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1slick_lady
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standing on a shadow's lace

0 posted 2002-03-20 06:33 AM



Fine Line

when standing
in line
carefully pick
the side
you choose
one side
you win
the other
you lose
and the winning
can come
at a
great cost
but if
you lose
forever it
is lost

"Pour yourself thick, when it is you, that you spread."

© Copyright 2002 Helen Chambers - All Rights Reserved
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1 posted 2002-03-20 08:39 AM




BRAVO!!! Oh Helen, this is indeed so very true, and may we always follow our hearts and know what we are fighting for and why we are! (kiss on cheek) This is excellent, sweet friend, we all love you so much! You have such a beautiful heart, sweet Helen, thank you for sharing!



May love and light always shine upon you!

Love,
Noah Eaton

Zinsser
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2 posted 2002-03-20 09:05 AM


this is good...   : )
Silver Streak
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3 posted 2002-03-20 09:24 AM


Nice thoughts here, Helen. But I must admit that I rarely think much about winning or losing. In any sport someone must win and someone must lose. And in reality isn't the winning only perception? One only wins with respect to some concept of what the outcome should be, and after we know what happens there is a tendency to say what we should have done. Isn't this kind of  dwelling on our own selfish notions?  

I rarely ever worry much about which way to choose, although many people think that I should. I often kind of find it more productive and exciting just to roll the dice. Whee! Although I do tend to walk like an eagle always seeking truth and destroying lies with blazing fire. And it always helps when people are afraid to lie to us.

And when we always seek truth, and work to acquire better skills in choosing, our energy is expended more productively on  prevention, not correction as knowing that we do our best, we just  release whatever happens, without stewing over how it could have been different. For if in truth we do our best then it's best to let God take care of it.

And to look back with sorrow, shame and blame, or accuse is always futile and very harmful to everybody.

Can't we just let it all go and take each new step with God's help seeking truth, doing our best, but releasing all mistakes?

And then we can virtually ignore that fine line of choice. Perhaps it's really not a line anyway but an illusion in a mirror.  

((Helen))
-newell

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Copyright: 2002 Newell Elsworth Usher

Seymour Tabin
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Tamarac Fla
4 posted 2002-03-20 09:37 AM


1slick_lady,
Excellent write.


Dark Stranger
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5 posted 2002-03-20 09:43 AM


sometimes you just got to do the bad stuff
just see how close to the edge
you can get

the view from there is breathtaking
like looking up at a lover
from underwater

enjoyed you ms slick

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