Look for Silver Linings
Looking for silver linings today. What are some of yours?
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20 Days of Abstinence - Day 17 - Choose Serenity
"Do I want the hit or do I want the serenity?" --A friend of Anne Lamott's in Operating Instructions Leave it to Anne Lamott - and her merry band of quotable friends - to tell it like it is. If you are feeling tempted today ask yourself this question: Do I want the hit or do I want the serenity? If you need some support today, click here to read a great article on giving up drinking. Take each principle she outlines and apply it to whatever it is you are abstaining from. Having a plan can help improve your chances of success.
Bearing the Unbearable
"You breathe in gratitude, and you breathe it out, too. Once you learn how to do that, then you can bear someone who is unbearable." --Anne Lamott This seemed like a good one on the heels of The Betty Lous ... Breathing is a great way to deal with a multitude of things that are difficult and I love this advice from Anne Lamott to use it to bear the unbearable. I think I will try this next time the kids are going nuts in the house - fighting, bouncing basketballs, running amok, leaving open doors and dirty socks in their wake. I am so profoundly grateful for them and find them so unbearable sometimes that this seems like the perfect way to balance these two truths. Thanks Anne, I am grateful for you! I am also grateful for: 1) Hot yoga on a COLD day. 2) A mini-foot rub from the yoga instructor during one of our resting periods. 3) That I didn't yell at the kids at dinnertime when they were complaining endlessly about what I had made. I just got up,...
Wisdom from Anne Lamott
"One's heart is the only safe place to be. There's light there, there's company, and quiet." --Anne Lamott
Wisdom from Harrison Owen (via Anne Lamott)
The Four Immutable Laws of the Spirit: 1) Whoever is present are the right people 2) Whenever it begins is the right time 3) Whatever happens is the only thing that could have happened 4) When it's over, it's over --H arrison Owen Learn 'em. Love 'em. Live 'em
Wisdom from Song of Solomon (via Anne Lamott)
"For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land." --Song of Solomon, chapter two (from Operating Instructions by Anne Lamott) Here's a great quote for the first day of spring. I am starting to feel this way. That winter is past and the rain is gone (or at least going....) and the time of singing birds is come. It's time to come out of hiding, slough off our winter weight and dance in the new grass. Won't you dance with me?