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“A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer.”
~ Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

“May flowers always line your path and sunshine light your day.”
~ Irish Blessing

“At the moment of commitment the entire universe conspires to assist you.”
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Every hour of every day is an unspeakably perfect miracle.”
~ Walt Whitman

~ Image by Selda Schretzmann
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on 03/19/2017

183. Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me? ~Walt Whitman


Need some inspiration? There’s nothing like Nature, a little Walt Whitman and a bit of Shakespeare, too… ~ Bette A. Stevens http://www.4writersandreaders.com

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Sacred Touches

And this our life,
exempt from public haunt,
finds tongues in trees,
books in running brooks,
sermons in stones,
and good in everything.
~William Shakespeare

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Standing beneath the Shumard Red Oak made me feel like I was standing in a temple of the Most High.  The breeze was ruffling its leaves, and they in turn were prompting sacred tongues to utter incantations of their divine purpose.  For though the leaves face eminent extinction and expulsion from the branches, in their dying they’ll fall and create warm blankets to cover the ground.  In so doing they will protect the life that lies beneath the surface during winter’s cold, cold days.  Even at the close of winter their goodness will not be at an end for as they deteriorate, the remaining bits and pieces will add nutrients to enhance the soil.  Thus goes the circle of life and the interdependency of all…

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