Todays Thought

csp

I love you too !




Ever been listening when the very first bird awakens and begins his morning songs? I was this morning. I've often been awake to realize that the birds have begun waking and the first singers perform for the lazier among us that still sleep. But this morning, I heard the very earliest of the early birds. He sang a couple of warm up notes and then began. Phrase after phrase, he fashioned his songs anew.


But what amazes me even more is that to my eyes, darkness is still all around. What alarm clock awakened that bird? No doubt he was perched in a tall tree on the nearby hill and saw the first glimpse of the dawning light to the east. His eyes saw what mine could not and he was there to pass it on ... calling out that there is light ... and that night would soon end. I have been in that darkness and have seen that light and now I am here to pass it on.


When you see nothing but the darkness of cancer all around you, there really is the light of hope dawning just over the horizon. It is hard to see just yet but it is there. Just keep your eyes open and be patient. Don't listen to those that still sleep when they say there is no hope. There is always hope.

taken from Morning Songs of Hope
By Keith Burgess


hugs,
Carrie

TheShopMama

Thank you Carrie. You brought hope to my horizon today. Pam

beachcottage

Everybody is a star
I can feel it when you shine on me
I love you for who you are
Not the one you feel you need to be
Ever catch a falling star
Ain't no stopping 'til it's in the ground
Everybody is a star
One big circle going round and round ~~sly stone


xoxo
patti

beachcottage

It's not the load
that breaks you down

it's the way you carry it~~Lena Horne
xoxo
Patti

beachcottage

Winds blow through the forests of the world
and we smell love.
Ocean tides blanket the earth
and we taste love.

Stars and galaxies swing through the sky
and love is ours.

A small bird lights in your garden and calls.

The quiet voice of love surrounds us all.

Love lifts us, binds us, moves us, teaches us, heals us.

And shakes us...

Author Unknown


peace
and light
xoxo
Patti

beachcottage

"Life is a gift
we're given
each and every day~

Dream about tomorrow~
but live for today"
Author Unknown

xoxo
Patti

PuppyFive

Quote:

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If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good.

~ Thomas J. Watson ~

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I WILL STAND UP!!! debbyfive

Boop

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them;
but do not let them master you. Let them teach
you patience, sweetness, insight. When we
do the best we can, we never know what miracle
is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
~Helen Keller





Hugs and God Bless,
Cherie

beachcottage

hugs my friend
love the quote
and love you too~~

xoxo
Patti

Each step of the journey
is the journey.

~ Zen

beachcottage

"Each friend
represents a world in us

a world possibly not born
until they arrive,

and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born"
– Anais Nin


peace and light
xoxo
Patti

beachcottage

walk a day
in my shoes
than you can judge me~~

beachcottage

xoxo
Patti

AnnaM

The meaning of life
is life itself.

Today I will live life.


Anna

beachcottage

thank you anna
xo
Patti

People often say that
'beauty is in the eye of the beholder

and I say
that the most liberating thing
about beauty is realizing
that you are the beholder

This empowers us to find beauty
in places
where others have not dared to look
including inside ourselves.
- Salma Hayek




xoxo
Patti

AnnaM

Today I will look for beauty and know that I will find it because it is there.

beachcottage

"There is guidance
for each of us

and by lowly listening,
we shall hear the right word


Certainly there is a right
for you that needs no choice
on your part

Place yourself in the middle
of the stream of power
and wisdom which flows into your life

Then, without effort,
you are impelled to truth and to perfect contentment."
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)




peace
and light
xoxo
Patti

beachcottage

Share our similarities
celebrate our differences.
— M. Scott Peck



xoxo
Patti

csp

Click on link ~~~

http://greatday.com/motivate/samples/1461.html

hugs,
Carrie

Tawyna-2005Mar17

carrie what a great site. how up lifting. god bless

beachcottage

((Carrie))
thank you
for posting this
it was great
xoxo
Patti

People are like stars~~
we all have our own special light
that shines from within

Sometimes we find our light
to be dim and we struggle to shine~~

but that is when we need the light
shed from the other stars
to help us light our path once again


A true light that comes from within
from our divine Maker is
so brilliant that it penetrates
into the souls of the other
stars onto which it shines,
leaving it's impression for eternity

Are you shining for someone today? - author unknown
xoxo
Patti

csp

LOOK INWARD ~
Nothing
outside yourself
can save you;
nothing
outside yourself
can give
you peace.

Boop

"All of us tend to put off living. Did you know that?
We are all dreaming of some magical rose
Garden over the horizon - instead of
Enjoying the roses that are blooming
Outside our windows today."
~*~ Dale Carnegie





Hugs and God Bless,
Cherie

Boop

Daily Quote*Thought
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what
we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into
acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It
can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home,
a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of
our past, brings peace for today, and creates a
vision for tomorrow.
~*~ Melody Beattie






Hugs and God Bless,
Cherie

beachcottage

xoxo
patti

beachcottage

"If you are distressed
by anything external,
the pain is not due to the thing itself

but to
your own estimate of it

and this you have
the power to revoke at any moment."
~Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor (121-180)




xoxo
Patti

cgladys

Why have I seen
So little of myself
In a sunset less golden?
Will, Drive, Survival,
Can compete with true tranquility....
Now is the beginning of a newness
The competition has ceased
I am able to feel, see, touch,
My inner self
This moment, this day,
Marks my rebirth
Into a world without cancer
I will dance and sing with abandon


I wrote this early this morning after grieving the loss of another breast last friday.....

beachcottage

~cgladys~
thank you for sharing

your poem is beautiful
xoxo
Patti

beachcottage

Emancipate yourself
from mental slavery~~

none but yourself
can free your mind" Bob Marley

beachcottage

The true beloveds
of this world are in their lover's eyes..

~lilacs opening
~ ship lights
~ school bells
~ a landscape
~ remembered conversations
~ friends
~ a child's Sunday, lost voices,
~one's favorite suit
~ autumn and all seasons-

memory... yes,
it being the earth
and water
of existence~~ memory
-Truman Capote



xoxo
patti

Boop

"All of us tend to put off living. Did you know that?
We are all dreaming of some magical rose
Garden over the horizon - instead of
Enjoying the roses that are blooming
Outside our windows today."
~ Dale Carnegie ~



Hugs and God Bless,
Cherie