John Records Quote – Grace Is What Has Kept Me Going
“If you open yourself to grace working through you, then grace works on you and in you as well. Grace is what has kept me going.” – John Records
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Poem – The CPU of Your Soul (By Uduak Uwah)
THE CPU OF YOUR SOUL Elevated above all the hungry kids Scrambling for food like starving chicks Is an innate black hole The CPU of your soul Seated majestically on a throne deep within All the senses bring food like tributes to him He gives orders to the organs They bow at his feet for mercy like […]
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With money you can buy…
“With money you can buy a house, but not a home. With money you can buy a clock, but not time. With money you can buy a book, but not knowledge. With money you can buy blood, but not life. With money you can buy sex, but not love.”
Read moreWhen spiders fall from the sky
In southern Australia, it’s raining spiders. Spiders can ride the wind using an ingenious migration technique known as ballooning. Residents of Goulburn, Australia, received a startling demonstration of the phenomenon last week, when hundreds of thousands of tiny spiders descended from the sky on gossamer parachutes. “The whole place was covered in these little black spiderlings, and when I looked […]
Read moreThe sad state of warehoused children
Russian orphanages are a scandal, said Jennifer Rankin. State institutions house nearly 400,000 children, a population larger than many cities. But less than one third of these children are actually orphans. Many “fall into the system when their parents, often fighting a losing battle with alcohol or drugs,” lose their parental rights. Even more of them—nearly half the total—have disabilities, […]
Read moreDANGER ZONES FOR DISEASE
Save the Children ranked 72 developing countries by the strength of their health systems and found that many fell below the nations worst hit by Ebola. Here are the five most vulnerable: 1 – Somalia 2 – Chad 3 – Nigeria 4 – Afghanistan 5 – Haiti
Read moreElizabeth Coatsworth Quote – When I Dream
When I dream, I am always ageless.” – Elizabeth Coatsworth
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Poem – BLACK PARADISE (By Joseph Cavera)
BLACK PARADISE (By Joseph Cavera) A life begins at a simple stage Like ink falling gently onto the fibers of a page While it is true enough that we start with nil The chapters of our lives will quickly fill We have been brought into a mysterious world… We stand swiftly, only to return to the ground Mistakes […]
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