Hope is the dream of the waking man.
French Proverb
I came across this quote today and it reminded me of something, I have often written about the words in Corinthians 13, sorry my Bible is downstairs and I don't feel like going to find it, that say something like the 3 most important things are faith, hope and love, the greatest of these is love.
I say NO the greatest of these is not love, yes love is important but I personally do not believe that it is the greatest of the three. In my opinion, the greatest of these is HOPE. Man can live without faith (and many do), man can live without love and many do), man cannot live without HOPE, hope of faith at some point, hope of love at least once in a lifetime, hope for the perfect job. Hope gives you something to hold onto. Hope makes life worth living. People who suffer from depression have lost hope, many people who take their own lives have in my opinion lost HOPE. When dealing with the tragedy of losing our baby, I had love, I had faith and it was the loss of hope which caused the greatest feeling of nothingness that encompassed my life. It was the hope of seeing our baby grow, it was the hope of celebrating his first Christmas, it was the hope of seeing him graduate from university. It was the hope of seeing him married with children and it was this loss of hope that caused me to want to die.
Hope is the greatest of all and I wish that you all have faith (in something), feel love (for someone) but most importantly I wish you HOPE, because hope keeps everything else in balance.
In love and light
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Thursday, 9 June 2011
Thursday, 3 February 2011
Day3 Month2 - Change
Following on from yesterday, I must tell you that quieting your mind should go along with accepting change. I know that I prefer everything to be done in a specific order and to a specific standard all the time. I am also very routinised, however working with children I know that they tend to thrive in a routinised environment, this however does not prepare them for the real world where as much as you try to predict what's happening and what's going to happen next, there is usually something that "throws a spanner in the works" or causes the proverbial "shit to hit the fan".
So how do we accept change? For some it's a process similar to mourning. You go through the denial, then you go through the anger and finally you get to acceptance. Having first hand knowledge of the grieving process I can tell you that this is usually a very selfish time, trying to come to terms with change is a selfish thing. Why? Well very simply because it is happening to you, and your EGO is very bruised. Here in the UK currently the government is trying to cut the deficit, there are thousands of people at risk and very unexpectedly the economy did not grow in December. These are now circumstances that those at risk as individuals cannot control.
Many of these people who properly prepare themselves will be able to move on quickly, while others may not, but when all is said and done and the grieving process is over, most if not all will be able to find something good that has come out of the change.
This is why I try to shift goal posts, and I try to stay out of a comfort zone, I have a quick temper and yet I have chosen to work in an environment where my language both verbal and non-verbal are to be kept in strict check all the time, this keeps me on my toes and more able to change. So my challenge for you today is to CHANGE something, don't quit your job (unless you have another one) but you know walk into a different supermarket, put your watch on the wrong arm, do something small to remind you how hard change can be and prepare yourself for change because one day it will happen to you and being ready to accept the change will make it so much easier to bear.
In love and light.
So how do we accept change? For some it's a process similar to mourning. You go through the denial, then you go through the anger and finally you get to acceptance. Having first hand knowledge of the grieving process I can tell you that this is usually a very selfish time, trying to come to terms with change is a selfish thing. Why? Well very simply because it is happening to you, and your EGO is very bruised. Here in the UK currently the government is trying to cut the deficit, there are thousands of people at risk and very unexpectedly the economy did not grow in December. These are now circumstances that those at risk as individuals cannot control.
Many of these people who properly prepare themselves will be able to move on quickly, while others may not, but when all is said and done and the grieving process is over, most if not all will be able to find something good that has come out of the change.
This is why I try to shift goal posts, and I try to stay out of a comfort zone, I have a quick temper and yet I have chosen to work in an environment where my language both verbal and non-verbal are to be kept in strict check all the time, this keeps me on my toes and more able to change. So my challenge for you today is to CHANGE something, don't quit your job (unless you have another one) but you know walk into a different supermarket, put your watch on the wrong arm, do something small to remind you how hard change can be and prepare yourself for change because one day it will happen to you and being ready to accept the change will make it so much easier to bear.
In love and light.
Monday, 20 July 2009
Breakfast
Alfred A. Montapert once said "expect problems and eat them for breakfast", I saw this quote and because I have no clue of the context of the quote I was a little intrigued, but hey I am a bright girl and I have read most of the feel good, do good, dictionaries of success so I decided to take a bash at explaining it within my own life.
Quite frankly things do go wrong and no matter how prepared you think you are to deal with all issues in a positive way there are just some things you do not expect and I for one tend to take things very personally. On an emotional maturity scale I am going to give myself a four, although I am better now at letting things go, things that are ancient do pop up and ruin my day (every now and then).
So, one of the things I really enjoy doing is eating so when you using a metaphor that relates to something that means a lot to me I tend to take more notice.
Let me break this down some more (for my benefit mainly) "expect problems" we can never truly be prepared for everything so it's good advice if you are expecting some thing or other it can't creep up on you and scare the daylights out of you, to me this means DON'T BE A VICTIM, I am very big on people getting over themselves and NOT being a victim. Then "eat them for breakfast" because that is how they should be perceived, they are NOTHING in the bigger scheme of things, breakfast is the most essential meal of the day, so gobble up the problems and let them go. The piece of toast you had on your plate for breakfast is gone, it no longer has a purpose, the purpose was to ease your hunger once eaten it's gone, it's history.
This metaphor is appealing to me more and more...
Quite frankly things do go wrong and no matter how prepared you think you are to deal with all issues in a positive way there are just some things you do not expect and I for one tend to take things very personally. On an emotional maturity scale I am going to give myself a four, although I am better now at letting things go, things that are ancient do pop up and ruin my day (every now and then).
So, one of the things I really enjoy doing is eating so when you using a metaphor that relates to something that means a lot to me I tend to take more notice.
Let me break this down some more (for my benefit mainly) "expect problems" we can never truly be prepared for everything so it's good advice if you are expecting some thing or other it can't creep up on you and scare the daylights out of you, to me this means DON'T BE A VICTIM, I am very big on people getting over themselves and NOT being a victim. Then "eat them for breakfast" because that is how they should be perceived, they are NOTHING in the bigger scheme of things, breakfast is the most essential meal of the day, so gobble up the problems and let them go. The piece of toast you had on your plate for breakfast is gone, it no longer has a purpose, the purpose was to ease your hunger once eaten it's gone, it's history.
This metaphor is appealing to me more and more...
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