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To apologize: to lay the for a future offense.

 
-- Ambrose Bierce
 
 
 
 
He Stopped Loving Her Today
 
 
 
 
Inspirational Short Story, Female Fantasy Art, Relaxing Music 
"I'm sorry," said the blind man as he whipped the mare. Inspirational Short Story, Female Fantasy Art, Relaxing Music"I'm sorry," said the mare, as she kicked the blind man in return. 

"We're sorry," they assured themselves, as they pushed each other around again and again.

Often, we push our troubles with other people around, creeping along in the old rough way, refusing to change because we're too involved to see another choice. 

There's little sorrow in being sorry all the time.

A true apology doesn't try to explain.

Sometimes a true apology just breaks down and cries.

 Then maybe we're ready to go on -- take someone by the hand, tell the whole sad truth, and work to find a better way. 

 

 

 

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I'm delighted that the future is unsure.

That's the way it should be.
 
-- William Sloane Coffin
 

 


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Some of life's richest moments are the most unexpected: the old friend met by chance, or the new one discovered when neither of us were really looking;  Girl

 
...the toy at the bottom of the toy box, rediscovered and loved anew; 
 
 
...the book, the flower, the shaft of light we were in the right place at the right time to notice and embrace. 
 
 
It is important to dream and plan, to work toward goals, to mark the milestones we pass on life's journey.
 
 
No less important, though, is to open ourselves to the unexpected joys awaiting us every day. 

 
  

 

 

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 More majestic than a cardinal,

as shining as a pyx.

 
-- Gustave Flaubert
 

 


Inspirational Short Story, Female Fantasy Art, Relaxing Music

What in the world is a pyx? If we don't have an expert nearby, Inspirational Short Story, Female Fantasy Art, Relaxing Musicwe'll have to look in a book.

 There we'll find it defined, explained, fixed.

Now what in the world is love?

 It doesn't live in a tree or a book, so where in the world do we look?

 Can we find love in the house, maybe swept under the rug?

Can we know the feel of it in our hands, see it written on the lines of faces we know?

Does it make a sound -- maybe laugh and cry?

 Does it know how to speak, form words carefully, write letters?

Is it only written on the heart? 

We find love inside us, and our love seeks itself out in others.

We find it in the familiar footfall of a brother or sister, the sound of a parent's voice in the next room, and yet, too often we don't express it directly. 

When we do, our love thrives in all we do together. 

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Copyright © 2024 Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation. All rights reserved. from the book Today's Gift

Inspirational Short Story, Female Fantasy Art, Relaxing Music 11/10/2024
 
Inspirational Short Story, Female Fantasy Art, Relaxing Music
 
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He Stopped Loving Her Today
Sung by George Jones

Lyrics Copyright © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Songwriters: Bobby Braddock / Curly Putman
Copyright © Tree Publishing Co., Inc. (BMI)
 
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He said I'll love you 'til I die
She told him you'll forget in time
As the years went slowly by
She still preyed upon his mind
 
He kept her picture on his wall
Went half crazy now and then
He still loved her through it all
Hoping she'd come back again
 
Kept some letters by his bed
Dated 1962
He had underlined in red
Every single I love you
 
I went to see him just today
Oh but I didn't see no tears
All dressed up to go away
First time I'd seen him smile in years
 
 (Chorus)
He stopped loving her today
They placed a wreath upon his door
And soon they'll carry him away
He stopped loving her today
 
(Spoken)
You know she came to see him one last time
Oh and we all wondered if she would
And it kept running through my mind
This time he's over her for good
 
(Repeat Chorus)
 
 

 

 

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