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Showing posts with label BEAUTY. Show all posts
Showing posts with label BEAUTY. Show all posts

Monday, February 26, 2018

CONSIDER THIS, PLEASE


Once You've let hate and anger take control, it's only beauty, truth, and love can make you whole. Why not resolve ta honor truth today? 'Cause Truth can lead your heart ta God! Okay? In God you'll find real love, and beauty, too! Oh, please consider what I've said ta You!”



Copyright 2016 Stephen Cromwell Gifford

Sunday, August 13, 2017

TURN AROUND!


 “If you're obsessed with evils, you can change. There's beauty, love, and truth that you kin Find! A jaded mind likes stuff that's dark and strange, but there's more energy in bein' kind! Why not be kind ta you yourself today, and feed your mind upon what's right and good? Yes, loving-kindness, That's the Noble Way, that blesses best our Global Neighborhood! So let's be kind!”


Copyright 2016 Stephen Cromwell Gifford

Friday, August 11, 2017

LET'S PUT SOME LOVE IN ALL WE DO


 “Lord, Thank You Very Much fer Blessin' me, fer meetin' all my needs so Lovingly – fer all the Kindly, helpful things ya do – but, most especially, fer Bein' You! ~ May everyone on Earth be richly Blessed... get all their basic needs and lots o' love! May gratitude now dwell in every breast, may all our Hassles we now rise above! Oh, please, inspire each waiting, needy heart, and, please, make every suff'ring body whole. With You, is where all help and solace start, so, Lord, please, bless with love each struggling soul. May everybody come ta know you well, devote themselves ta truth and beauty, too – we'll all then have a gladder tale ta tell, when we put Love in everything we do! Lord, help us! Amen”


Copyright 2016 Stephen Cromwell Gifford

Thursday, July 20, 2017

LOVING HEARTS


 “All Heaven's beauty glows in loving hearts... and free will acts of those who truly care. Their love's where hope for everybody starts, but all who'd love must first their hearts prepare. To practice love, take care of you, yourself; that's easier ta do when You will pray. First, pray fer You, then everybody else, if You'd start Loving everyone today!”


Copyright 2016 Stephen Cromwell Gifford

Tuesday, June 13, 2017

PRAYER FOR CYNICS


The beauty found in little children's eyes, in roses, orchids, daffodils, and pinks – such Beauties faithful, grateful people prize – God's gifts, no matter what the cynic thinks. Dear Lord, please bless all cynics everywhere, and grant them grace wherever they may go. Please, help believers show them loving care, so some of Jesus' love they'll get ta know. And please help Me especially, today, that I may grow in understanding, Lord. May loving-kindness be what I display; may I all kindness shown ta Me reward! Please, and thank you!”


Copyright 2016 Stephen Cromwell Gifford

Friday, June 9, 2017

BLESSINGS LIKE FLOWERS


 “Where love's abundant, grateful people thrive. Where truth is honored, people's wisdom grows. Lord, May my living No one else deprive, not cause another human being's woes. May health and happiness proceed from me, ta bless all others whom it may today. And may I help 'em all more beauty see, a joyful loving-kindness-bright bouquet!” Please, and thank you!


Copyright 2016 Stephen Cromwell Gifford

Saturday, June 3, 2017

TO THE LORD


 “For All my blessings, Thank you, Very Much, fer health and comfort, kindly friends, and peace. For Sweet Marie, her every lovin' touch; please, help her happiness and health increase! Fer every teacher who Enlightens me, fer Buddha Christ, his perfect saving grace; fer Loving-kindness, highest Heaven's key, fer water, food, and This, my livin' space. Fer all the meds that help ta keep me Sane, fer patience, mercy, truth. and Beauty, too; fer all your Gifts that life on Earth Sustain, but most especially, dear Lord, fer You – Thanks!”


Copyright 2016 Stephen Cromwell Gifford

Thursday, May 25, 2017

LETTER TO A FUNDAMENTALIST WHO'S SCHIZOPHRENIC


 “May You imagine, mostly, Lovely things! Foreseeing dangers also can be wise. But if it's bad ta which your thinking clings, you've missed the grace which truly satisfies! Religion just might help, and just might harm, it all depends on what it helps ya do. 'Cause if ya Live in terrified alarm, it might be what you're thinking isn't true.”


Copyright 2016 Stephen Cromwell Gifford

Sunday, May 21, 2017

TO REACH YOUR HEART


 “There's gotta be a way ta reach your heart. Some person, place, or thing is dear ta you. So, who or what? So I can do my part! Now, could it be your child, your Lover, who? Or could it be the place that you call home? A day when clouds are white, and skies are blue, or else perhaps the ocean, white with foam? Or could it be the mountains you hold dear, or rivers that ya dearly love ta ride? Oh, ain't it when your lover holds ya near, and all the sweetness then ya feel inside? Hmm?”


Copyright 2016 Stephen Cromwell Gifford

CHOOSE LOVE, CHOOSE HEAVEN


Please, help my words reveal some beauty here, the love within my heart, the love in yours. No matter just how bad things might appear, let's love until a Miracle occurs! When hateful folks feel loved, they start ta change, so let's reveal our love that lives within! Sad circumstances, let's us rearrange, let's find a way that everyone can win! I think that we can do it, yes, I do; so let's give loving-kindness one more try. I Know you've got a lot o' love in you, and don't ya know it, pilgrim, so do I! And this I know 'bout Love: it never fails. We only have our fearful doubts ta lose! And next to Heaven's love, all other pales, and hell and Heaven both are near, so CHOOSE! You'll be glad if you choose love!”


Copyright 2016 Stephen Cromwell Gifford

Saturday, May 20, 2017

WHAT IS MY DUTY?


 “Now, what's are avatars supposed ta do? I think we're s'posed ta love with all our hearts! And cop ta Truth – create some beauty, too! Now, ain't that how we oughta do our parts?”


Copyright 2016 Stephen Cromwell Gifford

Tuesday, May 16, 2017

YOUR LOVE SHALL LIVE


 “We're made of various and sundry parts; our pride insists that we Exalt our Junk. Though life may offer tests, and some we'll flunk, it's plain these junk-piles sometimes have pure hearts. The Spirit part forever will endure, its truth and beauty's always gonna last. And though ya might have Blown it in the Past, your love shall Live, of this ya Can be Sure!”


Copyright 2016 by Stephen C. Gifford

SAVE THE PLANET!


 “With Trump in charge, I tend ta worry some, and then I might decide I gotta Pray. Let's pray that Love ta Donald Trump will Come, that Truth is gonna Free his mind Today! Let's pray the very Same fer you and me, that Heaven's brilliant Beauty blows our minds. Let's pay attention well, and we might See... that Freedom's what the Faithful person Finds! Oh, Lord, protect us all from evil, please; enlighten everyone whose mind's in need. Lord, thanks for all the flowers, birds, and trees, and help this Planet Earth get Saved, Indeed! Amen!”



Friday, May 5, 2017

PAY ATTENTION TO SOMETHING GOOD


(advice to a close friend)

“For building character and fortitude, devote yourself to beauty, truth, and love; and do what's Right, whatever be your mood, and trivial concerns you'll rise above! In higher realms you'll find Tranquility, release from fears and Botheration, too! So, gal, if You Aspire ta bein' free, devote yourself ta somethin' Good fer you!”


Copyright 2016 by Stephen C. Gifford

Monday, April 17, 2017

PRAYER FOR COURAGE AND PROTECTION

 “Oh, Thank you, Jesus! Help me, Jesus, please! Abundance, full protection, saving grace! Please, help me see your Living Truth, which frees, that leaves of fearfulness in me no trace! Lord, Yes, please help me overcome my fears, and live with beauty, truth, and love today! If ever any kind o’ danger nears, please, help me promptly turn ta You and Pray! Thank You Very Much! Amen!”


Copyright 2016 by Stephen C. Gifford

Saturday, April 15, 2017

LAND OF LOVE

 “Lord, How ta make poetic beauty last?” “Ya need ta live the love which you describe. The beauty may be real, but soon it’s past, unless it’s endless love ya always vibe!” “Lord, help my love be constant, true, and kind; please, help me persevere in love each day. May all who come ta me such kindness find, that Love’s the Land where they will choose ta stay!”


Copyright 2016 by Stephen C. Gifford

Friday, April 14, 2017

DON'T MISS YOUR PRAYER RENDEZVOUS

 “To fail to pray ‘s a truly foolish thing, unless already Spirit’s made ya Smart! There’s many gifts your angels want ta Bring, but First, you gotta have an humble heart. No, pride and recklessness will do ya in, if you won’t ask the Spirit what ta do. If you want beauty, love, and truth ta win, there needs ta be some praying, Done By You!”


Copyright 2016 by Stephen C. Gifford

Tuesday, March 21, 2017

LITTLE LOVE DITTY

Oh, what a wonderful delight you are, a beautiful and dazzling, Sparkling star. As sweet a gal as you could ever Be, a fabulous big blessing Helping me!”


Copyright 2016 by Stephen C. Gifford

Saturday, March 18, 2017

PRAYER OF THANKS

Oh, thank ya, Lord, for every gift ya give: the health, the wealth, the wisdom you bestow, the water, food, and air that help me live, the beauty, truth, and peace I get ta know! For plants and animals, for sun and moon, for dirt, and all the endless sky above – I thank you, Lord, for midnight, dawn, and noon, but Most of all, I Thank you, Lord, for love!”


Copyright 2016 by Stephen C. Gifford

Friday, March 17, 2017

HOPE FOR THE U.S.A. TODAY

Democracy has somewhat Disappeared. And certain types of Liberties are gone. Timidity’s delivered all we feared, when Love’s what we Could base our Lives upon! Now, Lord, no greater love exists than yours, and You’re the One we gotta get ta know. Since faithful prayer knowing You ensures, please, help our prayer lives each day ta grow! This world, together, we have Gotta save, and beauty, truth, and love can Do just that! Dear Lord, please, help our hearts be kind and brave! We’ll show the World that You are Where It’s At!”


Copyright 2016 by Stephen C. Gifford
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