Fear is a powerful force

Faith is a powerful source.

By: Hazel Gay Lee

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God Grant me the ability

To forgive others

To accept forgiveness from others

And to forgive myself.

By: Hazel Gay Lee

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God Grant me the ability

To love others

To accept love from others

And to love myself.

By:  Hazel Gay Lee

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Though the road I will travel

Is dark and unknown

I know that thou art with me

And I shall never walk alone.

By:  Hazel Gay Lee

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Embrace life’s negatives and positives

Their unification is their secret

Alone they are weak

Together they are powerful

Harness their unified power

By:  Hazel Gay Lee

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Be thankful for those

Who hate us and love us

For they are the ones who make us

They forever indent our soul

And define us and make us grow

God purposely put them into our lives

Everyone else momentarily or accidently passed our way

By:  Hazel Gay Lee

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Negative people push me

Positive people pull me

I’m damned without

These pushes and pulls in my life

For without them I will stagnate

I will stagnate and I will die

By:  Hazel Gay Lee

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I behold a man and I see only a tree

A tree that will change with every season

It will be permanently enriched or scarred as it changes

It will grow strong and tall or weak and crooked

The roots, unseen, will determine its growth and outcome

Never underestimate good roots saturated in faith and honor

Never underestimate evil roots saturated in power and arrogance

Never underestimate man and what man can do

For the roots, unseen, will define and nurture or kill the tree

What kind of tree will this man be? What kind of tree am I?

By:  Hazel Gay Lee

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Adulthood is overrated

Childhood is underrated

We spend 18 years getting to one

And the rest of our lives wishing for the other

Unfortunately we cannot comprehend our loss until it is gone

By:  Hazel Gay Lee

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Fear is the absence of faith

And faith is the absence of fear

By:  Hazel Gay Lee

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We cannot go back and we cannot stand still

We are forced to evolve with or against our will

By:  Hazel Gay Lee

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I do not count my worth as rich or poor

For rich or poor always has a monetary value attached to it

Money and possessions cannot define me or my value

I am rich in everything that is important enough to keep

I am poor in everything that is important enough to discarded

I keep only what is small enough to fit into my heart

And only that which is big enough to be worth keeping

By:  Hazel Gay Lee

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We look ahead just far enough to keep dreaming

We look behind just far enough to keep moving

When we stop dreaming and moving we die

For that is where our journey ends

Somewhere between dreaming and moving

By:  Hazel Gay Lee

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I fell in love with him in a moment

I grieved him for what seemed like eternity

I would have considered my grief a waste of time

But it was love that created the grief

And love is never a waste of time

Not even on him

For I know

He loved and grieved me too

By:  Hazel Gay Lee

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Good and evil is in the human heart

It takes evil to embrace good and good to combat evil

No matter how painful, an honest heart never lies to itself

It knows that all humans are capable of good and evil

Its the two edged sword that battles within us

Victory can only come through honesty

Its the golden key to the liberation of the human heart

By:  Hazel Gay Lee

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