My way, or His way. Each day there’s a choice. “You’re only young once,” Whispers the voice. Consequences; consequences. What is the cost? If I choose my way, What will I have lost? Words spoken in anger Can seem justified, But can linger a lifetime After all tears have been cried. Pleasure for a moment Can come with a cost. Monumental pain; Substantial loss. My way; my way – Live for today. Who cares who I hurt? Who cares what…..
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Do You Dream of a Happy Mother’s Day? “Chaos was replaced with pleasant surprises, such as the one on Mother’s Day when I looked across the church parking lot and saw my son, his wife, and his daughters coming to join me in worshiping the Creator.” “The more I let go of my daughters the more they amazed me. Without my unsolicited advice, they found their own answers. They began to make better choices and became strong women and incredible…..
During a meeting I recently attended, a respected leader made a comment that I recalled the following day. He said, “It is important to ask good questions.” I wondered, “What is a good question?” Within seconds, I typed into my search engine, “How to ask a good question?”, and I received pages of resources ready to give me answers. I decided to look at the website of “For Dummies, a Wiley Brand”. There I read, “The chief tool of a…..
I love January. I’m not exactly a fan of cold weather, but I get excited about a new year and the hope for improvement it brings. I once thought that a new year could only be a better one if others in my life made improvements. It was good news to learn that was not the truth. Shortly after the first of the year, I proclaimed to my husband, “I am going to get organized this year!” He smiled and…..
HOW CAN I BE THANKFUL? How can I be thankful— The birds now are gone? Winter is upon me; I cannot hear their song. My world is full of shadows; So many things seem wrong. How can I be thankful If I cannot hear a song? I strain beneath my burdens; I feel so all alone. How can I be thankful— The birds now are gone. Perhaps if I remember The pleasant days of spring When birds flew around me…..
Is your light on? I remember well the year I turned on my light. There were multiple crises happening around me the day the doctor said, “This mass looks suspicious.” I was scheduled for a biopsy a few days later. The suspicions were confirmed; major surgery followed by chemotherapy and multiple follow-up surgeries began. The other crises, mostly within my family, continued as I faced this new battle. I believed in God, however, my faith was getting ready for the…..
Often when a parent leans toward a controlling nature they will defend their actions by calling it love. Can we love too much? If we lean toward controlling are we loving at all? Perhaps we are loving—loving ourselves as we feed our own neediness. In Chapter 1 of “I Could Not Save the Little Bird”, I share a poem about a lonely weed that fell in love with a rose. The weed loved the rose so much that it held…..
How do you change your life? I had spent years wanting my loved ones to change. I had spent years trying to save them. My life was getting worse not better. I finally got to the point where I had run of ideas, and the situation was urgent. Running out of answers is the best place to start getting answers. Here’s a saying I have heard over the years; you may have heard it, too: “If you always do what…..
When can you see it? By “it” I mean the life you desire. It can be nearly impossible to see it if you’re looking the wrong way. If you have been obsessively watching someone else’s every move, you could not have seen it. If you’ve been looking back at the mistakes of the past, you wouldn’t have seen it either. Another view blocker is chaos; when chaos is around you miss much. So, if you’ve not seen the life you…..
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