Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Heartbreak

I read once that love and hate are so closely linked in the mind that each emotion can come on the heels of the other in seconds. When the hearts break close to home it breaks our own hearts. When one of our own goes through a divorce, we find ourselves divorced from a family we have grown to love.

Our broken hearted one sent this to me over the Internet this morning from work.

"People are often unreasonable, illogical and self centered.
Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Be kind anyway.

If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies.
Suceed anyway.

If you are honest and frank, People may cheat you.
Be honest and frank anyway.

What you spend years building someone may destroy overnight.
Build anyways.

If you find serenity and happiness they may be jealous.
Be happy anyway.

The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow.
Do good anway.

Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough.
Give the world the best you've got anyway.

You see in the final analysis it is all between you and God
It was never between you and them anyway."
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1 comment:

Cordelia said...

Hi Willoboe--- Just fyi, in case your Broken-Hearted one doesn't know the source of the words, it is from an album by the Roches called "Zero Church." Here's the album jacket description, courtesy of amazon.com:
"In a time of national mourning and spiritual searching, Suzzy and Maggie Roche offer a balm to soothe the troubled soul. Zero Church, a collection of prayers set to music, grew out of the sisters' participation in a seminar at Harvard University's Institute on the Arts and Civic Dialogue, and was originally set to be released on September 11, 2001. At that point, Suzzy wrote "New York City," a musical meditation for the missing, the families of the dead, and the heroes of the day. That particular piece joins songs based on extraordinarily moving prayers of an AIDS patient, a Vietnam soldier-turned-firefighter, a nun, a gay man remembering Matthew Shephard, and a former African slave, among others. The Roches themselves sing like angels, and when they're joined by DuPree, a veteran artist at the institute, you'll swear there's a heavenly choir at work. Divine inspiration, and then some. --Alanna Nash"

April 09, 2007 9:40 PM

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