Lean On Me
Lean on me, when you’re not strong, and I’ll be your friend – I’ll help you carry on! ~ Bill Withers Life can just be too much – too much pain, too much drama, and too much to take. Part of that is our humanity; we take way too much on ourselves and become overburdened and stressed out. Some of it is just the way life rolls; we all have things that go wrong, and sometimes those things just keep coming in waves. Whatever the situation, the point is that life is hard. But what do we do when life gets to be too much? Do we shut down and shut everyone out? Do we simply smile...
Read MoreRoll With It, Baby!
Stress is when you wake up screaming and you realize you haven’t fallen asleep yet Stress. From the moment we wake up, we feel that crushing awareness of all of the things we have to accomplish in any given day, and how little time we have to actually accomplish them. Then we have to factor in our kids, our mates, our friends, our co-workers, and everyone else we have contact with on any given day. We know they will have pressing wants and needs that will involve us and our time, energy, and patience. Then we have all of the little emergency situations that crop up; things we...
Read MoreHave You Ever Seen the Rain?
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow. ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton There is something sort of sad about dark, rainy days. They seem to cast a shadow of reflection over us, don’t they? For me, the rain allows those melancholy feelings to wash over me and cleanse me from the emotional build-ups that we all have. Rainy weather is healing weather; it allows us to peacefully reflect, and look forward to the sunny days that lie ahead. Lately, I have had a tremendous weight placed on my shoulders. Emotionally, I have been...
Read MoreAin’t No Half-Steppin’
“God has said that He will never give me anymore than I can bear. I just wish He didn’t trust me so much.” ~ Mother Teresa I don’t know about you, but most of the time I feel that if there is a pile of horse pucky within a three mile radius of me, I am eventually going to step in it. And I am not just going to step in it, I am literally going to get suctioned to the very core of it until it is hardened and makes a complete and fairly accurate mold of my foot. Now, I must say that I don’t go out of my way to find the horse pucky, but I will tell you that it always finds me in...
Read MoreThank You
If you want to turn your life around, try thankfulness. It will change your life mightily. ~Gerald Good “Thank you.” Isn’t it amazing how two such little words can greatly affect how you feel in any given situation? We live in such a world where honest gratitude is becoming a very rare thing, indeed. It seems as though we take things for granted. We all have basic assumptions each day as we get out of our plush beds, take our hot showers, and drive to work in our well-maintained cars. We gripe about the weather, about the traffic, about other people, even...
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