From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=141">wistful</a><BR>
Date: 28 July 2001<P>

HMS:  Thanks for the feedback on <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2001.07.27.03.28.17027">Undone</a>!  It’s so gratifying to know when you’ve connected with someone else.  This was one of those midnight inspirations that ~Harem~ and Kaleal1969 were chatting about: I was going to bed, took a quick look around my messy house, and the word “Undone” popped in my head.  And it wouldn’t leave.  So I got up, went to the whiteboard on my fridge and wrote “What in your life have you left undone?”  And went back to bed.  Still not enough.  So I got up, went to the PC, wrote the poem, and *finally* got to sleep!
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=74">Echolocation</a><BR>
Date: 28 July 2001<P>

B.K. -- Power of Myth is amazing -- so excited to find there are others out there touched by it!
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=74">Echolocation</a><BR>
Date: 28 July 2001<P>

Dubalpoet -- It has been stated **explicitly** that this is a site for romantic works.  Even the Bible says "There is a time to every purpose under heaven."  I don't think this is the time/place for your religious works, heartfelt and sincere thought they obviously are.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=10">Galadrial</a><BR>
Date: 28 July 2001<P>

http://pub49.ezboard.com/fpoetrylovers22018frm4<BR>
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       Dubal....<BR>
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               The link above is a good site for religious poetry...Tommy is a sweeheart, and will even help you make your own page. I know you feel the need to express your love of God...but the poetry lover's forum will welcome that sort of thing...<BR>
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               The Blender is about romantic love.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=4">TJ Holland</a><BR>
Date: 28 July 2001<P>

Well, Dubal, thank you for your response. I don't think you really addressed what I was asking you, but then I probably should have been clearer. <BR>
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As for your suggestion that I read the bible sometime...I am kind of put off by your blatant assumption that I haven't. I hope you don't feel that you are the only person who has a personal relationship with God. I HAVE read the Bible, from front to back 3 times and then in sections, according to what I need or am looking for, for the last 20 years or so. I am quite familiar with the book, and quite familiar with the nature of God (as I understand Him).<BR>
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From reading your comment I get the sense that you are the type of 'Christian' that really doesn't understand human nature, OR the nature of God, and you believe that you are better, smarter, or more special than people you have judged to be sinners or 'lessers' than yourself. To me, that in itself is a sin. You say that you are trying to assist in the salvation of others and that you won't be judged for their lack of response. I think that you probably WILL be judged for YOUR unrighteous passing of judgement. I say you should probably just worry about your own salvation, and the fact that you think it's "in the bag". That kind of attitude comes right before a big fall. <BR>
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I could quote quite a few scriptures that I could use to back me up on this but, as with most passages of the bible, we can twist them to mean what we want them to. And besides, I'm done with the religious conversation here. I didn't even want to encourage you that way this time around, but your comment was so judgemental and so arrogantly pious that I just couldn't NOT respond. Anyway, there's no need to respond to me on this. I won't be talking about it any more. You seem to get off on the attention and use that to get pack up on your pulpit. <BR>
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I regret that this is such a harsh comment, and I now realize you're oblivious to what anyone, besides yourself, is saying. I really don't mean to trash you in anyway, but I just had to get it all out. And I'm done.<BR>
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=5">jackryhme</a><BR>
Date: 28 July 2001<P>

umm Wind do you kinda see what i was talkin about on past history now?<BR>
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HMS  on your poem that was inspired by greysky's  i think in so simple a picture you discribed everthing i wanted to say and more ... thank you for this...  and lol we have coined a phrase, thanks to Gala, that we call "bumping", if a poem inspires us we "bump" it .. and i do thank you for the bump <BR>
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thanks Harem<BR>
lol you left me no room for modisty lol but im glad you enjoyed the poem<BR>
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DuDoll i hope for the best for you <BR>
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                              jackryhme aka  greysky
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=48">Laurel Ahlfeld</a><BR>
Date: 28 July 2001<P>

~*Zero#1*~ Done with the musical and back from Germany. How good it was to come home and read your writings. They're all wonderful. I'm partial to "At a Crossroads with a Drip" and "My Choice, My Decision" though. I miss talking to you. Call me and let me know how life is?
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=16">kevin urenda</a><BR>
Date: 28 July 2001<P>

Welcome back, Laurel!
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=141">wistful</a><BR>
Date: 28 July 2001<P>

I haven't been posting here long, but after reading one self-righteous remark from TheDubalPoet, whenever I see any submission by that name, I *bleep* over it without reading.  My eyes somehow automatically censor his/her off-topic remarks. . . Okay, that's already too much airtime . . .
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=48">Laurel Ahlfeld</a><BR>
Date: 28 July 2001<P>

~*Kevin*~ Thank you!! How I've missed being Blender-ified! It's good to be back home. It's suprising how home sick one can get over such a short period of time! I think it's easier when you have people(or jsut one person) at home who you miss terribly. Well, I'm off to see that person!! Whee!<BR>
Love Always,<BR>
Laurel
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=41">Du'Doll</a><BR>
Date: 28 July 2001<P>

Hey Everyone,<BR>
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Thank you so much for all of your comments.  Everything everyone said just told me is something I already knew.  I knew the answer all along.  I love this man.  I want to spend the rest of my life with him.  Honestly I couldn't see myself growing old, grey, and ugly with anyone else.  The first thing that is on my mind every morning is him.  All day I think about him, what he is doing, where he is, that sort of thing.  Then at night as I drift into a sleep full of dreams, my last thought is of him.  I always gave myself rules.  A certain plan that had to be followed.  He wasn't a part of it.  In fact I hated him for as long as I knew him!  But for five years he has kept trying.  All I did was say yes one time.  He has broken the wall that I had built around myself.  And in return I have learned how to break my own rules.  I have never felt so alive.  I know our marriage wouldn't be perfect, but we are both willing to stick through it and work hard.  Hopefully I won't have to move on to a second, but if so.  I won't, couldn't be able to consider him and I a mistake.  How will I know if he is the one unless I take a chance?  All I know, or need to know is that I love him.  Thanks so much everyone!<BR>
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Dubal Poet<BR>
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Sorry about all this, I know you are hurting right now.  I also know that I have let you down by choosing now to come to WOL.  But I am not supposed to go and I don't need to make excuses.  The world is not on your shoulders.  I love you.<BR>
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Du'Doll  
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=2">scqueen</a><BR>
Date: 28 July 2001<P>

BK ~ Drop everything! Go to the bookstore and buy "The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B." by Sandra Gulland.<BR>
There are two more in the trilogy but I'm just half way through the first. It's historical fiction and such a story!! I can't put it down. I think you'd love it :-)
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=230">Isabella Svenska</a><BR>
Date: 28 July 2001<P>

Stever - <BR>
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Thank you so much for the compliment on "Forgotten".  It is such a good feeling when someone is touched by what you write and actually takes the time to comment.  Thanks again!
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=29">~Harem~</a><BR>
Date: 28 July 2001<P>

To gardenguru ~<BR>
Thank you so much for your compliments!!!  <BR>
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I do have so much fun with writing....!!!!<BR>
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~Harem~
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