Twenty Thousand Little Ways

“The world is not a dream, but a reality, of

which we are the chief part, and in which we

must be up and doing something...Come out into

the world about you, be it either wide or

limited. Sympathize, not in thought only, but in action, with

all about you. Make yourself known and felt for

something that would be loved and missed, in

twenty thousand little ways, if

you were to die; then your life will be

a happy one, believe me.”

~ Charles Dickens

There are probably more than 20,000 little ways that you can make a difference in this world.  I like to stay on top of a few that I will repeat here.  These are little things and they take little time but will make all the difference not only in your life but in the life of others.

What are they? The word share is in front of all of these, but it must start with you.

A kind word - a sincere smile - laughter that is contagious

Joy -gratitude that is spoken - your acceptance - your love

Your imagination - your dreams -  your values

That is ten I think but they to me are so very important to share.

Yesterday I led with a quote that Steve Jobs shared with the world.

He wanted to put a ding on the universe with his products and his life. He did....

He shared a kind word and kept his family life private and personal.

He would share his love for his family thats clear but he protected them.  He made them feel safe and secure.

You can't say he did not share a smile or laughter.  His speeches and public appearances where full of laughter and smiles and in fact plenty of joy and love.

He had passion for life.

He accepted people, oh sure he wanted people to perform for him and his vision, his dreams, his value for a successful life are all within his 2005 speech to Stanford University's graduating class.

He shared his gratitude for the customer, for the Apple family that purchased, shared, loved, accepted and enjoyed the products.

He was full of imagination.  He was a dreamer that thought different.  He did not care about the status quo and when someone said it won't work, or it won't be popular, he did not care.  He pushed forward anyway.

He lived with his own values and beliefs and he pushed on and inspired others.

You can do the same, maybe you are not the CEO or founder of the next Apple.  But you are the CEO of you, the founder of your family, a mother, a father, a friend, a lover, a partner you are creating something and why not dream and reach for the stars.

Why not share a sincere smile everyday.

Why not?

Make that difference in your world.

Dream Big!

Share Love, laughter, joy and hope.

Yeah that 11 right, sharing hope.  Giving someone a shoulder to lean on.  Giving them the knowledge and belief that they are worthy, the road is clear ahead, this is the road map, here is a smile for you, oh yeah some laughter as well.  Things will get better here is why.

Words of hope for a soul that seeks it and often finds little.

Oh sure, we are truly responsible or our results, our thoughts and actions.  We need to be that for ourselves and our family.

But what is so wrong with our world when we if we took the time to share some hope and those ten other things listed above.  What difference would it make.

Could it save a teen from killing them self?

Could it save a young woman from selling her self?

Could it help a homeless person stand a little taller and have hope?

Could it inspire the next Steve Jobs to work in his families garage?

What if it could?  What if it does?

Is the effort worth the result that comes from it?

Just some thoughts.....

I write to get to you thinking, to inspire, to lift, to bring hope.....

I share my love and smile through these words, for you.

I cry out and have my own fears, my own solitude, my own sorrow but when that smile is shared with me, I smile.  When I hear laughter I laugh.

Do I dream....you bet.  Do I share gratitude spoken aloud, for sure.  Do I want to make a small ding in the universe?  Sure....

So I will.......

Picking up that hammer and tapping away, one smile, one post, one kind word, one shared laugh, one day at a time.

So should you....make your ding in the world.  Share, care and love.  Enjoy your day!

As always smiles sent your way !  : )

10/07/11

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On solitude, on being still, and quiet and making the time to listen

It is only when we silent the blaring sounds of our daily existence that

we can finally hear the whispers of truth that life reveals to us, as

it stands knocking on the doorsteps of our hearts.

~K.T. Jong

After you read this post and before you go on to your next make some deliberate time for solitude.  Be still and be quiet.

Listen to your whispers of truth, just be still and listen.

Present your most pressing or dominant problem or life struggle and be still.

Be quiet...... Listen to the silence, to your inner most thoughts.

Silently and with out hurry lift your pain, your worries, your noise up to God in prayer.  Give thanks for all that you have that is good and ask for the wisdom, admit your weakness and turn the problem over to God and listen to the whispers of truth that your heart already knows, its knocking, do you hear it?

Only in quiet waters do thing mirror themselves undistorted.

Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.

~Hans Margolius

A quiet mind, no noise, no music, no t.v. perhaps a walk and a sit in natures glory.  But no noise, no sitting in traffic is noise.  Find that quiet place, a lake, an empty park, a quiet forest.

Listen and be quiet and sit still from all the noise this world has a habit, a daily habit of presenting.

Be still

Be quiet

Pray

Give thanks

Present your troubles to God

Listen

Be still

Be quiet

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone, and

that's where I renew my springs that never dry up.

~Pearl Buck

Renew your springs of joy, of laughter, wear your smile, that simple smile as you would a fresh clean shirt.  Wear it, use it, share it.

Often I think that being alone, living alone, sucked..... no... our thoughts suck.

Our beliefs and perceptions, suck.  We don't use solitude or that quiet time enough.

I used to love when my wife, Janice would call me before or after work.  I looked forward to it to share, to listen, to compare notes, to share love.

But, when faded away, as her love and commitment did, the perception turned from waiting for her to call to me calling her, and often the call was quiet, on sided, and inattentive towards me and towards each other.  The quiet on her end was deafening and nothing I said or could do would help.

Next Monday would have been our 1st anniversary.

Who does that, leaves in the first year, turns their back on commitment and just goes, does not call, sends an email and wants nothing at all.  Who does that and what are they truly about?

On my wardrobe for that year stood a vase and the bouquet, the wedding bouquet of flowers, I left there and yesterday got very tired of looking at .

So I took the vase and the bouquet and removed all the artificial flowers, ribbon  and took it apart and discarded in in the family trash can.

For 359 days those flowers stuck together, showed beauty, shared the binding of the floral tape and wire.

It was about 20 days longer than we stuck together.  It was time to discard them.

I appreciate the effort and time the person that made these took, the beauty that they saw in those flowers separated was much like the beauty that I saw in Janice when we first met and years later when we lived together.

The fact is the flowers meant nothing, signified nothing and they too deserved to be unwound.  Maybe not tossed away but everything has a shelf life in the artificial flower world.  Shelf live in marriage should not exist it should be forever.

I takes work.  It takes both parties effort and commitment. That she walked away from.  The phone still does not ring.  And it won't.  Nor will an email from me flow, or a text, or anything at all.

I will choose to be quiet.

To be still

To listen

To love

To share

To heal

To laugh

To smile and I will wear that smile proudly.  So should you......

As always smiles sent your way !  : )

10/05/11

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Being Spiritual, Having Faith, Sharing your Love

 

If there were no God, there would be no Atheists.

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Let your religion be less of a theory

and more of a love affair.

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“One sees great things from the valley,

only small things from the peak.”

~G.K. Chesterton

All three quotes by the same man.  All three.  To me they all tie together.

 

To me, faith is not to be pushed onto another, or even tried to pull from another.

Faith is not magic, it is belief, it is trust, it is love.

I have seen much more from any valley, learned more from the valley and have the ability to set my standards and goals better from that same valley.

If your on top of the mountain sure you see farther but the details are not as crisp nor do you get a true sense that you understand what is happening down there.

In the valley you know whats happening.  You feel it, touch it, sense it and your part of it.

I will take the valley everyday but sure, I want to climb that mountain and get to its top.  But don't ever wonder if I don't want to help and hang out with those in the valley.

That been there done that feeling never gets lost when your trying to inspire, lift, love and motivate others to learn how to live and leave that valley.

Pain and suffering exists.  I know that, you know that.  So understand this so does the ability to make a difference, to smile, to laugh, to love, to dream.

Even if your in the valley we as spiritual, loving Christians know that we shall fear no evil, because of our Love for the Lord and our faith in his word.

I don't believe in purple unicorns.  But I won't take away or belittle you or ask you to give up your belief.

Many of those who run or doubt or have not faith in these magical things as they call them.  Do however.

You have the right to your belief in purple unicorns, thats fine but try not to have such a hard, dark sarcasm about the Christian faith.

For we understand Hebrew 11: 1

1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for,

the evidence of things not seen.

I know I have used this much lately. But faith is what we all should have in abundance.

Its what we should be grateful for, what we love and cherish so.

Which takes me back to the second quote above.

Let your religion or spiritual belief and faith be less of a theory and discussion and more about sharing love, sharing that smile, shining your light.

You live like that, people will start to understand your love affair with faith, with God, with the story of Jesus.

They will seek out and find because of the light and love you have shined all around them.

Not because you pushed them.....pulled them and dragged them to the word.  No that has not effect.

But with love they will see.  Now will they see right away, will they want to run to the light always.  NO of course not, and thats ok, your still living the life of love, laughter, joy and faith.

Not a bad thing to want to share at all is it?

Not a bad thing at all.

I love to write and share and inspire and give to you that gift that flows through my fingers.  Do I make mistakes at the keyboard.

Sure I do, just as I do in life.  I need a editor, lol, I need that bad. However I do believe that my 961 posts that I have written and shared here and on Redgage, and on Triond, and on Blogger and MMSO (MakeMeSmileOnline) have an impact just the same.

Impact and love and inspiration shared with the reader.

Not a bad thing at all.

Share that smile of yours, first with yourself in that mirror each morning and then with others.

Share that laughter with yourself first of course others will find it flowing freely from you.  They will laugh as well its contagious.

Share that love, even if you feel unloved, or in that valley of despair love will find you.

God loves you every day and when you seek him, you can't help but see him, feel him, sense him, love him.

He is all around.

He is in all the good that this word still shares so freely.

God is indeed everywhere.

You just need to seek and have faith and love.

Dream ~ Smile ~ Laugh~ Love always

and as always smiles sent out to you!  : )

10/02/11

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Looking through the glass

Day one ~ a new month, a new day, a new set of downs, just like football.   I wanted to sleep in today but I awoke with this post in my heart and instead of going back to sleep and catching some zzzzz's here I am typing it out for you to read now or many days later. (Its fun to type these out and know that anyone could read these, days, weeks, generations later.)

I like that, who needs sleep...lol.

A quote....

“Just look down the road and tell me if you can see either of them."

I see nobody on the road." said Alice.

I only wish I had such eyes,"the King remarked in a fretful tone. "To be able to see Nobody! And at such a distance too!”

― Lewis Carroll

Oh if we could see the future, if we could look down the road and see anything that would lead us, I guess that is why we have God and why we pray the Lord's Prayer....

'...And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.'

That will have to do....we have our heart, our feelings and our little voice inside that says 'wait, stop, think first'...sometimes we just don't listen or pray first.

Stop...Listen....Pray...Give thanks...Ask for wisdom.

Who does not love to go to the zoo or pet store.  All the cute, cuddly and you just want to love animals.  They put this glass many times in between us.  They even ask us not to tap on the glass...and what to almost all of us do...tap..tap, tap... What the animals on the other side must think.

My thought today is what if you had the chance to tap, tap, tap on our glass that surrounds your world.  What would you think about you? What would you say about now?

We all think in that world of me, our ego drives us to the next destination that it sees fit for us.  We go along, playing our song and sometimes on auto pilot we just do with out much thought. We just do....

Here is a thought, what if we slowed down just a bit, and took a small leap, for some a giant leap, outside our ego and tapped on our glass.  What if we asked these four little questions.

What are you doing?

What do you really want?

Are you on the road to getting there?

What would you do if you were free?

Think about it, during your next major event in your life, take sometime and tap, tap, tap....and look from the outside looking in at your event.

What are you doing?

Is it really in line with your goals, do you have goals written down? Do you think your on the right path and direction?

What do you really want?

A quick review of your actions, thoughts and feelings right now. What if anything is in conflict with what your really want for you.

Are you on the road to getting there?

A change of direction if needed?  A prayer to ask for wisdom?  A stop and lets slow it down a bit maybe sort of action.  If you listen and truly listen to that still soft voice from within you will make the right choice.  Oh it may not be popular with your ego self but it will be right.

Is it not what you truly want, to be right, to do right for you?

Last question as you tap, tap, tap on your looking glass.

What would you do if you where free?

Stop, your saying, what do you mean by that...I am free...right?

We all have things that bind us, slow us down, prevent us from unstoppable bliss.  Maybe its fear, the unknown, our health, our feeling of wanting more....  These things can bind us, slow us down, cause us to feel caged.

So what of it?  What if you where free of these things, what if you just woke up one day, one moment, one minute and said ....

I am free!

Free from fear.

Free from worry.

Free from taking care of stuff that I know pass over to God.

Lord give me wisdom, give me that wisdom in my interaction with others today.  Help me Lord, to leave any worries, any fears, any illness with your loving touch.

Help me Lord to make a difference, to shine my light, to inspire another to smile, to be whole again.

A simple prayer, but a prayer that in the end says I am now free.

Tap, tap, tap.....everyone should look through there own glass once in awhile.  You might just see what Alice in the quote from the start didn't see......seeing something is always better than not looking at all.

Dream ~ Smile ~ Laugh~ Love always

and as always smiles sent out to you!  : )

10/01/11

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