Words Live Forever ...

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow.

Learn as if you were to live forever."

Mahatma Gandhi

Stringing marks across the paper, I feel as though I can go on forever. Images quickly take form and come alive upon the page. It is exciting, really, to transport energy into solid form as words are never ending, and thoughts will always prevail. Never about right or wrong, just the joy of being splayed.

Conviction continuously rotates as it is not intended to last forever. Considerations bounce around until they can best be joined together. Just as there are numerous words to mean the same, diverse experiences lead us to a needed domain. It is not about the birth of a word nor about its death, as the importance is found in the chain.

Pondering the existence of the written word, I realize it may live longer than any given man. Written utterances ebb and flow unrestricted by time and space ... not so true about man. Perhaps true life is in the illumination of the sacred word which calls and gathers all of the lost souls.

Acting Out The Language of Love

"If we have listening ears,

God speaks to us in our own language, 

whatever that language is."

Mahatma Gandhi

The young child is learning to speak a few words of Spanish to be able to interact with fellow students.  She surprises the teacher by asking, "So what language does God speak, English or Spanish?"   An important question indeed! God speaks the language of love.

As literacy grows and technology connects, we are more than ever aware of different languages, faiths, and physical appearances.  Doctors, nurses, and kind hearted people travel as volunteers to struggling countries.  Young people are making inventions for clean water or clothes to be used for warmth and shelter.  Children are sharing their wealth (whatever it may be). Kids are forsaking birthday presents and asking guests to bring donations for  rescued animals or homeless in shelters.   

Mary Englebreit promotes growing where you are planted.  Each one of us, as an individual seed can expand with simple ideas to help those surrounding us.  To share in the wealth of kindness by giving away stored can goods, outgrown clothes, or packets of bandaids, soap, and tampax.  Come on, get original.  Form a small group and challenge each other ... pass it on ... come on ...