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Daily Question, June 11

Can I find 10 positive things about a situation or event that recently happened?

  • Shelly

    Whew okay I am going to try this.
    Recent Event: My 24 year-old son's suicide.
    1. has made me re-evaluate everything in my life see what is important and what isn't
    2. brought me a new awareness of others love for me
    3. helped me to know him in a way I never did before
    4. re-affirmed my religious beliefs (I have never thought "what if" only a deepening sense of "what is")
    5. our family became closer, more open
    6. I felt God's awareness as I never have before
    7. God prepared me...

    Whew okay I am going to try this.
    Recent Event: My 24 year-old son’s suicide.
    1. has made me re-evaluate everything in my life see what is important and what isn’t
    2. brought me a new awareness of others love for me
    3. helped me to know him in a way I never did before
    4. re-affirmed my religious beliefs (I have never thought “what if” only a deepening sense of “what is”)
    5. our family became closer, more open
    6. I felt God’s awareness as I never have before
    7. God prepared me for this experience, for many years
    8. the special experience near the pool with my friend
    9. it brought me to this site
    10. the unusual and comforting insights that come to me at the strangest moments.

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  • Fiona

    1 it has made me stop
    2 made me get things done
    3 made me question my day to day living
    4 let me speak
    5 made me think about me
    6 made me think about the small stuff
    7 let me rest
    8 caught me up with family and friends
    9 help me get more organised
    10 let me “just be ????”

  • Lioness

    Yes I can easily after this weekend. New place, new people and new life is proving very positive. Negative things are still going on for me but the positives had been overwhelming this weekend, and I feel happier than I have in a long time.

    • Mary

      Have you moved SYBW. I am thinking I once read that you had just moved or were going to move. Either way I am happy for you that lots of things are going well.
      Peace to you.
      Mary

  • Gina

    I am trying ,,, and the best way is to see it for what it is…..someone said in an earlier post, let go or be dragged…..
    see it as an observer, witness, this is what frustration is but in the end will be good… all this work to get gardens planted and ready for a summer season and eventually fall harvest………………………………….
    even with climate change!!! ; ( there is beauty and growth and an anticipated harvest

    • Mary

      Gina, I hope you are finding some ease in your life. I am feeling grateful for small simple things. The school year is over and my workload is much lighter. I do have several difficult things to deal with over the summer, but so far I have been able to feel peaceful and take one day at a time. I enjoy my tea, my cats, and the quiet and comforts in my home. How are you doing, Gina? I have not been able to keep up with this website as much as I would like to as of late.
      Love and peace,
      Mar...

      Gina, I hope you are finding some ease in your life. I am feeling grateful for small simple things. The school year is over and my workload is much lighter. I do have several difficult things to deal with over the summer, but so far I have been able to feel peaceful and take one day at a time. I enjoy my tea, my cats, and the quiet and comforts in my home. How are you doing, Gina? I have not been able to keep up with this website as much as I would like to as of late.
      Love and peace,
      Mary

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      • Gina

        Thanks , Mary, hope you are well, so good to hear from you,
        Love,
        Gina

  • Kevin

    I probably can find 20! 🙂

  • Antoinette

    10 positive things about my ex husband of 20 years sending me a love text meant for his new girlfriend, yesterday.
    1. Lol, it's funny! ( Iwhich wasn't funny when I first read it obviously! Super painful!)
    2. It made me reflect on anger and sadness. I have thechoice to decide how to react. (This is an opportunity to heal this wound.)
    3. After being shocked I noticed the "Watcher" and made a choice, by the end of the day, to wish him well. This took a lot of, what's the word? Searching within...

    10 positive things about my ex husband of 20 years sending me a love text meant for his new girlfriend, yesterday.
    1. Lol, it’s funny! ( Iwhich wasn’t funny when I first read it obviously! Super painful!)
    2. It made me reflect on anger and sadness. I have thechoice to decide how to react. (This is an opportunity to heal this wound.)
    3. After being shocked I noticed the “Watcher” and made a choice, by the end of the day, to wish him well. This took a lot of, what’s the word? Searching within to drive into a place I’ve been hiding from.
    4. I let go!
    5.. I want happiness for all beings.
    6. The world doesn’t revolve around me and I didn’t need to view the situation as an attack.
    7. It’s an opportunity for me to have closure to an open wound starting to heal.
    8. It’s mind traing at its best! The perfect moment to step back and feel whatever comes and allow it in.
    9. Appreciation for being free of a illusion.
    10. We are both moving on. I can forgive and love myself and not look outside myself for love! Wow! What a lesson!
    This awful thing, or what I at first perceived to be awful, by labeling it so turned out to be another way to say YES to life!

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    • Ose

      Dear Antoinette, not easy at all, for sure, but the situation perceived and lived through so greatly to it`s best. Wow. Unchaining and freeing. It helps me to acknowledge what is as well. Freedom may be with you and fill you with peace and joy. Thank you for your encouraging post and sharing this with us.

      • Antoinette

        Ose ,
        Thanks it’s been a hard day and it looks like I lose my house next!
        This is all teaching me something! I hope it all works out!

    • Anna

      Antoinette I really appreciate you. I don’t know if I would have the same reaction, in a situation like yours. If you had a different reaction , I would not blame you, as Kevin says, because I believe it is a normal answer, at least as a quick consequence of that action. But Your vulnerability is a true model, and a message of peace in daily life. Thank you for this honest sharing. I hope you can feel comforted here.

      • Antoinette

        Thanks Anna. It’s been very painful. Being here does help. I appreciate all of your help. In fact I’m not sure what I would do without it!

    • Deb

      Well done, Antoinette! Wounds heal slowly and reactions sometimes prevail, but you are working on facilitating healing and responding instead of reacting! There still will be residual discomfort, but you have stood tall, squared your shoulders, faced the challenge and lived to tell the story with grace and humor! Well done!!

      • Antoinette

        Thanks Deb!
        It’s been and is a challenging each day.
        But it’s an adventure and we have to face our challenges. I do break down like today
        However.

        • Deb

          Yeah, six years after my divorce, it still stings to have not kept our covenant, but I am loved by a wonderful man now and it is good to love again. You will, too, at some point.
          It is said that after amputation, the person still feels phantom pain from the missing limb. Divorce is like an amputation.
          Blessings of comfort and cheer, Antoinette!????????

    • Carol

      Antoinette, What an inspiring and vulnerable message you shared this morning. It will help many and transported me back to a similar time in my own life when my marriage of 35 years ended. Unlike you, I didn't have the wisdom to let go for years and so I couldn't really move on. I share with you a couple of stanza's from a poem I wrote many years later in hopes it will bring you joy. As a dear friend of mine said to me once, "Don't let anything rob you of your joy!" Here are the two stanzas:
      ...

      Antoinette, What an inspiring and vulnerable message you shared this morning. It will help many and transported me back to a similar time in my own life when my marriage of 35 years ended. Unlike you, I didn’t have the wisdom to let go for years and so I couldn’t really move on. I share with you a couple of stanza’s from a poem I wrote many years later in hopes it will bring you joy. As a dear friend of mine said to me once, “Don’t let anything rob you of your joy!” Here are the two stanzas:
      “Now is the hour,
      acceptance the key.
      Not husband or wife,
      Not bliss or strife,
      just the willingness to be.

      To be the light of my own life.
      To see the gift hidden
      in my darkness,
      To share the wisdom garnered
      from my pain.”

      May we all learn that to be responsible is to be willing to respond instead of react to life.
      Blessings, Carol

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      • Antoinette

        Wow thank you Carol!
        You brought tears to my eyes.
        I’m truly touched
        This is the hardest most alone iv ever felt.
        Today I found myself standing crying in the doctor office not wanting to be alone.
        So thank you .

        • Carol

          Antoinette, You’re most welcome. A grief counselor told me that in many ways divorce is disenfranchised grief. Many will not understand your pain. She also told me and it was most helpful was that until we can accept the reality that the marriage is over, we cannot truly grieve. That did not come easily for me. Take care, be patient with yourself.

    • Lunamagicae

      I love this. Well done for being able to see things in such a healthy and positive way 🙂

    • Kevin

      Oh my, Antoinette, you 100% nailed this question today. Good for you for not going “off the rails” upon receiving that text…nobody could blame you if you did, btw, either. My hat is off to you, my friend.

      • Antoinette

        Thanks Kevin!
        It wasn’t at all what one would want to have sent to them obviously.
        In fact, it stayed with me for most of the day and even some today. It’s hard to imagine how much of our lives are part of our marriage.
        In fact , I feel as though I’m coming apart day by day. It’s hard to explain.

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