Pull them into your peace.
Don’t let people pull you into their storm. Pull them into your peace.
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Walk boldly through them
Most obstacles melt away when we make up our minds to walk boldly through them.
~ Orison Swett Marden
Our attitudes shape our world
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
~ Buddist Proverb
Something to think about…
Meeting life head-on, with a smile, attracts people and situations to us. Our attitudes shape our world — which is not to deny that problems do occur. However, problems can be viewed as special opportunities for personal growth — as gifts, more or less, that we are ready to receive. When the student is ready, the teacher appears. the stumbling blocks we encounter push us beyond our present awareness. They teach us that we are stronger and more creative than we’d thought. Problem solving is esteem-building.
Negatively confronting the day is sure to complicate any experiences. A simple misunderstanding can be exaggerated into a grave situation, requiring the energy of many people to handle it. On the other hand, a patient, trusting, loving attitude can turn a grave situation into a positive learning experience for all affected.
We can beautify the day by smiling throughout all the experiences it offers us. The epression of love to everyone we meet guarantees to make us more lovable in return.
Source (modified): Each Day a New Beginning | Hazelden Meditations
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Letting go of yesterday
The beautiful journey of today can only begin when we learn to let go of yesterday.
~ Steve Maraboli
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
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
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.”
A different perspective
Sometimes you need to look at life from a different perspective.
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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
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
Fear of being wrong
To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.
~ Joseph Chilton Pearce
An Answered Prayer
Something to think about…
Patience is a quality that frequently eludes us. We want what we want when we want it. Fortunately, we don’t get it until the time is right, but the waiting convinces us our prayers aren’t heard. We must believe that the answer always comes in its own special time and place. The frustration is that our timetable is seldom like God’s.
When we look back over the past few weeks, months, or even years, we can recall past prayers. Had they all been answered at the time of request, how different our lives would be. We are each on a path unique to us, offering special lessons to be learned. Just as a child must crawl before walking, so must we move slowly, taking the steps in our growth in sequence.
Our prayers will be answered, sometime, somewhere. Of that, we can be sure. They will be answered to our greater good. And they will be answered at the right time the right place, in the right way.
Source (modified): Each Day a New Beginning | Hazelden Meditations
When you get involved…
When you do nothing, you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved, you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment that comes from knowing you are working to make things better.
~ Maya Angelou
Just take one step at a time
Just take one step at a time…that’s really all you can do.
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Every act of kindness
Every act of kindness benefits the giver as well as the receiver.
~ Katrina Mayer
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Offer a helping hand to another person
We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.
~ Luciano de Crescenzo
Something to think about…
We need to take note, today, of all the opportunities we have to offer a helping hand to another person. We can notice, too, the many times a friend, or even a stranger, reaches out to us in a helpful way. The opportunities to contribute to life’s flow are unending.
Our own vibrancy comes from involvement with others, from contributing our talents, our hearts, to one another’s daily travels. God lives in us, among us. When we close ourselves off from our friends, our fellow travelers, we block God’s path to us and through us.
To live means sharing one another’s space, dreams, sorrows; contributing our ears to hear, our eyes to see, our arms to hold, our hearts to love. When we close ourselves off from each other, we have destroyed the vital contribution we each need to make and to receive in order to nurture life.
We each need only what the other can give. Each person we meet today needs our special contribution.
Source (modified): Each Day a New Beginning | Hazelden Meditations
Janet’s Note: The “angels with only one wing” quote has long been one of my favorite quotes. The charm that I sell to help people remember the quote is one of my best-sellering charms. If you are interested in viewing the charm, visit my PocketQuotes store.
Give it a try
“It’s impossible,” said pride.
“It’s risky,” said experience.
“It’s pointless,” said reason.
“Give it a try,” whispered the heart.
~ Author Unknown
Courage takes faith
Courage takes faith in the knowledge that things will get better even if you don’t know when or how.
~ Katrina Mayer
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