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SSA Blog #68
By Michelle
Drew April 17 2006
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A Word From Michelle
Recently I took an on line test I found on one of our Google Ads. The
test is called "Are You Normal?". It took 5 minutes and was lots of
fun. I have taken a few tests from this company, ChatterBean. They are
good for a giggle in the midst of a busy day.
So, according to this test, AM I normal?....will I ever tell?? Look for
these tests in our Google page and let us know what you think of them.
Here's a bit of business, if you want to contact me, please use of
email address, michelle@softshoulderadvice.com. The guestbook on our
web site has become a magnet for spammers so it is being shut down.
This note will be posted on the home page soon as well...
All
Good Thoughts
For peace of
mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe.
Larry
Eisenberg
How far you go in life depends on
your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged,
sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the strong
- because someday you will have been all of these.
George Washington
< style="color: rgb(51, 102, 102);">I don't think much of a man who is
not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Abraham Lincoln
Inspirational
Reading
KEEPING THE PEACE
You've seen it in the
movies: a rugged cowboy draws his six-shooter
from a holster on his hip
and exclaims, "This is my peacekeeper." But
it isn't true that firearms
and violence keep the peace. True
peacekeepers and peacemakers
are not weapons, but people.
Do you remember the famous
feud between the Hatfields and the McCoys?
A squabble started between
these families of Kentucky and West
Virginia
during the American Civil
War. After the war, the feud was kept going
by disputes over a $l.75
fiddle and a stray razorback hog.
According to Stan Mooneyham,
"Dancing on The Strait & Narrow" (Harper
& Row, 1989), by
election day 1882 the situation deteriorated to the
point that three McCoy
brothers killed Ellison Hatfield because he had
insulted them. "Devil Anse,"
head of the Hatfield clan, had the three
McCoys rounded up and tied
to bushes within sight of their family
cabin; then he put fifty
rifle bullets into them. After that it was a
life for a life -- sometimes
two or three -- and even women became
just part of the body count.
Hostilities didn't finally abate until
the second decade of the
twentieth century. The cost to the two
families was immense. Almost
thirty deaths were recorded in the most
famous example of "sweet
revenge" turned sour in U.S. history.
You can hardly call any of
the weapons used peacekeepers or
peacemakers. Widow-makers,
perhaps. And orphan-makers. But not
peacemakers. Weapons are not
peacemakers -- people are.
It was Albert Einstein who
said so well, "Peace cannot be kept by
force. It can only be
achieved by understanding." You and I are the
only ones who will ever keep
the peace. And make it.
Blessed are the peacemakers.
