Dixie Diva Bits Pieces

May you always have an angel by your side
Watching out for you in all things you do
Reminding you to keep believing in brighter days
Finding ways for wishes and dreams
to take you to beautiful places
Giving you hope that is as certain as the sun
Giving you the strength of serenity as your guide
May you always have love and comfort and courage
And May you always have an angel by your side.

May you always have an angel by your side
Someone there to catch you if you fall
Encouraging your dreams
Inspiring your happiness
Holding your hand and helping you through it all.

In all of our days, our lives are always changing
Tears come along as well as smiles
Along the roads you travel,
May the miles be a thousand more times lovely than lonely
May they give you the kind of gifts that never, ever end
Someone wonderful to love
and a dear friend in whom you can confide
May you have rainbows after every storm
May you have hopes to keep you warm.

And may you always have an angel by your side!

Katie and Megan were walking through the desert. It had been a very hot day. During their walk, at one point, they had an argument. Katie slapped Megan in the face. Megan was so hurt by this, but without uttering a word she wrote in the Sand:

"Today My Best Friend Slapped Me in The Face."

They kept on walking until they found an oasis, where they decided to swim to cool off. Megan got stuck in the mire and started drowning, but Katie saved her. After she recovered from the near drowning, she wrote on a Stone:

"Today MyBest Friend Saved My Life."

Katie who had slapped and saved her best friend asked Megan, "After I hurt you, you wrote in the sand and now, you write on a stone, why?"

Megan replied: "When someone hurts us we should write it down in sand where the winds of forgiveness can erase it away. But, when someone does something good for us, we must engrave it in stone where no wind can ever erase it."

Let us learn to write our hurts in sand and carve ourBlessings in stone.!

Nellie Made A Cup of Tea!

Nellie made a cup of tea,
Made and poured it out for me,
And above the steaming brew
Smiled and asked me, "One or two?"
Saucily she tossed her head;
""Make it sweet for me, " I said.

Two sweet lumps of sugar fell
Into that small china well,
But I knew the while I drained
Every drop the cup contained,
More than sugar in the tea
Made the beverage sweet for me.

This to her I tried to say
In that golden yesterday--
Life is like a cup of tea
Which Time poureth endlessly,
Brewed by trial's constant heat,
Needing love to make it sweet.

Then I caught her looking up,
And I held my dainty cup
Out to her and bravely said,
"Here is all that lies ahead;
Here is all my life to be--
Will you make it sweet for me?"

That was years ago, and now
There is silver in her brow.
We have sorrowed, we have smiled.
We've been hurt and reconciled,
But whatever had to be,
She has made it sweet for me.

The Story of The Fence

There was a little boy with a bad temper. His father gave him a bag of nails and told him to hammer a nail in the back fence every tiem he lost control.

The first day the boy drove 37 nails into the fence. Then it dwindled down. He discovered it was easier to hold his temper than to drive those nails into the fence.

Finally the day came when the boy didn't lose his temper at all. His father suggested that the boy now pull out one nail for each day that he was able to hold his temper.

The days passed and the young boy was finally able to tell his father that all the nails were gone. The father led his son to the fence.

"You have done well, but look at the holes in the fence," he said. " When you say things in anger, they leave a scar just like the nail holes. You can put a knife in a person and draw it out. It won't matter how many times you say "I'm sorry," the wound is still there. A verbal wound is as bad as a physical one."

The Difference between 1 and 100

A $100 bill and a $1.00 bill were folded together in a wallet. The $100 bill let out a sigh of exhaustin and said, "whew! I've been busy. I just came back into the country. I've traveled across three continents in three days, played in a casino, and visited a world-renowned spa.

The $1.00 bill yawned and responded, "I ride public transportation all day long, have been in over 1,000 churches, and recently, I helped a homeless person get something to eat."

Dixe Diva Team

T olerance of each other's weaknesses .

E ncouragement towards each other's successes.

A cknowledgement that each of us has something to offer to the cause.

M indfulness that all of us appreciate tolerance, encouragement, and ackowledgement.