One dream come true!

I am thrilled to announce the publication of my first two childrens' books. This is a fulfillment of a dream that I have had since I was twelve years old! If anyone is interested in a copy please get in touch via my email, I will be delighted. Meanwhile, those realizations that take the longest are definitely the most worthwhile.

J. Anderson.

Urgent note to my parents....

Don't ask me to do what I can't do

Only ask me to do what I can.

Don't ask me to be what I can't be

Only ask me to be what I am.

Don't one minute say "Be a big girl"

And the next, "you're to little for that"

Please don't ask me to be where I can't be

Please be happy with right where I'm at.

Hiawyn Oram.

* Well let's think about it!!! We adults are always asking the children to do things that, to them, are very contradictory ...a definite fact!!! Only yesterday I heard one of my students say ..."Humph, these adults are all crazy...none of them know what they really want"...!!!

Teacher's Prayer

Lord, Please help me

To strengthen their voices

bodies and minds.

To express their feelings and

control them sometimes.

To explore what's near

and venture afar,

But most important to love

who they really are.

*Don't know who wrote this....but I thought it was great.

Point of View

Have you lost the art of living?

Does the world seem cruel to you?

Try forgetting and forgiving

It may change your point of view.

Does the future look depressing?

Can't you see a bit of blue?

Start to count up every blessing

It may change your point of view.

Are you sunk in deep dejection?

Bored with what you have to do?

Try some honest introspection

It may change your point of view.

Do you crave for fun distractions?

Always out for something new?

Seek for simple satisfactions

It may change your point of view.

Tired of working? Tired of playing?

Wondering where Life's leading to?

Try a little quiet praying

God will change your point of view.

Patience Strong.

A Celtic Prayer

Many a time I wish I were other than I am.

I weary of the solemn tide;

Of the little fields;

Of this brooding isle.

I long to be rid of the weight of duty

And to have my part in ampler life.

O Thou, Who art wisdom and pity both,

Set me free from the lordship of desire.

Help me find my happiness

In my acceptance of what is my purpose:

In friendly eyes;

In work well done;

In quietness born of trust, and, most of all,

In the awareness of your Presence in my spirit. 

Balance

To be able to be fully in life, without being tossed this way and that by every passing mood and whim; to know a place of silence in oneself that subsists even when all around is chaos and confusion; to maintain equanimity in the face of doubt and despair: this perhaps, is the retreat of one's own mind, the aspiration of spiritual practitioners of every tradition and every way.

Roger Housden.

"An Old English Prayer"

"Give us Lord, a bit o´sun,

A bit o´work and a bit of fun,

Give us in all the struggle and splutter,

Our daily bread and a bit o´butter,

Give us health, our keep to make

And a bit to spare for other´s sake.

Give us, too, a bit of song,

And a tale and a book to help us along,

Give us Lord, a chance to be

Our goodly best, brave, wise and free,

Our goodly best, for ourselves and others

Till all men learn to live as brothers."