Changing the situation

Sometimes it takes a painful experience to make us change our ways.

~ Proverbs 20:30

Something to think about…

Being used to a situation, even a painful one, carries with it a level of comfort.  Moving away from the pain, changing the situation, be it job, home, or marriage, takes courage and support from other persons.  But, even more, it takes faith that the change will benefit us.  For most of us, the pain will need to worsen.

In retrospect, we wonder why it took us so long.  We forget, from one instance to the next, that a new door cannot open until we’ve closed one behind us.  The more important fact is that a new one will always open, without fail.  The pain of the old experience is trying to push us to new challenges, new opportunities, new growth.  We can handle the challenges, new opportunities, new growth.  We can handle the change; we can handle the growth.  We are never given more than we can handle, and we are always given just what we need.

Experience can’t prepare us for the ramifications of a new change.  But our trust in friends, and our faith in the spiritual process of life, can and will see us through whatever comes.

Source (modified):  Each Day a New Beginning | Hazelden Meditations

A resourceful basset hound

A resourceful basset hound, or at least one who is really basking in the float his owner made for him. Made me smile.

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Show them how

Don’t wait for people to be friendly. Show them how.
~ Author Unknown

World peace starts with the next person you meet.

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Illusion: What do you see first, people or pillars?

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Change your Life

This Video will Change your Life – YouTube.

Come alive!

Don’t ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive, and then go and do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
~ Howard Thurman

Picturesque swans via FB: Beautiful Pic

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You’re the pilot

The bad news is: time flies.  The good news is: you’re the pilot.
~ Michael Altshuler

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Stephen Hawking

People can be so incredibly amazing!  This is Stephen Hawking.  Most of you have probably heard of him.  “Given two years to live in 1963, revolutionalizes physics for the next half of a century.”

Remember to put the glass down!

A psychologist walked around a room while teaching stress management to an audience. As she raised a glass of water, everyone expected they’d be asked the “half empty or half full” question. Instead, with a smile on her face, she inquired: “How heavy is this glass of water?”

Answers called out ranged from 8 oz. to 20 oz.

She replied, “The absolute weight doesn’t matter. It depends on how long I hold it. If I hold it for a minute, it’s not a problem. If I hold it for an hour, I’ll have an ache in my arm. If I hold it for a day, my arm will feel numb and paralyzed. In each case, the weight of the glass doesn’t change, but the longer I hold it, the heavier it becomes.” She continued, “The stresses and worries in life are like that glass of water. Think about them for a while and nothing happens. Think about them a bit longer and they begin to hurt. And if you think about them all day long, you will feel paralyzed – incapable of doing anything.”

It’s important to remember to let go of your stresses. As early in the evening as you can, put all your burdens down. Don’t carry them through the evening and into the night. Remember to put the glass down!

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A different perspective

Sometimes you need to look at life from a different perspective.

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Nick Vujicic and his new baby boy

Never give up! No Arms, No Legs No Worries | Nick Vujicic

Never give up – No Arms, No Legs No Worries – Nick Vujicic – YouTube.

Do Not Disturb: Tiny grass is dreaming

One way or another

Most glorious day

This is the sweetest, most glorious day that ever my eyes did see.
~ Author Unknown

There is wonder in the moment

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

~ Author Unknown

There is wonder in the moment, if we but look for it, let it touch us, believe in it.  And with the recognition and celebration of the wonder comes the joy we desire and await.

Being wholly in tune with the present moment is how we’ll come to know the spiritual essence that connects all of life.  We search for peace, happiness, and contentment outside of ourselves.  We need instead to discover it within us, now and always, in whatever we are experiencing.

We can let our experiences wash over us.  Longing for a different time, a distant place, a new situation breeds discontent.  It prevents us from the thrill, the gifts offered in this present moment.  But they are there.

We can practice feeling joyful in the present, be thrilled with the realization that, right now, all is well.  All is always well.  Life is full of mystery and wonder, and each moment of our awareness adds to the wonder.

Source (modified):  Each Day a New Beginning | Hazelden Meditations

A change of heart

Sometimes God doesn’t change your situation because He’s trying to change your heart.

~ Author Unknown

Self-doubt fosters possessiveness.  When we lack confidence in our own capabilities, when we fear we don’t measure up as women, men, mothers, fathers, lovers, employees, we cling to old behavior, maybe to unhealthy habits, perhaps to another person.  We can’t find our completion in another person because that person changes and moves away from our center.  Then we feel lost once again.

Completion of the self accompanies our spiritual progress.  As our awareness of the reality of our higher power’s caring role is heightened, we find peace.  We trust that we are becoming all that we need to be.  We need only have faith in our connection to that higher power.  We can let that faith possess us, and we’ll never need to possess someone else.

God’s love is ours, every moment.  Recognition is all that’s asked of us.  Acceptance of this ever-present love will make us whole, and self-doubt will diminish.  Clinging to other people traps us as much as them, and all growth is hampered, ours and theirs.

Source (modified):  Each Day a New Beginning | Hazelden Meditations

Open your heart to possibility

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A different way of looking at things

Soldier’s Deck of Cards

This is more than just a card trick performed by a very talented magician. It gave me goose bumps.

If you could ask God one question, what would it be?

A single act of kindness

A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.
~ Amelia Earhart

Synergy

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