YOU ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN ANY OF YOUR PROBLEMS.
The process of growing and learning always involves risks.
Courage comes from the reserves of your mind that are much more powerful than your outside circumstances.
When you are bigger than your problems, you gain the courage necessary to win.
Courage is the power to face difficulties.
Obstacles will always look large or small to you according to whether you are large or small.
Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined.
It gives you the ability to rise above reality.
See things as you would have them be instead of as they are.
Overcoming obstacles is the price of achievement...the price of greatness.

~ Baby's Blessing ~

A baby to hold,

A baby to keep

A baby to love,

Awake or asleep.

A baby to rock,

A baby to feed

Relying on you

To fill every need

A baby to teach,

A spirit to mould

For wisdom is much

More precious than gold.

There will be trials,

There will be tears

So always remember,

Trust God through the years.

by Princess Moonbeam

The Loony Sex Laws you never knew you were breaking!

• In Connersville, Wisconsin, it is illegal for a male to shoot off a gun when his female partner has an orgasm.
• It's against the law in Willowdale, Oregon, for a husband to curse during sex.
• In Oblong, Illinois, it's punishable by law to make love while hunting or fishing on your wedding day.
• No man is allowed to make love to his wife with the smell of garlic, onions, or sardines on his breath in Alexandria, Minnesota. If his wife so requests,law mandates that he must brush his teeth.
• Warn your hubby that after lovemaking in Ames, Iowa, he isn't allowed to take more than three gulps of beer while lying in bed with you- or holding you in his arms.
• Bozeman, Montana, has a law that bans all sexual activity between members of the opposite sex in the front yard of a home after sundown- if they're nude. (Apparently, if you wear socks, you're safe from the law!)
• In hotels in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, every room is required to have twin beds. And the beds must always be a minimum of two feet apart when a couple rents a room for only one night. And it's illegal to make love on the floor between the beds!
• The owner of every hotel in Hastings, Nebraska, is required to provide each guest with a clean and pressed nightshirt. No couple, even if they are married, may sleep together in the nude. Nor may they have sex unless they are wearing one of these clean, white cotton nightshirts.
• An ordinance in Newcastle, Wyoming, specifically bans couples from having sex while standing inside a store's walk-in-meat freezer!
• A state law in Illinois mandates that all bachelors should be called master, not mister, when addressed by their female counterparts.
• In Norfolk, Virginia, a woman can't go out without wearing a corset. (There was a civil-service job- for men only- called a corset inspector.
• However, in Merryville, Missouri, women are prohibited from wearing corsets because "the privilege of admiring the curvaceous, unencumbered body of a young woman should not be denied to the normal, red-blooded American male."
• It's safe to make love while parked in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. Police officers aren't allowed to walk up and knock on the window. Any suspicious officer who thinks that sex is taking place must drive up from behind, honk his horn three times and wait approximately two minutes before getting out of his car to investigate.
• Another law in Helena, Montana, mandates that a woman can't dance on a table in a saloon or bar unless she has on at least three pounds, two ounces of clothing.
• Lovers in Liberty Corner, New Jersey, should avoid satisfying their lustful urges in a parked car. If the horn accidentally sounds while they are frolicking behind the wheel, the couple can face a jail term.
• In Carlsbad, New Mexico, it's legal for couples to have sex in a parked vehicle during their lunch break from work, as long as the car or van has drawn curtains to stop strangers from peeking in.
• A Florida sex law: If you're a single, divorced, or widowed woman, you can't parachute on Sunday afternoons.
• Women aren't allowed to wear patent-leather shoes in Cleveland, Ohio- a man might see the reflection of something "he oughtn't!"
• No woman may have sex with a man while riding in an ambulance within the boundaries of Tremonton, Utah. If caught, the woman can be charged with a sexual misdemeanor and "her name is to be published in the local newspaper." The man isn't charged nor is his name revealed.

Believe

" Believe in yourself

in the power you have

to control your own life

day by day

Believe in the strength

that you have deep inside

will help you show the way

Believe in tomorrow

and what it will bring

let a hopeful heart

carry you through

For things will work out

if you trust and believe

there's no limit to

what you can do!!!"

--- Unknown ---

" Somebody said that it couldn't be done,

But he with a chuckle replied

That "maybe it couldn't", but he would be one

Who wouldn't say so till he tried.

So he buckled right in with a trace of a grin

On his face. If he worried he hid it.

He started to sing as he tackled the thing,

That couldn't be done and he did it.

Somebody scoffed: "Oh, you'll never do that;

At least no one ever has done it"

But he took off his coat and he took of his hat,

And the first thing we knew he'd begun it.

With a lift of his chin and a bit of a grin,

Without any doubting or quiddit,

He started to sing as he tackled the thing

That couldn't be done, and he did it.

There are thousands to tell you it cannot be done,

There are thousands to prophesy failure;

There are thousands to point out to you, one by one,

The dangers that wait to assail you.

But just buckle in with a bit of a grin

Just take off your coat and go to it.

Just start to sing as you tackle the thing

That "cannot be done," and you'll do it."

--- Edgar A. Guest

Monday, April 19, 1999

" Dear Lord, I pray

At the end of this day

I'll look back at the choices I've made:

The time that I've spent,

The places I went,

The things that I've chosen to say,

The thoughts that I had

(The good and the bad)

The number of times that I prayed,

And that I'll decide

I really HAVE tried,

And I'd live it again the same way."

--- Mary Beth McEachron ---

A young couple were making passionate love in the guy's van --

you know, shag carpets, big double bed in the back, all of that -

- and suddenly the girl, being a bit on the kinky side, yells out,

"Oh lover, whip me! Please whip me!"

Well, the guy, not wanting to pass up an opportunity like that,

but unsure what to do as he has no whips around, gets an

inspired flash, opens a window, snaps the antenna off his

van, and proceeds to whip the girl until they both collapse in

sado-masochistic ecstasy.

Almost a week later the girl notices that the welts she

sustained are beginning to fester a bit and goes to her doctor.

The doctor takes one look at the wounds and exclaims, "Wow!

Looks like you've got a bad case of van aerial disease!"

" Wherever life may take you

Whatever goals you seek,

Remember that you're special

And your talents are unique.

Remember what is in your heart

Should always be your guide,

And that each day you're thought about

With so much love and pride."

--- From a Hallmark card ---