Just Breathe
Inhale...........
Exhale..........
Good Job......
REPEAT 3 TIMES:
(i wait)
Victoria a Lily and HOPE faithful reports hubbie being in ICU with heart troubles, and we all know how scary that is... Please put in him thoughts and prayers as well.
Lynda Showell on the Lily The Black Bear page has been having a rough time with her back, so many thoughts for a speedy recovery... and thoughts on the wind to her as well. Lily the North American Black Bear and HOPE has a following of over 111,000 fans now... A dedicated group of "lilypadders" to be certain... Still can't understand why more of them haven't become frequent bear-aholics here though... after all they do call me the "bear lady" historically and I am rather funny at least others think so! Oh well, those who find themselves here are supposed to be here is my way of reckoning...
Jean Rostokos, another fan of Lily and Hope sent me a message yesterday... asking that we on this page think of her dear friend, surround her friend with prayers and strength as she continues to fight a battle with a chronic issue surrounding her health... I don't have her name as of yet, so we'll just surround Jean's friend with all the strength that we held so many with while she fights her battle with pain... hold her up while she is weary, reminding her she is never alone as she regains her momentum in order to stand strong and continue her battle... Thank you Jean for standing for your friend... and letting her needs for support be known!
Warpaint on: we stand strong for and with you all.
Ladies: we are strong warriors here, and we send you healing thoughts on the wind... along with some awesome angels in the Universal Oneness... and for that I give thanks... and so it is!
Remember this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCAnJXwFpb8
Wow, that facebook blew up when those bears got re-united and now word in the woods is that Lily may just be }{}}ssh{{{pregnant}}} oh nooo here goes another fall with eyes glued to a live cam again!!!
My goodness, I hope I have everyone mentioned... this morning finds so much happening ... Mom got her 30 stitches out of the leg and the doc has re-instated her "running the roads" privileges... happy is she and running the roads visiting the 101 year old Great Aunt Effie in NC as I type!
Hoping all are going to have a Terrific Thursday... It's almost the weekend folks, hang on Friday is coming...
Did you realize that August has 5 Sundays this month, 5 Mondays and 5 Tuesdays???
Think it will be 800+ years til we see that again!
Any change, any loss, does not make us victims. We are Survivors ... Remember that ... practice saying that to yourself, in the mirror, out loud while you are weeding, swimming driving to the store... It might just come in handy one day...
Others can shake you, surprise you, disappoint you, but they can't prevent you from STOMPING, taking a stand, maintaining your integrity, holding your honor, being a survivor, acting, from taking the situation you're presented with and moving on.
No matter where you are in life, no matter what your situation, you can always do something, be YOU.
You always have a choice .
Choose to accept that which you cannot change.
Play the hand you are dealt.
Remember Mother Teresa when she said something like, "God never gives us more than we can bear...I just wish he didn't trust me so much???" It was something like that anyway!
or:
"There are things we don't want to happen but have to accept, things we don't want to know but have to learn, and people we can't live without but have to let go" (wish I said it but didn't)anonymous
Letting go doesn't mean giving up...
it means moving on.
It is one of the hardest things a person can do sometimes, I'll give ya that.
Sometimes we grasp on to something and hold on as if we will cease to exist when we let go. we won't.
We feel that letting go is giving up, quitting, and that quitting is cowardly. it's not.
But as we grow older we are forced to change our way of thinking.
We are forced to realize that letting go means accepting things that cannot be.
Then again, rather than being forced into it... we grow into the realization all in time... or we have a really good shaman/healer/therapist to help along the journey.
It means maturing and moving on, no matter how hard you have to fight yourself to do so.
Often, when a door closes we are too fearful to look forward and see all that lies before us or the other door that just opened~
. We fix our sights on the “rear-view” mirror and get stuck there. kinda hard to get where you are headed while looking in that rear view tho'.
Look forward my friend; look around, look up.
STOMP
Mourn the losses, there will be many,
it is the way of the world, it is the Universal way I think... cry when you want, when you must... cry; tears a good for the soul.
Start with one step; your step, in your feet; barefoot or in your shoes... Remember when Martin said,
"Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase"
Build a bridge to the future and welcome what is yet to come.
This is especially true when we have suffered an unwelcoming loss; death that has come sudden, come hard, or even one that has been expected. We are never ready to lose someone we cherish, someone we love.
Maybe you have experienced a lay-off at work, or a divorce, the recognition of some irreconcilable difference that ends a friendship.
Hard losses all, but none that can’t be accepted.
None that cant’ be weathered.
We Are Survivors...
STOMP
The future, your future ~ my future, the future of our children is what we make of it.
Be mindful that in clinging to the past, we obscure the happiness that is yet to be.
Sometimes, while we were busy clinging, stuck in mourning, stuck in sorrow, we turned away form something better, turned away from the "now" of our lives. We missed out. We can't go back... We have today, and today to live to honor those who have gone before us, to live for us and for them... We are the legacies... STOMP
We failed to peek behind curtain two and three where the real prize awaited us.
Just know that you can go on.
You can embrace change.
Embrace this life as it unfolds before us.
Not all change is bad.
Sometimes there are hidden opportunities in change. Sometimes not, but some changes we cannot control. Some we are not meant to control.
Wherever you are... STOP... Take in three deep breaths, exhale deeply three times.. Reflect on this moment in time... Now ...
CELEBRATE THE WONDER OF THE LIFE YOU HAVE AND THE MANY CHOICES YOU HAVE THE BLESSINGS OF MAKING FOR YOU AND THOSE YOU LOVE~
STOMP
The fire is burning brightly and its embers are hot, sending thoughts on the wind to all who gather here and there and everywhere...We are with you, we are Warriors here, ready to send our best thoughts, our best wishes...
We stand strong for and with those out there fighting the fight, battling their battles and living their lives with gratitude and amazing grace, during the great and not so great times... through good times and profound sadness of loss times. We along with some powerful angels are with you, you are never alone...
Sending hope in healing on the winds to all who gather here and for all in and around Tampa, the families of the fallen, those in blue who are grieving while they are serving and protecting us.
To those who are serving this great Nation, I thank you and your families, I want you home safely.
We are together in prayer, in thoughts of all that is needed to remind you out there, we are WARRIORS...
we are with you, along with some powerful angels... May you find comfort in knowing we are with you always: for that I give thanks, and so it is!
FOR:Tampa, our Mayor Iorio, Chief Jane Castor, Tampa PD, all who serve: Tink..and Mitch, Jerry, Trish, Barb, Anastasia, Mary, Rylee,
The Kocab Family, baby Lilly Nicole Kocab,
The Curtis Family,
Tarpon PD, those serving here and there in Uniform...
Randy and Winnie in New Mexico, Irene M, Bernice, Eileen, Ali and family, Dorothy, Angela, Elijah, Ode, Linda M, "Southwest VA", Vicki and Matthew, Chris, Our new adopted family in BRAZIL,
Our Black American Bears Lily and HOPE, their spunky spirit, and Jill, the folks at the NABC, Joseph, Cathy Madden and her family., Cindy in NC (here comes REMISSION), Cindy Cumbie, Laura, Mitch and family, Liz, Lee, Molly, Joanie, Jude, COFA,Judi, Matthew, Matt, Mark's family and many friends , Andrea, Jimmy, Marie and family up in New England, Pat, Irene, Kevin, Dr D, Deb, Randy, Dr B , Charlie and family, Jean, Julie, Rhonda, Victoria, Mildred, Andi and family, Faith, Denise, Jim, Tom, Joey, Shelby friends and family, Judi, Phylis, Joyce, Gina, Tonya, Beverly and Family, Janeth, Melissa, Pam, Virginia, Stacey, Elizabeth, Nita, Gary Siegal, Adrienna,Brian Mawbey, the Boyan Family,
Please hold the friends and family of these people in your hearts and prayers ~ just because you have the power and choose to to join with us ~ STOMP
Walk In Beauty,
DRSES
author
Healing Heartaches, Stories of Loss and Life
http://www.drsherryeshowalter.com/
5 comments:
Oh man that letting go thing is a hard one for sure. I've had to let go while holding tightly thinking if I let go the person might drown and I will suffer loss. I've had to learn that letting go means that person will have to rise up and find their own means of survival. By letting go that person was able to gather the strength from a HIGHER POWER. The source they will need to sustain them for the rest of their lives. I had to realize my stength is not what they needed. My love was what was needed. My willingness to let go was what SAVED them.
Now, next week will be a hit and miss for me here. Soldier boy and wife will be occupying this room beginning Sat. I will pick them up tomorrow afternoon and the games will begin. Soldier boy wants wife, him and me to get pedicures Sat. Ain't that a hoot!
Keep grandsons in your thoughts. They will be attending a new school begining Monday. My daughter divorced last year and has remarried. Lots of changes and most for the better. New son in law and daughter moved into new house not far from the old one and it requires a school change. Oldest grandson feels things deeper and might have a more difficult time of it. Youngest by only 15 months is a charmer so I don't worry so about him.
Yes, life is about moving down the road and looking forward to what's next. The rear view mirror should only remind us of what we are moving away from and not used as a magnet for holding us back.
Going to catch a few more winks. Got lots to do today!
Stunning photo gracing the blog's opening this morning, Sherry. Sunset & sail, calm waters.
Your words today could not be more on the $$$
Advice well taken, reasons to look ahead, leave it behind, go forward, close that door.
Learning from days past, BREATHE, STOMP, let it go. I am happy today, fell well, able and strong. Can't beat that...... I am F I R M
Helloooo,
love the picture.. oh, and for sure
the topic fits me today... I will
never let go of the loves I have lost...
they are with me each minute I breathe..
however, am working , have been striving
and struggling for quite some time, to learn
to let go of the pain in my soul, heart and
entire being... have fought my battle to
find myself again, and feel my heart alive in
the here and now...
it is a tough battle... I am glad
and thankful to be a WARRIOR !
STOMP!
STOMP!
sign me, with tears rolling,
A.
p.s. May all of our Angels !!!!
be whispering in our hearts today !
NEVER LOOK BACK! The memories worht holding never slip away. If the past was all that, we'd still be there. So today is all we really have. LIVE LARGE! Celebrate the hell out of it. People always remember the past as better than it ever really was... people included, living or not. No slam to peoples loved ones but every jerk on th planet becomes a saint once they die. Truth be told, we can and do miss people and attribute greater qualities to them after they die, than we saw in them alive. So, my message here is...I don't miss anyone more than they deserve. I fill my life with motion and good choices NOW so that I don't have to see the past as better than the present. If m my present sucks, it only does so because I did not create the day today that I meant to have. I will take full responsibility for it. Good or bad.
I don't know about any of you all-but I can't live in the past-I wake up in the AM and put one foot in front of the other. I only have 80,000+ seconds to mess with each day and I already used so much of it just waking up. I visit the past occasionally but I always have to keep going. The trick is knowing the difference-- living in the past or visiting the past. Some of us live in the past by choice. They forget to enjoy what is in front of them. I can't live there because of too many other things good and bad going on. Today is the gift-STOMP and enjoy.!! P.S. Sept 1 can't come fast enough!
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