WiseHearts'
Weaving Small Wisdoms
Wise = Learning & understanding what is true in life.
Heart = The source of emotions - spirit, courage, love.
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Good Monday To You!
September 16th, 2001
Wee Wisdom
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Up from the ashes - we come
Up from the pain - we rise
Up from the fear - we surge
One voice - of magnificent size.
Terri
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Words from a Simple Heart
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"A change of perspective changes your life," is a concept
many people have never been able to grasp. Is there now, a
single soul among us, who does not understand it to the fullest
degree?
The magazine racks at the checkouts in my local grocery
store were full today. By Sunday, they're usually empty. I was
mesmerized by the content on their covers. "The Worst and
Best Dressed in Hollywood." "Look Younger In Ten Minutes."
"Fashion Mistakes - Don't Make Them." "Eat Your Way To A
New You." The scoops and scandals of the famous and
infamous stretched across the front of untouched tabloid
papers.
I wondered if it was really possible that any of those things
were ever significant. Much of the 'stuff' we deemed important
a week ago, seems ridiculous now. The fluff has been
scattered from our lives. Core beliefs about love, commitment,
family, loyalty, priorities and faith, have been laid bare. Tough
questions have surfaced, "What do I believe? Where do I
stand?"
The puzzle box has been shaken and we're having a hard time
getting the pieces of the picture back together. Many of them
no longer fit.
Now is not the time to force them into place. Most of them
were odd shapes that shouldn't have been there from the
beginning.
Take a good long look into your soul while you're free of the
petty and meaningless clutter that usually blocks your view.
Fine tune who you are, who you want to be, and where you're
going. Pick up your quill and dip it into the ink of your life.
Write yourself a new and better ending.
Living in love and loving life,
Terri McPherson
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Shared Wisdom
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An Open Letter to Terrorists
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September 11, 2001
I don't know your name, or names - we may never know who
you are - so I can't address you personally. Today, you killed
several thousands of our friends... perhaps not people who
we knew personally, but people like us.
People who worked hard to make a living, who loved
someone, who were loved by someone, who worried about
making a better life for their children and grandchildren, who
believed in God and the American Dream, who criticized this
country for its insufficiencies and cared enough to try and
change things and ensure a better future, not just for us, but
for the world. People who leave behind scores of loved ones,
friends, pets, neighbors, coworkers, and members of their
faiths. Perhaps even people who derived from your own
country and who sought refuge here.
Your act was a slaughter of the innocents. You are like an
insidious cancer that strikes without warning, ravages
bodies, tears families apart, and in the end can never
destroy the soul.
You are the ultimate coward.
You may topple our buildings, collapse our communication
systems, disrupt our government, crash our markets, and
leave behind the carnage of bodies, but you will never
destroy the soul of America. We made this country from the
bits and pieces of the rest of the world; we took the best, the
worst of every culture and nationality, race and creed, and
made an alloy that may be dented, but not even a trial by fire
can melt.
I don't know what god you believe in, or what hateful rhetoric
you espouse, or what your misguided political beliefs might
be that allows you to do what you did today without a fear of
eternal damnation. I only know that you may win a battle or
two, but you will never win this war.
We have the entire history of the world on our side, and no
dictator, despot, or madman has survived as long as
America has thrived and prospered. If you accomplished
anything at all today, it was to give America a wake-up call,
and we will now rise up stronger than before. You are
defeated before you've even begun, there in your private hell
and later in your eternal one. Someday your people may
even need our help, and because we are America, we would
respond.
May God bless the friends we lost, their families, friends,
neighbors and coworkers. We will help them rebuild from the
ashes. May God continue to bless America, help her to
protect us all, and may she continue to shine as a beacon of
democracy and hope to the rest of the world.
� 2001 Jim Willis
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The link to Jim's web site - The Tiergarten Sanctuary Trust -
is listed in today's Shared Links section. You can read more
of Jim's writing on the site and learn about the efforts of Jim
and his wife Nicole in the field of animal welfare.
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Shared Verse
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Dear Lord
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Dear Lord our hearts are aching
The tears of sorrow flow
Please comfort those left grieving
For loved ones they'll miss so.
Please guide our country's leaders
Through the course they undertake
To fight the evil terrorism
Bless decisions that they make.
Bless the nations who grieve with us
They've had terrorism, too.
And, together as we strive for peace
May our paths be led by You.
Amen and Amen
� 2001 Gloria Martel
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To read more of Gloria's work, follow the link
in today's Shared Links section to Gloria's Glen.
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Shared Links
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Latest Addition To WiseHearts:
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We Will Not Be Moved
Terri's Words - Bev's Graphics - Tom's Music
http://www.geocities.com/weewisdoms/nbm.html
Recommended by a Listmember:
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Gratefulness.org
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Speak To me Gently
http://www.debsspot.com/speak_gently.htm
Proud To Be An American
http://www.bpfrommer.com/Proud_To_Be_An_American.htm
NY1 NYC 24 hour news channel
http://www.ny1.com/
WSW Teamwork:
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Francine & Bev - Hear Our Prayer
http://poetry-emotion.com/September11_2001/Hear_Our_Prayer.html
Today's Authors:
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Jim Willis - The Tiergarten Sanctuary Trust
http://jimwillis0.tripod.com/tiergarten/
Gloria Martel - Gloria's Glen
http://gloriasglen2.homestead.com/indexpagetwo.html
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