Not too long ago I made a deal with me. No matter now the day looks or what's in store for me, I wake up every morning by saying it's a beautiful day.
It does not matter. It's a beautiful day.
One day last week, as I woke up and looked outside at the sky, the trees were moving to the rhythm of the wind and the rain was coming down fast.
It occurred to me that there are many times in our lives that we feel we are in the dark. We are in chaos. We are in a whirlwind. We feel completely helpless and we feel blown away by the winds and forces in our lives.
But the truth remains that beyond all the dark clouds, the heavy rain and the wind: the sun is still shining, we just can't see it.
The sun, the blue sky, is always there. We just have to look beyond the clouds to see it and to also know that they will eventually clear-that this too will pass.
Life is beautiful. Everyday is beautiful. We just have to look beyond.
It isn't the thing you do, dear,
Its the thing you leave undone
That gives you a bit of a heartache
At setting of the sun.
The tender work forgotten,
The letter you did not write,
The flowers you did not send, dear,
Are your haunting ghosts at night. read more...
It had been another exhausted day at work. I pulled into the driveway at home and slowly dragged myself to the front door. As I got closer to the front door, I heard a loud rumble at the bottom of the street. It was as if a one-car drag race had just begun. During this time of the early evening, there is plenty of activity on our street as people roll into home from work, children playing in the yard and dogs being walked...read more...
6/23/09 - SOMETHING TO HANG YOUR HAT ON-39 CENTS OF UNDERSTANDING A farmer had some puppies he needed to sell. He painted a sign advertising the pups and set about nailing it to a post on the edge of his yard. As he was driving the last nail into the post, he felt a tug on his overalls. He looked down into the eyes of a little boy.
"Mister," he said, "I want to buy one of your puppies."
"Well," said the farmer, as he rubbed the sweat off the back of his neck, "these puppies come from...read more...
Plato said that work should be play. Some airline employees have taken his injunction seriously. After landing, one flight attendant announced, "Thank you for flying Delta Business Express. We hope you enjoyed giving us the business as much as we enjoyed taking you for a ride." There's a flight attendant who knows how to turn her work into play.
She may have been the same one who, as the passengers disembarked from the aircraft, announced,...read more...
6/19/09 - SOMETHING TO HANG YOUR HAT ON-FATHER'S DAY MESSAGE In the faint light of the attic, an old man, tall and stooped, bent his great frame and made his way to a stack of boxes that sat near one of the little half-windows. Brushing aside a wisp of cobwebs, he tilted the top box toward the light and began to carefully lift out one old photograph album after another. Eyes once bright but now dim searched longingly for the source that had drawn him here.
It began with the fond recollection of the love of his life, long gone, and somewhere...read more...
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