You know I was thinking recently about all the things that can zap the joy out of life. In responding to emails and a call from my friend that I wrote about yesterday I was like Jeeez. Lighten up people. We are taking stuff way to seriously. 🙂
This morning I decided as part of my Lenten journey that I was going to revisit things that touched my heart because they touched my loved ones hearts too they who have now passed. They made me who I am today. They are alive and well in my heart and watch over myself and family constantly . So, today I will bring the past to life even for just a moment and rejoice in the joy that they gave me even til this moment. Hopefully you will enjoy these songs and moments too.
In life we need to excentuate the positive.
Sam Cooke
Accentuate the Positive life is soooooooooooooooo Good. Forgive, Forget!
After all the Lenten journey is about taking everyone along the beautiful life filled journey of The Resurrection of Jesus Christ so let’s shine on.
Anita O’Day Sing, sing, sing
Any Day Now.
Jeepers. Keepers Billy Holiday.
All you need is love the beetles.
What the Lenten Journey is about. What our Savior took on for us on the cross and rose on the 3rd day as he and scrripture had foretold. Amen.
I have a very dear friend who called me a couple of weeks back. Who was very hurt by another human being, I began to write about this a few weeks ago. This kind person called me yesterday to congratulate me on my great results at my Doctors appointment.
After a few minutes I said so what’s new? The person said the same old stuff. I cannot believe how I was treated by so and so. I know what had been said to this nice person and just how shocking it was for them because of our prior conversation. As I said before, Evil things / words gets thrown out when emotions get off the hook. My friend is a holy and good person so to see this behavior from another person being so bitter and hateful was devastating. I counseled this person again that the problem belongs to the other person not them.
I do not know how I can adequately help a person who lets others ruffle their feathers and effect them so much.
I value and love my friends and family too but the reality of this life is that we are all broken and imperfect. We are the sum total of everything that we experience , our genetics, parental successes or their failures in rearing us. There are wounds that can drive us. Hidden in corners of our minds that are sick and unhealthy.
This allows volatility, anger and lashing out.
All that an unhappy person needs is a person to do the slightest thing to set them off .To be at the wrong place at the wrong time and become a victim where the other person could dump their life Crap on to them. It makes the perpetrator feel better about themselves . It is a classic scenario unfortunately .But In reality what it shows is that they are disturbed and the problems that they have are very severe in nature.
People are people
So, the bottom line is this I said to my friend that no one has that much power in your life. They do not define you nor to they have any right to unleash their garbage onto you . That person is no friend especially if after they had no remorse or apology even a while after this took place. I don’t know who hurt my friend well but it sounded like this person is a narcissist. Who believes their own distorted reality.
So, what are we to do? Well, it’s only my opinion but I will tell you after the song.
Elton John Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word
In closing once and for all as I told my friend last evening as I hung up. We meet people in our lives for good or bad. Some are loving and some can be hurtful. We need to have them in our lives in order to learn from them these life events. We need to give thanks for both experiences good and bad scenarios in our lives because we have learned a valuable life lesson that will make us stronger and wiser. It will help us to protect our loved ones and friends because we can then testify that people can do these things and you have to let that event go. We also do not not want to do what they have done to you back to them or speak ill of them to others. Jesus spoke very strong language about this. Words spoken about others unkindly are like character assassination. That is a sin.
Speaking badly about them makes you an evildoer too.
My friend apparently went with an olive branch to see this person just to try and speak . My friend was attacked by and and was blown away by this persons viscous babbling and hurtful rant.
I told my friend to move on and pray for what was your friend. Whether you are a friend for 5 minutes or 100 years really does not matter. Sometimes life changes those that we know and love in ways that you could never have expected.
But, life goes on and we need to focus on who love us and truely value who we and are walking with us with a abiding faith journey of peace to God.
I learned from my friend last night that they chose the higher road as the verbal crap was flying at them and stayed calm. My friend practiced what they preached and waited until the other person fled. I am sure that person ran with quilt and shame dripping from them.
So bravo to my friend in this matter. It’s not easy to stay composed when under such a stressful encounter.
With that I hung up and decided that this would be my last DEAR Danny call about the carnage that people cause oneanother. This is also my last DEAR Danny column about this kind of stuff. Yuck 🙂 my mom used to call this stuff Cucka, and it is!
LIFE IS WAY TO SHORT!
I SAY THIS… TO MY FRIEND AND TO YOU ALL WHEN IT IS OVER, MOVE ON, FORGIVE, AND FORGET.
Hi all, I decided to have fun today. Does that sound good ? 🙂
I feel like people are so beautiful. Age does not always matter when it comes to experiencing new life events and thrills. In essence challenging yourself. We are all little kids trapped in an ageing body 🙂 LOL
I happen to love older people they are All kids inside when I am around them and joke they loosen up and you see their youth come out . ! 🙂 older people are very cute.
I guess I will start with this song.
Frank Sinatra Come Fly Away
Get Ready to chuckle
Sky Dive goes wrong. This 80 year women has guts! Don’t worry she’s fine 🙂
And this little old lady has no teeth !!! So Funny!
An older couple on the Slingshot.
Two old good friends. Very nice.
100 Year old best friends . How beautiful.
100 year old women on Jay Leno .What a beautiful and rich world these beautiful people have made. Simple living , simple neighborly love.
You may ask why the song below? Well, I will tell you. I was at Dana Farber at the crack of dawn for tests this morning and the results were excellent , still cancer free. Praise God.
Okay, all joking aside. I take my appointments at Dana Farber very seriously. The first reason obviously is that I want to live. God Blessed me with a beautiful family and friends and I would like to be there from them and for me . I am still young.
Secondarily I want and hope that the Doctors can discover the exact reason why I have defied the odds. I know it’s God’s doing through his mystery and the Doctors and scientist gifts from God for the medicine, the machines and the skilled hands and minds.
Wouldn’t it be awesome if they could pin point the reason and then turn that process into a cure. I believe this could happen maybe not with me but by some other case that is baffling the Doctors.
Miracles happen everyday , every time a baby is born, every time we wake up and walk into the mystery of that day relying on our bodies to function, to breathe, to live and to love. These are all God given gifts given to each one of us by his His grace and mercy. Amen.
This would make my mother in law so happy:) she loved him.
Another great thing is this, the weather pattern is finally broken. No snow this week a little cold startng out but slow warming at the end of the week. Melting, Thank God.
I was in morning prayer today and working on my Lenten journey.
During my prayer I use a visual in my mind as a way of taking this journey.
In everyone one of us there is a deep expanse of places that we have yet to see, feel and understand. Things that are hardwired into us and things that are learned that are tought by our parents and others during our upbringing. These things effect us in ways that we often don’t realize. I think that these are the things that steer us at times emotionally and we will say I don’t know why I feel this or say that. It can also cause us to do a particular action. ? But we did and it and it is our truth.
I guess what I am trying to find is my core, I think that God has created a masterpiece in us all. A body that is powerful yet weak, a mind that is capable of huge things and handles bodily,communication, reasoning and life processes daily yet the cells can die and leave us helpless.
I have always sought myself out. Even as a child sitting on my back stoop. I worked mega hours while in high school and college. I was a commuter student. I remember coming down whenever I woke up from sleep it was crazy hours during the day when I worked all night and had school in the mornings. I would come down late afternoon my body tingling from exhaustion and sit on the back stairs in the sun just looking , feeling, and smelling useing my senses. These moments I would travel deep inside of myself trying to find me. Was I in the right place ? Was my path going the right way?
I think my biggest fear in my life is and always has been that I will not be or fulfill what God called me too before my birth. I know that he knows my heart and my faults so I believe that he loves me. But, I do not want to settle for a half lived life.
Life to me is not my next trip, my new car etc. My life especially since cancer has been how can I help others more? How do I effect a change while I am here. How can I inspire others to see how much God loves them without seeming preechy?
Well, when I pray and meditate on myself I try to let the Holy Spirit just guide me to where I need to be.I picture myself like a diver who is going deeper in an ocean in search of something yet to be found. It may sound strange but it works for me.
The deeper you get into the ocean the darker it gets but when you have a light and turn it on you can see the beauty. There is healing there.There is self awareness there and you see opportunities that you thought did not exist.
It’s funny, back a while ago on this blog I was led by God and the Holy Spirit to an amazing women who took what I have done for a long time in my prayer life to a physical experience.
I lived vicariously through her and she inspired me. I felt like I was in that chair seeing, touching and feeling. I was alive.
So, as part of my Lenten journey I will share it once again.
I was just sitting here reflecting on my day and thinking wow today is the beginning of Lent. It is Ash Wednesday. 🙂
So , I will begin to focus on a new change once again on my aproach to my prayer life. I had instituted a concerted effort for Advent that was beneficial so now I need a fresh new plan.
Lent
Is preceding Easter that in the Christian Church is devoted to fasting, abstinence, and penitence in commemoration of Christ’s fasting in the wilderness. In the Western Church it runs from Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday and so includes 40 weekdays.
How true are these words, The importance of one person. In the Lenten Season we look to Jesus as our guide to what’s truthful and right.
But remember he looks upon us in a similar way during our life’s journey. We are all important to each other. Do we really appreciate that fact? We also need to support our neighbors.
We really should appreciate others. Each person that I have met during my life I could see their goodness ever if they have made mistakes. Sometimes we need to get a little further down the road in our lives to look into the rear view mirror to see their true value to us.
Hello, I decided to postpone my regular writing today to write a very personal little sharing of sorts.
I received an email today from a lovely person that I met Camilla that her dear friend Florence Anne( KOLCEILNY) Hanson had passed away this past Sunday from the effects of brain cancer, Glio Blastoma.
I wrote about Anne last fall. I was called to come meet her at Dana Farber . I spent the day there with her and it was an honor to be there. She was clearly feeling the effects of this terrible desease.
I will forever remember her gentle and warm Spirit. She quietly took in what the Doctor told her and was showing us the way of the cross as she showed her inner strenght.
Anne fought the good fight and God received her back to himself. My time with her was limited but her effect on my life will be lasting. Anne will forever be a brick in my foundation.
This is Anne, she was a concert pianist widely acclaimed. God gave her the gift of music and she cultivated that gift and brought joy, love and healing to many a soul. AMEN. She had a beautifully completed symphony as Fr. Leo Clifford would have called it.
PLEASE PRAY for Anne, and her family. Her husband Ray, daughters Cecile, Carmilla and her entire family. Amen.
Anne in an interview. A lovely lady.
Watch the interview and you will see what a beautiful lady she was and you will see what heaven has received back.
My feeling is this. When I heard from Camilla today about Anne’s passing I felt a void, a place in my heart in this world had changed. I do however believe that her experience is much more joyous. As I wrote to my friend Camilla, Anne knows the answers to the questions now. God is restoring her for an eternity with him joining his choir. This song came to mind and I shared it with Camilla . ANNE lived a beautiful life she knew love and she gave love. Anne and is now enjoying her victory through Christ.
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