Ruth's+Ruminations



**Guiding Questions: Who are we? How shall we live?**  As humans we are always concerned with what is next and we never really think about the now. We are constantly searching for some new thing that will bring us happiness and it never does. Some people spend their entire lives searching for something that will make them happy but they never find it. We need to slow down and take time out of our busy schedules (that we made that way) to look at the beauty around us and find happiness through God. We need to make life something more than money and material possessions. This can only be done by having faith that everything will turn out fine and that God is in control. I want to be faithful at all times, find the good and beauty in every person, and be the person that God made me to be.

 The future starts today, not tomorrow. So I'm anticonformity, I don't try too hard to be I'm not what you think you see Inside I've made a change And I'll never be the same. Who says I can’t be free?

 Your hands that shape the world Are holding me, they hold me still. When my world is shaking Heaven stands. When my heart is breaking I never leave You. Faith is the realization of what is hoped for and evidence of things not seen.



Questions of science, Science and progress, Do not speak as loud as my heart   Standing on the edge of something much too deep.   It’s funny how we feel so much but we cannot say a word   We are screaming inside, but we can’t be heard. 'Cause it's a bittersweet symphony this life.

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It's time to let go of everything we used to know. Ideas that strengthen who we've been It's time to cut ties that won't ever free our minds. So don't sit back and watch the days go by. Are you ever gonna live before you die? Life is God's most precious gift. Return to reason and faith There is still hope.

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Close your eyes there is magic inside you. <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> Every breath is a second chance. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. D <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">on't be so afraid of facing every day, just take your time, it's only life. <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> Be it life or death, we crave only reality.

<span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">But did there ever come a time When things weren't so defined? We've given new names To our hopes and our pain But love just gets harder to find. It's not what the world holds for you, it's what you bring to it. There is nothing perfect, there is only life.

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 * Life is life, fight for it.**

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