“I see friends shaking hands
Saying, “How do you do?”
They’re really saying,
I love you.”
– What a Wonderful World
Far beyond what we will ever comprehend.
Love
lets us rejoice
in the very few moments
we share together.
It alone truly makes us
happier human beings.
It is the one thing
that genuinely makes us
happy.
Everything else
creates the illusion
of joy.
And that illusion
does not last long,
does it?
Everything else creates the illusion of joy.
“If you can’t handle me
at my worst,
then you sure don’t
deserve me at my best.”
– Marilyn Monroe
Love can inflame the entire world
confined within a heart filled soul.
It alone is the vibrant force
that breathes the will to be,
into our fragile, faintly beating
hearts.
It is the one thing that genuinely makes us happy.
Love is
what we live for,
what we require,
what we dream of,
what we earn,
what we want
after all we have done
is over.
Love may cease to grow and wither on the Vine of Life.
Left to the devices
of mere mortals,
we fragile human beings,
filled to the brim with
acute innate limitations,
may find Love
devolve into the irrational.
Love
evolves over time,
for nothing stays the same.
Inured to its own
fragrance of being,
Love may cease to grow,
and wither on the Vine of Life.
And the fruit of Love
blended with disbelief,
can easily evolve
into madness,
mayhem, misery.
We are the Loving Creations of a Loving Creator.
Its reason for being –
seemingly perplex,
a puzzlement, paradox,
beheld by our narrow, limited senses,
and viewed from one dimension over
from what we think it is,
like the sides of bell
from which the self-same song will ring,
like the poles of our home on Earth,
different sides
of the very same thing.
“A paradoxical truth we may conclude
is that sense in general is not only
life’s bridge to the world
but also its inexorable cloud
that veils and distorts reality.”
– Guy Murchie
Love inflames the entire world.
The precious Love of
one person for another
can forfeit comprehension,
and with its own Mystified vision,
belie our poor power
to know,
understand,
reason.
The way to transcendence
of such Flowering Folly
lies in the evolution
of our acceptance
of the Spiritual Being,
of the Greater Love
that dwells within.
He gave us His Life. And more than Life, His Love.
American author, poet, and philosopher
Henry David Thoreau
became aware of forces
beyond his senses.
They whispered to him
of the abstract nature
of our world.
“I perceive that I am
dealt with by superior powers.
This is a pleasure, a joy,
an existence which I have not
procured myself.
I speak as a witness on the stand,
and tell what I have perceived.”
– Thoreau
We are the Loving Creations
of a Loving Creator.
And His Love
is also far beyond
what we will ever comprehend.
Love is what we live for.
“Surely there is Mystery in this Universe
Not only somewhere and somewhen
but everywhere everywhen
And far beyond the scope of man’s feeble
Capacity to comprehend.
For man, puny, mortal and finite,
As he is in the nether phase,
Is permitted to visualize neither an end to space
Nor space without end;
Nor can he even grasp a start or a finish of time,
Nor any sort of beginning that has no beginning
Nor any end that has no end.”
– Guy Murchie
Ever will you be there for them, over and over again.
Such Love as God feels for us
shall never find an end,
for the end of that
which cannot end,
does not exist.
Even when the possibility
of human understanding exceeds its reach,
and reason feigns to align with description.
For there can never be
a way to transcend
the depth of God’s Love
for you and me,
or the Love
that abides in our
precious and fragile Hearts
for each other.
There are two pillars of happiness.
Love is God
in Name,
in His Design,
in His Desire
for your Life.
It is the essence of
“I am
that I am”.
(Exodus 3:14)
And your admission that
“You are
that you are”
is also
a statement of
God’s Love.
For you are
Love.
The vibrant force that breathes the will to be.
When God breathed breath
into Adam,
He gave us His Life.
And more than Life,
His Love.
Now it is
your Life,
your Love,
and your Sacred Time
to
be in Love
with Life.
“When I was a child
I could see the wind in the trees
And I heard a song in the breeze
It was there, singing out my name.”
– Who I Was Born To Be
And how much
does love
contribute to happiness?
Harvard University’s Grant Study
spent 75 years
trying to answer that
seemingly simplistic
but vexing question.
Psychiatrist George Vaillant,
conducted a study for years
to determine how much love,
or the lack of love,
contributes to our happiness.
In the morning light it scattered the Night and made the Day worth living.
His conclusion:
“Seventy-five years
and twenty million dollar$ later,
in an expensive (and priceless) realization,
the Grant Study came to a simple conclusion:
Happiness
is Love.”
Isn’t it funny
how we keep searching
for the Great Truths,
that can so easily
be found in the
Word of God.
“It was only a sunny smile,
and little it cost
in the giving,
but in the morning light
it scattered the Night
and made the Day
worth living.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
To lift them up when they fall.
Vaillant stated:
“There are two pillars of happiness:
“One is Love.
The other
is finding a way
of coping with life
that does not
push Love away.”
To find Love is a simple thing.
Yes, my Friends,
research proves what we have suspected:
Love is the key to a
happy life.
You can be financially successful,
possess many, many things,
be in good physical health,
make astounding accomplishments,
but without a Loving relationship
to help you in life,
and celebrate life’s brief moments,
you simply will not find the happiness
you seek,
the happiness
you deserve.
“We are all happy,
IF but we knew it.”
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Without Love,
without discovering
the Infinite Love
that dwells within,
my dear Friends,
you shall surely
never have lived.
To light a path and open your precious Heart.
“The happiness you have
is in direct proportion
to the Love
you give.”
– Oprah Winfrey
To find Love
is a simple thing.
Close your eyes,
ask your Father
in the Heavens Above,
whose Heart is filled
with Love for you,
who dwells within,
to show you the way,
to light a path
and open your precious Heart
to be,
“I am”.
And witness from afar . . .
He will not deny
His Child.
Ask your Father in the Heavens above.
And like your children
one day,
if you truly Love them,
you will set them
free,
Open your precious Heart.
And witness
from afar,
and watch them
as they grow
farther away.
If you truly Love them, you will set them free.
And as they find
they still need you
and ask you,
as a Father, Mother, friend
to help them once again,
to lift them up when they fall,
to share your Love
one more time,
Ever will you be there
for them,
over and over again.
For the Love you feel within
grows until you think
it is the end,
when Love is really
being born
again.
For God’s Love,
like yours,
never dies.
Love is reborn
over and over again.
Light a path and open your precious Heart.
How to Keep Your Children Safe
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1. Teach your children that snakes, spiders and bees are not necessarily dangerous, but should be respected from a distance. In reality, animals such as cats and dogs are much more likely to harm your child, so respect for all animals must be taught.
2. Keep your children within sight while in public places.
3. Choose a babysitter carefully. Have a criminal background check conducted. Contact the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services for information.
4. Explain and show your children how to Dial 911 in case of an emergency. This could save YOUR life.
5. Instruct your child to stay with a group.
6.Teach your children safety rules on play equipment, such as climbing on monkey bars and swimming pools. Although it can be fun for them, it can also be dangerous.
7. Teaching your children about right and wrong will also help to keep them safe, especially in their teen years.Teach them the complexities of the real world, though – few things are black & white.
Recommended Websites for Parents of the Gifted & Talented:
Davidson Institute
Hoagies’ Gifted Education Page
National Association for Gifted Children
PG Retreat
SENG (supporting the emotional needs of the gifted)
TAGFAM Project: Families of Talented and Gifted
For Friday Jan. 15, 2016
We will meet at 10:00 a.m. at the Fort Worth Stockyards Station, 130 E. Exchange Avenue in Fort Worth, –Telephone: 817-625-9715.
The history of the old west comes alive when we our Mule Alley, The Cowtown Coliseum and the historic Livestock Exchange Building. On the Cattlemen’s Catwalk we will see the original pens and a panoramic view of the area. Quanah Parker and Bill Picket are characters whose stories will come to life.
The cost for the walking tour is $4.50 each for students and $6.50 each for adults. Please pay Dr. Anderson, this is a group rate.
At approximately 11:30 a.m. we enjoy lunch at a nearby eatery and then return to school.
PICK UP will be at the Anderson School at 3:00 p.m.
IMPORTANT DATES:
Jan. 15 Tour of Fort Worth Stockyards
Jan. 18 (MONDAY) Martin L. King Holiday
Jan. 22 Fort Worth Stock Show
Feb. 1 Deposits Due for 2016-2017 school year
Feb. 15 (MONDAY) President’s Day Holiday
March 4 (1:00 PM) Stolen Shakespeare Guild Monologue and Scene Competition at the Fort Worth Community Arts Center (we have three young ladies competing in the finals)
March 14-18 Spring Break Holiday
March 25 & 28 (Fri. & Mon.) Easter Holiday
April 6 (Wednesday) Screening of Hamlet, starring Benedict Cumberbatch at The Modern Art Museum (11:00 am)
April 29 Scarborough Renaissance Festival
May 1 Tuition Due for 2016-2017 school year
May 2 & 3 (MONDAY & TUESDAY) Annual Anderson School Shakespeare Production (Hamlet)
May 16 (MONDAY) Preparation for Adventure Trip
May 17-20 Adventure Trip
May 20 Last Day of School
My sincere gratitude to brother Bill Kincaid for the wonderful Parenting in the Wilderness Photographs featured in this weblog. Thank you!
Ask your Father in the Heavens above to show you the way.
As I enter her garden,
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