellow Ribbon Program. These are weekend seminars going on across the country every weekend in multiple locations. The weekends are for service members who are returning from being deployed and their families. Part of the goal is to help them reintegrate into civilian life through upgrading their communication skills. Each event is held in a nice hotel and has social time built in, so that they can get a little of a “vacation” feel. YRP’s are mandatory for service members 30, 60 and 90 days after full battalion has returned and can be scheduled. According to which cycle they’re on, they are encouraged to bring family members of all ages. Booths are set up around the hallways so that they can get information about benefits: education, insurance, psychiatric, spiritual, employment…. So far I’ve done sessions on Relationships, Entrepreneurship, Communication, Leadership and spoken with the teenagers.</div><br />
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<div closure_uid_revft3="123">Notice I said ‘service members.’ All branches operate independently. Army members are Soldiers, Air Force Airmen, Navy Sailors, and Marines. I’ve done Army and some Air Force so far. I cannot approach them for more business. I am listed on a site that gives them the option to choose whomever they think would be best for the theme of their weekend. I’m just starting to average one a month. My goal is 5 per Quarter. Really enjoy doing seminars for military families. It's a nice and high calling. Can't take back some of the things they've seen and done, but great to have the chance to prevent another one from losing it.</div><br />
Meanwhile my contract with the Urban League doing Life Skills training has been extended, and is now the required prerequisite for 60% of the services offered through the League. Participants range from GED students to small business owners getting training for expansion. My classes are 4 days a week, 2 weeks a month.<br />
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</div>Getting ready to upgrade my social life. I'm not talking about having a girlfriend. Talking about going out, period. Have done a great job of being budget conscious for a year. No movies, limited restaurants, no clubs, a few fund raisers.... Meanwhile have managed to get a lot of travel in. I haven't stayed here a calendar month yet. Have been somewhere at least one weekend every month. Loving it! And I don't use the AC a lot. Someone was complaining about the heat the other day, and I told them I worship heat after living in Chicago. Didn't want to do too much hanging out until I felt comfortable with my money situation. Because neither contract has guaranteed pay “dates” I have to be more of a grownup about budgeting. For instance, because of summer schedule, I did not work at the League in July, and my August classes pay at the end of that month. YRP payments are reimbursed expenses + fee, payable 30-45 days after invoice. Did not have a YRP in June. July 17 invoice will likely come late August as well. So maybe ‘juggling’ would be a better word than budgeting??? Hahahaha Don’t cry for me Argentina… I just got back from Jamaica! No prob-blem! Went there to celebrate Silver Anniversary with a couple of friends who actually met through me back in my New York party days. Since it was a vows renewal, we found a spiritual one online and I officiated the ceremony. They were laughing and calling me Rev Sporty. I laughed too, but how happy am I that God has cemented a message through my spirit!<br />
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What message are you holding onto right now? Are you still moaning about the weather, aches & pains, other people, stress and pressure God has gifted you to experience? Are you complaining that your plate is so full that you just can’t carry another burden… then turning around in another breath and reassuring a friend that “God wouldn’t give you more than you can handle.”? Remember that you can’t have it both ways. As you see that other plate coming, marvel at the trust God has in you that you can handle 12 when you thought 11 was your limit. Encourage the angel in your mirror to enjoy another day. Know that no one thinks about you more than you do, including what you think someone else is thinking about you…. (hmmmmm & hahahahaha)<br />
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TGIT – Thank God It’s Today! You have been blessed to wake up and take another breath. There’s a chance that what ailed you yesterday will ignore you today. There’s an even better chance that what brought you joy yesterday will duplicate itself and bring you more happiness than you anticipated. That’s also why you should try something new today.<br />
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<div closure_uid_revft3="125">And TGIT – Thank God It’s Tonight! You understand what it takes to get through each day. Fully enjoy the blessing of making it to another night which offers the opportunity to lie down peacefully and wake up to do it all again tomorrow. Even if you lie down with pain, you’ve got a testimony of your resiliency to endure what so many others may have surrendered to. Put the TGIT’s together and find yourself in a wonderful spirit that allows each of you to touch and share in one another’s joy. If you don’t do so until my next post, let this be a day of peace and harmony for you. Do not complain about anything or anyone. SMILE and watch the world light up around you. Whomever and whatever doesn’t light up, is not your concern. Remember – you’re not complaining today. Stop right now and smile at somebody. Hey, even if they think you’re crazy, at least they’ll leave you alone… and not give you anything to complain about today. </div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">www.sportyking.com</div>Sporty Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12925185128599492472noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7043626228396243210.post-61505411047592292902011-06-20T08:27:00.004-04:002011-06-20T08:27:00.955-04:00How I Feel Affects Other People...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong>What’s Wrong With Hell?</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: yellow; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">How many of you have lost a loved one?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: yellow; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">When I signal you, please call out their name.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: yellow;"><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: yellow; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">How often have you said,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: yellow; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">“[name], I know you’re up there looking down and smiling at me”?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: yellow; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">How often have you said,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: yellow; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">“[name], I know you’re down there looking up and smiling at me”?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: yellow; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Why not?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: yellow; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">What’s wrong with Hell?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: yellow; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">I’ve heard some of the best people receive their marching orders,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: yellow; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">directions and sentences to Hell</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: yellow; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">It’s just got to be overcrowded with teachers, parents, coaches, referees,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: yellow; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">co-workers & supervisors, tenants & landlords, <em><strong>you’s</strong></em> but never <strong><em>me’s</em></strong>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: yellow; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Didn’t they hear us…</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: yellow; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Or have we been so low as to wish in whispers?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: yellow;"><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: yellow; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">It’s been the chosen gift of countless coaches and fans</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: yellow; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">(“<em>Give ‘em Hell</em>”)…</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: yellow; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">The question for character confirmation of countless concerned citizens</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: yellow; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">(“<em>Who the Hell are you?</em>”)…</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: yellow; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Puzzled patrons (“<em>How in Hell?</em>”)… The lost & found (“<em>Where the Hell?</em>”)…</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: yellow; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Yet no one wants to go there.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: yellow;"><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: yellow; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">We know about as much about it as we do about Heaven</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: yellow; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Though we can guess the GPA</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: yellow; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">(<strong>G</strong>od’s <strong>P</strong>rayers <strong>A</strong>nswered) requirement is lower</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: yellow; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">The population is considered to be on one accord.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: yellow; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">You don’t have to watch your back or language.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: yellow; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Weather’s consistent… food & entertainment 24/7… in fact there are no days</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: yellow; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">And surely no dark nights.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: yellow;"><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: yellow; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">And if there are days, Sunday is just 1 of 7…</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: yellow; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">No one’s got the Monday Blues…</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: yellow; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">‘Hump Day’ has a refreshing tone for Wednesday…</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: yellow; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Friday gets thanks like each day that starts with a “T” (<strong>T</strong>oday)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: yellow; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">And Saturday is not necessarily the last day.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: yellow;"><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: yellow; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">The dress code and political views are welcomed</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: yellow; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Diversity isn’t a buzz word; it’s respected at both levels</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: yellow; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">That’s right, there are only 2 levels: In or Out!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: yellow; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">The truth is that the landlord or creator of both places</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: yellow; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">is branded in their 1st two letters (<strong>H-E</strong>)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: yellow; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">And <strong>H-E</strong> is actually all in favor of overcrowding while blessing individually</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: yellow;"><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>H-E</strong> welcomes and invites all to enter willingly,</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: yellow; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">and no application is rejected based upon education,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: yellow; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">social status, race, sex, age, medical or sinful background.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>H-E</strong> is more than willing to give you all you want.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: yellow; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">In fact, <strong>H-E</strong> has given you all you need</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: yellow;"><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>H-E</strong> is the one whom everyone acknowledges</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: yellow; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Even by professing their disbelief</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>H-E</strong> has been the answer to countless prayers</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: yellow; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">and provider of timeless testimonies</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: yellow; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">of mysterious qualities that have proven themselves to be nothing more than our occasional loss of faith or belief that time & place are now & here…</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: yellow; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">“<em>now & here</em>…” two words that (when put together)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: yellow; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">signal our journey’s end without the Lord’s grace: <em>nowhere</em>!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: yellow;"><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: yellow; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">For <strong>H-E</strong> is the Sheppard of the lost & found</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: yellow; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">And no matter where you think you’re going</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: yellow; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">You won’t get there without his impact on your life</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: yellow; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">And what you should really know is that <strong>H-E</strong> doesn’t look down on you</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>H-E</strong> doesn’t look up to you</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>H-E</strong> looks out for you</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: yellow;"><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: yellow; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Now, why in the <strong>H-E</strong>-L-L (<strong>H</strong>is <strong>E</strong>xalting <strong>L</strong>ight & <strong>L</strong>ove)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: yellow; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Wouldn’t you want that?</span></div><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><a href="http://www.sportyking.com/"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">www.sportyking.com</span></a><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small;"> </span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">www.sportyking.com</div>Sporty Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12925185128599492472noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7043626228396243210.post-59311068699304596632011-06-16T08:00:00.002-04:002011-06-16T08:00:17.053-04:00How I Feel Affects Other People...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Men rarely get their proper recognition. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">"Yo Mama" are fighting words... jokes about "Mama's baby, Papa's maybe";</span><br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">"The most confusing day in America? Fathers Day"... even the song titles:</span><br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">"... I'll Always Love my Mama (OJays)... Sadie (Spinners)...”</span><br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">while men get “Papa Was A Rolling Stone (Temptations)...."</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Well, not every father is a DBD (Dead Beat Dad).</span><br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">And, like mothers, they don't get a rule book on parenthood either.</span><br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">So I dedicate this month to the men </span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Your nine month wait showed no physical signs.</span><br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Your nourishment was indirect.</span><br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">You waited in the wings to teach morals & values,</span><br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">To cultivate self respect.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">You were</span><br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">*the final word, even as the first word...</span><br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">*the knee that offered stability...</span><br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">*the shoulder of security...</span><br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">*the spirit that broke each fall...</span><br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">The goal to reach (for approval)</span><br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Since the day your child could crawl.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">You were not seen every waking moment,</span><br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">But your presence was felt each morning, noon and night.</span><br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">As your child is blessed to grow older,</span><br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Be sure to thank God for your foresight</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">No, my father didn't stay and watch me grow up through every stage of my life. And he's never told me he loved me (to my knowledge). He believed his job was as Disciplinarian. He had never met his father, and chose to damn his mother for forcing him to be the man of the house at 12. And I could go on and on about what he did and didn't do... yet I'd rather stop here and say that he is my role model for manhood. Let me further say that more than half of what he taught me are things I wouldn't do... as he was often my biggest negative role model. But sometimes our greatest lessons are those that signal the road we choose not to take:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">I don't have children, but I have nieces and nephews whom I choose to tell and show that I love them. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">I chose to coach and referee community league basketball for 11 years... without threatening or berating my players... while reminding them that another man was interested in their developing morals and values, besides their father.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">I chose to volunteer at youth centers and teach them how bright their future can be.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">I chose to speak at Senior Citizen Centers and remind them that their past has shed light on our present.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">I choose to thank my teachers in retrospect through motivating those who teach today.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">I chose to do all of these things and more, because I believe my father would have done them if his life presented a different set of options. It's not my call to "forgive" him for choosing to leave when I was too young to understand what went on between him and my mother. Nor is it my call to "forgive" him once I understood how and why he made the choice he did. Yet I can't forgive him enough for taking advantage of the greatest option in my life: his part in creating me. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">He died from Alzheimer's, so it's okay for me to talk about how much I love him and recognize how hard he tried to be the father he didn't know how to be. Wonder how he would've reacted had I ever told him?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">We expect a lot from our parents. How much do we give?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Happy Fathers' Day</span><br />
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<strong><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">An area minister tells of his first Sunday in a new parish, while presenting </span><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">the children's message. Seems the sanctuary in the new church had some magnificent stained glass windows, so his message centered on how each of us is called of God to help make up the whole picture of life. Like the pictures in the windows, it takes many little panels of glass to make the whole picture. </span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">And then pointing to each child individually, "You're a little pane. And you're </span><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">a little pane. And you're a little pane. And..." </span></strong><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Sometimes I wish I were lucky</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Instead of just so . . . good.</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>If I could just be lucky</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>I might share my luck</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>No (in fact) I know I would.</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Some people say that I'm lucky</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>I correct and remind them I'm blessed</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>I'm fortunate, spiritual, in tune with myself</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Nothing outweighs my thirst for happiness</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><strong></strong></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>You see luck, itself, doesn't last</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>It supplies a glimmer of hope or chance</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Luck forces you to take risks</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Being blessed allows you to take a stance</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><strong></strong></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Luck can give you that "On top of the world" feeling</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>That instant fix of elation</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Being fortunate keeps you "on top of the world"</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>And allows you to enjoy the sensation</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><strong></strong></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Spirituality is such a popular thing now</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>But it means much more than meets the eye</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>If you get lucky enough to get spiritual</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Hold on, don't let that spirit die</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><strong></strong></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>If you get lucky enough to find yourself</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Enjoy the challenge of introspection</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Realize its value toward your growth</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Understand that you're supposed to have success</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Your purpose is ordained</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>You must choose to lead a prosperous life</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>You must make sunshine out of rain</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><strong></strong></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>But, I must admit</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Sometimes I wish I were lucky</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Instead of just so . . . good</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><strong></strong></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>But would I stand out from the rest?</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>If you're lucky you can be in good company</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>If you're blessed you can be with the best</strong></span></div><br />
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong></strong></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong>There’s only one true originating point</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong>That place is called your Heart</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong>There dwells a Kindred Spirit</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong>And a child who won’t Age,</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong>but ever grows Smart.</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong></strong></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong>That child’s neighbors are Angels,</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong>full of Hope and opportunity…</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong>Their golden roads lead Happily to the King.</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong>Your Ability to give must come from within,</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong>And the Sweet return of your Kindness will make you Sing</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong></strong></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong>For as we give, we catch up to what we’ve received</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong>We Share our life, love, our laughter,</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong>and trust in who we believe</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong>We Keep our Smile Aglow with Sincerity</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong>Our Touch, ever gentle and reassuring.</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong>In fact we become so Humble and Silent</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong>That some might consider us boring.</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong></strong></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong>Yet it is because we are calm that we prosper.</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong>What we give most Absolutely is our Thanks</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong>Our wisdom has Helped us pass the test of Time,</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong>time more precious than the money in the bank.</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong></strong></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong>There’s only one True originating point</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong>It’s the Nucleus of our dreams,</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong>Saving us to See Another day.</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong>Open your Hands in praise to Heaven’s glory</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong>For what you give can never be taken Away</strong></span></div><br />
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<span style="color: cyan; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">When I used to speak at Senior Centers in Chicago I always reminded them to not feel embarrassed when people said they were going senile. Instead, they should let people know that they are exercising their right to forget! We do learn so much in our lives that there's no way we can remember it all. Stuff has to get pushed out as new information comes in. Computers lose memory... why shouldn't we??? (wink)</span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">So, believe me, it is just as precious to share the thought with you as it is to read or hear you. That's also why I call my inspirational acronyms "Passing Thoughts." For what we share are mental moments... thus my 2011 theme "Happy New Moments." </span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">I am totally loving my life in the South. It has not been the adjustment people think I'd have to go through. Mostly because moving here was my choice, and a choice I made 1/4 century ago. What joy to hear, embrace and follow God's word. When we make the decision to do or be, our commitment lasts longer. Truth be told, that's why there are so many flakey relationships. People don't want to admit to society that they chose the wrong mate. Of course the good side is that many of those trials and tribulations become testimonies... yes, I think they should stay in there and work it out. "Enough" is an individual experience. </span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Keep making choices. You're very good at it, and you've made more good ones than bad. Keep enjoying the growth of your faith. There is nothing like the smile that takes over your spirit when you know you've just won another scuffle. Remember, the battle belongs to the Lord... and the war is always won with the winners rarely being who they were when it started.</span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Doesn’t mean you have to be</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Tough.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">And you sure don’t need to be</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Rough.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
<span style="color: red; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Instead it means you have to <strong>T</strong>ime</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">your communication/interaction</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">To most effectively transfer the message you want to send</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">And realize your message just may not get across</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Until it’s delivered again and again</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
<span style="color: red; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">It certainly means you have to <strong>G</strong>enuinely care</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Yes, that’s the “G”… you see</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">emotions are not sequential or by the book</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">So patiently add your Understanding</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Most love requires another look</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
<span style="color: red; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">That look easily translates to being insightful</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">(an empathetic, not pathetic glance)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Taking the time to wear the other shoe</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">To consider why you deserve another chance</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
<span style="color: red; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Let the “O” be for <strong>O</strong>bvious -</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">All the things you’ll pretend were clear</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Regardless of the outcome you’ll justify your actions</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Reminding all concerned there was nothing to fear</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
<span style="color: red; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">So my “H” stands for <strong>H</strong>ugs</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><em><strong>Because what’s tough about love is acting nonchalant</strong></em></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">We must maintain our will to nurture and respect</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">the actions that force each of us to grow</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">We must pledge to fight to overcome the urge</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">to motivate others based on our preferences</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">that negate how they feel or what they know</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
<span style="color: red; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">However you define love</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">It doesn’t mean we have to be</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong>Tough</strong></span></div><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">© 1988</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>"Do You Have Any Idea... How Fine You Are?"</em></span><br />
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<span style="color: #e69138; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e69138; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">A reschedule... a missed date...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e69138; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">A cancellation.. an aloof encounter...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
<span style="color: #e69138; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e69138; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">But first, let me thank you</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e69138; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">For the moment of unsureness</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e69138; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">For as my heart was allowed to merge,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e69138; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">(Once again) with my brain,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e69138; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">I doubted my immortality</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e69138; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">A state of mind I've chosen to share with you)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e69138; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">And I celebrated the step we had taken</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e69138; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Toward this meeting.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
<span style="color: #e69138; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e69138; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Yet the moment extended an eternity</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e69138; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">A hollowness that echoed no sound</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e69138; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">of reciprocity blackened my world.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e69138; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Gone, was the laughter</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e69138; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Missing, the smile</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e69138; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Exiled, the warmth</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
<span style="color: #e69138; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e69138; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">... I almost lost you.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e69138; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Instead I found that we were never together.</span></div><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">© 1988</span><br />
<em><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">"Do You Have Any Idea... How Fine You Are?"</span></em><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">I thought about switching lives with you.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">But I miss me already.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">See, I don't know if you enjoy waking up every morning</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">And that happens to be one of my favorite moments</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Because it starts me off having reached my primary goal of the day</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">For my goal everyday is to wake up tomorrow...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
<span style="color: magenta; font-size: large;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">And I don't know if you really appreciate</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">how your fingers and toes move.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">While I know I really get a kick out of feeling</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">solid, soft or sandy soil supporting my successful stride.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
<span style="color: magenta; font-size: large;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">I happen to enjoy touching, squeezing, holding </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">and pointing myself in the right direction</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">That direction is up, (by the way) are you headed that way?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">I know I am,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">And I'd sure like to be in my shoes when I get there...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Because I pretty much know how I'd deal with the crowds.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Got my acceptance speech ready, and been practicing my smile</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Come to think of it,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">I've been working on it since I was a child.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
<span style="color: magenta; font-size: large;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">My favorite outfit will be pressed brand new</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Family, friends, teachers, heroes, TV shows,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">clients, habits and hobbies</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">They'll all be there too.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Can't say I'd know how to handle them all,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">if I woke up and found out I was you.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
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<span style="color: magenta; font-size: large;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">My mentors would take credit, while giving me praise</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">They'd help me relive memories and cherish new days</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Oh, how I would laugh at the tough times</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">and the material things that were lost</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">And rejoice in the character they helped build</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">See, my life and spirit are beyond monetary cost.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
<span style="color: magenta; font-size: large;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Every enemy would stand in their place</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">and receive equal time to express the beauty they inspired</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">through their negativity.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Let's face it,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">so many of the lessons we actually learn come from disharmony.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
<span style="color: magenta; font-size: large;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">A selfish person made me want to share...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">A jealous person helped me recognize insecurity...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">A lie reminded me to tell the truth...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">I remember joy & pain... I like sunshine & rain...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">And it was a man who taught me how to be a man.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
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<span style="color: magenta; font-size: large;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">I've been vigilant, patient, spontaneous, loving, mean, mischievous.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Ignorant, irresponsible, (irresistible), innocent, intelligent, intuitive, intimate, interesting, introspective/indecisive, insightful/insatiable, insensitive/incredible, indispensable, independent, incoherent/incognito, indescribable, inexperienced, infallible, indestructible, inspirational, inquisitive, instinctive, instrumental, IN...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">and OUT...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
<span style="color: magenta; font-size: large;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Outstanding/outrageous, outside/outsmarted, outspoken/outdone, outlandish/outclassed, outwitted/outcast, outnumbered, outraged, outright, outreached, outranked, outvoted, outgoing, out of sight, out of this world...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">oh, yes, even out of breath…</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">(and almost) out of my mind,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
<span style="color: magenta; font-size: large;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Because, I thought about switching lives with you.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">But I miss me already.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
<span style="color: magenta; font-size: large;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">See, I don't know if you enjoy waking up every morning,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">And that happens to be one of my favorite moments.</span></div><br />
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<em>”Your Name Came To Mind”</em><br />
© 2000<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #76a5af; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">What happens when we leave God out of love?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #76a5af; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">What happens to those around us...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #76a5af; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">What can we really do...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #76a5af; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">What will we really have to share...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #76a5af; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">What happens to me and you?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
<span style="color: #76a5af; font-size: large;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #76a5af; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">What happens when we leave God out of love?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #76a5af; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">How can we share or be happy...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #76a5af; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">How does that make us feel...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #76a5af; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">How can our relationships remain true...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #76a5af; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">How will we know love is real?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
<span style="color: #76a5af; font-size: large;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #76a5af; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">What happens when we leave God out of love?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #76a5af; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Where do we find ourselves...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #76a5af; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Where is our light...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #76a5af; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Where is that feeling of satisfaction...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #76a5af; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Where is that knowledge that says this is right?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
<span style="color: #76a5af; font-size: large;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #76a5af; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">What happens when we leave God out of love?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #76a5af; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Why does our heart become covered with hate...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #76a5af; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Why don't we care...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #76a5af; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Why are we so cold...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #76a5af; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Why do we let love's freshness become stale,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #76a5af; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">and then let it become old?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
<span style="color: #76a5af; font-size: large;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #76a5af; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">What happens when we leave God out of love?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #76a5af; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Who are we really cheating...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #76a5af; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Who has the most at stake...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #76a5af; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Who </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #76a5af; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Whose heart really breaks?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
<span style="color: #76a5af; font-size: large;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #76a5af; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">When we leave God out of love</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #76a5af; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">there are no answers... only questions.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #76a5af; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Questions that lead to doubt</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #76a5af; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">So before you call it "love"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #76a5af; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">make sure you know what He's all about.</span></div><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Shall I call the Psychic NOT-Line?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Or have my palm blue?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Or would it be better if I do all I can</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">To find out about myself, based on what I hear from you?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">You're the man who understands menstrual cramps...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">The winner who says you've never lost...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">The woman who forgot to wear an athletic support cup...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">The fresh-out-of-college boss....</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">The black who’s never been white,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">The left that's never been right.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">You've always lived in the same place</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Never traveled or visited afar</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Never flown or taken the train</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">And you never have driven a car.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Didn't marry, no kids, not a drink or drug have you taken.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">The son who's never been a daughter,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Yet you freely give your opinion with authority</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">And act as if it's you who walked on water.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Now, from where I sit I cannot answer every question,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">In fact, there are times where I'll add to what is asked.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">For as similar as my experiences are, they're different</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">So understanding, rather than answering, becomes my task.</span></div><br />
© 1999</div><div class="blogger-post-footer">www.sportyking.com</div>Sporty Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12925185128599492472noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7043626228396243210.post-60671816562977064742011-01-29T16:06:00.000-05:002011-01-29T16:06:31.448-05:00How I Feel Affects Other People...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Feeling overloaded and distracted? Consider it a gear switch rather than a distraction… maybe even a detour. That happens once you get into a groove. Sometimes you’ve got the auto pilot going so smoothly that God throws a little extra in the pot to see you handle it. </span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong><em>God's love never fails,</em></strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong><em>Though we sometimes expect it to. . .</em></strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong><em>We may sometimes feel incomplete.</em></strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong><em>And in that cavernous place of fantasy,</em></strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong><em>we lose sight of the true light that keeps us afloat.</em></strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong><em>A fantasy that should, instead,</em></strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong><em>invite us to a rainbow of joy</em></strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong><em>where the pot of gold at the end, is at the beginning.</em></strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong><em>Or have you forgotten that in the beginning,</em></strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong><em>there was the Word. . .</em></strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong><em>And just as the word was good,</em></strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong><em>so (too) must we believe in our wholeness:</em></strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong><em>Are you Willing to sacrifice...</em></strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong><em>happy to look success in the eye, and proclaim the victory?</em></strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong><em>Can you clear out yesterday and tomorrow...</em></strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong><em>to enjoy the Here and now of this present?</em></strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong><em>Are you On top of your game...</em></strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong><em>where you win because you compete only against yourself?</em></strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong><em>Do you Love yourself?</em></strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong><em>And will the by-product of your love (Self Esteem)</em></strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong><em>bring you closer to the Everlasting passion and promise</em></strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong><em>of God's love...?</em></strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong><em>...for it never fails,</em></strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong><em>though we sometimes expect it to. . .</em></strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong><em>because we cannot understand his power.</em></strong></span></div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">... Can’t live without them (period)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">And I wouldn’t want to have to be the one to prove it...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Thus, as I sat beside the fireplace last night,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">my thoughts drifted to you.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
<span style="color: magenta; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Not the words we exchanged during our last time together,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">but to you</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">And as I listened to the crackle of the wood</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">I was reminded of the crispness and effervescence of your smile...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">A glow of encouragement, inspiring me to breathe</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">and enjoy this walk of faith.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Starring into the dancing flames</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">I saw the many faces of your beauty, and sensed your moods...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">As you stare into the mirror we now share.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Funny, how it seems I have a message...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">When I am merely the messenger.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
<span style="color: magenta; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Clever, how I mouth your words...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">With no sight of your hand running up my back.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
<span style="color: magenta; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Lasting, your affect on the lives you touch...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Neither beginning nor ending with mine.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Oh, I could go on...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">BUT, I CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT YOU</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong>(PERIOD)</strong></span></div><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><em><strong>Sometimes we look at it from the other end of the deal, but think about how your smile just gets on a negative person's nerves... like their frown can get on yours.</strong></em></span><br />
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: large;"><strong></strong></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong>Didn't we mention that the bus was only the beginning?</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong>For this movement meant much more than a ride.</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong>The strength in this woman was her obedience...</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong>Yet her spirit was motivated by her pride.</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: large;"><strong></strong></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong>Pride made a comment to Wisdom</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong>Asked it how necessary it was to lay low?</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong>Wisdom was no fool, it said I'll go with you...</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong>Just promise me that you'll take it slow.</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong>So they worked their way to the front of the bus</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong>(these two… Pride & Wisdom)</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong>They made no pause, as others watched and warned.</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: large;"><strong></strong></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong>And as they sank into that seat</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong>that moment became everlasting</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong>For never had authority been so scorned.</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: large;"><strong></strong></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong>Fitting that her name was Rosa</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong>For she rose above the pain that held so many back.</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong>The pain that says slavery is mental</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong>And it's favorite color never has been black.</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">© 1984 Sporty King</span><br />
<strong><em><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">”Your Name Came To Mind”</span></em></strong><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e06666; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong>I could almost make out your figure</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e06666; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong>Through the darkness in which we sat.</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e06666; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong>And so I sat and I listened,</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e06666; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong>And I felt your every word</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e06666; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong>as they lingered in the black.</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e06666; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong>I closed my eyes.</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e06666; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong>But I opened them shortly</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e06666; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong>(for I missed you in that span)</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e06666;"><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"></span></strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e06666; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong>Your fragrance enticed my nostrils</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e06666; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong>Your voice welcomed me back</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e06666; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong>Your actions called for my attention</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e06666; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong>Your wisdom rang in my ear.</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e06666; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong>You kept me up late last night</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e06666;"><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"></span></strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e06666; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong>And you weren't even here.</strong></span></div><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
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<em><strong><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">The truth is we all keep someone up late each night... worrying about our safety... how we handled a situation... what we last spoke about.... </span></strong></em><br />
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<em><strong><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Though I obviously wrote this poem to express my feelings to my girlfriend, who was studying abroad, years later a friend of mine honored my writing as she used it to eulogize her friend.</span></strong></em><br />
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<em><strong><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">See the power of words, and resolve to define them to express your feelings with no boundaries on how you use them. And be sure to tell someone you love them today.</span></strong></em><div class="blogger-post-footer">www.sportyking.com</div>Sporty Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12925185128599492472noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7043626228396243210.post-26956105120076215002011-01-13T14:00:00.002-05:002011-01-13T14:00:01.615-05:00How I Feel Affects Other People...<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;"><strong>DATE YOUR MATE</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">May I suggest that if her name was once Sweetheart,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">and his Honey</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">That you continue to say them with no bite?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">And that one of you has to wonder</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">what surprise YOU have, to make this a special night?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Look, I don’t care if you’ve gotten older</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">or put on a little weight</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">It takes some work to stay in love</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">You’ve got to date your mate.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Flowers are supposed to bloom and wither</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">So they can be renewed.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">And, fellas, if you start then stop sending them</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">She’ll get them from some other dude.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Now hold on ladies,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">don’t accept those replacement flowers so fast</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">How much are you doing of what you did</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">To get them in the past?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">If you were a gentleman who opened every door</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Don’t suddenly wake up one day</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">and act like it’s such a chore.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Don’t switch to unscented soap</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">if you once wore cologne.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">And if you do, don’t wonder why</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">she spends so much time on the phone.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Remember, if it was a whiff of your perfume</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">That made him stick out his chest and spread his plume</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">No matter how many children or situations</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">It’s not too late</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">To relive those precious moments</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">You’ve got to date your mate.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">If he was once your knight in shining armor</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Or she, your damsel in distress</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Admire the way he looks in a suit</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Compliment her on that new dress.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">It’s never too early in the morning to show your love</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Any time of night is not too late</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">If you’ve done it before, do it again</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">You’ve got to date your mate.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">You were blessed to have met one another</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Do you doubt that destiny?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">And after you’ve erased all the unpleasant memories</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Would your faults be strengths with someone else?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Are you guaranteed to wake up tomorrow</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">to share or see a smile?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Will you find a little less rhyme or reason</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Even see all you have at stake?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Have you forgotten so much about the good times</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">That in hindsight they were all fake?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Don’t let the thin line disappear</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">And turn your love into your hate</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">It’s a chance not everyone gets</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">So don’t take it for granted</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">© 1994 Sporty King</span><br />
<strong><em><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">"Do You Have Any Idea... How Fine You Are?"</span></em></strong><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Actually, I've known it for quite some time now</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Yet only at a surface level.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">And, again, I thank you (God) for yesterday,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">as much as I do for today.</span></div><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">And I ask that you (my friends) join me</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">in recognizing that the challenge</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">of this roller coaster ride called "life"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">is even greater when you take responsibility</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">for your actions and self.</span></div><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">For as I am able to look at where I was, and what I did</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">It becomes more evident to me who I am.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">And through that realization I extend my hand to touch you</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Actually to feel you</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Because in my position as Conduit of Good Spirits</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">The physicality of our sharing pales in comparison</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">To how and why we must love one another.</span></div><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">I found out I'm living.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">And when I woke up this morning I praised that vision</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">That I might be allowed to ride His coat tails</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">And see Him in my every decision.</span></div><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">I sat by the window and took in another breath</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">For somewhere... somehow... someone else... didn't.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">So I checked my five, for their alignment with my sixth sense</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Thus my ability to experience... experience... experience... experience... experience...</span></div><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">While my smile sent a flush of joy to every tip</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Of this temporary body I occupy</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">And came back in an unspoken word of comfort.</span></div><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">I read the Word to exorcise my soul of fear.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">I recognized what other called miracles</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">As the blessings that were always there</span></div><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">I found out I'm living</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">And that I have been since Day Number One.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Yet it was not until I released my physical self</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">That I was really able to give God the glory</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">And thanks for all that I've done.</span></div><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">As we grow our businesses,</span></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">we come across several situations</span></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">that will ask us to “fake it, to make it.”</span></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;"></span></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">Consider the fact that you may get the business, yet you may be required to continue to be someone other than who you are.</span></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;"></span></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">Expect to be respected for who you are…</span></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">by first respecting yourself.</span></strong></div><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>I FOUND OUT I'M DYING</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: orange; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
<span style="color: orange; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: orange; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Actually, I've known it for quite some time now</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: orange; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">But for so many others its new news.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: orange; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">So I'd like to thank You (God) for yesterday</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: orange; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">As much as I do for today.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: orange; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">And I ask that you (my friend) pause, but not stop,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: orange; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">To think about some of the wild things I've survived </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: orange; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Before my greatest challenge.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: orange; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">And believe me,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: orange; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Death is the only challenge we won't sit and laugh about </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: orange; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">[Or relive]</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: orange; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">But we can find joy in it,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: orange; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Because there'll be enough kind words</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: orange; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">to create a new dictionary.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: orange; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Kind words that I need now, more than ever</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: orange; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Kind words keep us alive</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: orange; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Physically. . . mentally. . . spiritually.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
<span style="color: orange; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: orange; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">I found out I'm dying</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: orange; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">And when I woke this morning I wept.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: orange; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">And I laughed aloud and I started to sing </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: orange; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">(but remembered that I couldn't, so I danced instead)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: orange; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">And I whistled a tune as I made my bed</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
<span style="color: orange; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: orange; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">I threw open the window and let out a cheer</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: orange; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">(actually I just smiled, so no one could hear)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: orange; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">I exercised, ate and dressed (after I washed)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: orange; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">then I looked in the mirror and gave myself a wink.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: orange; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">"Not bad for a body that's survived another day,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: orange; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">I'm so blessed to get older"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: orange; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Is all I could think.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
<span style="color: orange; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: orange; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">I didn't bother reading the Obituary</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: orange; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">(Because I knew I wasn't there)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: orange; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Instead I clipped my fingernails</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: orange; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">And neatly styled my hair</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
<span style="color: orange; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: orange; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">I found out I'm dying</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: orange; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">And that I have been since Day Number One.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: orange; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">So I spend little time regretting my life</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: orange; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Because I'd rather spend the time having fun.</span></div><br />
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</div><div class="blogger-post-footer">www.sportyking.com</div>Sporty Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12925185128599492472noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7043626228396243210.post-22982466530419276122011-01-10T10:00:00.001-05:002011-01-10T10:00:02.515-05:00How I Feel Affects Other People...<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: lime; font-size: large;"><strong>I NEVER LOSE!</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: lime; font-size: large;"><strong></strong></span></div><span style="color: lime; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><br />
</strong></div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: lime; font-size: large;"><strong>And neither should you.</strong></span></div><span style="color: lime; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><br />
</strong></div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: lime; font-size: large;"><strong>Losing, like winning, is a state of mind.</strong></span></div><span style="color: lime; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><br />
</strong></div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: lime; font-size: large;"><strong>When we establish a mindset</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: lime; font-size: large;"><strong>that recognizes the need to compete against ourselves,</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: lime; font-size: large;"><strong>rather than surrender to others’ standards,</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: lime; font-size: large;"><strong>our victories become more measurable and memorable.</strong></span></div><span style="color: lime; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><br />
</strong></div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: lime; font-size: large;"><strong>Winning is a state of mind.</strong></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta; font-size: large;"><strong>THERE’S A DIFFERENCE…</strong></span></div><span style="color: magenta; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><br />
</strong></div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta; font-size: large;"><strong>… between losing and being a loser.</strong></span></div><span style="color: magenta; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><br />
</strong></div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta; font-size: large;"><strong>Losing can be a part of life,</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta; font-size: large;"><strong>where things don’t come out the way you want them to.</strong></span></div><span style="color: magenta; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><br />
</strong></div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta; font-size: large;"><strong>Being a loser is a state of mind,</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta; font-size: large;"><strong>where you decide to surrender to the misfortune,</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta; font-size: large;"><strong>even though you have the opportunity</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta; font-size: large;"><strong>to learn from it’s setback.</strong></span></div><span style="color: magenta; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><br />
</strong></div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta; font-size: large;"><strong>Don’t let a loss make you a loser.</strong></span></div><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;"><strong></strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: orange; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;"><strong>… you can only share in my blessing.</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: orange; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;"><strong>Are you afraid</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: orange; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;"><strong>that someone else will take your place</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: orange; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;"><strong>if you share the spotlight?</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
<span style="color: orange; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;"><strong></strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: orange; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;"><strong>The truth is, whatever you do</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: orange; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;"><strong>provides the contrast I need</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: orange; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;"><strong>to express myself as unique…</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: orange; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;"><strong>and vice versa.</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
<span style="color: orange; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;"><strong></strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: orange; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;"><strong>No one can steal your thunder…</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: orange; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;"><strong>they can only share in your blessing</strong></span></div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Now, isn't that better?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Go on, breathe. Isn't that more comfortable?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">1 - 2 . . . in - out . . . hold it . . . release</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">You've been unnecessarily tense</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Holding it all in</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">And in the process withholding and hurting</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">others and yourself.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">I know how I've waited for this moment</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">How often I've wanted to just touch you</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">and say it's okay.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">How I've longed to see you let go and open up. . .</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">You see, honesty is always the best armor.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Lies are like ill-fitting clothes</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">that constrict your breathing and retard your growth.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Your biting tongue returns the pain you spew forth.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">And insincere actions place you in harm's way.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Yet, your truth allows you to stretch.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">And as you stretch again and again, you get more energy.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Your ride becomes smooth</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">And your actions take on new meaning.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Meaning you've been wanting to share</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">for quite some time now.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">So open up and speak only the truth</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Because lies are like ill-fitting clothes</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">that constrict your breathing and retard your growth.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">So take your clothes off.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Hold it . . . release . . . in - out . . . 1 - 2</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Go on, breathe. Isn't that more comfortable?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Now, isn't that better?</span></div><br />
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