#Faith

"Love and Blindness [10w] Love may be unilaterally blind,but divorce blinds both parties."

"practice only envisioning yourself at the finish line and be unrelenting and fervent in racing towards that finish line. Undue preoccupation and fixation with the how's, whens, and what ifs will not only derail and further distance you from your destination, but will also feed your mind with those fatal seeds of doubt that make failure inevitable"~ Awaken and Unleash your Victor"

"Love's Reward [10w] + {Couplet} Love repaid is love's reward;recompense fair towards being adored."

"Love Fades [10w] Like our love,Chinese painters show distance in faded grays."

"Memory Timeline of Divorce Divorce +1 year: "Just because we don't talk, it doesn't mean I can't stop thinking about you."Divorce +10 years: "The one good thing that came out of our marriage was our wonderful children."Divorce +20 year: "Who? Doesn't ring a bell."

"There can only be two basic loves... the love of God unto the forgetfulness of self, or the love of self unto the forgetfulness and denial of God."

"Sometimes we can focus so much on nothing that we make it a big something of nothing"

"Vacations for Souls [10w] When souls are bored in Heaven they vacation in Hell."

"I look for a sign. Where to go next. you never know when you'll get one. Even the most faithless among us are waiting to be proven wrong."

"Leaps of Faith [10w] Like religion, leaps of faith are behind all idealistic movements."

"Love and Death [10w] A person who lives without love chooses death by default."

"Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar."

"My purpose is: What Lord? Where Lord? When Lord? Yes Lord!"

"Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it."

"With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control, mud slides,flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from oneend to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terroristattacks, "Are we sure this is a good time to take God out ofthe Pledge of Allegiance?"

"Opportunities Come a Knockin' [10w] Never miss the opportunity to fuck or write poetry."

"It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ. My hosanna is born of a furnace of doubt."

"Rhyme vs. Reason {Couplet} Do not try to make rhyme of reason,nor reason of rhyme;For the former's too systematic,the latter's too sublime."

"Double-Dipping [10w] Double-dip in righteousness and delight in the here and herafter."

"Really, there was only one sensible thing to do. Stay the course. Pray it through, day by day, minute by minute. The Lord had an answer and it would surely come. (p. 203)"