The Colonel's Motivational/Inspirational Quotes and Message of the Day!

Good morning Col Burroughs and Posse. Looks like a very productive trip. Can't wait to hear about it.
Soaring or flying high doesn't require physical strength. It requires personal courage. It means you have what it takes to be different in some way and to honor that individuality. Spiritual or intellectual, creative mind, that's what soaring is all about. Don't let the doubts of others anchor you to the ground.






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Good “Tuesday!” Morning “Burroughs’ Posse Leader from a high overcast day here in the Greater Boston Area... I am sure that your weather in Puntarenas Province will be much better! Have an awesome day, my friend!

Today’s Message is: “Soar Day!” Why Not?

"The courage to soar to great heights is inside all of us." - Kerri Strug

"People who soar, are those who refuse to sit back and wish things would change." - Charles R. Swindoll

"But meditate now on steadfastness and clarity, and let those be the wings that lift and soar through the celestial spheres." - Rumi

"Celebrate your success and stand strong when adversity hits, for when the storm clouds come in, the eagles soar while the small birds take cover." - Napoleon Hill

It is not that we love to be alone, but that we love to soar, and when we do soar, the company grows thinner and thinner until there is none at all. …We are not the less to aim at the summits though the multitude does not ascend them." - Henry David Thoreau

And as we go forward in life, keep in mind that...

"Great leaders will soar like Eagles." — COL (Ret) Mikel Burroughs

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It is more noble to soar with the eagles than gorge with the vultures [which can also soar] :-)
1. Birds can soar through the air. Insects can soar including butterflies, Fish, sea mammals and other denizens of the deeps soar through the water.
2. While we are land bipeds, we can physically soar through technology in planes, rockets, space shuttles and hot air balloons including blimps.
3. Our imagination can soar through reading books of all sorts, listening to music, and simply imagining. It is wise to encourage children to imagine especially through listening to stories and reading on their own, IMHO.

Good Tuesday, April 27, 2021 afternoon my friend COL Mikel J. Burroughs

Quotes:
1. Oswald Chambers 'Remember Whose you are and Whom you serve. Provoke yourself by recollection, and your affection for God will increase tenfold; your imagination will not be starved any longer'
2. C. S. Lewis 'Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.'
3. Walt Disney 'Laughter is timeless, imagination has no age, and dreams are forever.'
4. Leonardo da Vinci 'Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination while awake.
5. Books give a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything


Scriptures:
a. 2 Corinthians 4:16-18 ESV 'So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction'
b. Acts 17:29 ESV 'Being then God’s offspring, we ought not to think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of man.'

I lift parents, guardians, grandparents and extended family who are caring for young children to YOU LORD. I pray that those caring for the young are wise enough to read to them while they are young, encourage imagination, encourage their natural curiosity, listen to their hopes and dreams, and help them to yearn to learn and succeed. 'Uphold me according to your promise, that I may live, and let me not be put to shame in my hope! Hold me up, that I may be safe and have regard for your statutes continually!’ [Psalm 119:116-117 ESV]
I pray for compassion and sufficient fruit of the spirit gentleness, goodness, and kindness for each and every adopted son and daughter of God who reads or hears this prayer. LORD I am thankful that YOU are in complete control of every aspect of our life and all of creation. By YOUR grace, YOU renew the mind of each of YOUR own by the washing of YOUR word. Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from your presence, and take not your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of your salvation and uphold me with a willing spirit. [Psalm 51:10-12]
I pray that you and your family members sleep well Tuesday night and will awake refreshed and healthy on Wednesday morning.
By the power and authority of the Name above all names, Jesus the Christ.


Images
1. Stoking Imagination
2. Leonardo da Vinci 'Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination while awake.
3. Flight of the Imagination by Roberto Berteros


Thank you my friends Sgt (Join to see) and Lt Col Charlie Brown for mentioning me.

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Dave Davies - Imaginations Real
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idWtZ9ddP7w&list=PLB94BF9D0721FE2B7&index=9