Todays Thought

I can be changed by what happens to me. I refuse to be reduced by it.--Maya Angelou

"Live for today but hold your hand open for tomorrow"

Here's a mantra I learned a long time ago and it still works for me when I need to "grab" hold of something and quiet my fears and self.
Be Still and Listen and Know that I am God.
Be Still and Listen and Know that I am.
Be Still and Listen and Know.
Be Still and Listen.
Be Still.
Be.
Quiet and peaceful thoughts to all. Paula

Patti,

I have been trying to live by this rule for the past few months. For me this has been a tough rule to live by....

Your mail box is still full - I cannot PM you...

"Far away there in the distance are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead." Louisa May Alcott.

Choice is a divine teacher,
for when we choose we learn that
nothing is ever put into our
```path```without a reason....Iyanla Vanzant
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my Poem today

Why me I ask-
why not me?
I am no better,
no less,
No greater,
Why Children God?
Why them?,
why?
answers we dont know today
will we know tomorrow?
God, untill I know -
send me an angel...God
please.................

You are a light!
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous ? Actually, who are you not to be ? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. You are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within you. It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we're liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."

---Nelson Mandella

It isn't
for the moment
you are struck
that you need
courage
but for the long
uphill climb
back to sanity
and faith
and security.
Ann Morrow Lindberg
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If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments--Ann Morrow Lindberg--------------------Patti

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson-

Patti,

I needed that today...thank you, my friend!!!