"When in doubt, tell the truth."

-- Mark Twain

"The pleasure and delight of knowledge and learning, it far surpasseth all other in nature."

-- Francis Bacon

To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop."

-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

"You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes
without having asked any clear question."

-- Albert Camus

"I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it."

-- Pablo Picasso

Take Time

Take time to work—
it is the price of success.
Take time to think—
it is the source of power.
Take time to play—
it is the secret of perpetual youth.
Take time to read—
it is the fountain of wisdom.
Take time to worship—
it is the high way to reverence.
Take time to be friendly—
it is the road to happiness.
Take time to dream—
it is hitching our wagon to a star.
Take time to love & be loved—
it is the privilege of the gods.
Take time to look around—
it is too short a day to be selfish.
Take time to laugh—
it is the music of the soul.

I would like to amend the idea of being in the right place at the right time. There are many people who were in the right place at the right time but didn't know it. You have to recognize when the right place & the right time fuse & take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back & wait.—Ellen Metcalf

"It is from the struggle, not the victory, that we gain strength.

I guess this kind of self-explanatory. I wrote this just recently when I was battling about some difficult changes that the Lord was asking me to make. I sometimes get these songs/poems when I'm going through stuff and the Lord somehow punches through me and helps me write them. I don't have the talent for writing at all. It's really only Jesus if it's to anyone's liking. Anyways I'm posting this for others benefit because I know the Lord gave it to me to encourage not only me, but others who are also battling the same things. I wrote it yesterday and I haven't had much time to work on it, sorry there is still much to be edited. Hope you all can still enjoy!

It’s You in Me

All alone I cry

My heart it aches

For You it breaks

So hard I try

But to my knees I fall

I crumble inside

I can’t see my worth

My heart it hurts

In my mind, I fight

I struggle and plead

Lord save me from this night

Clear my mind, help me see

My heart is in pieces

These broken parts mirror

My imperfections to world

On my own I try to mend

But I only fail once more

My failures see no end

Take me apart, make me weak

I want Your will, this I seek

This change it hurts

But in my life, I want You first

Stripe my pride, take it away

Make me anew, break my chains

Take away all that distracts

I’m Yours, do Your will

I will hold nothing back

Free me from my past

Open my mind, help me believe

Your words, I want to receive

Take me in your arms

Pick me up, help me stand

Teach me how to walk

In Your will and ways

Don’t let me stray

In Your path, I will stay

I’m helpless without You

I can’t even take a step

Even though I sometimes forget

You are my crutch, in You I rely

I can’t see the way, You are my eyes

You help me fight another day

Now I can truly see

A reason for these breakings

You took away

Those things that held me back

You showed me the way

And made clear my lacks

Now I can better serve

You to my full capacity

No longer do I hide

Behind my disguise

It’s out for all to see

It’s You inside of me

I’m here to learn and understand

That the future is held in Your hands

Take me now, take control

I give You my heart to break and mold

Into your chosen shape and place I reside

With you by my side……..

How to Find Time
—by Dale Turner
I never cease to marvel how some people, working with the same number of hours as we all have, seem to get so much more done. How do they do it? For one thing, they do not squander the bits and pieces of time that punctuate our days. Rather than waste energy by getting irritated waiting for a phone call or a repairman, they capture those moments creatively. They keep tools handy—a pen, a book, a needle, whatever.
Clement C. Moore is remembered, not as a teacher of classical languages or as a publisher of a ponderous Hebrew dictionary, but for a set of verses dashed off in an hour of yuletide inspiration in 1822—verses that he wrote, then stuffed away as if of no importance. The magic lines begin, 'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house... They never brought Moore a penny, but they did bring him immortality.
Such constructive use of time is available to us all. A Seattle businessman carries a small briefcase in which he has paper and envelopes for penning letters. In odd moments he keeps countless friendships alive. A friend memorized the Sermon on the Mount while commuting. A bedspread in our home was quilted by my mother-in-law who, though extremely busy, found minutes to make us a gift full of memories.
Remember, most time is wasted not in hours but in minutes. The average person fritters away enough minutes in ten years to earn a college deg

I recommend you to take care of the minutes: for hours will take care of themselves.

What counts is not the number of hours you put in, but how much you put into the hours.
The future is that time when you'll wish you'd done what you aren't doing now.

Many things can be done in a day, if we don't always make that day tomorrow.
The less time you have to plan, the more important it is to plan your time prayerfully.

Every time one man expresses an idea, he finds ten men who thought of it before—but they only thought.

You can tell what a man is by what he does when he hasn't anything to do.

There are only four questions of value in life: what is sacred, of what is the spirit made, what is worth living for, and what is worth dying for. The answer to each is the same.......only love

A bar of steel worth five dollars, when wrought into horseshoes, is worth ten dollars. If made into needles, it is worth three hundred and fifty dollars; if into penknife blades, it is worth thirty-two thousand dollars; if into springs for watches, it is worth two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. What a drilling the poor bar must undergo to be worth this! But the more it is manipulated‚ the more it is hammered, and passed through the fire, and beaten and pounded and polished‚ the greater the value. --Sir Henry Bessemer (1813-1898), British inventor and engineer

"Courage is not the absence of fear," Ambrose Hollingworth Redmoon wrote, "but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear." So how do we find the courage to do what we are otherwise afraid to do? We have to look beyond the fear. We have to keep our eyes on the goal, on the "something else."

Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to the end, requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs.

The young foal following his parents around...

A goal doesn't become a goal until you have set a deadline for its accomplishment.
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
One of the secrets of victory is constancy of purpose.

If you want to be successful, it's just this simple: Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.

These horses kept on fighting over their food, when their ears go all the way back, it reveals their angry feelings. I thought their little brawl was amusing and caught it my camera.

Yep, I drove that baby, no not right into the tree, but I drove it on roads, off roads, hike trails, etc. I had quite a blast with that ride!

Playing pool!!!

More pics from Georgia!!!

I miss you Victoria, I hope you're doing well in Canada, I love you and I'm praying for you!

These pictures were taken in January this year when I went to Georgia on Christmas vacation. I was able to ride horses, shoot guns, take a million and half pictures, and well you'll get the general idea of what transpired during this visit after viewing all these pics! The scenery was amazing and I was able to spend a wee bit of this vacation time taking pictures of it. Apparently I came at the wrong time of the year to take pictures because the scenery is usually more breathtaking during the spring and fall months, but I think I was able to get a few decent ones by mere chance. Anyways hope you all enjoy!!

I thought this was interesting and scientific...I was taking pictures of these horses interacting while I was in a bus waiting for our departure, when suddenly I noticed something abnormally large on one of the horses, and then things just happened way too fast and I some how managed to catch this all on my camera...