• What One Hears---One Forgets;
• What One Sees---One Remembers;
• What One Does---One Knows!

• "How can we determine the hour of dawn---when the night ends and the day begins?" the wise woman asked of her students.
• "When, from a distance, you can distinguish between a dog and a sheep?" one of her students suggested.
• "No", the wise one answered.
• "Is it when you can distinguish between an oak tree and a grapevine?" another student asked.
• "No" she replied.
• "Please tell us the answer, then" said the students.
• "It is when you can look into the face of a human being and have enough light to recognize in her your sister," the wise teacher replied.
• "Until then, it is night, and the darkness is still with us."

When you are depressed, exhausted, frustrated, and disillusioned, remember it is the crushed grape that yields the wine.

Coin McKay, Scouting (UK) magazine

107 Why Lord?

• Why Lord, do so many people waste their time
• Hoping, praying and wishing for things to change for the better;
• Wanting their children to have a better world,
• A drug-free life of love and peace, and fresh air?
• Why do they do this Lord while they sit back and help it decay?

--by Arlene S. Randall

108 When You Walk Through The Woods

• When you walk through the woods,
• I want you to see ...
• The floating gold of a bumble bee,
• Rivers of sunlight, pools of shade
• Toadstools sleeping in mossy jade
• A cobweb net with a catch of dew
• Treetop cones against the blue
• Dancing flowers, bright green flies
• And birds that put rainbows in your eyes.

• When you walk through the woods,
• I want you to hear ...
• A million sounds in your eager ear
• The scratch and rattle of wind-tossed trees
• The rush as a timid chipmunk flees
• The cry of a hawk from the distant sky
• The purr of leaves when a breeze rolls by
• Brooks that mumble, stones that ring
• And birds that teach your heart to sing.

• When you walk through the woods,
• I want you to feel ...
• That no mere human could make this real
• Could paint the throb of a bullerfly's wing
• Could teach a wood thrush how to sing
• Could create these wonders of earth and sky
• There's something greater than you or I.
• When you walk through the woods
• and the birches nod
• (Please, meet a friend of mine named God.)

If you fail to see the person but only the disability, then, who is blind?

If you cannot hear your brother's cry for justice, who is deaf?

If you do not communicate with your sister but separate her from you, who is disabled?

If your heart and your mind do not reach out to your neighbour, who has the handicap?

If you do not stand up for the rights of all persons, who is the cripple?

Our attitudes towards persons with disabilities may be our biggest handicap, and yours too.

---Tony Wong

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