Thursday, November 22, 2007

The Forge



The Forge

His soul was a blazing inferno with possibilities
To forge together with solidity
The pieces, the players, the potential
Of his life

Yet he yawned
Rolled over
And slept

As molten metal puddled inches deep
Congealing into shackles
Locking him into false imprisonment
Hindering lives

Hear the call
For awakening
Spirit passion


Put the bellows to the sparking connection
That zaps the heart and races the pulse
Ignite prospective fervors of love
Welding souls

Rise up stretching
Striking the forge
With precision


Love Lion~*
November 22,2007




Do all the good you can,
in all the ways you can,
to all the souls you can,
in every place you can,
at all the times you can,
With all the zeal you can,
as long as ever you can.
John Wesley
DOING
GOOD
WORKS!


Refuse to fall down.
If you cannot refuse to fall down,
refuse to stay down.
If you cannot refuse to stay down,
lift your heart toward heaven,
and like a hungry beggar,
ask that it be filled,
and it will be filled.
You may be pushed down.
You may be kept from rising.
But no one can keep you
from lifting your heart
toward heaven.
Clarissa Pinkola Estés
~
There truly is NO excuse for not fulfilling the potential of your human birthright! There is no lack of knowledge. There is no reason to shirk the needs of your soul... or those of others. Life is so precious and needs embraced fully! What good is crying over a pine box or ashes of urn.... with 'should've, would've, could've, when NOW is the day to Live and Live Well! When your days are done... let people rejoice that you filled life with LOVE... that you burned in zealous light and kindled fires everywhere you went!
Love
Integrity
Kindness
Respect
Wisdom
Reaching
Boldly
Enfolding
Building
!
No Excuse
Just Passion
~
Love Lion~*Go Forth And Be Who You Are Meant To Be... Unhindered

Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Kindness




In the midst of global crises such as pollution, wars and famine, kindness may be too easily dismissed as a 'soft' issue, or a luxury to be addressed after the urgent problems are solved. But kindness is the greatest need in all those areas -- kindness toward the environment, toward other nations, toward the needs of people who are suffering. Until we reflect basic kindness in everything we do, our political gestures will be fleeting and fragile.
~Bo Lozoff


Kindness means a great deal to me. Purposeful or random... it changes lives! We require a great deal of it to reach our full potential. To have a healthy image of ourself and to offer helpful truth to others. There often doesn't seem to be enough being doled out. Yet the payoff for all is beyond comprehension!

It requires less character to discover the faults of others than is does to tolerate them.
- J. Petit Senn


Faults... so often a person just isn't aware... hasn't had the life experience or understanding to know differently... or has wounds suffocating their own healing process...
How much better is a bandage of kindness than wrathful insult to injury ?


I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
~ Booker T. Washington

Faults in rock are due to stress and a breaking open... I think it is much the same with us. Stressors make us crack in our soul also... the fissure needs filled with wisdom and only comes with kindnesses received!

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
- Oliver Goldsmith

"Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight:
always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?"
~James Barrie


Become even more of a hero in life ... be outrageously kind You could provoke an epidemic!!!!
Love Lion~*

Each small act of kindness reverberates across great distances and spans of time, affecting lives unknown to the one whose generous spirit was the source of the good echo, because kindness is passed on and grows each time it is passed, until simple courtesy becomes an act of selfless courage years later and far away.
-Dean Koontz,

Thursday, November 08, 2007

Celebration!

I discovered a poem I wrote a year ago. Sometimes I feel absolutely dreadful about myself. Perhaps that is why this little poem was sitting on the shelf... waiting... to say, "See! Do you see what you have seen and been and are!!!!" It all goes so much deeper than flesh............

Celebration!

Beauty
Never before have the lines on her face been defined
Sparkles clear in forest green of eye perform above
Jump of nose in perfect exhale
Blossom of lip petals part is approval
Contours
Sweeping down curves and angles that make her woman
Standing with delicate strength and pristine determination
Before the world of mirror
Consuming the bountiful supply of air that fills her lungs
And she sings
Sings
In celebration!
Exalting in the melody of joy that escapes
The deep vault of truth
Spilling the secret
That was never told
~
How very enough

Yes

How very enough

Is

She
~.*.~ ~*
Lion~*
© November27,2006

Love Lion~*

I am letting my soul sing Famous 1 Why not!