A journal jar for collecting happy thoughts – I love this idea!
Start the year with an empty jar and fill it with notes about good things that happen. Then, on New Years Eve, empty it and see what awesome stuff happened that year. Good way to keep things in perspective.
http://www.writeshop.com/blog/2010/11/04/30-days-of-gratitude/
Next time a stranger talks to me when I’m alone, I will look at them, shocked, and just whisper quietly, “You can see me?”
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Instructions for the maestro: Wave the stick until the music stops, then turn around and bow.
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Dedicated to my children, who have been and always will be the light of my life.
Something to think about…
It isn’t for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for the long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security.
~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Most of us are on a long uphill climb at this moment. It is a climb we are making together, and yet a climb we can’t do for each other. I can reach out my hand to you, and you can grasp my hand in return. But my steps are my own, just as you, too, can only take one step at a time.
For brief periods we skip, even run, along the uphill path. The rocks and the occasional boulder momentarily trip us up. We need patience and trust that the summit is still achievable. We can help one another have patience. We can remind one another to trust.
We look back at the periods that devastated us so long ago. And now we are here. We have climbed this far. We are stronger, saner, more secure. Each step makes easier the next step — each step puts us on more solid ground.
I may run into some rocks or even a boulder today. I have stepped around them in the past. I will do so again.
Source: Each Day a New Beginning | Hazelden Meditations
An ideal culture is one in which there is a place for every human gift.
~ Margaret Mead
Christmas gift suggestions:
To your enemy…Forgiveness.
To an opponent…Tolerance.
To a friend…Your Heart.
To all…Charity.
To every child…A good example.
To yourself…Respect.
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
~ James Thurber
© 2012 Janet S. Dickens
