SPIRIT TRAILS: Do it anyway...

My spirit is 'wandering' today...having PEACEFUL PRESENCE, after a long, quiet spiritual walk. I was in touch with 'my spirit' as I walked – and my guardian angel, Tanya – and a bit with Mother Mary, too. Tho I walked fast and taxed my heart and lungs a bit (finally, after 2 weeks of pushing every other day – just to GET OUT THERE!), today I felt I was in a different “space'.

My body was more a leader than a participant. I was more in tune with my inner feelings...inner energy, which is why I believe I had that extra energy, greater than usual.

My counselor and I trade book titles and sayings and poems – we boost each other (or at least she boosts me!). I hope I help...

Anyway, we shared several poems which I now share with you below. I hope they help your day to be more Loving, more 'energized'...filled with ethereal thoughts of the 'greater good'.

People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered.

Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind,
people may accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Be kind anyway.

If you are successful,
you will win some false friends and some true enemies.
Succeed anyway.

If you are honest and frank,
people may cheat you.
Be honest and frank anyway.

What you spend years building,
someone could destroy overnight.
Build anyway.

If you find serenity and happiness,
they may be jealous.
Be happy anyway.

The good you do today,
people will often forget tomorrow.
Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have,
and it may never be enough.
Give the best you've got anyway.

You see,
in the final analysis it is between you and God;
it was never between you and them anyway.

MOTHER THERESA

Some say this was rewritten by her from a poem by Kent M. Keith;

The Paradoxical Commandments

by Dr. Kent M. Keith

1. People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
   Love them anyway.

2. If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
   Do good anyway.

3. If you are successful, you win false friends and true enemies.
   Succeed anyway.

4. The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
   Do good anyway.

5. Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
   Be honest and frank anyway.

6. The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
   Think big anyway.

7. People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
   Fight for a few underdogs anyway.

8. What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
   Build anyway.

9. People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
   Help people anyway.

10. Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth.
    Give the world the best you have anyway.

© 1968, 2001 Kent M. Keith

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Then there is one of my favorites...a poem whose words sustained me several times along my earlier life-road, when the world weighed heavy on my heart and soul;

INVICTUS …A POEM FREQUENTLY RECITED BY NELSON MANDELA

by English poet   

William Ernest Henley

Out of the night that covers me,

Black as the pit from pole to pole,

I thank whatever gods may be

For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance

I have not winced nor cried aloud.

Under the bludgeonings of chance

My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears

Looms but the Horror of the shade,

And yet the menace of the years

Finds and shall find me unafraid.

 

It matters not how strait the gate,

How charged with punishments the scroll,

I am the master of my fate,

I am the captain of my soul.

Nurturing Verse

Poems on nature
put beauty in reach;
their paintings may bid us reread!

But verses of nurture
can morally teach
to beautify life with a creed.

— David L. Hatton, 5/31/2018

https://allpoetry.com/poem/13920183-Nurturing-Verse-by-Pastordavidrn

May your day be filled with all that Nature has to offer. Talk to a bird nearby; notice the perfection in a cloud; feel the temperature of the breeze as it passes your cheek; appreciate your home, family and friends - while remembering there are many on this Earth without these blessings!  Smile at your neighbor – even as his dog roams your lawn; pull over and let the tailgater behind you - buzz past you; give your mailperson a warm hello (they may especially need it today); tell your spouse he or she is your sunshine – even if they are scowling today.

BE your spirit today – give out as much Love and kindness as you can. 

As Mother Theresa said...”Do it anyway”!

Nature prevails....even in the shadows.