09.12.08

Thoughts From The Letter

Posted in Encouragement at 7:06 am by Administrator

In posting the letter - Forget Love and Try Good Manners, from ‘The Divine Secrets Of The Ya Ya Sister Hood’- and doing some reading and contemplating this weekend (how odd *smile*) it has occurred to me how very true the statement is “Forget Love, Try Good Manners.” In observing couples and the way they treat each other…the question posed is “Why do you stay?” The answer invariably is “Because I love him/her.” Give me a break! And, in talking to friends and letting them know that I am dating again and intentionally searching for the love that comes from being connected to another soul, I hear very often ~maybe from the ones that aren’t happy~ “maybe in your search you will realize you are better off single.” I am very well off single. I love being single. I love being independent and self sufficient, I love taking off on a Friday night and doing my thing…not reporting to anyone. But I miss being in a monogamous relationship. I miss the connection to that one other human being that you can count on and has your back no matter what. The one who looks for you and wants to be with you and you with them. Because you enjoy them! Because you want to be in their company! Because you respect them! Because you have compassion and genuinely care what is going on and what happens to them. So, back to my original thought. Love has nothing to do with it if you haven’t learned how to love. If you haven’t learned how to love~in a genuine, honest, thoughtful, you mean the world to me way~ Start with good manners.

12.05.07

The Gift Within Our Fear

Posted in Encouragement at 4:01 pm by Administrator

Regardless of how we choose to look at our fears- whether we have caused our own problems or are simply caught in the snares of others’, whether we are blindsided by a sudden crises or have been running from one for a long time-we have three choices…
1. Ignore it and hope it will go away~ It Won’t
2. Try and live with it~ Not Forever
3. Look for the gift within our fear and benefit from it. When we do, we emerge on the other side of life, surprised by joy!
~Taken from the book Excavating your Authentic Self -Sarah Ban Breathnach

09.17.06

If Only I Had Known

Posted in Encouragement at 6:17 am by Administrator

-Taken from “Excavating Your Authentic Self” by Sarah Ban Breathnach
I wish I’d known from the beginning that I was born a strong woman. What a difference it would have made! I wish I’d known that I was born a courageous woman; I’ve spent so much of my life cowering. How many conversations would I not only have started, but finished, if I had known I possessed a warriors heart? I wish I’d known that I’d been born to take on the world; I wouldn’t have run from it for so long, but run to it with open arms!