Heroes:
LOST AND FOUND
YOUTH ACADEMY
HOPE IS NEVER LOST...
...ONLY FOUND
WHY MUST WE WALK IN ANOTHER MANS SHOES
TO SIMPLY HAVE COMPASSION FOR THAT MAN?
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~Building Reasons And Dreams~Around Parents and Children in Need~
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The world suffers greatly from self-esteem issues not only in our teenagers, but most of the global community. From grade school aged children on up to our great grandparents, we have discovered the lack of self worth stemming from various tragic and traumatic circumstances that are different and unique to each individual. Some of those being feelings of inadequacy, not fitting in, lack of success, the loss of a loved one, and heartbreak...just to name a few.
It is essential that each one of us becomes aware of our responsibility to acquire self-love. This is the first step to being the person that we are meant to be. We sub-consciously hold ourselves hostage and our soul longs to be freed to be who we truly are.
This is the reason we suffer from inner struggles and turbulence that undoubtedly causes outer chaos and numerous unhealthy and habitual behavior habits in our relationships. Once we discover our truth and are
restored with self-love, that love then ignites passion and then we develop the courage necessary for achieving our goals and living our dreams. During this process we are willing to see that our behavior in the past was the cause of unhealthy relationships in our life. During this transition and transformation our behavior habits are changed and corrected automatically.
After restoring and demonstrating a responsibility to yourself, you naturally develop a desire for responsibility to community. You are able to sincerely
support others and genuinely share in the excitement of their successes.
Of course there are many other lessons to be learned and knowledge to be gained, a few examples; education, intellectual excellence, personal integrity,and faith. One step at a time we have experienced effectiveness and success through our therapeutic programs and treatments.
We believe in being examples of kindness, respect, love, and honesty, while providing these fine young men with vocational trades of all kinds. It is our goal to help them develop the tools needed for independent responsibility. Teaching through hands on experiences, the happiness, fulfillment, recognition, positive impact on their self-image, and the success that is achieved through
hard work.
We have witnessed this process transform young men into establishing a life that values freedom through responsibility. They have overcome fear and isolation. Let go of guilt and the past, they find the courage to embraced failure and view them as blessings that became lessons learned, experiences for growth and building up of character. They develop incredible leadership skills. Protected with insights and practical coping strategies to prevent the falling back on negative, oppositional behaviors.
This generation of young men are the future. We have the desire to offer them assistance and direction in helping them to discover their purpose, talents and their passions to create a change in the world. We encourage each to do his part in paving a way to peace, unity, faith, hope, and pure unconditional love for the next era and future generations. One lost soul at a time.
Lighting Your Way
If I was one thing, I'd be a candle~Lighting the way so you can handle~
Your life easier without woes~Not having to fight with your foes.
I'd help keep you from stumbling over~Things blocking your path to an open door~
If I light your path, life is easier~Even strong winds, my light will not deter.
No matter what, I'm here for you~To cheer you up when you are blue.
Do not fret when times get tough~If things look down or kind of rough.
Just remember, I'm always here...In your heart, close and near.
I will help you out in every way~Happiness and love in your heart will stay.
Don't blow me out, that's one request~Unless it's me you do detest.
I do not ever hurt anyone~Only good deeds are done.
But one day you may leave me behind~You may no longer need my light to shine.
If that day comes, go on your way~And I will hope to see you again one day.
If one day, I don't appear~Do not worry, do not fear~
I may be gone, but in your heart ~The light I gave you did not depart.
It will be there forever and a day~To always bring happiness and light your way.
Farewell for now,I'm needed elsewhere~If your path grows dark, in your heart, I'm there.
So I'm really not gone, just not seen~ I would not leave,I'm not that mean.
Only one simple request that I must say~Please, never forget those who lit your way.
I LOVE YOU BOEY!
I HOLD A CONSTANT PRAYER IN MY HEART FOR YOU AND FOR YOUR FAMILY!
YOU ARE A SHINING LIGHT TO US ALL, LITTLE WARIOR!
BOEY HUGS!!!!!!! MUAH!!!!!!!
I LOVE YOU BOEY!
It’s easy to act as if you are a weathervane, always changing your beliefs and words, trying to please everyone around you. But we were born to be lighthouses, not weathervanes.Imagine a vertical axis running through the center of your heart, from your deepest roots to your highest aspirations. That’s your lighthouse. It anchors you in the world and frees you from having to change directions every time the weather shifts.Inside this lighthouse there is a lens and a light. The light represents who you are when nobody else is looking. That light was meant to keep shining, no matter how dark or stormy it gets outside…when you find that light inside
you, you will know it. Don’t let anyone else dim it…and one more thing:REMEMBER TO LOOK FOR THE LIGHT INSIDE OTHERS. IF AT FIRST YOU CAN'T SEE IT, THEN LOOK DEEPER... IT'S THERE.
Isis ~MAKE A WISH~
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~MY ANGEL BROTHER BRAD~
"To bring you laughter each morning and warmth at night...
would bring me joy at all hours."
The heart is the center of the human energy system. The new field of energetic cardiology has revealed that the heart is more than a muscular pump. It has wisdom; it is the metaphysical and energetic center of love, and knowing. It is unfortunate that we have been taught to distrust the wisdom of our hearts. We have become disconnected from who we truly are—spiritual beings having a human experience!
A Forever Friend by Unknown
Sometimes in life, you find a special friend;
Someone who changes your life by being part of it.
Someone who makes you laugh until you can't stop;
Someone who makes you believe that there really is good in this world.
Someone who convinces you that there is an unlocked door
just waiting for you to open it.
This is Forever Friendship. When you're down,
and the world seems dark and empty,
Your forever friend lifts you up in spirit, and makes that dark and empty world
suddenly bright and full.
Your forever friend gets you through the hard times, and the sad times
and the confused times.
If you turn and walk away, your forever friend follows.
If you lose your way, your forever friend guides you and cheers you on.
Your forever friend holds your hand and tells you that everything is going to be a-okay.
And if you find such a friend, you feel happy and complete, because you need not worry, You have a forever friend for life, and forever has no end.
""When the heart sings and the spirit soars, the music of life is complete."
"Love is the music the heart sings best."
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Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself inorder to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.
Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express
his opinions courageously and honestly.
Victory
A failure makes a move to step forward,
It begins a life with ambitious victory,
A success brings endless happiness,
A failure brings memorized sadness.Failure after success is unmemorable,
But success after failure is memorable,
Life is a mixture of success and failure,
It comes and moves like clouds in the sky.A life with good effort fades the failure,
Failure falls like a dried leaves of a tree,
A metal of gold results after one melts it,
Likewise, one achieves success by their effort.A brave aim closes the doors of failure,
As it opens the golden doors of success,
Failure is step to light a candle in darkness,
To result as the light of evermore success.
Bitterness imprisons life~love releases it.
Bitterness paralyzes life~love empowers it. Bitterness sours life~ love sweetens it.
Bitterness sickens life~love heals it. Bitterness blinds life~ love anoints its eyes.
Life can seem ungrateful and not always kind.
Life can pull at your heartstrings and play with your mind...
Life can be blissful and happy and free...
Life can put beauty in the things that you see...
Life can place challenges right at your feet...
Life can make good of the hardships we meet...
Life can overwhelm you and make your head spin...
Life can reward those determined to win...
Life can be hurtful and not always fair...
Life can surround you with people who care...
Life clearly does offer its Up and its Downs...
Life's days can bring you both smiles and frowns...
Life teaches us to take the good with the bad...
Life is a mixture of happy and sad...
So...Take the Life that you have and give it your best...
Think positive, be happy let God do the rest...
Take the challenges that life has laid at your feet...
Take pride and be thankful for each one you meet...
To yourself give forgiveness if you stumble and fall...
Take each day that is dealt you and give it your all...
Take the love that you're given and return it with care...
Have faith that when needed it will always be there...
Take time to find the beauty in the things that you see...
Take life's simple pleasures let them set your heart free...
The idea here is simply to even the score...
As you are met and faced with Life's Tug of War
Our Deepest Fear
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light not our darkness, that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented,
and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God.
Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened
about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It is not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine,
we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
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Marianne Williamson
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Shadows of the Past
Cherokee towns standing silent in the sun.
Clear mountain streams,
Sweet and wholesome as they run.
Trees standing tall in Breath Givers sight.
Reaching up their arms,
In the early morning light.
The sun shines brightly off the temple mound at dawn.
My heart beats strong,
As I hear their powerful song.
The Shakers drive away,
All the fear, and doubt, and shame.
I know they see me here, and I know they're glad I came.
I see many things and the shadows that they cast.
And everywhere I turn,
I see Shadows Of The Past.
A lone rider moves cross the plains at close of day.
He gazes in my eyes,
And then slowly rides away.
Then I see the buffalo, and the giant prairie grass,
And everywhere I turn,
I see Shadows Of The Past.
I see the lodges pitched in a circle by the stream.
I see the peaceful people,
Live, and love, and hope, and dream.
I see many things and the shadows that they cast,
And everywhere I turn,
I see Shadows Of The Past.
I know they see me here, and I know they know my name,
And because of the shadows, I will never be the same.
I know in my heart,
All these things I have been shown,
And no matter where I am, I will never be alone.
I see all these things and the shadows that they cast.
And everywhere I turn,
I see Shadows Of The Past.
Three thousand years ago, there was
a Human just like you and me
who lived near a city
surrounded by mountains.
the human was studying to
become a medicine man, to
learn the knowledge of
his ancestors, but he didn't completely agree with
everything he was learning.
In his heart, he felt there
must be something more.
One day, as he slept in a cave,
he dreamed that he saw his
own body sleeping.
He came out of the cave
on the night of a new moon.
The sky was clear,
and he could see millions of stars. then something happened inside of him
that transformed his life forever.
He looked at his hands,
he felt his body,
and he heard his own voice say,
"I am made of light; I am made of stars." He looked at the stars again,
and he realized that it's not the stars that create light, but rather light that created the stars.
"Everything is made of light," he said,
"and the space in-between isn't empty."
And he knew that everything that
exists is one living being,
and that light
is the messenger of life,
because it is alive
and contains all information.
This is what he discovered: Everything in existence
is a manifestation
of the one living being we call God.
Everything is God.
And he came to the conclusion that human perception is merely light perceiving light.
He also saw that matter is a mirror --
everything is a mirror that reflects light and creates images of that
light --
and the world of illusion,
the DREAM, is just like smoke
which doesn't allow us to see
what we really are.
"The real Us is pure love."
A little boy asked his mother, "Why are you crying?" "Because I'm a woman," she told him."I don't understand," he said. His Mom just hugged him and said, "And you never will."Late r the little boy asked his father, "Why does mother seem to cry for no reason?""All women cry for no reason," was all his dad could say.The little boy grew up and became a man, still wondering why women cry.Finally he put in a call to God. When God got on the phone, he asked, "God, why do women cry so easily?"God said:"When I made the woman she had to be special.I made her shoulders strong enough to carry the weight of the world, yet gentle enough to give comfortI gave her an inner strength to endure childbirth and the rejection that many times comes from her children.I gave her a hardness that allows her to keep going when everyone else gives up, and take care of her family through sickness and fatigue with out complaining.I gave her the sensitivity to love her children under any and all circumstances, even when her child has hurt her very badly.I gave her wisdom to know that a good husband never hurts or cheats on his wife, but sometimes tests her strengths and her resolve to stand beside him.And finally, I gave her a tear to shed. This is hers exclusively to use whenever it is needed.""You see my son," said God, "the beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair.The beauty of a woman must be seen in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart - the place where love resides."
