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Gratefulness
My goal is to be a whole lot more like my dogs, able to live in the moment and just be grateful.
Healing. Love. Following the call on my life to be a light bearer of healing and truth, to help others know the Love/God/Great Spirit that holds them so dear. And, of course, my husband and loved ones, whether they have two feet or four! š
This is an area I have been working on but still have far to go.
I guess Iād have to say that one of the most effective ways for me to learn to treasure my uniqueness and what I have to share is to work on my hearing. For so long, I have discounted compliments, sort of shoving them aside lest I become prideful by accepting them. At times, I’ve been so adroit at pushing the good stuff away that I have not even had the compliment or appreciation register!
In truth, these...
In truth, these compliments and appreciation for who I am and what I give, hard as they are for me to accept sometimes, function as guideposts for me. They help me see who I really am and encourage me to become even more the person I was created to be.
When I was first diagnosed with Late Stage Lyme after twenty-five years of no answers, my reaction was that Lyme = suffering, therefore Lyme = bad. Both one of my practitioners as well as my pastoral counselor suggested to me that I look at the Lyme as Teacher instead of Enemy. It changed my whole relationship with the disease and my progress in healing from it.
The Twelve Steps reach so far beyond their original sphere. It is wonderful how our brokenness is the door that leads us to healing!
I found the 12 Step angle/ ACOA movement very helpful in coming to terms with what I could not control/what was simply not mine at all connected to my family of origin.
I love what you say about suffering being unavoidable but curable.
Oh, no! Ursula, I am so glad you are okay, though shaken and banged up a bit. I joke sometimes that there is a hospital for Guardian Angels called St. Gabriel’s where they have to go to recuperate from taking the hits for us! š
Isn’t it amazing how incarnation takes different emphases on different days? One day, perhaps we find ourselves being spoken to by one aspect, then something else catches our attention on another day when something else is uppermost in our life. I love the solidity and the fluidity that combine to be completely Other and yet care so deeply about the tiniest sparrow falling. š
What you have shared of your journey here so far, Pilgrim, has been a gift. I think sometimes when we come from a bent of ministering to others we too easily overlook our uniqueness, those special gifts and talents that were given not only to share with others but also for our own enjoyment and benefit. It’s like we think there is a virtue in not being special when, in truth, God is looking at us with love saying, “But I MADE you special! On purpose! And I think you are pretty awe...
What you have shared of your journey here so far, Pilgrim, has been a gift. I think sometimes when we come from a bent of ministering to others we too easily overlook our uniqueness, those special gifts and talents that were given not only to share with others but also for our own enjoyment and benefit. It’s like we think there is a virtue in not being special when, in truth, God is looking at us with love saying, “But I MADE you special! On purpose! And I think you are pretty awesome.”
Try a local gallery. A friend of mine here turned back to her photography as a way of working through her grief over losing her mother to cancer. Eventually, this led to her starting a local gallery and gathering place where she shares her art and that of others.
Amen, Kevin!
I understand, oh, I understand! It is hard for those who have not been through this to realize how you go into it one person and come out another.
I am there, too, in this process of the recreation of Me. But is it really a recreation or rather the discovery of what was always there but under too many layers to express? Now that the layers have been stripped aside, the beauty underneath will have a chance to shine. š
I find that a lot of self-comparison dropped away natural...
I find that a lot of self-comparison dropped away naturally, without my knowing. When you have been struggling to stay alive, somehow all that other stuff that mattered so much just doesn’t add up to being worth fussing about anymore.
Amen
Absolutely! It helps to find a supportive tribe to encourage us along our creative pathway. That helps us to gain momentum and keep the creative stream clean and flowing. š
Thank you. The process and journey of healing from Lyme changes us, that’s for sure. Gratefulness helps that be a change for the better!
This is heart-wrenching as well as beautiful. Thank you for your openness in sharing. Sending you a virtual hug. May peace comfort your heart.
Amen.
Thank you!
Thank you! You, too!
Lovely, Anna! That is a wonderful post! Isn’t it amazing how that Spirit gives us even more than we ask?
We flow in grief and search for gratitude. Such tragic loss. Such senseless hatred.
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