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**How can you be truly tough In this painful world? How can you stand firm When the spears of agony are hurled? Most people in the proud US of A Don't have a clue of the price they have to pay. Western people do not know What hardship really is. So gratitude is lacking... It is this... Gratitude is having a *** That doesn't leak, To walk miles for diseased Water from a creek. Gratitude in thanking God For the dry wood To cook the rice or millet For your food. Gratitude is finding A pair of shoes In a garbage heap That you can use. Gratitude is finding Pesos in your hand When you beg the streets In a poor land. Gratitude is escaping Vicious thugs Who deal in human Trafficking and drugs. Gratitude is Hellen Keller With no hope Finding Annie Sullivan To cope. Gratitude is having NOTHING And in pain On one's deathbed, but yet The fact remains They are redeemed And they have Lord Jesus' grace So they know that they Will look in his sweet face. Being tough is seeing life As is and still not breaking Being brave and looking Not forsaking Being tough is a Mental attitude. Loving God and thanking Him It's GRATITUDE.** SoulSurvivor Catherine Jarvis (C) September 28, 2014
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Sep 28, 2014
Sep 28, 2014 at 5:15 PM UTC
Truly Tough
**How can you be truly tough In this painful world? How can you stand firm When the spears of agony are hurled? Most people in the proud US of A Don't have a clue of the price they have to pay. Western people do not know What hardship really is. So gratitude is lacking... It is this... Gratitude is having a *** That doesn't leak, To walk miles for diseased Water from a creek. Gratitude in thanking God For the dry wood To cook the rice or millet For your food. Gratitude is finding A pair of shoes In a garbage heap That you can use. Gratitude is finding Pesos in your hand When you beg the streets In a poor land. Gratitude is escaping Vicious thugs Who deal in human Trafficking and drugs. Gratitude is Hellen Keller With no hope Finding Annie Sullivan To cope. Gratitude is having NOTHING And in pain On one's deathbed, but yet The fact remains They are redeemed And they have Lord Jesus' grace So they know that they Will look in his sweet face. Being tough is seeing life As is and still not breaking Being brave and looking Not forsaking Being tough is a Mental attitude. Loving God and thanking Him It's GRATITUDE.** SoulSurvivor Catherine Jarvis (C) September 28, 2014
I think the above says it all. I want to thank quinnfinn for The inspiration.
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Sep 28, 2014
Sep 28, 2014 at 5:15 PM UTC
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