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"On such a full sea are we now afloat; And we must take the current when it serves."Quote: William Shakespeare (Julius Caesar)Photo: "Unending" - ©2004-2011, CP1/IP

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"It's not about the fairytale. It's about what's in your heart." Quote: How to Make it in America, Episode 204 (HBO) Photo: "It's Christ's Mass" ~ ©2011, CP1/IP

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"If you cannot be a poet ... be the poem." Quote by Actor; David Carradine

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“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.” Quote: Dalai LamaPhoto: "Simply Very Now" - ©2011, CP1/IP

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"Defy the old dragon, defy fear. The world may rage and quake, but I shall remain, singing in perfect peace."Quote: Johann Franck Photo: Love in a Flight Path ©2011, CP1/IP

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"Hold on, Man. We don't go anywhere with 'scary', 'spooky', 'haunted', or 'forbidden' in the title." Quote: "Shaggy" ~ Scooby-Doo (2002)Photo: "All Hallows Eve Happy"Happy All Hallows Eve ~ All Saints ~ All Souls & Blessed Autumn! from CP1/IP

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"Could we not develop ourselves a little, and slowly take upon ourselves our share of work in love, little by little?" Quote: Rainer Maria Rilke Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge Photo: "HAPPY TO LOVE" ©2011, CP1/IP

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Read an archival message regarding the founding of this blog here. Our blog was founded on September 11, 2003... "In honor of those that gave their lives - quietly living their lives. "...They have powered ours. Here's to the POWER. "

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"The strongest oak tree of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It's the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun." Quote: Napoleon Hill Photo: "Fly Wx" ©2011, CP1/IP

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“Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.” ~ConfuciusPHOTO: "Simply Priceless" ©2011, CP1/IP

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"A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses."QUOTE: Chinese ProverbPHOTO: "Roses Still" ©2011, CP1/IP

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"Do not despise the day of small beginnings." ~Zechariah 4:10 Photo: "OPENING" ©2011, CP1/IP

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"Feel your emotions, live your passions, keep still your mind."Quote: Geoffrey M. GluckmanPhoto: "Illumination" ©2011, CP1/IP

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"Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant." Quote: Robert Louis StevensonPhoto: "Faithful Blue" ©2011, CP1/IPThe Works of Robert Louis Stevenson here.

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Blessed Easter Season and Happy Spring! From: CP1/IP

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"Do what you can, with what you've got, where you are." Quote: Theodore RooseveltPhoto: "The Ridge" ©2010 CP1/IP

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Faith in spite of the cold and even in the dark of night ... "But as for me, I will always proclaim what God has done; I will sing praises…. For God says, “I will break the strength of the wicked, but I will increase the power of the Godly.” ~Psalm 75:9-10 Photo: "Faith not by sight" ©2010, CP1

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"The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking." Quote: A. A. MilnePhoto: "Simply Morning" © 2010 CP1

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Do you wonder as you watch my face, If a wiser one should have had my place?But I offer all I amFor the mercy of your plan.Help me be strong.Help me be.Help me. Breath of heaven,Hold me together,Be forever near me.Text: Amy Grant, Lyrics Excerpt: Breath of Heaven (Mary's Song)Art: Leonardo da Vinci, approx. 1484 AD.Go here: Mary in Art

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"God can do anything, you know—far more than you could ever imagine or guess or request in your wildest dreams! He does it not by pushing us around but by working within us, his Spirit deeply and gently within us." ~ Ephesians 3:20

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"Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people." Quote: Eleanor RooseveltPhoto: The Dream ~ 2nd Century ©2010, CP1

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"Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves." - John Muir

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~"In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher." ~"When I feel compassion, I also feel creativity." ~"Peacefulness lives not with intelligence, but with warm-heartedness."Quotes: His Holiness (The 14th) Dalai Lama Photo: "Daisy 'Free's Ya' with Dusty on Amalfi" ©2010, CP1

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"Use it up, Wear it out, Make it do or Do without." Quote: Melinda Sajec(as quoted in Real Simple Magazine, Your Words, Oct 2010)Photo: The Big Sun Rocks ©2010, CP1

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Without the assistance of that Divine Being, who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail. Trusting in Him, who can go with me, and remain with you and be every where for good, let us confidently hope that all will yet be well. To His care commending you, as I hope in your prayers you will commend me, I bid you an affectionate farewell"- Abraham Lincoln.

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"Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit ...."Quote: Henry David Thoreau Photo: DAILY OFFERING ~ Love Overflowing. ©2010, CP1

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"I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star. I'd rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far; for a might have-been has never been, but a has was once an are.". Quote: Milton Berle Photo: "Our Bud - By Faith Not Sight" ©2010,CP1

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"These things won't happen right away. Slowly, steadily, surely, the time approaches when the vision will be fulfilled. If it seems slow, do not despair, for these things will surely come to pass. Just be patient! They will not be overdue a single day!"Quote: Habakkuk 2:3Photo: Holy Water Vigil ©2010, CP1

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"Worry is Like a Rocking Chair. You might be rocking away, and it might feel like you're getting somewhere; but in the end, you are exactly where you started."Quote: Joel Osteen. Go here for the full article; "Keep Your Song." Photo: Mighty One @ 15 mph & Free, ©2010, CP1 Photo of Flag Flying @: The Greater Cincinnati Firefighters Memorial Park

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Col. Howard L. Rogers ~ 16 Jun 1929 - 09 January 2004 'The connection between what once was, what is & the eternal. 'Power of 1 Blog' honors a family legacy of protecting and empowering the unique potential of each individual in service to their community.' Whether it be our hometown or the global reach of the internet ... "Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set."~Proverbs

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"I seek not to know the answers, but to understand the questions."Memorable quote of Kwai Chang Caine, Kung Fu (TV) 1972-1975Photo: The Sun and the Fuzz Live Here, ©2010,CP1

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'Where there is love and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.' Quote: Saint Francis quoted in The Sun and Moon Over Assisi [A Personal Encounter with Francis and Clare] (Straub) Photo: "First Born." ©2010, CP1

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"All women are called to shower their motherhood on the world in the particular ways that God makes possible." HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY! from CP1Quote: The Authentic Catholic Woman Photo:"Momma Me AllWays." ©2010, Rogers, CommunicatingthePower.org

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'Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.' Quote: "Buddha"Photo:"Peace is Shalom" ©2010,CommunicatingthePower.org,

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"Everyday life around us is already so implausible and so glorious but what need for further miracles." Quote: Jane Hirshfield, from the Film; "The Buddha"Photo:"The Good Life." ©2010,CommunicatingthePower.org

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"Hope springs eternal ...."Quote: Alexander PopePhoto: "After All Bud" ©2010 CommunicatingthePower.org

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"The most noteworthy thing about gardeners is that they are always optimistic, always enterprising, and never satisfied. They always look forward to doing something better than they have ever done before."Quote: Vita Sackwell-WestPhoto: "The Big Sun is My Rock" ©2010 CommunicatingthePower.org

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Happy Spring, Easter Blessings! from Communicating the Power.org!

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'I do not believe in a fate that falls on people however they act; But, I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.' ~BuddhaPhoto: "Big Sun, True Stones" ©2010 CommunicatingthePower.org

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"Today is a smooth white seashell, hold it close and listen to the beauty of the hours."Photo: "Bloom in Time" © 2010, Rogers, CommunicatingthePower.org

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Happy St. Valentine's Day! "Yes, you must live life beautifully and not allow the world....make you to forget that you have been created for greater things -- to love and be loved."Quote: Mother Teresa, Blessed Teresa of Calcutta Photo: "Inner (We're) Lite v.2" © 2010, Rogers, CommunicatingthePower.orgBlessed Mother on a Clean Heart!

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Photo: "The Thresh-Hold" ©2009-2010, Rogers CommunicatingthePower.org

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'The person who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to someone of the opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden.' Quote: Plato, The Republic. Photo: "Quite a Quiet Home" ©2009-2010, Rogers CommunicatingthePower.org

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"Work Hard... Play Hard" & "Smile ~The Joy of the Heart makes the Face Merry!" Photo: "Follow the Happy Sun Rules" ©2009-2010 Rogers CommunicatingthePower.org

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"Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can."Photo: "Mother Lived It" ©2009 Rogers

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"Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.”Quote: Julia ChildPhoto: "Hello" © 2009 Rogers CommunicatingthePower.org

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"Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another." ~Plato

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"If I am not for myself, who will be for me? And if I'm only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when?" Quote: Rabbi Hillel

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"To Worry is to add another hazard."Quote: Amelia Earhart© Family of Amelia EarhartPhoto: © 1999-2009 Rogers

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I see the potential for a new world being born in front of me and all around me and I feel the only way to bring that potential into “being” is to know myself.Quote: Gary ZukavPhoto: Rogers

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"The most effective way to do it, is to do it."Quote: Amelia Earhart© Family of Amelia EarhartTitle Quote: © 2009 Fox SearchlightPhoto: © 2009 Rogers

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"God stoops down to lift up our homes, to make them outposts of his paradise… no matter how cold the winds may blow on a winter day." Quote: Mike Aquilina, Love in the Little Things

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“Nothing will work unless you do.” Quote: Maya Angelou Photo: Rogers

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"Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great."~Nelson Mandela

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"Even in the most awkward soil, even in corners of the world where nobody will ever see, flowers follow a natural impulse to manifest magic."Quote: CainerPhoto: Rogers

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"Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up."Text: New International VersionPhoto: Rogers

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"Do unto others as you would have done to you. Be courageous and Be Brave.And in my heart you will always stay ... Forever young, forever young."Text: Rod Stewart: Forever Young LyricsPhoto: © 2009, Rogers ~ CommunicatingthePower.org

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"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high

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“If I ever become a Saint—I will surely be one of “darkness.” I will continually be absent from Heaven—to lit the light of those in darkness on earth .”—Mother TeresaText: "Come Be My Light: The Private Writings of the "Saint of Calcutta" Photo: Sunoco Yellow Rose, Rogers

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Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.Quote: RumiPhoto: Rogers

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The Morals ..."I am personally thankful that we live together in a large moral house even if we do not drink at the same fountain of faith. The world we experience together is one world, God's world and our world, and the problems we share are common human problems. So we can talk together, try to understand each other, and help each other." ~L. B. Smedes, "Choices"

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I am one. Never underestimate the POWER OF ONE who believes!Text and Photo: Rogers, CommunicatingthePower.orgCommunicating the Power(ful) message that each and everyone does matter and can choose "the power" to make a difference in our communities and our world!

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"You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving." Quote Text: Anatole FrancePhoto: Rogers

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A POWERFUL PATRIOTS STORY: A Day to RememberAny man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another. - Plato Photo: Rogers

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Photo Series: "The Path Home" ©2008, Rogers CommunicatingthePower.org ~ All Rights Reserved

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I see the potential for a new world being born in front of me and all around me, and I feel the only way to bring that potential into being is to know myself.Quote: Gary ZukavPhoto: Smålands landskapsblomma Linnea (Swedish Twinflower) by Tomas Jonsson

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'You, who are on the road, must have a code that you can live by. And so, BECOME YOURSELF, because the past is just a goodbye... ' Lyrics: Teach Your Children [Well], G. NashPhoto: CommunicatingthePower.org archives of H. L. Rogers

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"There's an alternative. There's always a third way, and it's not a combination of the other two ways. It's a different way." Quote by Actor; David Carradine, (1936-2009)Picture: Shaolin Monestary/Temple (少林寺), a Chán Buddhist temple at Song Shan, featured in flashback scenes in the series, "Kung Fu" starring Carradine.

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I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant. ~Martin Luther King Jr.

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"If you can't fly, then run.If you can't run, then walk.If you can't walk, then crawl.But whatever you do, keep moving."Quote: Martin Luther King, Jr.Photo: (c) Rogers, 2009 ~ Communicating the Power

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Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender. Photo: (c) Rogers, 2008 ~ Communicating the PowerQuote: Henri Frédéric Amiel

CommunicatingthePowernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5806584.post-6727120367997823042009-04-02T15:10:00.001-04:002009-04-03T01:49:47.020-04:00

Our Beacon, as we open our world to those seeking the dream of freedom ... Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.Where there is hatred,let me sow love;where there is injury, pardon;where there is doubt, faith;where there is despair, hope;where there is darkness, light;and where there is sadness, joy.- St. Francis of Assisi

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"Love is a Fruit in Season at all times, and within reach of Every hand" ~ MOTHER TERESAART: “Fruit Basket" Source: http://cgfa.sunsite.dk/

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Within each of us lies the power of our consent to health and sickness, to riches and poverty, to freedom and to slavery. It is we who control these, and not another. -Richard Bach

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"I BELIEVE in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.I believe that the law was made for man and not man for the law; that government is the servant of the people and not their master.I believe in the dignity of labor, whether

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[Our Constitution] "only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself."Quote: Benjamin FranklinPhoto: Rogers, Copyright© 2009

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“The big difference between people is not between the rich and the poor, the good and the evil. The biggest of all differences between people is between those who have had pleasure in love and those who haven’t.”TEXT~Sweet Bird of Youth, Tennessee Williams, Film: 1962, Spoken by Actor: Paul Newman, as the character: Chance WaynePHOTO~Copyright© 2009, The Identity Project,

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Some live by love thy neighbor as thyself, others by first do no harm or take no more than you need. What if the mightiest word is love? ....praise song for walking forward in that lightText: Excerpted from: Praise Song for the Day by Elizabeth Alexander. Copyright© 2009. The Full Text and attribution Here... Art: Copyright© 2008, The Identity Project, CommunicatingthePower.org

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"We remain a young nation, but in the words of Scripture, the time has come to set aside childish things. The time has come to reaffirm our enduring spirit; to choose our better history; to carry forward that precious gift, that noble idea, passed on from generation to generation: the God-given promise that all are equal, all are free, and all deserve a chance to pursue their full measure of

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"We see the best of our country - resilient and hopeful, caring and strong. These virtues give me an unshakable faith in America. We have faced danger and trial, and there's more ahead. But with the courage of our people and confidence in our ideals, this great nation will never tire, never falter, and never fail." ~President George W. Bush, Farewell Address, 15th January, 2009

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COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS INSTEAD OF YOUR CROSSES; COUNT YOUR GAINS INSTEAD OF YOUR LOSSES. COUNT YOUR SMILES INSTEAD OF YOUR TEARS; COUNT YOUR COURAGE INSTEAD OF YOUR FEARS. COUNT YOUR HEALTH INSTEAD OF YOUR WEALTH; LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS MUCH AS YOURSELF.Thanks to Prayerful Things for this quote. Photo: (c), 2001, Rogers, CommunicatingthePower.org

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O Passing Angel, Speed me with a song. A melody of heaven, To reach my heart. And rouse me to the race, And make me strong...Text: Christina RossettiPhoto: (c) 2008, Rogers, CommunicatingthePower.org

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The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either but right through every human heart and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained.Author: Alexander Solzhenitsyn From: Gulag Archipelago

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"It will be quiet on Tuesday. No speeches. No motorcades. No paid political announcements. It's a very special day, just for grown-ups. America votes Tuesday…and . . . on Tuesday, the shouting and the begging and the threatening and the heckling will be silenced. It's very quiet in a voting booth. And nobody's going to help you make up your mind. So - just for that instant - you'll know what the

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The Power to Blog, The 'Power of One' Blog began on 11 Sept 2003 on the second anniversary of 9-11-01, deemed U.S. Patriot's Day. To honor the spirit of empowered living -- and remembering the lives lost -- those who gave their lives in the simple daily task of living and creating a collaborative life. By the act of being a willing and quiet participant in daily life, fully having joined in to a

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"A little consideration, a little thought for others, makes all the difference." ~Winnie the Pooh "You can't stay in your corner of the forest, waiting for others to come to you; you have to go to them sometimes." ~PigletFrom: Pooh's Little Instruction BookText: A.A. Milne

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Here on the pulse of this new dayYou may have the grace to look up and outAnd into your sister's eyes, intoYour brother's face, your countryAnd say simply, Very simplyWith hope ...Good morning Text: Excerpt: On The Pulse of the Morning, Maya Angelou

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Angel of God, my Guardian dear, to whom His love commits me here,ever this day (or night) be at my side,to light and guard, to rule and guide.Text: Guardian Angel PrayerPhoto: RogersArt in Photo: Angel of Hope by Susan Lordi, Willow Tree

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Do you wonder as you watch my face, If a wiser one should have had my place?But I offer all I amFor the mercy of your plan.Help me be strong.Help me be.Help me. Breath of heaven,Hold me together,Be forever near me.Text: Amy Grant, Lyrics Excerpt: Breath of Heaven (Mary's Song)Art: Leonardo da Vinci, approx. 1484 AD.Go here: Mary in Art

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I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; I will not refuse to do something I can do. Quote: Helen Keller

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"The task of genius, and humanity is nothing if not genius, [it] is to keep the miracle alive, to live always in the miracle...." Quote: Henry Valentine Miller Picture: 1904 Wright FlyerGo here for a prayer to bring you miracles.

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Rejoice in your hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer. ~Romans 5:12

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"Strengthen my will.... Show me the things that really matter to me and help me to use my energy in the best possible way." by: Sister Wendy Beckett, A Child's Book of Prayer in Artphoto credit here.

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'A ship in harbor is safe, but that’s not why the ship is built.' ~Gov. Sarah H. Palin , V.P. nominee 2008Go here for a full transcipt of her inspiring remarks.speech: Dayton, OH 29 AUG, 2008

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“Not to him who walks on, with no obstacles in his way, But to him that ‘overcometh’ is the promise given....”~Excerpted: GOD CALLING, from "Two Listeners", edited by A.J. RussellPhoto: Rogers

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When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up THEN, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. - Harriet Beecher StowePhoto: Rogers

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Remember the innocence of you! The child you were born to be with the joy you felt before you learned your deepest fears. (Worse even-were shamed at heart.) Found THERE (that joyful child) is the voice that can only truthfully speak to you, the weary adult you may be at times; that then misfires from programmed reactions to long past wounds. We each must be looking beyond our fear (in such a

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"The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next." ~Mignon McLaughlin

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“If we have no faith in ourselves and in the kind of future we can create together, we are fit only to follow, not to lead. Let us remember that the Bible contains two proverbs we cannot afford to forget, The first is: “Man does not live by bread alone” and the second is: “Where there is no vision the people perish.” Go here for more reflections on spirituality.Quote: ~Charles Luckman, American

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"Every Breath leads to Actuality...Hope Defined "* Photo of: Pyramid Lake, Nevada; Home of the Paiute Tribes {click on the image for a full resolution view of the reservation lake}Also look here to experience a kayak lake excursion through video of this mystical lake. by: MarekUliasz.com (c)1999-2008, Rogers

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