row, row, row your boat: Eloquent

Friday, May 31, 2013

Eloquent

My friend Kay just left to be a missionary for the LDS church. This is what she posted on her facebook page the day before entering the Missionary Training Center:

“Tomorrow. ....Oh my hell.”

On so many levels, what a thing to say! Am I offended? Au contraire, I think she summed it up quite succinctly. Her phrase is a poem that could be quoted and dissected.

And also, I think the poor thing could use a hug. Honk if being a missionary was one of the hardest things you ever did!

May God bless you, Kay.

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DevriAugust 21, 2013 at 2:07 PM
Ha HA!!!! Love it! Oh, and HONK HONK!!!
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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that frightens us.We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?Actually, who are we not to be?You are a child of God.Your playing small doesn’t serve the world.There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you.We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.It’s not just in some of us, it’s in everyone.And as we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.As we are liberated from our own fears, our presence automatically liberates others.

Source: A Return to Love, by Marianne Williamson, as quoted by Nelson Mandela in his inaugural speech, 1994

"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."

-Theodore Roosevelt, "Citizenship in a Republic,"Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910

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Friday, May 31, 2013

Eloquent

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