Stonelomi

It doesn’t interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dream, for the adventure of being alive.

It doesn’t interest me what planets are squaring your moon. I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life’s betrayals or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain!I want to know if you can sit with pain, mine or your own, without moving to hide it or fade it, or fix it.

I want to know if you can be with joy, mine or your own, if you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful, to be realistic, to remember the limitations of being human.

It doesn’t interest me if the story you are telling me is true. I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself; if you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul; if you can be faithlessand therefore trustworthy.

I want to know if you can see beauty even when it’s not pretty, every day,and if you can source your own life from its presence.

I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, and still stand on the edge of the lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, “Yes!”

It doesn’t interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. I want to know if you can get up, after the night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone, and do what needs to be done to feed the children.

It doesn’t interest me who you know or how you came to be here. I want to know if you will stand in the center of the fire with me and not shrink back.

It doesn’t interest me where or what or with whom you have studied. I want to know what sustains you, from the inside, when all else falls away.

I want to know if you can be alone with yourself and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments.

I’m tired of being told so many different stories.

 Health care means everything from a free ride to the end of life as we know it. That’s one erporter says from the next. So it is time for us to read it and think and review the facts for ourselves.
This is how it starts off: “The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will ensure that all Americans have access to quality, affordable health care and will create the transformation within the health care system necessary to contain costs.” Sounds to good to be true.
I know when my mother and aunt were in Mexico and Aunt Grace got ill, she went to a hospital and there was no charge and the care was excellent. I have family in Canada and they do not have a problem with the Health care system. No system is perfect. The one we have has so many people with no coverage. I have friends here who have no insurance, just seem to fall between the cracks. It is hard to just get by and pray you will never get ill.
Therefore I decided to read some of the bill myself.
If you want to make up your own mind you may take your time and do some reading.

Peace and Blessings

Chaplain Grace

http://democrats.senate.gov/reform/patient-protection-affordable-care-act.pdf

The above will allow you to read the entire health care bill.

http://bennet.senate.gov/issues/issue/whatsinitforyou/

This link is from my home state of Colorado. This is what the Senator says the bill means for regular folks.

Senator Blanche Lincoln’s
Health Care Resources Page

Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act
http://lincoln.senate.gov/newsroom/upload/patient-protection-affordable-care-act.pdfSenator Reid’s Letter on CBO Scores
http://lincoln.senate.gov/newsroom/upload/Reid_letter_11_18_09.pdfCongressional Budget Office (CBO) Scores
http://www.cbo.gov/Implementation Timeline
http://www.lincoln.senate.gov/newsroom/upload/Timeline.pdf

                    Section-by-Section Analysis 
http://www.lincoln.senate.gov/newsroom/upload/Section-by-Section%20full.pdfShort Summary
http://www.lincoln.senate.gov/newsroom/upload/Short%20Summary.pdfDetailed Summary
http://lincoln.senate.gov/newsroom/upload/long%20summary.pdfImmediate Benefits
http://www.lincoln.senate.gov/newsroom/upload/Early%20Deliverables.pdf

Your Virtual Age is a reflection of your health and vitality.

The lower your Virtual Age the better shape you are in.

It is used to calculate the Life Expectancy of someone of your current physical age.

You may be younger than you think!: http://www.sonnyradio.com/realage3.swf

 This very interesting. Enjoy. You have to try it…it’ll either scare or elate you.

If you answer truthfully it is a cool tool.

You may be younger, or much older, than you think!

Scripture Lesson: Psalm 118:24; “This is the Day the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it.”

 Two Days about Which Not to Worry
There are two days in every week about which we should not worry, two days which should be kept free from fear and apprehension.

One of these days in Yesterday –with all its mistakes and cares, its faults and blunders, its aches and pains. Yesterday has passed forever beyond our control. All the money in the world cannot bring back Yesterday. We can not undo a single act we performed; we can not erase a single word we said. Yesterday is gone forever. Hopefully we learned something.

The other day we should not worry about is Tomorrow—with all its possible adversities, its burdens, its large promise and its promise of a better day. Tomorrow is also beyond our person control. Tomorrow’s sun will rise, either in splendor or behind the clouds, but it will rise. Until it does we have no control over tomorrow… for it is yet to be born. Hopefully we will learn something tomorrow.

When we add the burdens of yesterday and tomorrow we break down and go crazy.

Today is the only day we can experience and make a difference.
Therefore, seize Today.

Use what you have learned from Yesterday, remember what you hope for tomorrow, and make Today the best possible day.

Today comes only once.

I offer to you my readers a Prayer for all the people.
I beleive that God is to large to fit into anyone Religion and He will Bless Us All.

To God who is present in ones health and disease, let us offer prayers for all creation.
To God who commands even the wind and the sea let us offer prayers for all creation.
For this holy gathering and for the people of God in every place.
For all nations, peoples, tribes, clans and families.
For mercy, justice, and peace throughout the world.
For this town and every place in Your created order.

For all those in every danger and calamity:
those afflicted and suffering hardship,
those with long illnesses and acute pain,
those beaten and imprisoned,
those sleepless and hungry.

For the dying and the dead, and all who mourn.

For ourselves, our families and companions, and those we love. (lift up their names unto the Lord)

Lifting our voices with all creation,
Let us offer ourselves and one another to the living God and through Christ.
Whose prayer opens the way to wholeness as we pray together.

Amen..

Love is the only thing you get more of by giving it away. Tom Wilson

Critical Alert: The Swine Flu Pandemic – Fact or Fiction?
http://www.mercola.com/

Dr. Mercola has been debunking modern medicine myths for years.  Good article to send on to friends.

I can mold my future. Each day, each experience draws me to the next important step.

Some days it is harder than others to get going. So much to do, so many ”to do” lists. Then I remember, that I live here, today. I cannot change yesterday. tomorrow is but a dream. What I do and what I am TODAY is all that counts.

So the “to do” list can wait, a freind is on the phone and needs someone to hear her. A dog is lost and needs to find its home. My mom has a headache and needs me to massage her shoulders. The books, the dishes, they will wait. The living may not wait. The living may not be here tomorrow. Today is the day and the time that I have with them.

Time seems like the only gift that once given can not be taken back. Yet time can be regifted to another. So on this Misty day, the drizzle come down, the birds sang and called to be fed. This is a good day to live.
Peace and Blessings
Grace  

Happiness keeps You Sweet,
Trials keep You Strong,
Sorrows keep You Human,
Failures keeps You Humble,
Success keeps You Glowing,
But Only
God keeps You Going

This 88 year old female Mayor in Canada is full of great attitude and

 energy… get ready to be inspired…Wish she would retire and work for our Country.  

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fY79KbCptTo

I love Chinese Fortune cookies.
I have collected some of the ones I have gotten over the years. Enjoy.
Please send me your favorite fortune that you have gotten or wish you had.

It doesn’t matter. Who is without a flaw?

Your dreams are messages.

I can be hurt by nothing but my own thoughts.  Alan Cohen

And let the peace of God rule in your hearts. Colossian 3:15

The skills you have gathered will one day come in handy.

Your happiness is intertwined with your outlook on life.

Your flair for the creative takes an important place in your life.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. – Mother Teresa.

Do not mistake temptation for opportunity.

Make two grins grow where there was only a grouch before.

Pray for what you want, but work for the things you need.

If not now, when? – The Talmud

Decide what you want and go for it.

Don’t forget to do good deeds as you accumulate wealth.

Your past success will be overshadowed by your future success.

The Lord gives us our faces, but we must provide the expression

Your many hidden talents will become obvious to those around you.

You are talented in many ways.

There is no better exercise for strengthening the heart than reaching down and lifting up another.

In the end there are three things that last: faith, hope and love; and the greatest of these is love.

Any rough times are behind you.

Be prepared to accept a wondrous opportunity in the days ahead!

With God all things are possible. – Matthew 19:26

Grand adventures await those who are willing to turn the corner.

If you would be loved, love and be lovable.

None of the secrets of success will work unless you do.

Miracles are natural; when they do not occur, something is amiss

Smiling often can make you look and feel younger.

The smart thing is to prepare for the unexpected.

Your heart will always make itself known through your words.

You are a true friend when you regard the trouble of your friend as your own.

Follow your instincts. That’s where true wisdom manifests itself.

There is yet time enough for you to take a different path.

A friend is a present you give yourself.

You are very expressive and positive in words, act and feeling.

We cannot do great things; only small things with great love. Mother Teresa

You should be able to undertake and complete anything.

A single kind word will keep one warm for years.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Lao Tzu

Love is like wildflowers…it is often found in the most unlikely places.

A scholars ink lasts longer than a martyrs blood.

That voice inside which says you cannot do something…You must do something…You are unable to do something.

A barrage of negative concepts.

The Critic may speak in your mother’s voice, your father’s voice…even in your own voice.

The Critic leaves you angry and frustrated and unable to go forward.

The critic is a stumbling block.

The Critic works on fear, anger and worry.

The Critic with its loud brash, demanding voice that out shouts your calm inner voice.

An antidote for the Critic is prayer.

Prayer—the quiet time for God. The Quiet Whisper can save you from the critic.

Can help you to move forward.
Try to practice the feeling and presence of God today