Finding Gratitude even when grief hits your life

You fall out of your mother's womb,

you crawl across open country under fire,

and drop into your grave.  

~Quentin Crisp

And this we should be grateful for?   The answer plain and simple, yes!

Perhaps Mr. Crisp left us with a very sarcastic view of our existence or perhaps he was a bit cynical.  Need to know more of when he used this and how it was meant.

But the quote does give much meaning to those who choose to crawl through life.  Those who crawl through life with little purpose, little meaning doing what they think life should be and not written goals.  Why would anyone choose to do that.  Ignorance?  Lack of focus on a much bigger picture?  Lack of faith?

No - life is meant to be lived with a passion in it.  We should never crawl or grovel over life.  We should be passionate and full of wonder of what will come out of the next step.

Life is meant for living, not just existence.

Hey I understand all to well that life does throw you a high fast ball and yes sometimes you will feel true grief maybe even frustration.

But the pain of life will leave lessons and you will at some point understand the message and lesson.  Life and its failures will leave clues that point to success.

We all can lift are head to the heavens and ask the question 'Why me Lord'

and we should but after we ask it, we should be quiet and still and listen for the answer.  It will come.....  We all have a purpose in life and even when life has given you that high fast ball, try to get out the way of it.

But......

If it does happen to hit and it may, understand that this too shall pass.

Turn to prayer for guidance.

Turn to gratitude for the many blessings that we all truly have.

Turn to laughter because you know understand that you 'should have ducked'

Love and laughter and smiles sent to you this day : )

09/15/11

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Walking Through Wednesday *New* ~August 31, 2011

Happy Wednesday everyone and welcome and walk with me through another great day, Today is your day!  You make the smile from your heart and share it with everyone but always share the first one with yourself!  Your day will go much better and practice does make perfect.

So last day of a formatted post.  In the future the post will have its title but no mention of the day within the post.  The line up for each day will have a theme but not necessarily a formatted title.  Tomorrow is day one of the new month and I will share with you then the flow and intentions.

But for today a walk through Wednesday and the last day of August 2011. 

What ever happened in your month walk with your head held high, looking ahead not with your eyes looking down.  If you look out far enough in front you will still be able to prevent most problems.  But you also will have the sky and the horizon in your sight.

Looking down does little for the spirit, and nothing for the heart.

Smile and share that first smile with that morning mirror.

Love and share that with all even those who may hurt or dismay you.

Share in the Gratitude that resonates in your soul.

Pray to God for wisdom and direction in your daily activities and forgive those who may have hurt you.  They really have no control of your spirit and soul, only you can allow them to harm you.

Just some thoughts on my daily outlook for today and September 2011.

The month is coming to a close.

The new month awaits us all!

A quote about looking ahead:

Finish each day and be done with it.  

You have done what you could;

some blunders and absurdities have crept in;

forget them as soon as you can.  

Tomorrow is a new day;

you shall begin it serenely and

with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

 ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Finish each day and be done with it what true words Mr. Emerson shared.

I also share with you this quote to ponder today:

We crucify ourselves between two thieves:  

regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow.  

~Fulton Oursler

Never let your self become that thief.  Stay focused in the task at hand.

Focused not on your past mistakes or others misgivings to you.

Something I too need to incorporate in my life.

With prayers I enter into that direction.  Prayers sent up each day.

May God gently guide you into your new day.

May smiles easily flow from your lips. 

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Take Charge Tuesday *New* ~ August 30, 2011

A very happy Tuesday sent out to you today : )  Almost the end of August and a new month, with new challenges, new visions and new opportunities.


May this month ahead be your month!


I don't often or have not often shared to much personal happenings in my life on here.  In fact starting in September I probably will share even less in my daily posts.  These posts are meant to inspire and entertain not share the stuff I am going through.  I write out of inspiration and not what I am experiencing at any given moment.


My wife, my love Janice has decided to move on and move back to MI.  There I said it. Yep, done shared and yes I am indeed saddened, angry, upset, sleepless, unexplainable to my logic and common sense.  I personally can't explain it other than she misses her family, ie. her son.


Now my feeling is her son chose to leave her before I came in the picture and she came because of what she saw and new from prior experiences with me. She made some vows last October to marry me, honor, share, in sickness and in health ....oh stop .....never mind that not many people honor those vows anymore.


Oh sure they do if they were raised in the 30's and 40's maybe the 50's but something happened to America in the 60's.  Marriage has become a new wallet to hold pictures and memories and discard when it become old or faded. Marriage has become like a women's purse fashionable when it goes with the event or outfit but discarded for something else later on.  How sad.....


So on my heart will go, flow but not cease of course.  The pain of heartache is unexplainable but of course songs have been made, movies produced and words written to explain it but only if your in the trench of a current outbreak can you understand that those forms of explanation fall short.


I thank those on Face Book who comforted me yesterday, your messages, chats helped me and I value your friendship.  Thank you.



So back to the post.... Taking Charge is the message and of course in September the format or titles will change but this last Tuesday in the month we shall stick with empowerment of taking charge.


First a quote:

God can heal a broken heart,

but He has to have all the pieces.

~Author Unknown

Every morning I give my heart to God, in prayer and in thought.  It keeps me focused and gives me a sense of his strength and outlook for our lives.

God created us to be happy, strong, independent and interdependent of him and his word.  Plain and simple and very clear in his instruction.

His word has that power to instruct and I seek his direction and will for my life daily.

The word overcome came to me last night.  What a interesting dual intent word.

Lets define (Collins English Dictionary)

overcome

1. to get the better of in a conflict

2. often passive - to render incapable or powerless by laughter, sorrow, exhaustion, etc. he was overcome by fumes

3. to surmount (obstacles, objections, etc.)

4.  to be victorious

What a dual word you can overcome in victory and be overcome with defeat.

You can overcome a sickness or illness or be overcome with the same.

Its not like the word Victory, or Good and contrasted bad.

A very unique word that begs for other words to explain its meaning.  How powerful this word but how weak the absence of others to help in its development.

My thoughts for my day to day is to overcome in the positive sense,  Overcome objections in the process of selling, Overcome any heartache in the process of healing.

May smiles be plentiful for you all this day.

May love find you and the simplest of ways.

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