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__**Stony Road**__ When everything seems smooth along comes the stony road, and my path I must choose,

There's always the sidewalk where I could skip along like I did as a kid,

not worrying about how the path was composed, paved or stoned, I'm smile and proceed along...

Now that I'm grown I've learned to skip my way through, the stones in the road,

and watch through the eyes of that child that still lives in me.

Written by Janet Ford  ** A Path of Understanding **

Have you ever sat down near a beggar and heard him tell you what had come to pass, why he sits there begging on a corner rather than out working on a job?

Have you ever walked beside a blind man and tried to close your eyes and have him lead your heart along a path of understanding of what it's like to live without your eyes?

Have you put your hand on a man's shoulder, a little person half as tall as you, and watched his face, sorrowful and wrinkled, crumble as he tells of cruel men's jokes?

Many walk among the weak and wounded and blithely turn their backs and shake their heads, thinking how they're all so strange and useless just rubbish in a world of stronger folks.

There are some whose eyes are bright and open who smile at all God's creatures that they see, love springing naturally from warm hearts in sparkling fountains of pure empathy.  Home** 
 * By** **Joyce Greene