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Thoughts from Sid Allcorn
This went out today to my new church so I want to share with a few of my old friends too.
Well Gail my heart cries this day.
The big question on Nov 11 is not how many or where BUT rather WHY?
WHY did young Men and Women die?
SO that we can go on dreaming our impossible dreams
SO that we can go on loving whoever we want
SO that our babies can live past 5 years old
SO that we can do whatever we want on a Sunday morning
SO that what we think and say and feel is important
SO that everyone has the same rights, even if you make a mistake
SO that if you want to cry you can and someone will say ” I’m here”
SO that if you can’t walk, talk, eat, smile well, there will be someone to help
SO that when you come home from the battle you know it was worth it when you hear ” Hi Dad” or “Hi Mom .”
AND never have to say, he or she died in vain.
The World News Last Night Really Upset Me!
I don’t know how many of you know about or listen to CBC during the night time but I do be as countries do reports on their happenings both within and in areas of the world.
Since I am still involved with the theme of my first book through the writing of a third one it has become important for me to have an up to date report on human rights, poverty, women’s rights, uses of words like empathy, love, compassion, united nations , miracles and youth. There was a report from some country on what was called Honour Family Killing.
If you wish to not know what this is then I suggest you don’t read any further. It is utterly disgusting, sickening and if we do not get rid of it then I would not be surprised to wake on some morning in the near future and discover that in fact we were faced with annihilation through a new flu bug that we could not fight. God should not be alone on this one!
Here is a small sample report from the internet to inform you.
Thousands of Women Killed for Family “Honour”
Hillary Mayell for National Geographic News
February 12, 2002Hundreds, if not thousands, of women are murdered by their families each year in the name of family “honour.” It’s difficult to get precise numbers on the phenomenon of honour killing; the murders frequently go unreported, the perpetrators unpunished, and the concept of family honour justifies the
act in the eyes of some societies.Most honour killings occur in countries where the concept of women as a vessel of the family reputation predominates, said Marsha Freemen, director of International Women’s Rights Action Watch at the Hubert Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota.
There were a number of stories of terrible situations. I guess this happens in 15 to 20 countries. We just finished celebrating Mother’s day.
I would like to reprint what I wrote for that day here. You can find it in the Inspirational category as well.
A Mother’s Day Prayer
It seems you had a little problem when you first introduced a Woman on the scenes. Thank you God for persevering and making her the very best of all. Down through all of History she has inspired by her beauty and presence in a world that would be so drab without her. So many Women have suffered needlessly because like a fragile beautiful flower they did not protest.God, may we yet begin to appreciate their brilliance and let You know on special days like this that we wonder at their bravery and courage. You allowed us all to come to them as Mothers and lay our head upon their breast and cry when things went wrong and know the strength you caused to flow when we had done something wrong.
God bless these Women all as nurses when we all fall, teachers who guide the little ones, and all the professions opening up as we now know that their caring nurturing spirit will save us all. So hug your Mom and hold her close as she is the most precious gift that God could give you most of all.
Amen, and love you Mom.
Bye for now everybody.
A Mother’s Day Prayer
It seems you had a little problem when you first introduced a Woman on the scenes. Thank you God for persevering and making her the very best of all. Down through all of History she has inspired by her beauty and presence in a world that would be so drab without her. So many Women have suffered needlessly because like a fragile beautiful flower they did not protest.
God, may we yet begin to appreciate their brilliance and let You know on special days like this that we wonder at their bravery and courage. You allowed us all to come to them as Mothers and lay our head upon their breast and cry when things went wrong and know the strength you caused to flow when we had done something wrong.
God bless these Women all as nurses when we all fall, teachers who guide the little ones, and all the professions opening up as we now know that their caring nurturing spirit will save us all. So hug your Mom and hold her close as she is the most precious gift that God could give you most of all.
Amen, and love you Mom.
The Daily Motivator
I subscribe to Ralph Marston’s The Daily Motivator, and get a great deal of enjoyment from it. This particular message says a lot for me. I recommend visiting Ralph’s website.
The joy of being
If you’re willing to admit it when you’re wrong, you’ll be able to improve and get it right. When you accept that you don’t know it all, there’s so very much that you will learn.Spend more time listening than you do talking, and it will add greatly to the effectiveness of what you say. Let go of the need to prove how smart you are, and your wisdom will deeply grow.
Keep in mind that there are many other points of view, and that will make your own perspective more valuable. Assume that there’s room for improvement, and the improvement will surely come.
Stop worrying so much about who or what you appear to be. Instead, put your energy into fully expressing the unique and beautiful person you truly are.
There’s no need to strive when you’re fully alive. Let go of the trying and live the rich, exquisite joy of being.
- Ralph Marston
Copyright (C) 2009 Ralph S. Marston, Jr. All rights reserved.
Visit The Daily Motivator web site at http://greatday.com for an archive of more than 3,000 daily messages, inspirational photos and more.
Helping Hand
I joined a group of disabled folks and was anxious today to get to their marvellous group exercise session from 10:15 to 11:00 AM. It was raining when I drove in and as I got out of the van I fell right into a puddle. As if by magic there was suddenly a gal standing beside me, the rain was pouring down and then her hand appeared and all I had to do was hang on and she pulled me to my feet. I thanked her and she left. I went into my meeting soaked but also warm because of someone’s generosity.
In Memoriam of Phyllis Allcorn
It was seventeen years ago today that I lost my wife, Phyllis, to heart condition after 32 years of wedded bliss. Every once in a while I get a clear picture of her and I hope that there is a Heaven and we will be there together.
The Thinker
I find now that my sensitivity to coincidence has become stronger. I initiate conversations with people expecting to find that there will be connections that I find fascinating. One such conversation occurred today with a elderly man who worked to put on breakfast every morning in the hotel we are in.
It began with of course me shuffling in behind my walker. We talked about his various careers and then one morning after he came in with a rather large book of poetry and gave us a reading on a poem called “The Thinker” that he thought was very appropriate to how he saw me. I thought I would include it here:
The Thinker
Back of the beating hammer
By which the steel is wrought,
Back of the workshop’s clamor
The seeker may find the Thought,
The Thought that is ever master
Of iron and steam and steel,
That rises above disaster
And tramples it under heel!The drudge may fret and tinker
Or labor with lusty blows,
But back of him stands the Thinker,
The clear-eyed man who knows;
For into each plow or saber,
Each piece and part and whole,
Must go the Brains of Labor,
Which gives the work a soul!Back of the motors humming
Back of the belts that sing,
Back of the hammers drumming.
Back of the cranes that swing,
There is the eye which scans them
Watching through stress and strain
There is the Mind which plans them-
Back of the brawn, the Brain!Might of the roaring boiler,
Force of the engine’s thrust,
Strength of the sweating toiler-
Greatly in these we trust.
But back of them stands the Schemer,
The Thinker who drives things through;
Back of the Job-the Dreamer
Who’s making the dream come true!
Reflections on Barack Obama
The Americans inaugurate their new president today. I hope that it may be a special day for Julia and Colin too as they watch the start of everybody’s hope for a world that truly is full of Compassion, Empathy, Miracles and Love. I would ask that you all now take on the spirit and Help Change The World For Good.
To all my grandchildren, Paige, Tabitha, Rowan, Aidan, Brendan; today we throw you the torch to a better world of human rights for everyone and hope that through your studies of the world you will know what has to be done.
I’ll close now with my favorite quote from Ulysses by Tennyson.
I am a part of all that I have met,
Yet all experience is an arch,
Where through gleams that untraveled world ,
Whose margins fade forever and forever When I move.
Food for Thought
Don’t wait for extraordinary circumstance to do good; try to use ordinary situations.
Charles Richter
