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

Good Saturday Morning, Burroughs Posse Leader from an I don't know day in the Greater Boston Area! (Just woke up a but ago, but still in the sack on my phone; more to come shortly...

Today is: “Go with the Flow Day!” Why Not?

"Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed." - Heraclitus

"Going with the flow is for some people an excuse for not taking action and it refers usually to one's life situation." - Eckhart Tolle

"There is really nothing but the flow. You are not really on the bank. That, methinks, is the greatest illusion of all. You are the bank, the flow, the boat, the rudder." - Nicoletta Baumeister

"All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement." - Ovid

"Give fear no hold on you. Keep sinews loose and senses open, ready at every instant to flow with the rush of action." - Poul Anderson


And when free to sail the roads of life, remember...


“Every day on the open road on the motorcycle (Harley) is an adventure and you really have to go with the flow and be alert all the times! We need to be alert about veteran debt and how it’s affecting them and their families. We can’t allow that debt to go with the flow. We need to abolish it!" — COL (Ret) Mikel Burroughs
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Good Saturday morning Col Burroughs and Posse. I love the photos Col B...amazing. Just glad you are riding safely and I hope for better weather for you.
You are a wonderful example of how to "go with the flow" as you travel around the country raising funds for RIP Medical Debt and raising awareness of the issues that confront veterans in so many ways.
I used to think I knew the way things should be and I would fight to make things work out the way that I thought they should. As I have grown in experience, I've learned to let go of those expectations and be more of a go with the flow...things happen not in my time but in God's time and nothing I do will change those outcomes. I can change my attitude about it all but I can't change the way things will be. I find many of my clients also come to that realization after a while.





MSgt Danny Hope SFC Richard Williamson SGT Mark Halmrast PO3 Phyllis Maynard SSG Derrick Iozzio SSgt Alia Schenck 1st Lt Padre Dave Poedel Kirk Poe

“Go with the Flow Day!”
1. Be at the center of the flow.
2. I flow with the LORD's guidance each day as I seek HIS will for who and what to pray for.

Good Saturday morning, June 5, 2021 my friend COL Mikel J. Burroughs


Quotes
1. Leon Brown '“You must let life flow naturally, for life’s secret is patience; you must stop pushing for change and allow things to unfold.'
2. Garth Brooks 'You know a dream is like a river; Ever changing as it flows. And a dreamer's just a vessel that must follow where it goes. Trying to learn from what's behind you And never knowing what's in store. Makes each day a constant battle Just to stay between the shores.
3. Elizabeth Cady Stanton 'The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.'
4. Washington Irving 'Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.'
5. Antoine de Saint-Exupery 'For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.'
6. Ella Wheeler Wilcox 'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.'

Scripture:
a. John 7:37-39 ESV On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’” Now this he said about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were to receive, for as yet the Spirit had not been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.'
b. Psalm 147:16-18 ESV 'He gives snow like wool; he scatters frost like ashes. He hurls down his crystals of ice like crumbs; who can stand before his cold? He sends out his word, and melts them; he makes his wind blow and the waters flow.'
c. James 1:12 ESV 'Blessed is the man who perseveres under trial, because when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love Him.
d. Hebrews 12:1-2 ESV 'Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.'
e. Colossians 2:7 ESV Let your roots grow down into him, and let your lives be built on him. Then your faith will grow strong in the truth you were taught, and you will overflow with thankfulness.
f. Psalm 23:4-5 ESV ‘Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.’
I pray LORD that YOU cleanse each of YOU adopted sons and daughters of any impurity which inhibits YOUR love from flowing through us. I pray that YOUR light shines through each of when we enter a room, home, mode of common transportation. Empower us bring calm and peace into areas of turmoil. Enable our smile to be contagious. ‘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 ESV]
Thank YOU, LORD for rain, sunshine, budding blossoms, pollination of flowers, flowing streams, meadows and urban parks. YOU bless the creation with common grace and special grace for YOUR own adopted sons and daughters. I pray that each of us are thankful for all you do including the challenges and testing YOU enable us to go through to mature us and strengthen our character. ‘we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.’ [Romans 5:3b-5 ESV]
I lift disabled veterans and their family members; disabled policemen and women, disabled firefighters and their family members to YOU LORD. I pray that YOU guide the mind and hands of each person treating, ministering to, preparing for surgery, operating on, assisting recovery for, and transporting to and from appointments. ‘Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.’ [Psalm 23:4-5 ESV]
I pray for relief to the meat industry facilities and distribution systems and fuel industry pipeline distribution systems disrupted by cyberattacks. I pray for effective industry and corporate defenses from cyberattacks for the food industries and distribution systems as well at the fuel networks. I pray that YOU bless the employees of food industry retail and wholesale distribution networks and points of sale struggling to support the grocery needs for people facing shortages of meat, etc. with stamina and endurance in doing good. 'Blessed is the man who perseveres under trial, because when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love Him.’ [James 1:12 ESV]

Image: Flow

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Sade - Flow (Lovers Live)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gz_tx_v7qV0