"If I keep giving you extra dog biscuits Scamp, will you make sure that nasty Molly Perkins at school never pushes me to the ground again? I keep telling her that if I bring my dog to school I'll teach her a lesson, but she said, 'Your stupid little dog doesn't frighten me!' I bet if she saw you she'd run a mile and if she heard your loud bark, she'd wee her knickers.She's not going to push me over again. No she isn't! Today is a good day for standing up to the world." William Forde: August 5th, 2014.
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"If I keep giving you extra dog biscuits Scamp, will you make sure that nasty Molly Perkins at school never pushes me to the ground again? I keep telling her that if I bring my dog to school I'll teach her a lesson, but she said, 'Your stupid little dog doesn't frighten me!' I bet if she saw you she'd run a mile and if she heard your loud bark, she'd wee her knickers.She's not going to push me over again. No she isn't! Today is a good day for standing up to the world." William Forde: August 5th, 2014.
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Thought for today: "As we approach the last glorious weeks of summer this year and people have their minds on holiday excursions, let us rejoice in those marvellous sunny days we have been blessed with over the past few months. Soon the days will darken earlier and the climate cool and before we know it, thoughts will be focused upon those presents we need to buy for Christmas time. I hope that the year 2014 has proved to be a good year for you. If there are things that you may be disappointed that you intended to do but didn't, don't despair: simply get out there and do it as there is still time. The 'Great War' began on July 28th,1914 with Austria-Hungary's declaration of war with Serbia. One hundred years ago today on August 4th, 1914 Great Britain entered the 'First World War' and the country thought that the war would be over by Christmas, but was sadly mistaken. 1914 was a very bad year for world peace. One of the things that you should do this year; indeed tonight along with the remembrance of the rest of the country is to turn off your house lights at the appointed hour and light a single candle for all those poor souls who never saw Christmas 1914, along with all those poor souls in the middle east conflict today who will not see Christmas 2014." William Forde: August 4th, 2014. Thought for today: "The cruellest act a man can do is to awaken and stir a woman's heart with no intention of ever loving her. It is less hurtful to tear apart the wings of a butterfly than to make a woman's heart a plaything of the past. The kindest thing of the most gentle soul is to always to give more than is asked for, especially when the initial request is modestly made. The most miserly act is to keep one's love buried deep and locked out from the rest of the world. Count not your money and good wealth in secret pleasure, for if left unshared it will eventually become less bountiful than a stinking fish in the heat of day. Far better to seek out the company of happy people who still believe in magic than magicians and manipulaters whose prime purose is to deceive and disquise. And far better still to seek out magic people who believe in being happy, for they are the keepers of eternal contentment. The material 'go getter' of the world is the best traveller of all round journeys that lead to nowhere, for they wrongly believe that once things in their life start to fall into place, then they will find peace. If they but knew that their topsy turvy world invariable presents them with truth inside out; if only they knew that once they find peace, only then shall things fall into place, then they might be content to be a much lighter traveller and thereby see more places and have more things as a result of greater access to imagination." William Forde: August 3rd, 2014. Thought for today: 'The Forces of Nature' : Copyright William Forde: August, 2014. "There is beauty to be found in everything wholesome and an ugliness in all corruption. It is only in human soft and animal wild that natural fusion is blended into contented soil and cements all energy of the earth. Rejoice in rain that falls and use its touch to cleanse impurity of thought and deed. Know its power to wash away the past footsteps of one's passage and the neighbouring rainbow that hides behind its cloud. Beware the forces of nature run wild, for when the Creator chose to refashion the corrupt earth to His liking, it wasn't the explosion of a big bang that he used. He instead guided Noah's navigation through the Great Flood that rained down upon His people. Respect the rain, for when it falls from the heavens in showers and droplets, it falls to refresh and replenish. But when it crashes to the ground with an outpouring of forceful vengeance that cannot be contained or held back, to do untold damage is so very often its aim as a reminder that Man cannot control the forces of Nature, but merely observe and respect its presence in our lives." William Forde: August 2nd, 2014. Thought for today: "So you think you life's hard then, do you? From a world population of 7 billion folk, 842 million people don't have enough to eat and 1.7 billion people lack access to clean water. A staggering 2.3 billion people suffer from water-borne diseases each year. 12% of the world's population in the affluent west uses 85% of the world's water with approximate disparity being reflected in the use of all other fuel and mineral resources also. Such facts are perhaps less surprising when one learns that 98% of the world's undernourished people live in developing countries and that hunger and poverty hits hardest in Asia (552 million), Sub-Saharan Africa (223 million), Latin America and the Caribbean (43 million). Over 1.4 billion people are said to exist on $1.25 daily and 35 million people from poorer countries are living with HIV/AIDS. The next time we all feel a bit short of this or that and a bit sorry for ourselves and circumstances, we would do well to remember that what an average British family of four on benefits spends to survive for three months of the year would keep a whole village in the Sub Sahara going for a full four months! Indeed, a mere couple of pounds (less than the cost of the smallest MacDonalds burger) will provide clean water for a family of four for a month in Africa or Asia. All figures come from International Government sources. It's hard to think about such daily poverty and still feel hard done by, isn't it?" William Forde: August 1st, 2014. Thought for today: "Life is more stunning than any illusion that is imaginable and things are invariably never exactly as they appear to be at first glance. In such a sophisticated creation and construction as mankind and the world in which we live, there are no easy answers to the questions that bedevil and the problems which daily confront us all. To those who ask 'for whom was the earth created'; it was for animals and creatures of the land, sea and air as well as for man and woman. Anyone knows that a person or thing picked and uprooted from its natural habitat will never blossom as well outside its own comfort zone than it will in familiar territory, whether it be a flower species from the National Park in northern India or any newcomer that is planted in strange ground without their natural support systems to feed and nourish them. Then there are those confused and depressed souls who constantly harbour thoughts about others being in a happier and more stable place in life than they are and who do not yet know that mankind should cast their eyes in all directions in their search for true enlightenment and ease of suffering. For it is only through one's ability to look upwards as well as down and inside as well as out can the true disposition of any man or woman be judged and their spirit, fortitude and degree of courage be accurately guaged. Fat people can hunger for love, acceptance and self approval just as much as stick insects can crave for food which their bodies will not allow them to digest. Rich folk can feel just as poverty stricken when financial disaster hits them just as truely as poor people with a happy disposition can know a wealth beyond all the riches that money and gold could ever provide. Just as it requires a strength of character to recognise one's weaknesses, it also requires an openness to one's vulnerability to discover one's true strength. The paradox of life will forever astound. It can take a great fall to help us rise up taller than we ever stood before or a terrible tragedy in our life in order to find true meaning in our existence and lasting happiness and contentment in our future. Just as life can result in the destruction of some beautiful experiences, so is death sometimes capable of producing new life meaning. If only life and the living of it was easy as falling off a log, then we would all know paradise on earth without ever needing to pay one's dues, respect and regard along the way! But life is a great balancing act and can be as good as a practiced liver of it. We only get out what we are prepared to put into it. One can only acquire the skill of survival through being prepared to 'fall off the log' again and again and get back up and try again. Only by being willing to make mistakes which can sometimes make us 'look small' as well as learn from our experiences can the practice of learning to 'stand tall' be provided to us all." William Forde:July 31st, 2014 |
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