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I BUILT A NEW SITE AND INVITE YOU TO VISIT IT-- SPIRIT SOARS. EXPLANATIONS OF THE WORLD RELIGIONS, MEMORIAL GARDENS, INSPIRATION AND MUCH MORE.

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I created this site to connect with and bring together like-minded people and to hopefully inspire, encourage or warm your heart. Here you can relax, find a safe haven at which you can meet others, find something which resonates with you, or send  in a piece you have written to share with our visitors. I believe there is now an evolution going on, around the world. People want to connect in a deeper, more spiritual way. In this fast paced, hectic life we live, people need more time to slow down, meditate, quiet their minds and nourish their souls. I believe people, like myself,  want more meaning in their lives~~ more joy, more fun, more harmony, more love, more balance and peace. We realize now that  happiness and joy come from within. I am so glad you came. Welcome to my home online. If you were here with me, I'd put on some music, break out the munchies to chat over and we'd 'connect' on a Soul level~ I hope to do that here.

I am Iris S. I love animals~~ especially cats, music, reading, gardening and sharing with my friends.  I realize now I am a soul with a personality, not a personality with a soul. I want to create a life of harmony, cooperaion, love, joy and reverence for life. I am working toward authentic power (as Gary Zukav would say). 

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Waking up this morning, I smile
Twenty Four brand new hours are before me.
I vow to live fully each moment and to look at all
beings with eyes of compassion.
                 ~Thich Nhat Hanh
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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, "Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of GOD.
Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure.
You were born to make manifest the glory of GOD that is within us.
It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fears, our presence automatically liberates others.
                              Marianne Williamson
THE JOURNEY
My soul is yearning for something
I'm searching everyday
I don't know what I'm looking for
But the ache won't go away.

I read and search and question myself
To worship I go each week
I speak to friends and supporters
For I know there are others who seek.

I ask each day for clarity
and strength to see me through
I ask for what the lessons are
I'm told, " they're within you".

I still don't really understand
I'm trying hard to know
"Don't try so hard, get out of the way,
You must seek and then let go"

The journey is confusing
The answers I don't have
The only thing I really know
Is to love along the path--
         Iris Sauber, Copyright 2000
SINCE HOMESTEAD LOST MY ORIGINAL GUESTBOOK, WHICH IS MOST UPSETTING TO ME, I AM HOPING THAT RETURN VISITORS WHO SIGNED MY FIRST BOOK WILL SIGN THE ONE THAT IS HERE NOW. IT DOES SUPPORT HTML THANKS SO MUCH. -- IRIS
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Everybody can be great because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love.
               Dr. Martin Luther King
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Glimpses of My Soul

Yesterday a butterfly
Came floating gently through the sky.
He soared up through the atmosphere
Then drifted close enough to hear.
I said, I'd love to fly with you
And sail around the way you do.
It looks like it would be such fun
To fly up toward the summer sun
But I have not your graceful charm.
I haven't wings, just these two arms.
I've been designed to walk around.
My human feet must touch the ground.
Then magically he spoke to me
and told me what his wish would be.
He said, "What I'd love most to do
Is walk upon God's Earth with you,
To squish it's mud between my toes
Or touch my finger to my nose.
I'd love just once to walk around
With human feet to touch the ground,
But I have not two legs that swing,
I haven't arms, just these two wings."
And so we went our separate ways
In wonder and surprise.
For we'd both seen God's precious gifts
Through someone else's eyes.

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     May the door of this home be wide enough             to receive all who hunger for love
all who are lonely for friendship
  May it welcome all who have cares to unburden,
  thanks to express, hopes to nurture.
  May the door of this house be narrow enough
  to shut out pettiness and pride, envy and enmity.
May its threshold be no stumbling block
to young or strained feet.
May it be too high to admit complacency,
selfishness and harshness.
May this home be for all who enter,
the door to richness and a more meaningful life.
                               --The siddur of shir chadash
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