Something more amazing : )

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous,

leading to the most amazing view.

May your mountains rise

into and above the clouds.

~Edward Abbey

A wish for you today, this day that your day be amazing!

Lets define amazing; From the Online Dictionary

–adjective

causing great surprise or sudden wonder.

Every step in life can be amazing if you use that definition you would have to agree.

The nightly news is amazing.

The person next to you driving by texting, reading, multitasking along who seems oblivious to anything around him.  That is amazing as well.

The world is full of amazing things.

Amazing - great surprise and wonder......

Watch this video....

 

Now that is amazing, wanted to share something that was shared by another.

The last line in the video

If you don't get a miracle.....Become one

We all can become amazing, we all have had that moment of surprise, awe, wonder when we became that amazing moment in the life of another.

Amazing....

Be that smile that lights another persons day

Be that laughter that is shared with another, lifts their spirit higher.

Be that change agent that makes a gloomy day something more, just because you were in it.

We can be all that and more, for ourselves, our family, and those around us.  Something More....

A quote that I will leave you with a Chinese proverb

I hear: I forget / I see: I remember / I do: I understand

Do something more...

Dream ~ Smile ~ Laugh~ Love always

and as always smiles sent out to you!  : )

09/30/11

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Aspirations and our faith in them, our view from below that reaches above

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.

I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty,

believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

~Louisa May Alcott

It is far better to aspire, to dream, to strive for what we wish than to ignore our spirit, our love and passion that we all carry within.

 

That is simply what I believe that so many from past experiences of failure or hurt truly just give in.  They long passed that 'why bother' sign post and they are about to turn on the crowded street called bitterness.

A quiet street for many, as they just hang out and stew. LOL

But know I see beauty in what I aspire to do. So should you.

Have that vivid, clear, colorful and rich picture of what you aspire to.  Make it bright, make it loud, make it fun these aspirations that reach to the sky, and dance in the sunshine.

Sometimes the sunshine of our aspirations blinds us and maybe thats why Louisa mentions that she tries to follow her aspirations where they may lead.  But she always believes in them.  She always had faith.  Faith in her aspirations, her view of the beauty of them.

Yesterday I listened to a audio version of Charles Stanley daily audio message.  Click on this link and you can go to this message.

He talks about our view of faith and how we can fail during the stages of faith in our daily walk.

Worth the listen.

The world is full of struggles.  The news is full of gloom.  The darkest hour can be turned around by the brightest second of faith that lasts first for a minute, then two, then ten minutes, then more.

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for,

the evidence of things not seen.

Hebrew 11:1

Louisa in her quote above had hope, saw beauty, attached faith and even with some doubt ignored it and reached for her aspirations.

So should we.... so should you.

We have the evidence in our heart of what we long for.

Some long for love, for passion.

Some long for comfort, for rest for they are weary.

Some long for hope, for a better time, a kinder gentler time.

The search for all of these start from within.

Love and you shall be loved.

Comfort and comfort will return to you.

Hope, and you will search the sunshine for your aspirations and maybe just maybe you will not reach them, but oh how the beauty of them will warm your soul and spirit.

Believe in them your aspirations and always try to follow where they lead you.  Dream big ~ Laugh often ~ Love Always!

Smiles sent your way   :  )

09/28/11

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Ocean waves, the power to soothe

“Why do we love the sea?

It is because it has some potent power

to make us think things we like to think.”

- Robert Henri

In general we love the sound, the touch, the smell of the ocean. We enjoy the feeling of being close to the power of the sea.

Never mind that our body is 60% water and our brain is over 70%.

Yes there is a connection to how empowered we feel next to flowing water, albeit the ocean or the river, or a stream that we stand in to fish.

We love to ski through frozen water, skate on a rink of water that is iced over.  We throw snow balls and make snow angels.

We don't cherish the same emotion with saw dust, or gravel, or boulders of stone.  We don't relish the trip to a desert to play in the sand dunes.

No....

But put sand by the beach, and we sit for hours not to soak in the sun but to listen to the waves take more of the land back into the sea.

We love that sound, we enjoy those waves touching our feet.

The sound and touch of water.

We love the long hot baths, we enjoy the soaking in salt for our tired feet.

We embrace the taste of water, iced over on a hot summer day.

"When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come,

I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out

with its great wide sounds, cleanses me with its noise,

and imposes a rhythm

upon everything in me that

is bewildered and confused."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

A wave machine has that effect, so do home videos from the beach trip, oh the sound of the ocean, the touch of the waves.

Oh how we long for thee.

The fall weather is here but the ocean still crashes in to the shore.

Taking back some of the sand dune, but still giving its love for all.

Enclosed or attached a video I hope you can relate to any day of the week....

 

It almost calls your name...asking you to jump in, to play and share in its beauty.

"For whatever we lose (like a you or a me)

it's always ourselves we find in the sea."

- E. E. Cummings

 

Have a great day and a awesome week   : )

 

Smiles sent your way   :  )

09/26/11

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