"With Appreciation" by Susan Pearl

Dear Readers,
Thank you so much for reading my writings I have shared on my blog this past eight years.
I will be discontinuing my blog this week.
I will close with this thought:
  Faith, Hope and Love will remain strong to carry us on-
   and help us to see every good and kind possibility that can be.

With Appreciation,
Susan Pearl

" The Call " by Susan Pearl

There are miracles right now wanting for us to find,
They want to shine-
  bringing a brightness to the moments we live,
  showing the joy and love we have to give.

So by looking for the good
 no matter what,
We see we have more than we have not,
 This renews us in mind, heart and soul-
  over and over again a new time of green will grow.

For there are visions waiting to be seen
  that will bring the hope to build a dream,
Because in each of us there rests,
A desire to do what is best-
This becomes a call
  to give ourselves for the good of all.
 

" Faith, Hope and Love Remain True " by Susan Pearl

Of every other thing, Faith, Hope and Love remain true,-
      to guide, to support and for comfort, too.
So many good aspects and strengths that they will bring and do-
Of every other thing, Faith, Hope and Love remain true.
Time after time they outlast what is happening or what has been,
To bring whatever is needed to make it through,
Over and over again,
Faith, Hope and Love remain true.

" Rear View Mirror " by Susan Pearl

Keeping things in our rear view mirror-
Having them behind us-
   has nothing to do with being in a car,
It has nothing to do with speed or passing lanes,
It has everything thing to do with us "Moving On"-
It is by, with and through wisdom that we "move on".

Putting things in our rear view mirror,
Not having these things in front of us blocking a new view-
Takes strength to apply the knowledge we know to be true,
And that strength comes by, with and through -----
   "Wisdom".

" We've Got To " by Susan Pearl

My blog is in remembrance of lives lost in the Florida school shooting of last week.

So much meanness- so much ugliness,
So many beautiful lives so short-
How long will this go on?

I believe--- no "one" has the answer but "together " we do-
we've got to.

With heartfelt sympathy and condolence,
Susan Pearl

"Parallel Line" by Susan Pearl

Love is the greatest of all emotions-
Love is the connecting line.  
Love connects your heart with mine.
  

With high mountains in between-
Keeping each other's views from being seen,
We can rise above-
   with the vision of a dream,
a dream of what is close in each other's heart
  and bringing it together in time,
Love can be like a parallel line
  to reach each,
Love is the parallel line
 that draws us to meet
      to have the better days,
      in the best for all of ways
      that we can finally see and agree.
Love is like a parallel line bringing together your heart and mine.
Love is like a parallel line drawing your heart to mine.
Each parallel line of love takes time
  for a mutually beneficial way to find.

"Prospector Frank - Tale of Fiction" by Susan Pearl

Prospector Frank was a cranky but kind old man,
Leaning on his walking stick was how he would stand,
He had curvature of the spine,
Yet, one day he took the time to plant a seedling pine,
And it must have been a tender sight to see,
The rough old man planting the pine on one bended knee
   and saying loudly in his gruff voice, "Reach for the sky
                                         and you'll do just fine.....
                                         reach for the sky, little pine."
                                
People say Prospector Frank had struck it rich,
He planted the pine while passing through,
And after he left the pine grew each day an inch.

Until it has become one of the most beautiful pines that anyone could ever view,
A vision of great richness, free to see,
From a man passing through who knew-
That the hidden potential of the pine, combined with time
and reaching, reaching ,reaching for the sky would do just fine.
And become all it can be,
With somehow being a lesson of great value, too,
of the good that can be done while passing through-
  for those that follow and who later come
will be the ones to enjoy such good being done.