Poem by Irma Harem - Mary Had a Little Prayer

Mary had a little prayer,

She said it every day,

But when she has her lunch at school,

Her prayer she must not say.

It makes some grown-ups much disturbed

When children pray at school,

The highest court in all the land

Was asked to make a rule.

And so in Mary’s fine, new school,

No prayers shall be said;

Why, there are some who boldly say

That Mary’s God is dead!

But Mary, wiser than them all,

Believes God knows and cares;

She bows her head and silently

Still offers Him her prayers.

                             Irma Harem

Poem by Unknown - Give Me Your Flowers

I would rather have one little rose

From the garden of a friend,

Than to have the choicest flowers

When my stay on earth must end.

I would rather have a pleasant word

In kindness said to me,

Than flattery when my heart is still

And this life has ceased to be.

I would rather have a loving smile

From friends I know are true,

Than tears shed around my casket

When this world I bid adieu.

Bring me all the flowers today,

Whether pink, or white, or red;

I rather have one blossom now

Than a truckload when I’m dead.

---Author Unknown

Quotes - Real Friends

"As iron sharpens iron, so a man sharpens the countenance of his friend."

PROVERBS 27:17

"Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty."

SICILIAN PROVERB

"Better to be a nettle in the side of our friend that his echo."

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

"You are not always easy on me. And that’s exactly what I need. Sometimes I feel that you re the voice of God in my life.  A mere friend will agree with you, but a real friend will argue."

RUSSIAN PROVERB

"All that is not eternal is out of date."

C. S. LEWIS

"A friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out."

WALTER WINCHELL

"A friend is one to whom one can pour out all the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and, with the breath of kindness, blow the rest away."

ARABIAN PROVERB