"TLC" Just for you...

1.   http://www.llangley.com/yoga/wisdom/rightnow%5b2%5d.htm   2.   http://www.geocities.co.jp/Milkyway-Lynx/9043/c-song.swf 3.  http://www.flowgo.com/refer/redir.cfm?page_id=46331&d=02-25-03 4.   http://www.angelrays.com/Cards/moon/send/my.html 5.   http://www.club-positif.com/e-prophet.html 6.  http://members.aol.com/CuttyhunkRose/geese.html 7.   http://www.pathways-to-peace.com  (From Olgie...  View presentation) 8.  http://www.deespoems.com/a_prayer_for_autism.html 9.  http://www.passionup.com/fun/fun4528.htm?e=louiseungro@hotmail.com&f=froggiemad1@cox.net&h=bb08c6204ace9eec&mp=1&confirm=1(from Nanaline)

TO MY CHILD:  Just for this morning, I am going to smile when I  see your face and laugh when I feel like crying.  Just for this morning, I will let you choose what  you want to wear, and smile and say how perfect it is.  Just for this morning, I am going to step over the  laundry, and pick you up and take you to the park to play.  Just for this morning, I will leave the dishes in the sink, and let you  teach me how to put that puzzle of yours together.    Just for this afternoon, I will unplug the telephone and keep the computer  off, and sit with you in the backyard and blow bubbles.  Just for this afternoon, I will not yell once, not even a tiny grumble when  you scream and whine for the ice cream truck, and I will buy you one if he  comes by.  Just for this afternoon, I won't worry about what  you are going to be when you grow up, or second guess every decision I  have  made where you are concerned.  Just for this afternoon, I will let you help me bake cookies, and I won't  stand over you trying to fix them.  Just for this afternoon, I will take us to McDonald's and buy us both a  Happy Meal so you can have both toys.  Just for this evening, I will hold you in my arms and tell you a story  about  how you were born and how much I love you.  Just for this evening, I will let you splash in the tub and not get angry.  Just for this evening, I will let you stay up late while we sit on the  porch and count all the stars.  Just for this evening, I will snuggle beside you for hours, and miss my favorite TV shows.  Just for this evening when I run my fingers through your hair as you pray,  I will simply be grateful that God has given me the greatest gift ever  given.  I will think about the mothers and fathers who are searching for their  missing children, the mothers and fathers who are visiting their  children's  graves instead of their bedrooms, and mothers and fathers who are in  hospital rooms watching their children suffer senselessly, and screaming  inside that they can't handle it anymore.  And when I kiss you good night I will hold you a  little tighter, a little longer. It is then, that I will thank God for  you,  and ask him for nothing, except one more day.............

I asked God... I asked God to take away my habit. God said, No. It is not for me to take away, but for you to give it up. I asked God to make my handicapped child whole. God said, No. His spirit is whole, his body is only temporary. I asked God to grant me patience. God said, No. Patience is a byproduct of tribulations; it isn't granted, it is learned. I asked God to give me happiness. God said, No. I give you blessings; Happiness is up to you.  I asked God to spare me pain. God said, No. Suffering draws you apart from worldly cares and brings you closer to  me.  I asked God to make my spirit grow. God said, No. You must grow on your own, but I will prune you to make you fruitful.  I asked God for all things that I might enjoy life. God said, No. I will give you life, so that you may enjoy all things.  I ask God to help me LOVE others, as much as He loves me. God said...Ahhhh, finally you have the idea.  THIS DAY IS YOURS DON'T THROW IT AWAY.  May God Bless You, "To the world you might be one person, but to one person you just  might be the world"

"Our deepest fear is not that we are incapable.  Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure"

Beatitudes of the Exceptional Child (sent in by Zay-Zay2) Blessed are you who take time to listen to defective speech, for you help us to know that if we persevere, we can be understood. Blessed are you who walk with us in public places and ignore the stares of strangers, for in your companionship we find havens of relaxation. Blessed are you that never bids us "hurry up" and more blessed are you that do not snatch our task from our hands to do them for us, for often we need time rather than help. Blessed are you who stand beside us as we enter new ventures, for our failures will be outweighed by times we surprise ourselves and you. Blessed are you who ask for our help, for our greatest need is to be needed. Blessed are you when by all these things you assure us that the thing that makes us individuals, is not our peculiar muscles, nor our wounded nerves system, but is the God-given self that no infirmity can confine. Blessed are those who realize that I am human and don't expect me to be saintly just because I am disabled. Blessed are those who pick things up with out being asked. Blessed are those who understand that sometimes I am weak and not just lazy. Blessed are those who forget my disability of the body and see the shape of my soul. Blessed are those who see me as a whole person and not as a "half" and one of God's mistakes. Blessed are those who love me just as I am without wondering what I might have been like.