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While I have little formal education, I do know a few things for certain; but above all other things, Oh Lord, please let me hold onto my loving family evermore.…

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Lets End humanity’s violence against itself now.

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Of course I know that we can’t just up and end violence now since it’s been going-on every since Cain killed Able; but we can get a primary…

The family was homeless in the cold S. C. winter of 1995, their begging that day hadn’t given them enough money to buy food but for the 3 children, they knew that they would have to beg  the  government for help, despite how that would fully destroy their self-pride.

But, then a stranger came and took them all by the hand into an empty warm home of his with all the utilities on and…

The park bench was deserted

as I sat down to read

Beneath the long, straggly branches

of an old willow tree.

Disillusioned by…

                                BRING HEAVEN TO EARTH

                              Let no one deceive another,

                              Let no one anywhere despise another,

                              Let no one out…

GRANT US WISDOM

God, grant us grace to use

all the hours of our days,

Not for our own selfish interests

and our own willful ways,

But teach us to take time for praying

and for…

The Raven

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,

Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore —

While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,…

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Everywhere I look, I see and/or sense the pain in the heart of the world's down-trodden

I personally wish i'd done more with my life to change these feelings that can't be forgotten.

Here are just a few of the worst forms of humanity's shames of which I certainly feel a part of:…

Glass of milk

One day, a poor boy who was selling goods from door to door to pay his way through school, found he had only one thin…

A WORTHWHILE SMILE

                                                             By bob

                                           Let others cheer only the winners,

There’s only one I hold worth while;…

It’s a long ways between the “good…