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OUR PRAYER
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Dear Sister Goddesses & WSMs,
This week we pray for PERSEVERANCE.
May we be determined to go the distance.May we BE calm & without complaint.
May we BE patient with the process.
Thank you for BEing & LAUGHing
~ Ha Ha Ha ~
Just BE-Cause,
Sister GoddessGoddess & WSM Noah | |
WEEKLY HA HA Happenings
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WE Laugh Rain or Shine
BE-cause WE can |
TUESDAY, July 20, 2010
8:30 a.m. TY PARK
Hollywood, FL
THURSDAY, July 22, 2010
7:00 p.m. HBCCC
Hollywood Beach, FL
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 RIPPLE The Daffodil Principle |
..... After about twenty minutes, we turned onto a small gravel road and I
saw a small church. On the far side of the church, I saw a hand lettered
sign with an arrow that read, " Daffodil Garden ." We got out of the
car, each took a child's hand, and I followed Carolyn down the path.
Then, as we turned a corner, I looked up and gasped. Before me lay the
most glorious sight.
It looked as though someone had taken a great vat of gold and poured
it over the mountain peak and its surrounding slopes. The flowers were planted in majestic, swirling patterns, great
ribbons and swaths of deep orange, creamy white, lemon yellow, salmon
pink, and saffron and butter yellow. Each different-colored variety was
planted in large groups so that it swirled and flowed like its own
river with its own unique hue. There were five acres of flowers.
"Who did this?" I asked Carolyn.
"Just one woman," Carolyn answered. "She lives on the property.
That's her home." Carolyn pointed to a well-kept A-frame house, small
and modestly sitting in the midst of all that glory.
We walked up to the
house. On the patio, we saw a poster. "Answers to the Questions I Know You Are Asking", was the headline.
" 50,000 bulbs"
"One at a time, by one woman. Two hands, two feet, and one brain."
"Began in 1958."
For me, that moment was a life-changing experience. I thought of this
woman whom I had never met, who, more than forty years before, had
begun, one bulb at a time, to bring her vision of beauty and joy to an
obscure mountaintop.
Planting one bulb at a time, year after year, this
unknown woman had forever changed the world in which she lived. One
day at a time, she had created something of extraordinary
magnificence, beauty, and inspiration.
The principle her daffodil garden
taught is one of the greatest principles of celebration.
That is, learning to move toward our goals and desires one step at a
time-often just one baby-step at a time-and learning to love the doing,
learning to use the accumulation of time.
When we multiply tiny pieces
of time with small increments of daily effort, we too will find we can
accomplish magnificent things.
We can change the world ...
"It makes me sad in a way," I admitted to Carolyn.
"What might I have
accomplished if I had thought of a wonderful goal thirty-five or forty
years ago and had worked away at it 'one bulb at a time' through all
those years? Just think what I might have been able to achieve!"
My daughter summed up the message of the day in her usual direct way.
"Start tomorrow," she said.
She was right. It's so pointless to think of the lost hours of
yesterdays. The way to make learning a lesson of celebration instead of a
cause for regret is to only ask, "How can I put this to use today?"
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author: Jaroldeen Asplund Edwards
What about you?
Let us know how you put the Daffodil Principle to use today.Send us an email
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