Be thankful that you don't already
have everything you desire.
If you did, what would there be to look forward to?
Be thankful when you don't know something,
for it gives you the opportunity to learn.
Be thankful for the difficult times.
During those times you grow.
Be thankful for your limitations,
because they give you opportunities for improvement.
Be thankful for each new challenge,
because it will build your strength and character.
Be thankful for your mistakes.
They will teach you valuable lessons.
Be thankful when you're tired and weary,
because it means you've made a difference.
It's easy to be thankful for the good things.
A life of rich fulfillment comes to those who
are also thankful for the setbacks.
Gratitude can turn a negative into a positive.
Find a way to be thankful for your troubles,
and they can become your blessings.
 

The rising moon has hid the stars,
Her level rays, like golden bars
Lie on the landscape green,
With shadows brown between,
And silver white the river gleams,
As if Diana, in her dreams,
Had dropt her silver bow
Upon the meadows low.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Life is a constantly morphing thing. Just when you think you know where it's all headed you wake up the next morning to a completely different view. The landscape has changed along with the seasons, but the trees are the same trees, only your view has changed.


So you try to cling to the old things that used to comfort you, clinging to the familiar, but they provide little or no solace. The fears do not subside. At this point we have no choice but to surrender to the unknown that is where the real beauty lies.


It is not in the knowing, the familiar, the expected.But in the embracing of the unknown. a willingness to walk down a new path and to trust that everything is as it should be. perfect. As it is.


"Sometimes there are little glimpses of the perfection, amidst the mess. It is at those times we feel blessed beyond measure.
~Keri Smith

Those little glimpses amidst the mess...Oh how I relish those! Somedays, there's more mess and less places to glimpse. Our Friendship though, that is a bit of perfection that makes the messes far less bothersome, actually, it has given me the ability to laugh at the chaos...Thank You...

Wishing you a beautiful week filled with love!

Loving hearts
make a happy home.


Where thou art ...
that - is Home.

~ Emily Dickinson



Today, see if you can stretch your heart and expand your love so that it touches not only those to whom you can give it easily, but also those who need it so much.

~ Daphine Rose Kingma

In order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.
--David Ben Gurion

Life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
--Grandma Moses