Gems 8.43

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On February 28, 2022, John celebrated his 14th month of sobriety. Today and tomorrow, I’ll be sharing two of his recent poems. Then every month on the 28th going forward, John told me that hopes to share new material to celebrate each anniversary of his new journey. Congratulations, JohnnyO! Thank you so much for your creative gifts and for your friendship over the years. ♥.
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Gems 7.111

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Image by Tommy Rau from Pixabay

“When you are no longer compelled by desire or fear…When you have seen the radiance of eternity in all the forms of time…When you follow your bliss…doors will open where you would not have thought there were doors…and the world will step in and help”

-Joseph Campbell

Gems 5.150

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Reignite

Hope can drown lost in thunderous sound
Fear can claim what little faith remains

But I carry strength from souls now gone
They won’t let me give in…

I will never surrender
We’ll free the Earth and sky
Crush my heart into embers
And I will reignite…
I will reignite

Death will take those who fight alone
But united we can break a fate once set in stone

Just hold the line until the end
Cause we will give them hell…

I will never surrender
We’ll free the Earth and sky
Crush my heart into embers
And I will reignite…
I will reignite.

Malukah

Gems 5.115

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5.115

Photo by TheOtherKev, Pixabay

“Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand.”
-W.B. Yeats

It’s been just a bit over a year since I shared Yeats’ The Stolen Child, (Gems 4.70) but this mythical creatures week wouldn’t be the same without it.  It was that same day that I created the page, Missing BenjaminContinue reading

Gems 4.142

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4.142

Photo by Alex Sidlinskiy, Pixabay

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Gems 3.49

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other side of fear

“Everything you want is on the other side of your fear.”  Jack Canfield.  Photos:  “Storm” by Solivan C. Szupka and “Storm Palace” by Carlos Mendes, FreeImages.com

 Journey Notes

Special thanks to LeoLady (KindSpring.org) for submitting today’s quote. The theme for the month of May is “fear” and “love.”  The theme for June will be “silence,” “listening,” “stillness,” and “sacred space.”   If you have a favorite quote about any or all of those,, please let us know!

Your Creativity

As always, we would love to feature your creative visions.  When we show each other what we find beautiful, we get a glimpse into each others’ hearts.  .

May you find joy every day of your journey through life,

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Gems 3.46

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Love Fear Ritu Ghatourey from Mish

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 Journey Notes

The theme for the month of  May is “fear” and “love.”  Special thanks to Mishfor today’s quote.  If you have a favorite quote about fear, love or both, please let me know!

Your Creativity

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May you find joy every day of your journey through life.

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Gems 3.38

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Love Fear Gandhi

“Our bodies are the real temples rather than buildings of stone.”
–Gandhi (Harijan, January 4, 1948)

“Gandhi in a Nutshell”
Daily Metta

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Gems 3.37

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The Coin of Fear and Love

I found three of the quotes in this series about love and fear among seven others on this site:  10 Quotes about Love and Fear.

Quote 1 is by Marianne Williamson, a woman who has inspired me and millions of others over the years.  If you don’t know who she is, she’s got a nifty site and a newsletter you can sign up for here:  Marianne.com

Quote 2 is by Oprah Winfrey, another inspiring and amazing woman.  Her site is Oprah.com — it’s a bit hard to load on slower computers because it contains a lot of footage from her TV show, but well worth the wait.  My favorite video series is “Super Soul Sunday.”

The third quote is from the New Testament book “1 John.”  I wanted to credit the exact author of that letter, but I learned today reading after this interesting article that the authorship of 1 John has never been determined.  Experts aren’t even sure that the author of the letters  2 John and 3 John (known as “The Elder”) is the same author as the first.  Since the Bible is one of my favorite books of study, I found this fascinating.

The last quote is actually two quotes by C.S. Lewis, author of Chronicles of Narnia, The Screwtape Letters, Letters to Malcolm, The Problem of Pain and many others.  His romance with American Joy Davidman became the basis of beautiful book by Brian Selby which became an equally beautiful movie starring Anthony Hopkins and Debra Winger, Shadowlands.   Since i didn’t find a quote by Lewis that contained both words in this month’s theme (“love” and “fear”) I combined one of each.   One of my favorite quotes by C.S. Lewis is something he said to Joy one day in Shadowlands,  not long after he discovered she was sick:

“Pain is the price we will pay – then – for the love we have — nowThat’s’ the deal.”

We make this deal every time we love.

Niki Flow

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