EL SHADDAI ~ by Amy Grant

EL SHADDAI, EL SHADDAI, ERKAMKA NA ADONAI,
I WILL PRAISE YOU TILL I DIE.. EL SHADDAI~

"...change has come to America..."

IF THERE IS ANYONE out there... who still doubts.. that America is a place where all things are possible.. who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time.. who still questions.. the power of our democracy..

tonight is your answer!...

~President Barack Obama in Chicago, Election Night

Muses, Musicians, and MUSIC! MUSIC! MUSIC!

...the answer is blowin' in the wind...

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LOVE LIFT US UP!

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WE ARE THE CHAMPiONS, MY FRiEND!

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Imagine...

Quotes & Poems...

"...Our inner strength, our higher moral values, have been derived for thousands of years from the Book of Books, in one of which, Ecclesiastes, we read:
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; A time to kill, and a time to heal; A time to weep, and a time to laugh; A time to love, and a time to hate; A time for war, and a time for peace.
Ladies and gentlemen, the time for peace has come.."

~Yitzak Rabin, 13th of September, 1993

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If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream--and not make dreams your master,
If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!

--Rudyard Kipling

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It is not given to man
to know the whole Truth.
His duty lies in living up
to the truth as he sees it,
and in doing so, to resort
to the purest means,
i.e., to non~violence.

Mahatma K. Gandhi

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People are often unreasonable, illogical and self-centered;
Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives;
Be kind anyway.

If you are successful, you will win some false friends,
and some true enemies;
Succeed anyway.

If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
Be honest and frank anyway.

What you spend years building,
someone could destroy overnight;
Build anyway.

If you find serenity and happiness,
they may be jealous;
Be happy anyway.

The good you do today, people will
forget tomorrow,
Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have,
and it may never be enough;
Give the world the best you've got anyway..

For you see, in the final analysis, it is
between you and God,
It never was between you and them ... anyway.