Long Darkness

 Nothing has been as it seems, or has it?Some lines from a movie I recently saw really hit home with me and put the past year into a weird perspective.  "I was sleeping peacefully in the midst of a long darkness.  It is good to sleep when you can't find the answers so I just...

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Waiting for Someday

If today is the day you will take your destiny into your hands, you will soon discover that you hold the keys of fate. The time we are blessed with is limited and tends to be used up all too quickly. How we utilize that time is consequently one of the most important decisions we make....

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Life's Best Moments

You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going.  What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith, and hope. Thomas Merton The roller coaster ride of emotions can...

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Everything Happens For A Reason

When all the pieces of our life don’t quite make sense, we can remember that there may be some hidden gem of a reason that we are where we are having the experiences we are having.  Source:  Daily Om There have been awful times in my life that I can look back and see some of...

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Refuse to be a victim

If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought. Peace Pilgrim "We focus on the negatives, losing ourselves in the ‘problem.’ We point to our unhappy circumstances to rationalize our negative feelings. This is the easy way out. It takes,...

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Growing Day by Day

Suffering is the sandpaper of our life.  It does its work of shaping us.  Suffering is part of our training  program for becoming wise. Ram Dass We understand that we want to be better but have no clear definition of what better means and that is part...

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Finding the key

"So often time it happens,  we all live our life in chains,  and we never even know  we have the key." The Eagles, lyrics from the song "Already Gone" The possibilities are endless when the realization hits that we hold the key to that...

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Putting perfectionism into perspective

Through the years, I've been able to shed some of the stereotypical traits of a perfectionist, but it has been a long journey that took me through bouts of depression. What I am about to say is going to come off sounding awful, but it is honest.  I could care less what others think...

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Burned out or slightly charred?

My brother was rushed to the hospital with chest pains last night . . . my mom ran off with my sister-in-law to Tallahassee where he lives and works during the week.  My mom recently had a heart attack . . . of course, I worry about her. Although I’m a Christian with a positive attitude...

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Humorous absurdities

All those little humorous absurdities that give us a laugh are a very important ingredient in maintaining peace and happiness. Not only is laughter an excellent stress reliever in times of high anxiety, it also helps to strengthen the immune system which is so vital to general good...

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