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 wornout tools;
If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breathe 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!
"IF" by Rudyard Kipling, 1895
It’s like the Groundhog Day movie but in a good way;-) We woke up to more babies…AGAIN!
HAPPY THANKS-GIVING Y’ALL!
FUN STORY -PAY ATTENTION - 😏This 'un has a moral. Last summer I made two purdy impresses friends. Scarface n Wounded wing. Scarface is a catfish. I "met" this cat hangin out on my rock in the river. 😅I sit in the water n feed the fish, they swim aroun n ever right up to my feet. Anyhow, Scarface musta been caught because he has a bad scar on his face from a hook n some fucker cut off his whiskers. Scarface commanded the water 'roun him, that cat took 0 shit. A channel cat at least twice his size tried bullying him away from the food. He wasn't haven't it. Scarface tolerates no shit. 🙂He's a cool cat like that😁 - Next up, my buddy Wounded wing. Dragonfly's have come to "kick it" wit me on my rock ever since I was a teen n found one there tangled up in old cobweb, unable to fly. I helped 'em out. Anyway, this past summer a dragonfly that had come to hang out n showed me his back wing. It had been torn. Feller STILL snatched dinner out the air just fine. About a month latter ...
Friends,
it's always quite interesting to see how one and the same piece of information/video/article can cause an incredibly variety of reactions. From "blessed and inspired" to "this is fear mongering of the worst kind".
They saw the same piece on information delivered/written by the same person. So is it the information itself or is it something else that determines how we react?
Kristin and I talk about it in today's Sunday Sermon right here 👇🏽
Much Love & Many Blessings,
Jean & Kristin
Friends,
in the face of all that we are witnessing in the world today, who hasn't asked themself at times, "What can little old me change"? It's a common question and we've all asked it before.
It's actually a very important one to ask, but most don't realize how powerful the real answer is.
Let us explain in today's Sunday Sermon 👇🏽
