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BBBCanada
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Posted 4/27/2007 10:45 PM (GMT -6)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdNeaSgqcFg

Brandon

It is the purpose that makes strong the vow, but vows to every purpose must not hold.--A friend.

One Love
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Posted 4/27/2007 10:51 PM (GMT -6)

"IF"
by Rudyard Kipling

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream--and not make dreams your master,
If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son.

"My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be One, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be One as we are One— I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete Unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me."

One Love
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Posted 4/28/2007 11:15 AM (GMT -6)

This here is real talk. This is the hard truth. But it's the truth that sets one free.

Anyway

People can be unreasonable, illogical and self-centered.
Love people-Anyway.

If you do good, you will be accused of having selfish, ulterior motives.
Do good-Anyway.

If you are successful you can win false friends and true enemies.
Be successful-Anyway.

Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank-Anyway.

People root for underdogs but they only follow top dogs.
Follow some underdogs-Anyway.

What you spend years building up may be torn down overnight.
Build-Anyway.

You can give the world the best you have and end up getting kicked in the teeth.
Give the world your best-Anyway!

A thought occurred to me: As we accept the world's pain...really feel it to the full...we can transform it into beauty with our unconditional, self-sacrificial love. Just like Jesus did

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