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What if you saw it differently?
How easy it is to be frustrated, annoyed, and stymied on our path.
And yet - what might happen if you saw those happenings, inconveniences...
...as messages from God?
What if you saw a lesson? Or, a possible new direction?
What if you saw a reminder to trust, to have faith?
You can, you know.
It has been said that while some things are completely out of your control,
...the vast direction of your life is due to your own perspectives.
Which determines your responses.
How easy it is to be frustrated, annoyed, and stymied on our path.
And yet - what might happen if you saw those happenings, inconveniences...
...as messages from God?
What if you saw a lesson? Or, a possible new direction?
What if you saw a reminder to trust, to have faith?
You can, you know.
It has been said that while some things are completely out of your control,
...the vast direction of your life is due to your own perspectives.
Which determines your responses.
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What is the ever-so-much-better result in your life?
Claude and I have been talking about
How we make plans and set goals...
and then take steps toward those goals,
And sometimes it seems God’s answer is “No.”
Then, amazingly, in time to come,
As life goes on and we are doing things differently
From the original plan,
God says, “Yes”.
And it’s ever-so-much better than our original goal.
Like a house we tried to buy some years back,
No matter what we tried, and BOY! Did we try!.
So, we found another house, which
Now, we know, is an ever-so-much-better house.
Trust.
Keep moving toward.
Keep trusting.
And see what happens.
Love,
Claude and I have been talking about
How we make plans and set goals...
and then take steps toward those goals,
And sometimes it seems God’s answer is “No.”
Then, amazingly, in time to come,
As life goes on and we are doing things differently
From the original plan,
God says, “Yes”.
And it’s ever-so-much better than our original goal.
Like a house we tried to buy some years back,
No matter what we tried, and BOY! Did we try!.
So, we found another house, which
Now, we know, is an ever-so-much-better house.
Trust.
Keep moving toward.
Keep trusting.
And see what happens.
Love,
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You just never know…
You just never know something that happens in your life
Changes your life’s direction forever.
Like a person you chat with at the store,
Or on the elevator, on the plane.
Like the car-trouble you have at the most inopportune time,
And somehow, the way it works out.
A health discussion on social media,
(Like the thousands of people diagnosed with cancer
-even “Stage 4”,
Who followed an unexpected medication
And are now NO EVIDENCE OF DISEASE.
DM me if you want more on that!)
You Just never know..
Keep the faith.
Keep an open mind.
And know there are SO many possibilities!
Love,
You just never know something that happens in your life
Changes your life’s direction forever.
Like a person you chat with at the store,
Or on the elevator, on the plane.
Like the car-trouble you have at the most inopportune time,
And somehow, the way it works out.
A health discussion on social media,
(Like the thousands of people diagnosed with cancer
-even “Stage 4”,
Who followed an unexpected medication
And are now NO EVIDENCE OF DISEASE.
DM me if you want more on that!)
You Just never know..
Keep the faith.
Keep an open mind.
And know there are SO many possibilities!
Love,
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In our humanness, we stop being amazed at the goodness, the joy, the miracles,
That we forget to feel that rush of gratitude.
Look for it.
Notice the simplest things that are good today.
Enjoy the day.
Love,
That we forget to feel that rush of gratitude.
Look for it.
Notice the simplest things that are good today.
Enjoy the day.
Love,
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When you can't control that stressful situation
All you can do is turn it over to God.
As we send our angst into the ether,
where we imagine All-providing Abundance & Joy is,
We have controlled ourself.
And it feels ever-so much better.
Love,
All you can do is turn it over to God.
As we send our angst into the ether,
where we imagine All-providing Abundance & Joy is,
We have controlled ourself.
And it feels ever-so much better.
Love,
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I loved someone saying recently, “Treat a rude person with love and respect.
Not because they are nice,
But because you are.
And, bet you will be surprised how often their nice pops out!
Love,
Not because they are nice,
But because you are.
And, bet you will be surprised how often their nice pops out!
Love,
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Worry.
When your mind fills with thoughts, notice how many are “worry” type thoughts.
Often the greatest majority are!
Turn them over. Ask God to take the negative, the worry.
Fill your. Mind with gratitude.
You can start anytime.
And change your day to better.
When your mind fills with thoughts, notice how many are “worry” type thoughts.
Often the greatest majority are!
Turn them over. Ask God to take the negative, the worry.
Fill your. Mind with gratitude.
You can start anytime.
And change your day to better.
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Most of us want “A” level results.
Yet, if we only put out “B” level effort, we will get “B”.
As Mike Dooley reminds us, “Prepare for “A”.
"You have the best chance of making your “A”.
“It's a matter of switching gears, never looking back, and being the person today that you've always dreamed you'd be.
"Entertain every thought, say every word, and make every decision from their point of view. Walk the way they would walk, dress the way they would dress, and spend your free time the way they would spend theirs. Choose the friends they would choose, eat the meals they would eat, and love and appreciate yourself the way they would.
"After all, that person is who you really are.”
- Mike Dooley
It’s a lovely reminder to step “outside” of ourself and be who we really are.
Enjoy.
And love,
Yet, if we only put out “B” level effort, we will get “B”.
As Mike Dooley reminds us, “Prepare for “A”.
"You have the best chance of making your “A”.
“It's a matter of switching gears, never looking back, and being the person today that you've always dreamed you'd be.
"Entertain every thought, say every word, and make every decision from their point of view. Walk the way they would walk, dress the way they would dress, and spend your free time the way they would spend theirs. Choose the friends they would choose, eat the meals they would eat, and love and appreciate yourself the way they would.
"After all, that person is who you really are.”
- Mike Dooley
It’s a lovely reminder to step “outside” of ourself and be who we really are.
Enjoy.
And love,
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What is Self-made success?
One day, I overheard a question asked our then-teenaged daughter by her friend's mother; “Who taught you to play the piano so beautifully?
Having listened to our three children practice each afternoon while I cooked supper, and hearing our daughter play classical pieces, and always feeling so grateful that I had been able to teach each to play, and grateful each had taken on the needed practice, my ears perked up for her answer to this mother’s question.
“I taught myself,” was her answer.
My ego felt a bit deflated.
Yet, indeed, through her practice, she had learned to play. While I believed, encouraged (read that, insisted) on daily practice, and I invested time and energy into weekly sit-down lessons with each child, my awareness shifted to gratitude for being that for her. For without that, she would not have “taught herself.”
Invest in others.
Be a light-worker.
Take the time, energy and effort to do so.
One day, I overheard a question asked our then-teenaged daughter by her friend's mother; “Who taught you to play the piano so beautifully?
Having listened to our three children practice each afternoon while I cooked supper, and hearing our daughter play classical pieces, and always feeling so grateful that I had been able to teach each to play, and grateful each had taken on the needed practice, my ears perked up for her answer to this mother’s question.
“I taught myself,” was her answer.
My ego felt a bit deflated.
Yet, indeed, through her practice, she had learned to play. While I believed, encouraged (read that, insisted) on daily practice, and I invested time and energy into weekly sit-down lessons with each child, my awareness shifted to gratitude for being that for her. For without that, she would not have “taught herself.”
Invest in others.
Be a light-worker.
Take the time, energy and effort to do so.
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Remember The Little Engine that Could?
“I think I can; I think I can.”
If you think you can then it is possible.
If you think you cannot, then you are right.
"I think I can. I think I can. I think I can. I know I can.”
― Watty Piper, The Little Engine That Could
“I think I can; I think I can.”
If you think you can then it is possible.
If you think you cannot, then you are right.
"I think I can. I think I can. I think I can. I know I can.”
― Watty Piper, The Little Engine That Could
