Good Intentions

Good Intentions is an interesting poem about life that points out how just having an intention to so something does not make it so. You need to take action on that intention. More importantly, you should ask yourself if what you intend to do is something that will be beneficial or detrimental to your life.

Thinking you would like a strong and healthy body will not - without effort on your part - make you an athlete. Thinking you would like to be kind or successful will not bring you gentleness or achievement if you stop with mere thinking. So, what are you intentions for today? And what actions will you take to achieve them?

Good Intentions
by St. Clair Adams

St. Clair Adams (?? - ??)

Born in Arkansas, 1883, St. Clair Adams received a University education and traveled extensively throughout Europe. Adams has resided at one time or another in nearly all sections of America doing miscellaneous literary and editorial work.

"Good Intentions" is found in the wonderful volume of life poems entitled "It Can Be Done: Poems of Inspiration" (Copyright 1925).

This large collection of poetry was collected and compiled by Joseph Morris (1889-1947) – an American author, poet, editor, and an educator at Miami University - and his colleague, St. Clair Adams. The purpose of this collection is to bring men and women courage and resolution, to cheer them and to fire them with new confidence when they grow dispirited, and to strengthen their faith with the knowledge that things CAN be done!

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