Love survives where resilient lives. It’s not always possible to love without much work. The easiest love we have usually is from innocence or the kind like when you look at that newborn for the first time, maybe a first boyfriend or girlfriend, getting your favorite car….or job…. or vacation.
Real love takes effort to flourish. It takes a person who can overlook imperfections. Forgiving wrongdoings is part of that. Love is not selfish, it gives up comfort often in exchange for pain.
Love sometimes can make us insane. Choosing to love….or should I write… Loving despite the great disappointment, hurtful actions, or broken promises …. is what we try over and over when little good is in that someone or something and is hard to see upfront.
Being loved ….letting someone love you ….is when you can see what you are from their eyes and in loving yourself and believing you are worthy of LOVE. It’s hard to forget REAL love, nor would we ever really choose to.
Christian love is Christ-like love. It is love that does not seek anything in return. It is a love we can only express if Christ lives in us. It is the greatest, selfless feeling towards others.
I have so much coming at me this coming two months. August, I am homeschooling my grandkids, holding a baby shower for my daughter who is carrying my fourth grandkid, a little boy. I am also going to Wisconsin for seven days, and in September, I am expecting my fourth grandkid, and having to go to New York. Busy for sure, but yet I am fortunate that it is a little separated in times, that all of that, is going on.
I was thinking about a friend of mine that lost her son recently, and another friend who is fighting cancer for the second time, and yet another friend who lost her father this week. It is difficult when tragedies come our way. I have such respect for those who deal with tragedies gracefully and still have the outlook that there is still much to be thankful for in their lives. I am not sure how they do that, honestly, looking at their situations. What I do know is I hope to have that same outlook should the tables turn towards me.
Sadness, death, and heartache are all part of being human and for the living. We should try always to see the good despite all the bad. Hopefully each one of us will have enough strength to. I think all the bad makes the other stuff look really better, Perhaps that is why we have to endure such things, so we can see the good. What do you think?
Iwill leave you with these verses…
A Time for Everything
Ecclesiastes 3
3 There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens:
2 a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, 3 a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build, 4 a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance, 5 a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing, 6 a time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away, 7 a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak, 8 a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace.
9 What do workers gain from their toil? 10 I have seen the burden God has laid on the human race. 11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet[a] no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end. 12I know that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to do good while they live. 13 That each of them may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all their toil—this is the gift of God. 14 I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it. God does it so that people will fear him.
15 Whatever is has already been, and what will be has been before; and God will call the past to account.[b]
16 And I saw something else under the sun:
In the place of judgment—wickedness was there, in the place of justice—wickedness was there.
17 I said to myself,
“God will bring into judgment both the righteous and the wicked, for there will be a time for every activity, a time to judge every deed.”
18 I also said to myself, “As for humans, God tests them so that they may see that they are like the animals. 19 Surely the fate of human beings is like that of the animals; the same fate awaits them both: As one dies, so dies the other. All have the same breath[c]; humans have no advantage over animals. Everything is meaningless. 20 All go to the same place; all come from dust, and to dust all return. 21 Who knows if the human spirit rises upward and if the spirit of the animal goes down into the earth?”
22 So I saw that there is nothing better for a person than to enjoy their work, because that is their lot. For who can bring them to see what will happen after them?
I shall see you on this side of the rainbow~! MwsR
Beginning first thing, my mind starts moving. It reminds me of things left for me to do. It reminds me of things not started, yet. Our minds play such an important part in our lives. Without our minds, we would nothing more than an empty tube of toothpaste, worthless. Often we fail to notice all that we use our minds for. Even the simplest of tasks need our mind to engage with our actions. We all know that a foggy mind/brain, will accomplish tasks slower or at half capacity.
Our minds are very powerful. Subjective thoughts will influence our very actions. Our thoughts can impact how we engage or disengage with those around us. From the clothes we wear, to the food we cook, even to the path we walk, our minds are controlling that. Wow, we all should watch what we let our minds absorb. On some occasions it is better to let our minds lead us, instead of our hearts. Of course, there are exceptions to this.
When you step into your day, good Lord willing, you will think smarter, be more appreciative, and watch what you allow inside your mind. Although the mind does so much that is good for us, it can certainly do harmful things to. An example is, when we think something is real but it really isn’t. That happens so often. Our minds can be partial or belligerent. They can achieve great things or destroy confidence. So much more to say, but I will stop there.
Please take care of your mind.
MwsR
I shall see you on this side of the rainbow~! MwsR
Yesterday, I was shocked to have a comment on one of my posts accusing me of trying to take someone’s husband. It got me to thinking. First, it was totally out of place and I did not know the person. I was thinking to myself how quickly we blow up sometimes. Sometimes we do not take a moment in silence and in thought really thinking about the whole realm of something. Often we are hotheaded and tempered by something we had previously been insecure about all on our own. More than not, we accept this as normal reactions. I do not think that is true. I think we draw up scenarios in our minds, we replay things over and over, and we let them pray on our minds. Often we lose that critical perspective. We can sometimes only see our own version of something. We should change this.
I reacted in a poem, a quote, a post to something that happened to me yesterday. I was reacting to that person I did not know and hoping to appeal to her better nature. I could not had been sure of her even reading my posts, poem, or quote. What was I thinking? She had clearly seen something in her own head, and if she blew up at a complete stranger for asking her husband what his comment would had been, she was clearly not going to come to reason with a nudge or two from me. For all I know she blocked her husband from even seeing my posts. I bet since she used an email to publicly comment on my post, she did not even have an account with WordPress. So chances are she did not even know anything was directed to her. Often I think we try to reach out to someone but we fail miserably. I would probably had only invoked her anger if she had of read anything from yesterday, and not what I wanted, her understanding.
The lesson here I am trying to come to is that we often react in a hastily manner, not fully thinking out what it is we really want to convey. Instead of being heard and understood, we often invoke anger and bitterness. Maybe we incur more hostility. Or better yet, we get totally ignored. Maybe even things get escalated to a whole new level. I am not a psychologist and I do not pretend to have all the answers, but one thing I have learnt from just life, is we all overreact, we all play a blame game, we all go about things incorrect at times. Should we try to slow our roll, I think so!
Maybe if you were able to follow my mind, which moves 100 miles an hour when writing, you gathered something helpful from this. Perhaps you can’t understand anything I tried to write. I hope you have a good day and I hope we are more gentle in our interactions with others. That is all.
MwsR
I shall see you on this side of the rainbow~! MwsR
We all face different things in our lives. Seldom do we stop and realize what others go through. I have known friends that hurt each day, carry guilt, and are hurt. I know people who despite circumstances that were given to them, carry on every day.
It is never the journey ahead that hurts us… It is, however, our lack to properly prepare as we start that journey. MwsR
Don’t forget others go through it, deal with it, and push past it… you can too.
Yes, it will hurt sometimes. Yes, it will change you some. Yes, it will most definitely impact those who are in it with you, in one way, shape, or form. This can most certainly be directly or indirectly.
But the good news is… You can move through whatever journey is ahead… You can.
Life is sad…at times. But there is a lot of happiness too. Always try to remember that we live fleeting moments and it is what you do in this world, that’s kind, loving, generous, and with good intentions, those things will endure forever and bless you immensely. They will help you through the sad times.
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