National Poetry Month!

“If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.”
David Carradine

Why not carry a poem in your pocket? Or what about getting a poem every day?
Celebrate National Poetry Month!

Watch this video about people loving poems:

http://youtu.be/qt8tzj0ieb4

 

Our Story

“When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.”  George Washington Carver 

I watched the movie Amistad. It is the moving account of Africans kidnapped from Sierra Leone and sold into slavery. They take control of the slave ship and end up captured by Americans when the Spanish ship drifts into U.S. waters. They begin a fight to prove that they are free and to return to their home. Just one of many incredible stories of survival, fighting for freedom and dignity that represents the history of all people. Celebrate history, the stories that tell us all who we were and who we are.

 

New Year, Beginning of Freedom

“Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.”  Abraham Lincoln

I have to admit that I didn’t know the history behind the tradition of Watch Services on New Year’s Eve at my baptist church. I simply thought it was the Christian alternative to engaging in drunken and wild behavior; a time to give thanks for the previous year and say prayers for the new one. Yet the tradition of sitting up late and “watching” until the stroke of midnight has a deeper significance. Read the story!

 

Be It Resolved!

“Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.” Jonathan Edwards 

“Celebrate what you want to see more of.” Tom Peters

“Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.” 
Helen Keller 

“Let our New Year’s resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word.”
Goran Persson 

 

Star Bright

A Star

It’s not the gifts,
Or fancy trinkets
We get on Christmas morn, 
The true gift came that glorious day,
When Jesus Christ was born.

We rush around,
To buy the things
We think will bring us joy,
But our true happiness and hope
Came as a baby boy.

A Star shone bright
Around the world,
For all in hope to see,
The news of our salvation,
A child to set us free.

                                                                                  Lynn Emery Hubbard 

Gratitude

“The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.”  William Blake 

Research shows that being thankful, appreciating what you have and showing gratitude to others is the path to happiness. No surprise! The holidays are the perfect time to show love and mend relationships. No, it’s not easy. In fact the hard work happens after the first steps are taken. But at least making a start is a way to start healing.

In every way and everywhere we accept this with all gratitude.

ACTS 24:3

Glass Half Full

 

“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.” Henry Ford

Making the Best of a Good Situation

When I sit and think about it,
I have all the tools I need,
To become a better person,
And to bloom just like a seed.
I may start out small and humble,
Looking like I’ll never flower,
But God has truly blessed me,
And He’s given me the power.
Yes, we all have gifts God gave us,
The potential that each day,
We will blossom beyond measure,
So put Him first and pray.

                                                   Lynn E. Hubbard ©