The Winds of Fate

One ship drives east and another drives west

With the selfsame winds that blow.

’Tis the set of the sails

And not the gales

Which tell us the way to go.

Like the winds of the sea are the ways of fate,

As we voyage along through life:

’Tis the set of a soul

That decides its goal,

And not the calm or the strife.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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The one who is taught the word 

is to share all good things with the one who teaches him.

Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; 

for whatever a man sows, this he will also reap.

For the one who sows to his own flesh 

will from the flesh reap corruption, 

but the one who sows to the Spirit 

will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

Galatians 6:6-8

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