My Beautiful Mom ~

By Gabor Timis 
To my beautiful mom, who gave me life,
I can give nothing in return but my love.
To the star so full of guiding light,
to the one sent from heaven above.
You filled my days with rainbow lights,
fairytales and sweet dream nights.
You have kissed away my tears at night
You have hugged me with all your might
You are the sunlight in my day
You are the moon I see up and away
You are the one I lean upon
You are the one who makes my troubles gone.
Know that I love you more than anything
and I will love you to the end.
You are my mother first
then my very best friend.
To live forever is what I wish for you,
a long life for one so sacred and true.
Not often enough do I tell you
how much you truly mean to me
Not often enough do I show you
how your warm love set me free.
I thank you for your tender care,
For deep warm hugs and being there.
I thank you from the heart
for all you’ve done for me.
And I bless the Lord for giving me
the best mother there could be.

The Lord is my LIGHT

"The Lord is my light and my salvation." - Here is personal interest, "my light," "my salvation;" the soul is assured of it, and therefore, declaring it boldly. "My light" - into the soul at the new birth divine light is poured as the precursor of salvation; where there is not enough light to see our own darkness and to long for the Lord Jesus, there is no evidence of salvation. Salvation finds us in the dark, but it does not leave us there; it gives light to those who sit in the valley of the shadow of death. After conversion our God is our joy, comfort, guide, teacher, and in every sense our light; he is light within, light around, light reflected from us, and light to be revealed to us. Note, it is not said merely that the Lord gives light, but that he "is" light; nor that he gives salvation, but that he is salvation; he, then, who by faith has laid hold upon God has all covenant blessings in his possession. Every light is not the sun, but the sun is the father of all lights. This being made sure as a fact, the argument drawn from it is put in the form of a question, "Whom shall I fear?" A question which is its own answer. The powers of darkness are not to be feared, for the Lord, our light, destroys them; and the damnation of hell is not to be dreaded by us, for the Lord is our salvation. This is a very different challenge from that of boastful Goliath, for it is based upon a very different foundation; it rests not upon the conceited rigour of an arm of flesh, but upon the real power of the omnipotent I am. "The Lord is the strength of my life." Here is a third glowing epithet, to show that the writer's hope was fastened with a threefold cord which could not be broken. We may well accumulate terms of praise where the Lord lavishes deeds of grace. Our life derives all its strength from him who is the author of it; and if he deigns to make us strong we cannot be weakened by all the machinations of the adversary. "Of whom shall I be afraid?" The bold question looks into the future as well as the present. "If God be for us," who can be against us, either now or in time to come?

Be Well ~

'What the caterpillar perceives is the end, to the butterfly is just the beginning'
'Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well'

Crossing A Line ~

US. President Donald Trump warned Wednesday that the Assad regime had crossed a line with its latest alleged chemical attack and faces a U.S. response.
Trump described the strike on the opposition-held town of Khan Sheikhun as an “affront to humanity” and warned it had changed his view of the Russian-backed Assad regime.
Previously the White House has said its sole focus in Syria is defeating the Daesh terrorist group, not on ending Assad’s civil war against opposition fighters.
But Trump and other senior US officials said that the latest attack, which doctors say caused the agonizing deaths of at least 72 people, had changed the calculus.
And he renewed his criticism of his predecessor Barack Obama who in 2013 famously failed to take action after Assad crossed a “red line” with a previous chemical attack.
“It crossed a lot of lines for me,” Trump said, at a joint White House news conference with Jordan’s King Abdullah.
“When you kill innocent children, innocent babies, little babies … that crosses many, many lines, beyond a red line, many, many lines,” he warned.
“I will tell you, it’s already happened, that my attitude towards Syria and Assad has changed very much … You’re now talking about a whole different level.”

" My Heart Hurts "

KOEV LI HALEV (כואב לי הלב)

The translation is “my heart hurts” and it is used as a form of showing empathy for something or someone. It is used to say you identify with the suffering of someone else so much that it causes your own heart to ache.

40 of 50 headstones at French Jewish cemetery are smashed, toppled

40 of 50 headstones at French Jewish cemetery are smashed, toppled: The incident in the eastern village of Waldwisse was discovered a day after a Holocaust monument emblazoned with a Star of David was smashed in Greece.