Smile! God loves you. Look around and you'll see how many blessings you have compared to others. Don't be sad. Life is not easy but it's sure a lot less difficult when you smile and see the glass is half full.
Tomorrow is a new day!
2006-11-09 14:29:27
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answered by Anonymous
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A lady wrote this many decades ago. Please take the time to read it. It always keeps things in perspective for me.
Always There is a Bell
By Elsie Robinson
Do you remember the story of the ancient town which was drowned so long ago, yet whose bells still chime far beneath the waves when the magic hour comes?
Very sad and sweet it is, that old story, and there never yet was a heart which did not move in answer to it, as if we had come upon some long forgotten part of ourselves, as indeed we have. For whoever we may be there is a golden bell in each one of us and its call is never still.
Usually it is a drowned bell. For life does strange things to the goodness and beauty which are our natural heritage. Ugliness and bitterness creep over us as the slime crept over the buried walls and towers of the old town. Strange monsters come to dwell where once there had been terraced gardens and golden spires, and where once there had been singing surf and crystal sands there were now darkness and desolation.
Yet though the old town lay drowned and defiled, the bells still chimed at the enchanted hour. Indeed there were many who claimed they could see the bells themselves, swaying far below, as well as hear the beauty of their song.
And the longer I live, the more I believe this is true for I have seen the marvel happen in the lives around me over and over again. I have seen men and women whose lives have been so warped by vicious experiences that they have lost all resemblance to the pattern by which they were made. They had been designed for beauty once and filled with dreams and song. Then something had overwhelmed them and their lives lay lost as that drowned city.
Yet even in their desolation the bells still chime within them, soft and far and sweet. And even when great storms swelled dark above them you still caught glimpses of the beauty which was lost. And those golden glimpses seemed all the lovelier because you had not thought to find them any more.
But of course there was a rule for this as there is for everything. You could not hear those chimes nor see those wavering spires unless you, too came with a loving heart. Otherwise, there was only darkness and silence. But if you came truly believing and expecting, the wonder was disclosed as it always is disclosed for those who come with faith.
Life has been a very different thing since I discovered this secret. Formerly as I passed great crowds of people, I saw only their stupidity, their selfishness, their greed and hate and cruel indifference. They were indeed "drowned cities." But now, beneath the crushed wreckage of the years, beneath the scars which pain and grief have left, I hear the chimes...I see once more the tall and golden spires, and know again we all hold music. Whatever we have done, whatever we have been, soft and sweet and far within us, there are chimes.
2006-11-09 22:46:09
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answered by sublimetranscendental 3
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John 3:16
2006-11-09 22:29:27
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answered by Eldude 6
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tomarrow is another day. i live each day sleep heavy and forget yesterday. it does have its problems as i am ask things at work and i say i went to sleep . its a good way of solving my problems always say tomarrow a better day and try to do things for other people and guess what it is! i think people take things so hard and you know what it'll get better it has too. i live like this as i have had many ups and downs and i just do my best and go on . i am thinking of a funny story but i really can't think of none except i try and do my best and i usually hang myself trying. someone recieve an important phone call so i hurried to catch them out the door into guide wires and about hung myself anyway the tower fell over 2 days later and i took great joy in that i knocked it over it deserved it
2006-11-09 22:36:10
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answered by terri e 5
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ok compaire to my life.
1 my wife cheats on me when im in iraq,
2. I get home and all my savings is spent on God knows what.
3. After thinking about the kids i gave her a second chace and she does it again.
4. shes never worked a real job in her life and since she messed up the marrage i have to pay her child support and alimony.
5. got out of the army to spend time with kids (mised 2and a half out of 4 years of my daughters life ) and noy i see them less now than what i did in th military.
6. I never did anything behind her back i treated her like a queen and well i hope u feal beter.
ps dont feel like using spell check .. sorry
2006-11-09 22:40:03
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answered by rjl2382 2
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My daughter runs around the house trying to cheer me up when ive either hurt myself and she can see me crying or im just having a downer day... she grabs stuff out and dresses up and dances for me!!
Maybe chuck on some tunes and dance... Maybe go out for a walk and look at how beautiful everything is...
Ur sadness will pass!!
2006-11-09 22:31:15
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answered by Anonymous
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[ANNIE]
The sun'll come out
Tomorrow
Bet your bottom dollar
That tomorrow
There'll be sun!
Just thinkin' about
Tomorrow
Clears away the cobwebs,
And the sorrow
'Til there's none!
When I'm stuck a day
That's gray,
And lonely,
I just stick out my chin
And Grin,
And Say,
Oh!
The sun'll come out
Tomorrow
So ya gotta hang on
'Til tomorrow
Come what may
Tomorrow! Tomorrow!
I love ya Tomorrow!
You're always
A day
A way!
2006-11-09 23:01:56
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answered by Ceajae 3
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girl you must be so "down" that if you got any closer to the ground people would think were a doormat. i can up with that on the spot
here are some 'yo mamma' jokes
yo mammas so fat when in PE class she was asked if she could stand in the middle on the grass so for the mile the kids could run around her!
yo mammas so poor when a man threw his cigerette down she cried out "clap your hands stomp your feet praise the lord cause ther's heat!"
G2G bye bye
2006-11-09 22:57:01
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answered by Anonymous
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ur lovely, "now go away" is a great song its really awesome and upbeat a joke hmmmm this old man told me this one tonite
why did the wicked witch of the west never have kids?
cuz her husbands birthday was the other day....he had a halloweenie....sorry that made me at least smile think of great things or if ur of age get some drinks ....good luck hope i helped :P~~~~~~~
2006-11-09 22:30:26
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answered by mommyof3 3
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You should be happy! Heres something to cheer you up. Did you know that you have a great avatar which means you look even better!
2006-11-09 22:32:16
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answered by Anonymous
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