MOTHER
 
This is a truly BEAUTIFUL piece please
read this at a slow pace, digesting every word and in leisure...do not hurry
..this is a treasure...
 
For those lucky to still be blessed with your Mom,this is beautiful. For
those of us who aren't, this is even more beautiful. For those who are moms,
you'll love this.
 
 
The young mother set her foot on the path of life."Is this the long way?"
she asked. And the guide said: "Yes, and the way is hard.
And you will be old before you reach the end of it. But the end will be
better than the beginning."
 
But the young mother was happy, and she would not
believe that anything could be better than these
years. So she played with her children, and gathered flowers forthem along
the way, and bathed them in the clear streams; and the sun shone on them,
and the young Mother cried,
"Nothing will ever be lovelier than this."
 
Then the night came, and the storm, and the path was dark, and the children
shook with fear and cold, and the mother drew them close and covered them
with her mantle, and the children said,
"Mother, we are not afraid, for you are near, and no harm can come."
 
And the morning came, and there was a hill ahead,
and the children climbed and grew weary, and the mother was weary. But at
all times she said to the children," A little patience and we are there." So
the children climbed, and when they reached the top they said, "Mother, we
would not have done it without you."
 
And the mother, when she lay down at night looked up at the stars and said,
This is a better day than the last, for my children have learned fortitude
in the face of hardness. Yesterday I gave them courage. Today, I've given
them strength."
 
And the next day came strange clouds which darkened the earth, clouds of war
and hate and evil, and the children groped
and stumbled, and the mother said: "Look up. Lift
your eyes to the light.
"And the children looked and saw above the clouds an everlasting glory, and
it guided them beyond the darkness. And that night the Mother said, "This is
the best day of all, for
I have shown my children God."
 
And the days went on, and the weeks and the months and the years, and the
mother grew old and she was little and bent.
But her children were tall and strong, and walked
with courage. And when the way was rough, they lifted her,for she was as
light as a feather; and at last they came to a hill, and beyond they could
see a shining road and golden
gates flung wide. And Mother said, "I have reached the end of my journey.
And now I know the end is better than the beginning, for my children can
walk alone, and their children after them."
 
And the children said, "You will always walk with
us, Mother, even when you have gone through the gates." And they stood and
watched her as she went on alone, and the gates closed after her. And they
said: "We cannot see her but she is with us still. A Mother like ours is
more than a memory. She is a living presence......."
 
Your Mother is always with you.... She's the whisper of the leaves as you
walk down the street; she's the smell of bleach in your freshly laundered
socks; she's the cool hand on your brow when you're not well. Your Mother
lives inside your laughter. And she's crystallized in
every tear drop. She's the place you came from, your first home; and she's
the map you follow with every step you take. She's your first love
and your first heartbreak, and nothing on earth can separate you.
 
Not time, not space... not even death!
 
PASS THIS ON TO ALL THE MOTHERS & CHILDREN YOU KNOW.MAY WE NEVER TAKE OUR
MOTHERS FOR GRANTED...
 
Pass it on to the men too because they have mothers too....
 

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Don't know if this was actually written by an Australian dentist or not, but the message is good!
 

 

Subject: australian dentist

 

Written by an Australian Dentist...

To Kill an American

You probably missed it in the rush of news last week, but there was actually a report that someone in Pakistan had published in a newspaper an offer of a reward to anyone who killed an American, any American.

So an Australian dentist wrote an editorial the following day to let everyone know what an American is . So they would know when they found one. (Good one, mate!!!!)

"An American is English, or French, or Italian, Irish, German, Spanish, Polish, Russian or Greek. An American may also be Canadian, Mexican, African, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Australian, Iranian, Asian, or Arab, or Pakistani or Afghan. " An American may also be a Comanche, Cherokee, Osage, Blackfoot, Navaho, Apache, Seminole or one of the many other tribes known as Native Americans. An American is Christian, or he could be Jewish, or Buddhist, or Muslim. In fact, there are more Muslims in America than in Afghanistan. The only difference is that in America they are free to worship as each of them chooses.

An American is also free to believe in no religion. For that he will answer only to God, not to the government, or to armed thugs claiming to speak for the government and for God.

An American lives in the most prosperous land in the history of the world. The root of that prosperity can be found in the Declaration of Independence, which recognizes the God given right of each person to the pursuit of happiness.

An American is generous. Americans have helped out just about every other nation in the world in their time of need, never asking a thing in return.

When Afghanistan was over-run by the Soviet army 20 years ago, Americans came with arms and supplies to enable the people to win back their country!

As of the morning of September 11, Americans had given more than any other nation to the poor in Afghanistan. Americans welcome the best of everything...the best products, the best books, the best music, the best food, the best services. But they also welcome the least.

The national symbol of America, The Statue of Liberty, welcomes your tired and your poor, the wretched refuse of your teeming shores, the homeless, tempest tossed. These in fact are the people who built America.

Some of them were working in the Twin Towers the morning of September 11, 2001 earning a better life for their families. It's been told that the World Trade Center victims were from at least 30 different countries, cultures, and first languages, including those that aided and abetted the terrorists.

So you can try to kill an American if you must. Hitler did. So did General Tojo, and Stalin, and Mao Tse-Tung, and other blood-thirsty tyrants in the world. But, in doing so you would just be killing yourself. Because Americans are not a particular people from a particular place. They are the embodiment of the human spirit of freedom. Everyone who holds to that spirit, everywhere, is an American.

Please keep this going!

Pass this around the World ?

Then pass it around again.

It says it all, for all of us