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Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:39:22 -0700

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Your soul longs to find its ultimate purpose. It will not rest until you do. Your soul craves its destiny.
Your soul desires. It always will.

B R I D G E S

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In forming a bridge between body and mind,
dreams may be used as a springboard from which man can leap
to new realms of experience lying outside his normal state of consciousness.

--Ann Faraday

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He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven;
for everyone has need to be forgiven.

--Lord Herbert

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I am seeking for the bridge which leans from the visible to the invisible through reality.

--Max Beckmann

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Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:39:11 -0700

Bridges and trails are a metaphor for the human experience...

They carry us across seemingly impossible terrain and bring worlds together. Trails, like the continuum of our lives, carry us to and through the great diversity of the earth. Old growth forest, sub-alpine meadow, storm-lashed shore; all linked by trails that rest on the landscape like pathways through time. And the bridges, especially backcountry bridges, allow us to vault chasms that divide, permitting us to experience worlds that seem near enough to touch, but impossible to attain. Simple in form and function, with a singleness of purpose unchanged since the dawn of human history when primitive humans opportunistically traversed a fallen log to reach new land, fresh opportunity. It is no wonder that bridges have come to symbolize human aspirations and folly, and a few to represent some of the greatest achievements of human engineering endeavor.

Bridges remind us of what it means to be human, to be perpetually reaching out for unachievable objectives, to dream, but to dream our dreams in the reality of the present, while fully awake. Great bridges are grand engineering and architectural masterpieces and building them is amongst the most challenging of construction endeavors. Joseph Strauss, the builder of the Golden Gate Bridge, once proclaimed: "Building a bridge is like having a war with the elements of nature".

--Carroll Vogel

Bridge building represents nothing less than a triumph of the human spirit.

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.

--Arthur C. Clarke

J O U R N E Y
home...

"The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination."

--Don Williams, Jr.

You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience.
You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.

--Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

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Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:37:42 -0700

To Brooklyn Bridge

How many dawns, chill from his rippling rest
The seagull's wings shall dip and pivot him,
Shedding white rings of tumult, building high
Over the chained bay waters Liberty--

Then, with inviolate curve, forsake our eyes
As apparitional as sails that cross
Some page of figures to be filed away;
--Till elevators drop us from our day...

I think of cinemas, panoramic sleights
With multitudes bent toward some flashing scene
Never disclosed, but hastened to again,
Foretold to other eyes on the same screen;

And Thee, across the harbor, silver-paced
As though the sun took step of thee, yet left
Some motion ever unspent in thy stride,--
Implicitly thy freedom staying thee!

Out of some subway scuttle, cell or loft
A bedlamite speeds to thy parapets,
Tilting there momently, shrill shirt ballooning,
A jest falls from the speechless caravan.

Down Wall, from girder into street noon leaks,
A rip-tooth of the sky's acetylene;
All afternoon the cloud-flown derricks turn...
Thy cables breathe the North Atlantic still.

And obscure as that heaven of the Jews,
Thy guerdon...Accolade thou dost bestow
Of anonymity time cannot raise:
Vibrant reprieve and pardon thou dost show.

O harp and altar, of the fury fused,
(How could mere toil align thy choiring strings!)
Terrific threshold of the prophet's pledge,
Prayer of pariah, and the lover's cry,--

Again the traffic lights that skim thy swift
Unfractioned idiom, immaculate sigh of stars,
Beading thy path--condense eternity:
And we have seen night lifted in thine arms.
Under thy shadow by the piers I waited;
Only in darkness I shy shadow clear.
The City's fiery parcels all undone,

Already snow submerges an iron year...

O sleepless as the river under thee,
Vaulting the sea, the prairies dreaming sod,
Unto us lowliest sometime sweep, descend
And of the curveship lend a myth to God.

--Hart Crane

HART CRANE AND THE WOMAN WHO TOUCHED JESUS' ROBE
http://www.westminster-bflo.org/sermonrepository/2007/aug0507.pdf

http://www.endex.com/gf/buildings/bbridge/bbridge.html

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http://www.towerbridge.org.uk/TowerBridge/English

Completed in 1894, Tower Bridge was instantly hailed as a London icon and one of the great engineering marvels of its age. Come inside to explore its history, uncover its secrets and to enjoy stunning views from its high-level Walkways, situated 42 metres above the River Thames.

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Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:36:14 -0700

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This incredible prose was posted with permission from: My gifted faithful friend Caile.

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Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:35:32 -0700

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Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:34:03 -0700

Golden Gate Bridge

The Golden Gate Strait is the entrance to the San Francisco Bay from the Pacific Ocean. The strait is approximately three-miles long by one-mile wide with currents ranging from 4.5 to 7.5 knots. It is generally accepted that the strait was named "Chrysopylae", or Golden Gate, by John C. Fremont, Captain, topographical Engineers of the U.S. Army circa 1846. It reminded him of a harbor in Instanbul named Chrysoceras or Golden Horn.

http://www.goldengatebridge.org/research/facts.php#StraussPoem

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"Try to make positive steps on that unstable bridge of life that you've already broken or burnt,
and if you can't make it across that old bridge, then use the knowledge you have acquired today to build a new stronger
and well-developed one, so sturdy that you can still walk back across and reflect on the bridge that you once failed to cross."

--Grant Ormerod

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Knowledge of other people's beliefs and ways of thinking must be used to build bridges, not to create conflicts.

--Kjell Magne Bondevik

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

--Isaac Newton

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Sun, 30 Mar 2008 20:47:33 -0700

"Jesus the carpenter built His church without walls"

Two great moments in our lives are when we are born
and when we discover why we were born.
We were created for a reason--a divine purpose. Our lives are not accidents or fate.
God has a personal plan for each of us.

"The love of a family is life's greatest blessing"

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Sun, 30 Mar 2008 20:46:29 -0700

Happy Resurrection Day!
Let every man and woman count himself immortal.
Let him catch the revelation of Jesus in his resurrection.
Let him say not merely,

"Christ is risen," but "I shall rise."

~Phillips Brooks

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Easter is the demonstration of God that life is essentially spiritual and timeless.

~Charles M. Crowe

Well pleaseth me the sweet time of Easter...
That maketh the leaf and the flower come out.

~Bertran de Born

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Once more to new creation Awake, and death gainsay, For death is swallowed up of life,
And Christ is risen today!

~George Newell Lovejoy

He takes men out of time and makes them feel eternity.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Let the resurrection joy lift us from loneliness and weakness and despair to strength and beauty and happiness.

~Floyd W. Tomkins

"Now let the heavens be joyful,
Let earth her song begin:
Let the round world keep triumph,
And all that is therein;
Invisible and visible,
Their notes let all things blend,
For Christ the Lord is risen
Our joy that hath no end."

~John of Damascus

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Sun, 30 Mar 2008 20:46:01 -0700

Enjoy Life

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Words to Live By

It's not how much you accomplish in life
that really counts,
but how much you give to other.

It's not how high you build your dreams
that makes a difference,
but how high your faith can climb.

It's not how many goals you reach,
but how many lives you touch.

It's not who you know that matters,
but who you are inside.

Believe in the impossible,
hold tight to the incredible,
and live each day to its fullest potential.

You can make a difference
in your world.

Rebecca Barlow Jordan

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Sun, 30 Mar 2008 20:45:50 -0700

Take These Thoughts With You
On Your Journey To Your Dreams

Don't ever forget that you are unique. Be your best self and not an imitation of someone else.

Find your strength and use them in a positive way. Don't listen to those who ridicule the choices you make.

Travel the road that you have chosen and don't look back with regret. You have to take chances to make your dreams happen.

Remember that there is plenty of time to travel another road - and still another - in your journey through life.

Take the time to find the route that is right for you. You will learn something valuable from every trip you take, so don't be afraid to make mistakes.

Tell yourself that you're okay just the way you are. Make friends who respect your true self.

Take the time to be alone, too, so you can know just how terrific your own company can be.

Remember that being alone doesn't always mean being lonely; it can be a beautiful experience of finding your creativity, your heartfelt feelings, and the calm and quiet peace deep inside you.

Don't ever forget that you are special and you have within you the ability to make your dreams come true.

Jacqueline Schiff

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Relax and Enjoy the Moment

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Sit back, relax and just enjoy life's ride...