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Richard Cor de Lyon invited 94 users to read this post 1 year, 8 months ago.
Oh i imagine going through a lot of difficult moments. Looking back, it is through those moments when i understood what life is. How hard life could be. But I can get through it, if i believe.
Thank you for this post.
Lessons learned are what make us who we are, makeing the mistakes to grow from.
I liked it, very thought provoking :)
Anon ~ I’m sorry you have this perspective. I always say, don’t tell me your a victim, SHOW me you’re a survivor. YOU and you alone assign the meaning to your life.
As Elenore Roosevelt said, “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
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An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 8 months ago (1 hour, 12 minutes after post)
Ahhh sorry Silverwings…. when I mentioned Angels I meant it was a topic of discussion on my own website… not here. But as it is, no one showed up for that talk so I may reschedule it. :)
~ Richard
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 8 months ago (1 hour, 14 minutes after post)
thanks for your reply Tony… Love is an excellent glue that holds it all together. Thank you for your reply Lilies and LazyD’ I hope you are both having wonderful days :)
~Richard
I really like this and I am not trying to push my views on anyone when I say this but….
This poem really spoke to me in the sense that Only after Christ dying can we truly have life through him.
Thank you Richard it was beautiful!!!!! :)
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 8 months ago (1 hour, 29 minutes after post)
thank you Christian ~ yes, I like your example too. Jesue made a choice… it was a very dark choice, but he did and for a very good reason.
Yes there is. TN has lots of different towns to quote a few:
Paris
Milan
Skullbone
Frogjump
Troy
Many more I just can’t think of all the international towns we have. :) LOL
that was beautiful Rich - as usual :) really makes you think about depression and upset feelings or hard times :)
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 8 months ago (2 hours, 54 minutes after post)
Thanks for your reply Ditzy ~ I agree with you :)
There can be no winners without losers. For every life that eats there is a life eaten. Nature is extremely brutal and does not favor the weak, the meek, or the sympathetic. I can not stand movies with talking animals like the ones posted above, as the portrayal of animals as being human-like in their emotions and sympathies, especially towards other species, is just about the complete opposite of reality. Just watch a real video of a crocodile doing a death roll, or a snake killing its prey, you’ll see how vicious nature is.
Thanks Richard, that was nice. You are really great at sharing thought provoking words and I like hearing the quotes that people have said profound things. I think we all go through “stuff” and while maybe it is different stuff and at different times in life, we go through it for a reason and eventually we reach a point where one day we can look behind us and see a path created by all these things we’ve experienced and understand why things happened (even though they didn’t make sense at the time). It’s good to have reminders when traveling through the harder times and feeling down of these words of wisdom. =)
That’s so true although sometimes I forget that beautiful things come only after so many fights, but I always feel that the most worthy and meaningful things that I gained in my life were worthy because of the difficulties that I have gone through and because of the challange too
thank you for this inspiring post
I hope it gives hope for those who need it.
I hope they see that dark periods do go away and more bright ones come if they hang their and don’t loose their faith
Thank you again
it is after the forest fire that the trees let loose there seeds, though a new life can begin. Very true and very thoughtful words a great peace of poetry… thanks.
until that storm may pass we must learn to stand in the reign
until that fire has consumed we must learn to walk on the coals
until that light return we must learn to not fear the dark
thanks Richard
interesting. in some ways it feels like ur saying we need the bad things to happen to make us experience the good stuff.
Love it, Love it, Love it!!!!Richard the Great! :)
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An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 8 months ago (8 hours, 20 minutes after post)
Thank you for your replies ~
thank you for your reply Betta, and while you are very correct about the violent nature of the animal kingdom to which we belong. We are however humans and very different from the lion or alligator and snake. Our gifts of reason and choice separate us from the other animals. That being the case I do not believe it has to be a win / loose situation with the human condition… although often it is; Win / win is much sweeter.
Thank you for your kind words Kneady :) I agree about hind-sight. It is in knowing where we have been that we can sometimes more safely pick out the path in front of us.
Thank you for your reply CrazyG - it’s so true it is easy to forget the light because of the shadows, but the wind ALWAYS blows away the clouds so that the sun may shine bright again.
Thank you for your reply SlimL - I feel wisdom there :)
Thank you for your reply Akithma - I love your verse; beautiful :)
Thank you for your reply spiritedsoul - I think in a sense I am saying exactly that… but not always. I think that good often, (almost always) follows bad. Of course nothing is constant, so it will never be 100% like that. Sometimes bad just happens, and sometimes good does happen without bad; ya never know when. However, Richard Back wrote; “There is no such thing as a problem without a reward in it’s hands. We seek life’s problems because we want life’s rewards”. I think there is truth in that statement.
Thank you Kim - you are very sweet, and trust me you are loved too :)
Bright blessings all - you are appreciated ~ Richard
I very much agree with this one Richard.
As for the question at the end, I’m willing to go through anything as long as I can lean on Christ in getting there.
Very nice! Your poem truly helps to remind me, or helps me to realize during rough times there is always something positive waiting just around the corner. :)
I do love and appreciate truth, hopeand simplicity-this has all! Thanks Richard for the reminder :)
” What darkness … what winter … what fire … what storm are you willing to live through in order to see the heavens, experience the spring, rise anew, to experience your rainbows?! ”
Thank you Rich, but the tests never end really, after the winter the spring comes but then again the winter will return and the circle goes on.., doesn’t make much sense to go on, life is a test after test and then another and another test…
if the good things are so hard to get, then why make all the effort, better skip all the troubles, maybe it’s just better to get off the wheel of this life while we still don’t have ppl depending on us.. (children… family of our own).. this is the best moment to leave the neverending circle of problems before I’m stuck with them.. just thinking
Thank you so much for this post Rich :), loved it, wish you all the best as always, and thank you for your time.
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 8 months ago (1 day, 12 hours after post)
Thank you as always for your input ~
S4ever ~ thank you for your reply, and I’m confident the Christ does not mind having anyone lean on him.
Nextstar ~ thanks for your reply… love the “short and sweet” phrase :)
Ames ~ Thank you for your reply… Life is a constant state of “re-membering”
Kim ~Thank you for your reply… Together, one stone at a time :)
Sophie ~ Thank you for your reply… I’m happy to put a positive light to anyone :)
Anon ~ Thank you for your reply. I have heard your perspective before and I will honor your perspective as I would any other. It’s difficult for me yes, because your perspective is a defeatist attitude and one that sucks the very life out of the planet, but if you need to jump off, then I cannot stop you, although try I would. You are right usually the life we know is a cyclic spiral, or others might say an endless trail of hills and valleys… Yes, test after test… and the tests really only get harder. But how many tests have you failed? None really, or you’d be dead already. There is nothing to be afraid of. You will pass all the tests- they have been created so that we DO pass!. Yeah, they are hard and get harder, but that is the joy of growth. Yeah it’s hard, but it’s a journey well worth it. If it were not, so many people would not have done it SO very many times!
Mauri ~ Thank you for you reply. I wish you and yours the best as well :)
Bright blessings all ~ Richard
Very true Richard. I have always learned more from the “storms” in my life than I ever learned from the “sunny days”.
It kinda reminds me of the expression “A neccessary evil”.
As usual wonderful words of wisdom, Richard. Yes, I truely believe that the dark times of our lives help us to grow and appreciate even more the awesome beauty and light to be enjoyed in our lives. I am learning in the midst of deep grief is abundant joy. When we experience deep sorrow we come to realise and relish great joy. So let the good times roll and roll and roll………… I hope that your father is doing well, Richard.
Deep Peace and joy to you, Richard.
Life is to be lived
untill the day will come and it will! we can’t do anything about our mortality…
but I really believe Anonymous that we have the freedom to significate the events (the awful and great ones) in our peculiar way…some people see an oportunity in ****** situations, others see **** as ****, others see nothing, and so on…
I have seen people getting sad when winning, other finding, in a bad situation, a motive to struggle and not surrender…my way is to respect my sad, pessimist moments
and take a deep jump into my darkness…but I don’t know exactly I always have a Richard side in me..and I find always something interesting to continue doing things and live.
thanks for all the texts…interesting and cheerful.
courage Anonymous! courage for you Richard! courage for all of us
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Nature’s ONLY ~
By Richard Hills
It is only after the darkness when dawn comes do the flowers open their petals to the sun.
It is after the forest fire that the trees let loose their seeds to bring new life to the forest.
It is only after the lion brings down the sickest and weakest of the herd that the whole pride can eat.
It is only by the ultimate sacrifice of dying that the male Preying Mantis can continue his species.
It is only by wrapping itself in a cocoon for weeks that the caterpillar may become the beautiful butterfly.
It is only when the darkness comes that the beauty of the heavens may truly be seen.
It is only after winter will spring come, bringing new life to everything.
It is only after the storm that a rainbow may paint the sky.
What darkness … what winter … what fire … what storm are you willing to live through in order to see the heavens, experience the spring, rise anew, to experience your rainbows?!
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