Adversity... Monday Mornin thoughts

Magic

Puttin on the "Dawg" for Christmas

Adversity of that evening garnered him much praise and many treats~

Mornin mornin...  oh what the hell, can't sleep, but the coffee on, sitting out here on the lanai in the still of the night... /whew it sure is quiet, and my bed sure is BIG without Magic in it snoring those dog snores ~ Missing him something fierce, gotta tell ya. Well I will sit, have some coffee, notice all the sounds... maybe then will get good and exhausted and go back to sleep about the time the little ones decide to rise and shine! But usually as long as you are quiet, they'll think it's ok to just sleep in a bit.

Funny for as much as the barking of Magic and that intensity of hyper-bark-o-mania which stirs up the others... the quiet was almost deafening this weekend... Had to really get those speakers turned up to stand it... Yep, it was a difficult and very different weekend here that's for sure; for the two-leggeds and the four-leggeds both...

You know the old saying: it's always darkest just before dawn... and through times of sorrow are great understanding and great growth... Sometimes it's diamonds and sometimes it's coal...

One thing I am reminded of... stress, tears, heartache all trigger headaches that just can't seem to go away... But, maybe after my next time awake, I'll have this one on its way... and I just might get out on the water today, that always soothes the soul, and seems to calm and refresh/restore the balance...

Bet Magic is lettin em know there's a new

"King of the Toys in town" by now... Sure hope someone is fixing his ICE water just right for him!

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Adversity:

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  noun: Synonym: misfortune, disaster, distress, calamity, hardship, misery
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  "She showed courage in adversity"
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  "We've kinda put ourselves in tough situations this year... I remember someone saying that adversity at some point will just make ya stronger later on..."
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  It's a good wake up call to have such a rotten last year for the Tampa Bay Buc's, perhaps this team will do well when coming back from adversity!

Perhaps instead of having signs that read, "Dead End" they should pay to change them, yep I'm thinking change all the "Dead End" signs to say:

"Just a Place

to

TURN AROUND"

I would invest a few tax dollars to see that change.

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Adversity is the grindstone of life. Intended to polish you up, adversity also has the ability to grind you down.

The impact and ultimate result depend on what you do with the difficulties that come your way.

Consider the phenomenal achievements of people experiencing adversity.

Beethoven composed his greatest works after becoming deaf. Sir Walter Raleigh wrote the History of the World during a thirteen year imprisonment. If Columbus ... well don't get me started on Columbus....
                      Still don't get with that holiday! 

Do not fear the winds of adversity. Remember: A kite rises against the wind rather than with it.
-- Author Unknown
 
 Abraham Lincoln achieved greatness by his display of wisdom and character during the devastation of the Civil War. Luther translated the Bible while enduring confinement in the Castle of Wartburg. Under a sentence of death and during twenty years in exile, Dante wrote the Divine Comedy. John Bunyan wrote Pilgrim's Progress in a Bedford jail.


Finally, consider a more recent example.
Mary Groda-Lewis endured sixteen years of illiteracy because of unrecognized dyslexia, was committed to a reformatory on two different occasions, and almost died of a stroke while bearing a child. Committed to going to college, she worked at a variety of odd jobs to save money, graduated with her high school equivalency at eighteen, was named Oregon's outstanding Upward Bound student, and finally entered college. Determined to become a doctor, she faced fifteen medical school rejections until Albany Medical College finally accepted her. In 1984, Dr. Mary Groda-Lewis, at thirty-five, graduated with honors to fulfill her dream.

Adversity - the grindstone of life. Will it grind you down or polish you up?

"The ground on which we stand is sacred ground. It is the blood of our ancestors." ~Chief Plenty Coups

I do believe that we must face adversity with personal strength, with the sure knowledge that we can weather any storm, and come out the other side stronger, better able to face future challenges with confidence. I also believe that it is "our" pain, our grief and our growth that allows us to choose how we live our lives... We each have a story, it is in knowing when to tell it, and to tell it rather than to become it that is the difference...
Feelin me here?



 Adversity reveals character.
How we choose to deal with it.
How we stand up to these events speaks volumes about who we are as human beings.
We need not face adversity alone.
 We can lean on others when we need borrowed strength, and we can be the pillar of support for others when called upon to lend a hand.



Often, just standing with someone as they weather their personal storm is enough to make a world of difference; not needing to tell them you understand, you know exactly what they are going through, or "what ever will I do"... but just to "be".

None of us developed our personal strength by ducking and weaving to avoid the daily bumps in the road.
Small steps lead to great strengths.
 Character is developed by facing adversity head on.
 How we handle it reveals that character.
So let us not wish for a life without adversity, but rather, a strength of character that takes life as it comes, the good, and the bad, and views each event as an opportunity to measure up.
We are warriors, prepared to fight tough battles. We are friends standing strong for and with each other. We are family, of birth, of choice.
 We are strong enough. We Are Warriors...
 We are already all that we need to be to survive and thrive.

And sometimes, even Warriors will find they need to lay down their arms, rest their soul and tend to matters of their heart by feeling it deeply and never ever being less for the feeling~
 By loving deeply, living and dancing on the edge of the roof, and feeling the full depth of the pain ~
 Never shattered or destroyed by it, made whole by the experience, feeling gladness that it happened at all ~ forever as long as it was... and forever changed because it was.............
STOMP................. STOMP............................................. STOMP

"Things that were hard to bear, are sweet to remember" Seneca

The fire is burning this morning, the embers hot... the smells of sweetgrass and cedar fill the air with healing energies being sent on the winds to all.
You know who you are...
We are with you, always near at hand, standing at the ready, we are warriors here...
STOMP...

Walk IN Beauty,
DRSES