Posted: under "LOVE is LOVELY", Inspirationals.
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Doeth Good Like Medicine
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“A Merry heart doeth good like medicine.”
– Prov. 17:22 (KJV)
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Hospital volunteers do no clinical work. Volunteers have no physically therapeutic treatment of offer. They dispense no medicine. But we cannot deny that they demonstrate the merry hearts as spoken of in Proverbs 17:22. At the core of volunteering is the fervent desire to “doeth good like medicine.” Because I am privileged to experience a daily confirmation of the good done by volunteers, it is very difficult to choose one vignette or narrow the choices of stories to one.
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It was Christmas time and our elderly visitor was back to see her husband in the Intensive Care Unit. We had watched her daily visits, and could tell she was becoming more distant and distraught with each day. She was rather frail and unsteady on her feet, but refused any offer of assistance.
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Volunteer John approached her on her way out, to offer her a ride back to her car in our shuttle as it was cold. She accepted reluctantly, almost as if in resignation. While helping her into the shuttle,
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Mar 25 2012
Posted: under "A Slice Of Life", "DID YOU KNOW".
Tags: beauty, celebration, duty, earth, flag, global, globe, God, happiness, harmony, job, man, nature, ocean, others, photos, space, task, time, universe, wish, woman, work, world
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PHOTO FOR TODAY
MORE OF GOD’S MAGNIFICENT EARTH
THIS PHOTO WAS TAKEN NEAR BIG SUR
Apr 22 2009
Posted: under Advice & Tips, Inspirationals.
Tags: ability, action, advice, aid, anger, anxiety, belief, companion, conscientiousness, contribution, depression, donation, duty, encouragement, environment, era, errands, eyes, faith, family, feelings, friends, friendship, gift, hand, history, honesty, humanity, humility, inspiration, job, Lord, love, man, meditation, nature, neighbor, others, perception, phone, present, quotes, space, stress, support, task, thought, time, tips, woman, work
Being A Container
Holding Space For Others
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We have all been called upon at one time or another to help a loved one through a difficult time. When the help required consists of concrete actions, such as running errands or making phone calls, we know what to do. But sometimes we are called simply to hold space for the person as they go through whatever they need to go through. They may need to express anger or grief; they may need to talk or be silent. They may need us to hold their hand; they may need us to give them time alone. Whatever the case, when we hold space for someone, we offer ourselves up as a container for the overwhelming feelings they may be encountering due to their circumstances. Read More
Mar 12 2009
Posted: under "A Slice Of Life", Advice & Tips.
Tags: , attention, balance, body, color, comfort, earth, energy, food, force, harmony, home, life, listening, mankind, mind, music, nature, organic, power, quotes, rhythm, season, shape, sleep, space, spirit, texture, wisdom, world
Earth Living
Following Nature’s Cycles
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Nature, in all its myriad forms, is the most powerful force on earth. Although mankind has tried, we have not found a way to match its awesome power, but we have found ways to work with it. Science often confirms the wisdom of the ancients who observed and then harnessed nature’s rhythms and cycles to shape and enhance their lives. We can begin to do this in our own lives by first paying attention to our own natural rhythms, such as when we wake or when we feel the need to sleep. If possible, we may want to try to rise and sleep with the sun or live without electricity for a weekend and then monitor how we feel. We can make the choice to eat the foods of the seasons and to seek fresher, locally grown, or organic produce whose own cycles have not been tampered with by technology.
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Mar 09 2009
Posted: under "A Slice Of Life", Inspirationals.
Tags: accident, advice, age, car, cold, control, direction, elderly, era, guidance, guide, harmony, home, House, ice, inspiration, journey, language, life, lifestyle, lifetime, man, morning, mountain, others, peace, pope, priest, quotes, road, seniors, serenity, snow, soul, space, spirit, time, tips, travel, trip, vehicle, winter, woman, words
Dante, the Florentine poet of the Middle Ages, knocked at the door of
a Franciscan monastery at Lunigiana. He was asked, “What do you want?”
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Dante replied, “Peace.” I think that maybe he was speaking for a lot
of us — especially these days. But how do you find peace? Read More
Mar 08 2009
Posted: under Jamaican Jokes.
Tags: dialect, flame, fool, funny, hilarious, humor, idea, idiot, Jamaica, Jamaican, jokes, journey, knowledge, language, laughter, light, logic, man, Mathematics, moron, patois, phone, radio, reasoning, show, smiles, space, suggestion, television, thought, travel, vehicle, vernacular, woman, words
A man called a popular Jamaican talk show and said: “Miss G, mi caan understand how people love do di same ting ova and ova.”
“Could you explain that my dear sir,” Miss G replied.
“Well mam, every day dem a sen man go a moon. Why dem caan sen smaddy go a sun?”
Calmly, Miss G replied: “Well, my dear sir, the sun is so hot here and it is 93 million miles
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Sep 21 2008