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January 31st, 2014

31/1/2014

Thought for today:
"How many times in life have you waited patiently in a double-lined queue only to find your lane moving far slower than the one you chose? How often have you stood behind someone in a self service restaurant and upon seeing the contents of their plate have fancied some of theirs?

The essense of life is making the correct decisions and then being patient enough to await the outcome in order to get what you truly want.

So, if there is anything in this life that you'd like to obtain, but are obliged to wait until it arrives, my advice would simply be, 'Hang on in there and don't dishearten. Your chance will most surely come.' Like the sturdy horse, and my most favourite of all God's creatures, have faith, stamina and endurance and and your reward shall be all the greater in the end.

Today marks the Chinese New Year for 'The Year of the Horse'. As a horse, may I take this opportunity to wish all my face book contacts, 'Kong Hay Fatt Choy.'" William Forde: January 31st, 2014.

January 30th, 2014

31/1/2014

Thought for today:
"It is so easy to get cross with one another in today's stressful world and it also appears to be getting harder when seeking to find greater tolerance and understanding of each other's needs.

However much we have to do, it will always prove easier sharing the burden than attempting to bear our own cross.

Finding peace in one's life is much easier then one thinks. All it requires is learning to hold hands with all that is good and wholesome and being prepared to shake hands with all strangers who hold out theirs in friendship." William Forde: January 30th, 20014.

January 29th, 2014

29/1/2014

Thought for today:
"I have always been a person who plays upon the subtle nuances of words and meaning, but I've never quite known whether the colloquialism 'a kick up the backside' means a healthy nudge or a ball-breaking experience.

Let's face it, there are times in our lives when lethargy creeps into our behaviour pattern and the only way out of it might prove to be a good old-fashioned kick up the backside to get us back on track!

I'm a firm believer in 'horses for courses.' I know that we are all made differently and deal with our trials and tribulations in a variety of different ways, but there are times in all of our lives when lethargy and depression are capable of marooning us in a cesspit of our own composted morosity.

It is at such times when the true friend and the one person who is most likely to best help you move on will be the one prepared to move you in the right direction.

I once experienced a similar difficulty in understanding the subtle difference between 'complete' and 'finished'. I now know. Marry the right person and you'll feel 'complete', but marry the wrong person and you will be 'finished.' However, allow the right marriage partner to catch you with the wrong marriage partner and you'll be 'completely finished.' " William Forde: January 29th, 2014.

January 28th, 2014

28/1/2014

Thought for today:
"All things which create a sensation of wonder are usually seen with innocent eyes and without any need of interpretation. That is why children are the weavers of fascination and the masters of wonderment as they journey through their childhood with eyes that 'see what they see' without the need of ascribing a value to their vision. It would greatly assist many adults who display a tendency to take life too darned seriously to learn from children; to occasionally take the plunge and upon seeing a puddle ahead, to jump into it for no other earthly reason than the sheer hell of it! Go on; unlock the child in you and feel a bit of their magic world once more." William Forde: January 28th, 2014.

January 27th, 2014

27/1/2014

Thought for today:
"When I was growing up in a large Catholic family on a West Yorkshire council estate, our parents used to walk all the children to church in Cleckheaton and back each Sunday; a round journey of some three miles. We would walk down 'The New Road' and always pass the most beautiful of privately-owned properties that were occupied by doctors, accountants, police inspectors and retired army colonels. There was one house half-way down which was different to all the other houses and which oozed charm. It was much smaller than the rest of the large 1940's red-bricked properties. It was mid Victorian in age and had roses growing around its porch that framed the old lintals of its frontage. This was my mother's favourite property of all the houses our walk to church took us by each week and as we approached the property she would say , 'One day, Billy, we'll live in a house with flowers around its door........... our own little cottage.'

My mother died at the early age of 64 years many years ago and until the last three years of her life, she lived in the family home; a three bed-roomed council house on Windybank Estate, Liversedge. She never did live in her ideal country cottage, but if you are listening in up there, Mum, be pleased that I now do. It doesn't have a garden, but my Sheila frequently fills it with flowers inside and I grow roses around its door entrance." William Forde : January 27th, 2014.

January 26th, 2014

26/1/2014

Thought for today:
" I don't know if any of you out there believe in a heaven for humans, but if you do, perhaps it isn't too much a stretch of one's belief system to also believe in a heaven for the remainder of God's creatures.

Someone is reported to have once said that had there been no such thing as God, then it would have proved necessary to invent him.

Whether there is or isn't a God matters to us all differently I very much suspect. What I do know with absolute certainty however, is that living to the standards that a God would expect us to live to if you wanted to one day enter His heaven is the best bench mark there is for bringing a sense of increased health, happiness and peaceful contentment to the world and all its creatures. Also, if we do eventually meet up once more with our loved ones in an after life, surely that means our pets as well as our human loves." William Forde: January 26th, 2014.

January 25th, 2014

25/1/2014

Thought for today:
"When Christ said, 'Whatever you did unto one of the least, you did unto me,' I believe that it wasn't a parable speech reference, but that he literally meant it.

In short, hurt a little one; a creature less powerful or less able than yourself and you hurt Him with just as much pain and suffering.

I know that the images are sickening, but so is abuse of any description. William Forde: January 25th, 2014.

January 24th, 2014 : My mother's birthday

24/1/2014

Thought for today:
"Oh flautist of the woodland glades, how sweetly plays your flute in summer haze, in ground that spawns the seeds of floral generations. Let your sweet notes echo tunes of silver breeze as they travels though the branches of the trees and blows blades of grass below into excitement before alighting on a butterfly's wings and fly to pastures new.

Spring is always a season to rejoice and if there is a better season for man to be buried than another, than it must be spring. On the 26th, April, 1986, my mother was buried, aged 64. Today would have been her birthday. While she couldn't play one note of any musical instrument, she used to love the flute above all others.. Neither could see sing a note in tune, but that never stopped her singing when and wherever she wanted to sing, every day of her life.

I will never forget after I once reproached her for singing way off key and accused her of sounding like a frog on it's last legs. Like the deceased comedian Les Dawson, she told me that it sounded okay to her ears.Then she said, 'God gave us all a voice and the right to use it. I never heard tell that he told some folk they could sing and others that they couldn't. Everyone has the right to sing.....whether others think they can sing or not!'

I have always carried that message with me throughout my life and even to the consternation of others, I have been known to sing at all times and in all places; both on and off key. Thank you Mum for giving me life and thank you for giving me my most precious present of all; my six brothers and sisters. I love you and still miss you." William Forde: January 24th, 2014.

January 23rd, 2014

23/1/2014

Thought for today:
"Someday, I would like to see the seven wonders of the world, go walking in the Pyrenees between France and Spain, eat a pizza in Sorrento, and feed the pigeons in Trafalgar Square in London. Someday......I would have so like to do those things and visit those places, but.......unless I am offered a heart replacement I will never see those places. Unless I get a donor soon......... I won't see my seventh birthday. It's just not fair....... I'm only five! Please sign a donor card today. You could save a life and give renewed hope to another human being of worth. It may be too late for me, but there are other little girls and boys out there who are like me and deserve to do those things and see those places. Please.... please don't sit on the fence a moment longer. Sign that doner card!" William Forde: January 23rd, 2014.

January 22nd, 2014

22/1/2014

Thought for today:
"Nothing lights up the world better than a simple person living a simple life in perfect peace and sweet contentment. Upon such a happy creature, the sun will always shine. Though his brow may often sweat and his back bend to the point of breaking, his positive outlook on life and his belief in better days to come will always see him reach the end of all journeys of goodness that he undertakes." William Forde, January 22nd, 2014.