LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP IN THE SPRING

Talk about one picture saying it all:  Spring Flowers, New Life, Friends helping Friends, and best of  all  Love Is In The Air!!!  Enough said, enjoy the picture, think on your friends and those you love.   ---  John

"Love is Friendship set to music"

--E. Joseph Crossmann

 

 Sooner it is!!!

HE IS ALIVE!!

HE's ALIVE
by Don Francisco

THE GATES AND DOORS WERE BARRED AND ALL THE WINDOWS FASTENED DOWN

I SPENT THE NIGHT IN SLEEPLESSNESS AND ROSE AT EVERY SOUND
HALF IN HOPELESS SORROW AND HALF IN FEAR THE DAY
WOULD FIND THE SOLDIERS BREAKING THROUGH TO DRAG US ALL AWAY

 

 

AND JUST BEFORE THE SUNRISE I HEARD SOMETHING AT THE WALL
THE GATE BEGAN TO RATTLE AND A VOICE BEGAN TO CALL
I HURRIED TO THE WINDOW AND LOOKED DOWN INTO THE STREET
EXPECTING SWORDS AND TORCHES AND THE SOUND OF SOLDIERS FEET

THERE WAS NO ONE THERE BUT MARY SO I WENT DOWN TO LET HER IN
JOHN STOOD THERE BESIDE ME AS SHE TOLD US WHERE SHE'D BEEN

 

 

 

SHE SAID THEY'VE MOVED HIM IN THE NIGHT AND NONE OF US KNOWS WHERE
THE STONE'S BEEN ROLLED AWAY AND NOW HIS BODY ISN'T THERE

WE BOTH RAN T'WARD THE GARDEN AND THEN JOHN RAN ON AHEAD
WE FOUND THE STONE AND THE EMPTY TOMB JUST THE WAY THAT MARY SAID
BUT THE WINDING SHEET THEY WRAPPED HIM IN WAS JUST AN EMPTY SHELL
AND HOW OR WHERE THEY'D TAKEN HIM WAS

MORE THAN I COULD TELL

SOMETHING STRANGE HAD HAPPENED THERE JUST WHAT I DIDN'T KNOW
JOHN BELIEVED A MIRACLE BUT I JUST TURNED TO GO
CIRCUMSTANCE AND SPECULATION DIDN'T LIFT ME VERY HIGH
'CAUSE I'D SEEN THEM CRUCIFY HIM, AND THEN I SAW HIM DIE

BACK INSIDE THE HOUSE AGAIN THE GUILT AND ANGUISH CAME
EVERYTHING I'D PROMISED HIM JUST ADDED TO MY SHAME
WHEN AT LAST IT CAME TO CHOICES I DENIED I KNEW HIS NAME
AND EVEN IF HE WAS ALIVE, IT WOULDN'T BE THE SAME

SUDDENLY THE AIR WAS FILLED WITH A STRANGE AND SWEET PERFUME
LIGHT THAT CAME FROM EVERYWHERE DROVE SHADOWS FROM THE ROOM

 

 

 

 

 

JESUS STOOD BEFORE ME WITH HIS ARMS HELD OPEN WIDE
AND I FELL DOWN ON MY KNEES AND I JUST CLUNG TO HIM AND CRIED

HE RAISED ME TO MY FEET AND AS I LOOKED INTO HIS EYES
LOVE WAS SHINING OUT FROM THEM LIKE SUNLIGHT FROM THE SKIES
GUILT AND MY CONFUSION DISAPPEARED IN SWEET RELEASE
AND EVERY FEAR I'D EVERY HAD JUST MELTED INTO PEACE

HE'S ALIVE, HE'S ALIVE, HE'S ALIVE AND I'M FORGIVEN
HEAVEN'S GATES ARE OPENED WIDE

HE'S ALIVE, HE'S ALIVE, HE'S ALIVE . . . HE'S ALIVE

 

IT'S WILLIAM J's BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!

TODAY IS OUR FRIEND WILLIAMJ's (The Flying Dog Person) BIRTHDAY!!!

 

Please stop by and wish him a Happy Birthday!!!

http://dogdazeme.multiply.com/

 

 

<---The Cake William wanted.

 

 

 

 

 

The Cake William recieved

 

Happy Birthday William!!!!!

IT'S ALIVE

 

 

Thanks for all the well wishes and thoughts and prayers.  Nasty stuff it was.  One of those where you are afraid you were going to die and afraid you were going to live at that same time!!  Missed seeing and hearing you all.  Time to make up for lost time!!! 

Chuck Brown and Eva Cassidy duet

THE FLU

I know many of you have had this 'stuff' already, but now I can really sympathize with you.  This flu going around is just plain nasty!!  Starts out simple enough, tickle in the throat, slight headache, the beginnings of aches and pains,  and then it just dumps and jumps on you!!  One of those flus where you are afraid you are going to die, and afraid you won't at the same time!!  I basically lived in two rooms for two weeks, and one of them was the bedroom!  And then, after a week plus, you begin to feel better, and the next day you are back to where you were!!  Thank you for your concerns and thoughts and prayers.  I am feeling much better now, but this time I am not going to say I am well. I do believe these flu germs took that as a challange, and I lost!!  I did manage to lose some weight, but I do not recommend this as a weight lose program!  I do hope all of you and yours stay well, would not wish this stuff on anyone!!!  God bless you all. --John

 

 

"The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not." -Mark Twain.