Change your thoughts
and you change your world.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Wednesday, 7 March 2007
Monday, 5 March 2007
Light
Begin today!
No matter how feeble the light,
let it shine as best it may.
The world may need
just that quality of light which you have.
- Henry C. Blinn
Friday, 2 March 2007
March 2, 2007 Chautauqua
From the Editor's Computer
I recently read the book, “Letters from the Manse,” which was written by a young newlywed minister’s wife while she and her husband were living in rural southwestern Prince Edward Island.
The letters started with their arrival in PEI in January, 1949 and continued till March, 1950. It was entertaining to read how this city gal faced her first winter in a rural setting. From their reliance on CBC radio for their cultural entertainment (oh the horror when the batteries ran low and they couldn’t get to the store to buy more right away) to the despair when the mail truck couldn’t get through for days on end because of the huge snow drifts and unplowed roads, she handled it all with a quirky sense of humour (and a dose of anger and frustration).
The letters not only give you a glimpse of her life, but of the lives of the people the couple is living in community with. The reader is introduced to the wonderful neighbour (a non-church attendee) who continually makes sure the poor minister gets to his services when the car refused to start (as it did virtually every Sunday morning!) and a few of the more colourful congregation members. Then there was the decision to limit the food offerings at Ladies meetings to 5 different types and the minister’s wife couldn’t host a meeting until she mastered baking 5 different desserts. She left the Island during the summer...ran away...as she would have been required to bake six pies for the Turkey Supper had she stayed!
How do you face new challenges?
Beth
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Wednesday, 28 February 2007
Failure
It's how you deal with failure
that determines how you achieve success.
- David Feherty
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Monday, 26 February 2007
Adventure
Adventure isn't hanging on a rope
off the side of a mountain.
Adventure is an attitude
that we must apply
to the day to day obstacles of life -
facing new challenges,
seizing new opportunities,
testing our resources against the unknown
and in the process,
discovering our own unique potential.
- John Amatt
Friday, 23 February 2007
Doors
In the universe,
there are things that are known,
and things that are unknown,
and in between, there are doors.
- William Blake
- William Blake
Wednesday, 21 February 2007
Dreams
The greatest achievement was at first
and for a time a dream.
The oak sleeps in the acorn;
the bird sleeps in the egg;
and in the highest vision of the soul,
a waking angel stirs.
Dreams are the seedlings of realities...
- James Allen
Monday, 19 February 2007
Life
Not one shred of evidence supports the notion
that life is serious.
- proverb
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Friday, 16 February 2007
February 16, 2007 Chautauqua
From the Editor's Computer
First, I must make a slight correction to my last editorial. It was brought to my attention that in fact my favourite Hershey Chocolate Kiss commercials are the figure skating ones. I can’t image how I made such an error?
I recently read a fascinating book entitled “The Hidden Messages in Water” by Masaru Emoto, a Japanese scientist. Emoto photographed the ice crystals formed by freezing different types of water. Then he exposed the natural spring water to different types of music and photographed the resulting crystal formations. He then took his experimentations a step further and wrote different words (love, gratitude, fool, thank you, etc.) and affixed the words to the bottle or glass of water and then photographed the resulting crystals.
If you ever get a chance to read the book, you will be amazed at the variety and sheer beauty of the crystals that formed when the words “love,” “gratitude,” and “thank you” were used. Interestingly enough, words like “fool” either formed very distorted crystals or no crystals at all.
As fascinating as this all is, it does have implications for all of us. Not only can we have an impact on our fresh water supplies by the words we say and think, but more importantly, on ourselves. As our bodies consist of roughly 70% water what impact do you think the words you say to yourself and others have? What impact are your own thoughts having on your body and health? Think about it!
Beth
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Wednesday, 14 February 2007
Action
Action may not always bring happiness;
but there is no happiness without action.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Monday, 12 February 2007
Appreciation
Appreciation can make a day - even change a life.
Your willingness to put it into words
is all that is necessary.
- Margaret Cousins
- Margaret Cousins
Friday, 9 February 2007
Past and Future
Time is not at all what it seems.
It does not flow in only one direction and the future exists simultaneously with the past.
- Albert Einstein
Wednesday, 7 February 2007
Monday, 5 February 2007
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