There are phrases that are often repeated that have information that make us wonder why we do things when we do them, and these are called words of wisdom. Here is a collection of such phrases in several categories that were gathered by the staff of this website for your interest.

1.    Change is the law of life. Those who only look only to the past or the present are certainly to miss the future.
2.    Change… I was walking down the street wearing glasses when the prescription ran out.
3.    Wisdom is knowing what to do next, and virtue is doing it.
4     Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it, we go nowhere.
5.    If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more
6.    Experience is yesterday’s answer to today’s problems.
7.    Every problem is a possibility in disguise.
8.    Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
9.     We are the facilitators of our own creative revolution.
10.    Adaptability is not imitation.  It means power of resistance and assimilation.
11.    Civilization is the encouragement of differences.
12.    Just about the time you finally learn all the answers, they change the questions.
13.    Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off the goal
14.    The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually be afraid you will make one.
15.    If you wait until the wind and the weather are just right, you will never plant anything and never harvest anything.
16.    In the book of Life, the answers are not in the back.
17.    The best way to kill a good idea is to get a committee to work on it.
18.    It is more important to know where you are going that to see how fast you can get there. 19.    The distance is nothing; the first step is the most difficult.
20.    Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

1.    Success that goes to a person’s head usually pays a very short visit.
2.    Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.
3.    Excellence is not a skill, but an attitude.
4.    Aim for the moon, and even if you miss you’ll be among stars.
5     When it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change.
6     Being truly successful means having the freedom an time to be able to enjoy the company of the people you care about.
7.     The lesson is in the struggle, not the victory.
8.     Love only what you do, not what you have done.
9.     Where there is risk, there is also reward.
10.    The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s determination.
11.    The value of an idea lies in the using of it.
12.    One half of responsibility is ability, the other is response.
13.    The best way to predict your future is create it.
14.    The door of opportunity won’t open unless you do some pushing.
15.    If you take no chance, you have no chance.
16.    Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
17.    Every problem is a possibility in disguise.
18.    Eighty percent of success is showing up.
19.    Your dreams come true when you act to turn them into realities.
20.    Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.
21.    Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so some people miss them.

1.     Love all, trust a few, and do no wrong.
2.     Love only what you do, not what you have done.
3.     Everybody wants to live how they want to live, and love how they want to love.
4.     To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
5.     When a person is in love for the first time, they think they invented it.

1.    The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
2.     Don’t count the days; make the days count.
3.     Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
4.     Enjoy the little things, for someday you may realize they were big things.
5.     Time spent speculating about another’s actions is time well wasted.
6.     A man who dares to waste one hours of life has not discovered the value of it.
7.     No one can lose what is already past, nor what is yet to come.
8.     Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
9.     The surest way to be late is to have plenty of time.
10.   To plant a tree is to believe in tomorrow.

1.     The road to a friend’s house is never long.
2.     There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience.
3.     Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
4.     Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
5.     You can fix anything but a broken promise.
6.     Take care of your character, and your reputation will take care of itself.
7.     Small acts of care and grace can mean more than you dare to think.
8.     Enemies will see through you;  friends wills see you through.
9.     No person was ever honored for what he received.  Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
10.    Do more than listen, understand.
11.    Another way to get rid of an enemy is to turn him into a friend.
12.    You can never do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon will be too late.
13.    Good advice is no better than poor advice, unless you follow it.
14.    All that is worth cherishing in this world begins in the heart, not the head.
15.    Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

1.    Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.
2.    Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
3.    Our deeds determine us as much as we determine our deeds.
4.    Fear is simply unbelief in disguise.
5.    People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
6.    We don’t see things as they are; we see them as we are.
7.    The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
8     We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.
9.    Laughter is the shock absorber that eases the blows of life.
10.   Style has less to do with what your wear and more to do with who you are.
11.    If you can’t laugh at yourself, someone will do it for you.
12.    A smile is a curve to help set things straight.
13.    The great person is the one who never loses their inner child.
14.    Now and then it is good to pause and just be happy in our pursuit of happiness.
15.    Peace is more than a season.  It is a way of life.
16.    If you can find humor in anything, you can survive it.
17.    Challenges make you discover things about yourself you never really knew
18.    Some people like to understand what they believe in, while others believe in what they understand.
19.    Happiness is a way station between too much and too little.
20.    Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey.

1.     Courage is nor the towering oak tree that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom from the acorn that opens in the snow.
2.    The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.
3.    Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
4.    Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
5.    Patriotism is not just waving the flag, but it is striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.
6.    If our country is worth dying for in time of war, let us resolve that it is truly worth living in time of peace.
7.    Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
8.    We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
9.    We have enjoyed so much freedom for so long that we are perhaps in danger of forgetting how much our freedom cost.
10.   Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain.

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A replica of the cabin built by George Rogers Clark in Clarksville, Indiana. The original was built in 1803 overlooking the Ohio River.  Clark received this land as payment for his heroism in the American Revolution. In that war,  he raided British outposts south and west of Detroit. He captured Kaskaskia on the Mississippi (1778) and, in a daring winter assault, Vincennes on the Wabash (1779), securing American claims to the Northwest. He led an expedition against the Shawnee Indians in Ohio (1782). The financial records of Clark’s raids were burnt by Benedict Arnold’s troops in a 1781 attack on Richmond, Virginia. As a result, he was never paid for his expenditures and finished his life in poverty.The original cabin was part of a farm that also included a barn, corn crib, orchard and slave cabins.   For more information about Clark, go to http://www.answers.com/topic/george-rogers-clark.

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Garden Path

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There are phrases that are often repeated that have information that make us wonder why we do things when we do them, and these are called words of wisdom. Here is a collection of such phrases in several categories that were gathered by the staff of this website for your interest. Click here or on the above graphic to see the full list and seem wise beyond your years.

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Mike’s Book Café has free books online
The gift of reading is a gift that keeps on giving, long after the Christmas presents have been opened.  The best presents are free and there are hundreds of books online for no cost from a variety of sources.  So when it’s cold outside, and you have time on your hands, fix yourself a cup of coffee and then pick up a book or anthology of poems and relax.

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The World of Words by Elias Tobias has a series of 26 podcasts from the Love Notes book. You can listen to the recordings and download them for free to your favorite IPod device. You will need a program to hear them, so if you do not have a program, you can click here for a free QuickTime program. Find these and other love poems in the Love Note book. Use the search box to find the text of a specific poem.

“Lines of Life” Theme for September
The theme of poetry for the month of September 2010 is “Lines of Life” for all daily posts, including the Poem of the     Month below. This is the title of of one of my favorite poems, and it has also been published before and during the time this poetry blog began.  This months work will explore snapshot of life in lines of poetry and photographs.
 Poem of the Month

Life is Like a Lottery
Life is like a lottery,
and the numbers change daily,
Success and popularity
are a matter of fate and destiny.
The odds change with
effort and ability.
Angelic assistance is heavenly.
There are insurance companies
who determine life expectancy
like the odds of a lottery
based on age and activities.
Life is like a lottery.

Have you read the childrens’ story, The Peasant Princess? It is in English, French, Spanish, German, and Arabic.

Brother Adrian Parker started going to this Yoga class for more exercise and he found more than that.
Meditation 

Be one with the minds.
Leave your body to the world.

With the Knowledge, the universe
becomes one simple equation
and your soul is renewed.
When you return to the regular
routines of your life, you will
do more than cope; you will
be a success.

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(Courtesy photo)

The Deal
As the game starts, the rules change,
and the number of cards I get varies so
much I don’t know what cards to play
and the right time to show them.
The deal changes to another dealer,
and I wish I could get out of this game.
But once I fold, I can’t get in the game,
again, and I would lose all my winnings.
The truth is I play with the cards I got,
according to the rules of the minute
and sometimes that is really isn’t a lot.

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Language is the art of communication, especially in a societal sense.  This country has been created and grown on the diversity of thoughts, ideals, and language.  As a result the way the people talk in New Hampshire do not communicate the same way as people do in New Orleans, and there are a variety of other regional accents just as distinctive in other parts to this country.

Since the mid-1980’s, a conservative political effort has grown to legislate English as the official national language.  Those who believe this think that a collective use of foreign languages in the USA hurts rather than helping immigrants, and the cost of printing signs and documents in various languages is a waste of tax money. This “Official English” bill H.R. 997 would eliminate publishing official publications other in than a “standard” English. With more than 33 million foreign-born people in this country, communication is crucial for all segments of society.

It is important to note here, as a man with a formal education and as a writer, a command of the written and spoken English is imperative for success in a general sense, and on a regional or national scale.  English is a standard of business for the world, but realize English is a changing language influence heavily by foreign influences and cultures. Through a strong diversity emerges an even stronger unity of conversation and sharing of ideas.

Any effort to legislate an “official” language for this country would be denial of everything this country stands for, and such an “official” conservative movement could lead to an “official religion” here.  One language does not fit all, even if the waistband has enough elastic to expand from sea to shining sea.

Peace be you with always,

Rev. Paul Abernathy

“Grace and peace be yours in abundance through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.” -2 Peter 1:2

Contact Paul Abernathy at paulabernathy@gmail.com.

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Covered Bridge

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Rev. Paul Abernathy, one of the more outspoken members of the unofficial fraternity, uses his religious training to make a personal statement.

Cheap Information
Adam looked around paradise,
and he was at wonder and peace.
Then he saw other animals had a mate,
and then God blessed him with Eve.
On a bright day, she saw a snake
coiled on a limb of low tree.
It said she could have knowledge
of the world, and the price was
discounted, practically free.
All she had to do was take a bite
from an apple from this one tree.
She asked Adam, and God had warned
him, saying, “All you need is me.”
Eve was hungry, and in the middle
of the night she got a bite of
an apple when Adam was asleep.
In the morning, they realized they
were naked and gathered some leaves
to cover parts of their body that
other animals showed naturally.
Even with knowledge and power,
people can easily be deceived,
especially when the drive for
this information can exceed
the paradise that we have
already existing under our feet.

Have you read the childrens story, The Peasant Princess? It is in English, French, Spanish, German, and Arabic.