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Hi Donna. I'm sorry I'm so late responding to your comment on my "Any Dream Will Do" blog. In case you didn't circle back to it, I pasted it below. Happy holidays.
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Thanks Donna. You hit on the exact reason why Fr. Joe stresses several times in the book that we all need to "Point toward the moon." In other words, Don't allow yourself to be distracted by the elbow or dirt under the fingernail, i.e. the little things. Just point toward the moon, focus on the moon.

In effect, he's saying that we need to focus on the important lessons in life, e.g. taking care of others. Like you (and me), he believes the money and effort that religion invests in things such as banning gay marriage is more than a waste of energy and valuable time. It's an affront to the teachings of Jesus, who, according to Scripture, said that the poor and downtrodden were to be our priority. More than two thousand times the Christian Bible stresses this teaching, similar to the teachings of Confucius, Siddhartha, Muhammad, Rabbi Hillel and many other great teachers, all of whom stressed the need to live selflessly and to care for the poorest of the poor.

Personally, I think churches often use peripheral social issues to pretend like organized religion is doing something useful and God-abiding even though one-sixth to one-fifth of the world's population continues to live in abject poverty. Things are changing, though. Yes we can.

Thanks for the thoughtful comments Donna. Happy holidays.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Dear God:

The lady reading this

is beautiful, classy and

strong and I love her.

Help her live her life to the fullest.

Please promote her and her cause her to excel above her expectations.

Help her shine in the darkest places where it is impossible to love.

Protect her at all times, lift her up when she needs you the most

and

let her know when she walks with you;

She will always be safe.

Thank you Donna, it is so easy to lose joy and inspiration in these days of just getting by, it is taking the time to remember the moments that we love that reminds us of the joy of life, thank you

Thank you, you probably don't remember this but I remember you visiting and taking me for a walk and asking me what my dream was and I told you and right then and there it materialized. I have allowed the daily grind to smother my dream and I am going to get rid of that smoke screen and get back to it.
Love ya and thanks for the comment

Yes I did. Nov.1. Thank you for the wishes and I have been celebrating. Im going to celebrate all the way my next birthday!! 26 years old now. Whoo wee. I have been jammin with Kevin almost 7 years now. Insanity.

How are you? I dig a lot of the art on your page.

Hope all is well.

Much Love,
Sean

This is my weak attempt at poetry but I thought you might enjoy it...

beauty thru music
touches my soul ~
washes away the fears
life can't seem to control....

whispering words
of a cosmic dream ~
holds me spellbound
like a sweet gentle breeze....

angels of mercy
a soft radiant light ~
soothing the weary
they help me thru the night...

idyliic memories
fates been misguided ~
beauty in music
thru the eclectic minded....

Me and 'my' park and trees say hello! ~Liss

My congratulations Donna!!!!!!

:)

I am sooooo glad!!!!

America did it :)

I'm so excited I can hardly stand it!! Here's to new beginnings!

Hi Donna!
Thank you for the add:-) Nice to see you here in myspace. com!

Donna, have a great lovely Halloween weekend, much love and happiness
big hug :-)

Whatever you have planned this weekend...enjoy...Tuesday is coming and I think we all will be celebrating! xoxo ~ t


glitter-graphics. com

been a white since i have said hello !
so hello!!! hope all is well
take care and keep smiling
~cher

new drawing, BUTTERFLY

Yes i thought so myself.Very cool i think.

Hi Donna ~

I love your the drawing you have as you default!! It put a big smile on my face. I really like this one...hope you have a wonderful day.
Much love ~ t

Hi Donna. Thanks for your insightful comment ref. my blog on the Declaration of Universal Human Rights, i.e. The Father Joe Doctrine. In case you're like me and don't circle back to blogs you've commented on, I'm cutting and pasting my response for you here:
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I know exactly what you mean. Some days I want to hide in frivolous pursuit and not think about the day-to-day connecting of the dots that might lead to improving this world. The larger task is overwhelming. In a way, I think that's why one-fifth or one-sixth of the world's citizens continue to live in abject poverty several decades after the wealthy member states of the UN promised to do something about extreme poverty. It easier to allow ourselves to be diverted by other, more solveable problems/issues.

I begin each chapter in The Gospel of Father Joe with something that Fr. Joe has written in his daily journals. I still have in my possession several years of his journals. Something I reprint at the beginning of Chapter 3 helps me on these days when I feel overwhelmed. It goes like this:

"Do not depend on the hope of results. When you’re doing the work you have taken on, you may have to face that your work will be apparently worthless. . . . As you get used to this idea you will start more and more to concentrate not on results but on the value,
the rightness, the truth of the work itself."

— Father Joe’s daily journal, paraphrasing the Catholic mystic Thomas Merton

Thank yo for the site.I will definately check it out.That is a huge honor,your kind words on my art. Im truly touched you would choose me to do portraits for you with so many other talented artist here.(Of course if you hit the lottery.LOL.)Have a beautiful day and i will go to the site with hopes of seeing some more of your incredible works my sweet friend.
Ciao,John

That so funny you say that because I was going to put in my comment that I would move to Australia...lol...great minds think alike!