bargain

for the little i gave………………….compared to what i got…… no doubt about it…………..bargain……. i took a few chances and i took my lumps……..didn’t complain when times were rough……………………..couldn’t imagine what would be lost……….if it all had been smoothe sailing i look back and i look ahead and the world has…

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logic doesn’t work with God

education can often be a hindrance to those who believe…..if it doesn’t sound logical…….no way……they resist…… why would i want to embrace and have faith in a logical God, when i need a mountain moved………i have the right God for the job….. all the neat little stacks……..and your carefully constructed…

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Amazon’s Answers

i don’t have the answer’s to Amazon’s Question’s, some of the things i don’t remember ever purchasing…………that doesn’t bother me…….somehow they’ll pull through……….. it makes me laugh that so early in the morning so many are concerned about the next thing they can buy………. the best things in life aren’t…

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my Father……….i am

with all his quirks and personalities…….i couldn’t imagine it happening to me…………………..but it did….. my Father…….i am….. his oubursts of joy……his outbursts of pain……very awkward and strange… my Father……..i am the little things that he made big………the big things that he made small…. my Father…….i am….. all the things i…

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the Crimson King

the Crimson King doles out things that shows he is in charge wails and laments that the government isn’t doing enough to heed his calls the defiant child rants and raves and when the dust settles amd the dust clears……………the events he complained about where manageable after all………… the Crimson…

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your faith or lack of it…..is you/ for hastyp

laughable to think you can separate the two…….don’t kid yourself……..your faith is you……. here’s an idea for you….when i considered it, it bothered me to….i believe God is everything…………so my relationship with God is affected by everything i do…………………in other words it all matters…………. that will wake you up………..so if…

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it’s not what you think

it’s not what you think……..hate to break it to you….but those ideas in your head belong exclusively to you……..never seen it fail, when a closer examination was pursued…… we dismiss what we thought we knew…..admitting we didn’t have clue……. so some things are good to be set in stone but…

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the candles/just enough light

i stopped in the lane by the widow’s hut……..one small room with a woodstove and a cot………..a few tattered cothes that hung on nails in various spots………a table and chair, a candle and a small wooden box…….that held her Bible……… she mended clothes and sold items that had been given…

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breviloquent poet

a great compliment would be if others acknowlegde my brevity…….not lost in lofty words that take others away from the heart, of what i an trying to convey…….may i converse in such a way that many would come and walk away with something to think about because they were able…

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throw the directions away

had to be this way………….there was a price to pay ………and i would do the same thing again for it brought me a different way……….sometimes it would have been easier to take the suggestions that were spewed…….but the allure of the less traveled path was the magnet that drew me……..so…

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not your average fruit/4 ttucro

not your average fruit , although you might find me in a tree, i can work in a salad if your don’t put to much dressing on me…..seems the preferred method of consumption is to take me in little bits and savor my blends of taste, some find me a…

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wrong place/were ants walk

when i fall down……..i look around……..the ants come and stare me down………………i realize this is not the place for me……..here i’m just in the way……….i get up and brush myself off ………and go and join the rest of us……………………… maybe that would work for you………

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seeds/little words that grow

God thank-you for these little words that stream across my mind………..some land in fertile ground and grow in strength and size…….these little seeds that connect to others and form links and become chains……..sometimes to pull things from the mire of life and sometimes to restrain…………………they look so weak and fragile…

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the ”create” space

even the average person will know when they enter a space where ideas are born and grow…….an incubator of thoughts that take hold………………………a ”create”space…… an energy lingers that drifts around the room……..just when the artist thinks it’s gone it comes like a fighter plane and drops it’s bombs again……when the…

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you wrote it

i’m sorry you don’t like your song……not much you can do sing it with the realization there are parts you can’t undue seems the other side of this is what did you learned from all the people that you screwed………………it will take them awhile to forgive……..but not as long as…

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not afraid to dream

not afraid to dream, how about you? doesn’t concern me in the least bit if it will come true you see i look at it this way, i wouldn’t have had the thought if there wasn’t something that i couldn’t import…….so i will be open to see what part of…

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reminders/for C

You help me to remember what i forgot……what i thought was gone….is not….and as time goes on, much of what was presumed as lost has returned to both of us………as love we forgot to trust……………………..reminders

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xoctopus

i used to be an octopus……..grabbing all i could……one day i realized it wasn’t doing me any good……for all the things i gathered were serving no purpose for me and their intended use was being wasted on a hoarder like me…….so i put a sign in my yard and said…

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caretaker

these words, these poems, these songs, these drawings they do not belong to me……..they were sent from miles away to add to my joy today………to be shared with those who care about what others see……….together we piece together a magical tapestry….. so it is with some humility that i readily…

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panacea

turns out they weren’t kidding after all……there is a solution to all the things that cause me to stall………it is no illusion i have clear evidence it is true……..nothing that comes before me is as powerful as You…………..Faith

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fairy tale?

to live in that world that you know…….i would rather shoot bb’s at my toes………….ttucro one common mistake i see people make is not to burn some bridges…….if those bridges took you to places that weren’t good for you or others…………………burn them and never look back…… the distance between ”i’ll…

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a spiritual treat/watching my dogs sleep

similar to watching a roaring fire is the comfort and contentment i experience watching my dogs sleep we rob ourselves of so much pleasure by assigning certain conditions to spiritual experiences……….think about how invaluable they would be if they were random, occasional……few and far between………………what is lacking is the realization…

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the wealthiest man i know

the wealthiest man i know…….dumpster dives 3 days a week on a circuit he has traveled for years…………and has outfitted a second home with his eclectic finds……………he wears clothes others pass on to him and shares the ones he can’t use……he has garages full of every known building material and…

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bricks not marshmellows

a clarafication just to let you know those are bricks you are throwing……………not marshmellows the oddest thing…….is you don’t see how your behavior is derailing the train……. nerves are freyed and patience is strained and you’re hurling bricks wondering why people complain….. i took a chance………went to the warehouse to…

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the gypsy tree

i did not know 3 years ago that i planted a ”gypsy tree”…………that it would grow in strange ways and communicate with me…….it tells me about things i cannot see….the spirits that come and visit me……..she can dance in languid moves, point to stars and frame the moon………..whisper songs from…

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life is the art

the pen to paper, the brush to canvas, the clay to the wheel are the least important parts…….a fragment of the process the ”art” is in how we dance through this world………and it better be like whirling with a guy or girl on your first date the evidence of the…

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it’s the action…..

that word that you’ve been looking for is only part of the truth you may recognize it and it requires action from you for coming to the conclusion is a noble act to take but without the correct response………it will mean little to them and even less to you………………that word…

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antidote

i have an antidote for the poison that you spew i use to let it bother me and i began to look at you when i see the fangs come out and you start to come unglued i remind myself you have a tenuous and contentious relationship with the truth…

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shakespeared

if you think all the world’s a stage…..you better like popcorn you might want to rethink that i’m jus sayin’

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liar

liar please don’t speak………just stirs up old memories…….i am sure there are reasons for the billshit that you spew……..but it comes a time when we decide if we are happy with what we do……..don’t i know it takes courage to change habits we have become accustomed too…………but either you have…

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