Today is Wednesday, July 5th, 2006; Karen's Korner #838
Two poems. The first one is on a bookmark which I received from our Australian daughter Karen and her family for my 60th birthday. I really like it:
Heart Prints
When we reach out to another
we leave our heart-prints.
When we touch a friend
we leave our identity.
One of the greatest gifts we can give
is to reach past the thorns and find the rose.
To recognize the nobility in another's soul,
and raise that person up, is the gift of precious life.
When our heart-prints
become our love-prints.
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The second one was on a card I received this week from Al Bennett and was written by a friend:
If life were everlasting,
And never came to end....
I wonder? Could I ever do
The things I did intend?
Each day we think of something
To bring someone cheer...
But...unless we stop and do it
It's soon another year.
And when our lives are over....
And He reads in the open book
It only records what we did for others
And so little of us it took.
~ Marie Packard
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