"Those speak foolishly who ascribe their anger or their impatience to such as offend them or to tribulation. Tribulation does not make people impatient, but proves that they are impatient. So everyone may learn from tribulation how his heart is constituted." ― Martin Luther Your circumstances don't determine who you are; they simply measure your …
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Love’s Reward
"Love is love's reward." - John Dryden One of the most deeply satisfying things that can be said at the end of the day is this: "I have loved and I am loved." When you say this, all the sounds of the rude world heard in the day shrink back into the darkness from whence …
Your Inner Kid
"Never stop being a kid, Richard. Never stop feeling and seeing and being excited with great things like air and engines and sounds of sunlight within you. Wear your little mask if you must to protect you from the world but if you let that kid disappear you are grown up and you are dead." …
Wide Blue Sky
"Wide Blue Sky", a Haiku by Gregg HakeIn the wide blue skySo much is plain to the eye-Will you meet me there?
Adversariality
The dynamic social order in which we live today is formed largely on the basis of adversariality. Political and economic life is cast and recast daily based on shifting adversarial relationships and institutionalized competition keeps the whole thing running at a feverish pace. Political parties fight one another, businesses strive to best one another, and …
The Day Begins
The Day Begins, a Haiku by Gregg Hake When the day begins What do you raise to the sun- Complaint, fears, or peace?
The Battlefield of the Heart
Last evening was too beautiful a balmy winter's night to pass up a brisk walk to settle my heart, loosen my body, and clear my mind, so I put on my walking shoes after dinner and hit the pavement. As soon as I began I felt my feelings about the day's events line up like …
Who you are
who you are changed me,awakened me to life as it should bewho you are opened my eyeswhere once were clouds, now are blue skiesWho you are made me morethan what I thought possible beforewho are you? you know who you aremy love, my love, you're never far
Love Comes
"Love Comes", a Haiku by Gregg HakeLove comes like thunder In winter - unexpected;Yet marking spring's birth
Face Up to Awful Things
"We face up to awful things because we can't go around them, or forget them. The sooner you say 'Yes, it happened, and there's nothing I can do about it,' the sooner you can get on with your own life. You've got children to bring up. So you've got to get over it. What we …
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