Cultivate
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The solution is not the focus when the black and white make gray.
It’s cultivating yourself as you move along the way.
Less judgement, more compassion, less winning and being right;
More kindness and understanding to infuse upon the fight.
Problems and disagreements may not untangle or be solved,
But your thoughts and your emotions can always be resolved.
The answer is not the focus when the black and white make gray.
It’s cultivating yourself as you move along the way.
More warmth, less condemnation, more awareness and empathy;
Less anger, more forgiveness, more faith and sensitivity.
Problems and disagreements may not untangle or be solved,
But what you think and what you feel can always be resolved.
- Lisa Murphy Taylor © 2020
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Photography by Karen Erdman
Love Is The Power
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LOVE is the power, as it was and so always shall be.
It has no limitations, nor will it for eternity.
Love can find a way when all senses proclaim there is none.
Love invokes all miracles and believes they are already done.
LOVE is the power. It surprises with what it can do.
It knows your heart’s desires and will manifest them through.
Love can find an answer when all senses proclaim none exist.
Love won’t forsake or give up. It will always lead and persist.
LOVE is the power. It’s no prisoner and always commands.
It’s not bound by rules or laws and no slave to illusions demands.
Love can send a message through the arteries of the heart.
Love can reach any loved one no matter the distance apart.
- Lisa Murphy Taylor © 2019
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Full Happiness (Love)
What if trials and tribulations were to lead and point the way?
What if all our earthly challenges served to build our resume?
Now and then, our souls need contrast to help us choose a lane.
Sometimes we grow in empathy through necessary pain.
Another rung on our ladder. Another guiding stepping stone.
Moving closer to the place where full happiness can be known.
What if setbacks and injustices were to lead and point the way?
What if all our earthly challenges served to build our resume.
Love will get us there, under darkness or under the sun.
Love will get us there, through ups and downs of “Thy Will Be Done.”
Another rung on our ladder. Another guiding stepping stone.
Moving closer to the place where full happiness can be known.
-Lisa Murphy Taylor, © 2025