Food for the Souls

Your Greatest Success

  Your greatest success and happiness in life
will be found when you use your natural abilities
to their fullest extent.

Happiness is not in having or being, it's in the doing
The essence of true wisdom is to know that rest is rust,
and that real life is activity, laughter and love.

You were created to conquer your environment,
to solve problems and to achieve goals.
You'll find no real satisfaction or happiness in life
without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.

Yes, there is true happiness.
It's found in doing a job well done, in achieving a worthy goal,
in putting your child to sleep and in writing the last line of your poem.

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   Perseverance

When all the world is looming dark

And things seem not so clear,

When shadows seem to hover 'round

Lord, may I persevere.

 

When it seems everything's been tried

And there's no way to go,

Just let me keep remembering

Sometimes the journey's slow.

 

I may just need to stop and rest

Along the path I trod,

A time to try to understand

And have my talk with God.

 

As I gain new strength to carry on

Without a doubt or fear,

Somehow I know things will be right

And so, I persevere.

 

~~ Anne Stortz ~~