Learn

If I could wish for my life to be perfect, it would be tempting but I would have to decline, for life would no longer teach me anything.
Allyson Jones

I guess I am a lucky person and possibly very smart. My life is so far from perfect............Although I do have some very wonderful things in it. My husband left when I was 39. We share three daughters. I had to teach them and myself about loss and change. I am not able to find a job. Learning that love brings far more joy then money. I guess if we learn one new thing about life, ourselves, those we love and use it well each day our lives will be full. Jenn

Joy is what happens when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.
Marianne Williamson

todays word

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“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be”
Lao Tzu quote

I get so caught up in self pity at times. Why did my husband leave me, why didn't I get that 4th baby, why did loose the life I dreamed of.

Then in this new life, I ask why can't I find a job, why are my kids getting so grown up, why did I get sick...................

I need to stop and be Thankful for the small job I have, the fact I have three amazing daughters, and compared to many I am healthy.

If is ge stuck in the "why me's" , I will never have the motivation I need to become the woman I want to be................

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
Carl Jung

When I read these words I think of my life and I have known happiness, and great sadness. I do believe we need sadness to have happiness. Think of roller coaster going up, up, up the top the tracks. The excitement and the anticipation. Finally you go flying down. You feel so high and light headed. What if it never stopped. You could not take it. You need to level of and calm down, and be content with your ride...........................

Live

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out if they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
William James

Happy New Year!!!!!!!!

May it be filled with not just what you want, but more important. What you need. Jenni

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: You don't give up.
-Anne Lamott

I think this may be true.............Giving up guarantees failure. I hope to find a new job in the New Year, to be more organized, and be more social. I need to make to do lists, and not just hope for the things I want. I will have to wait, watch for opportunity and do a lot of work to reach my goals.

Maybe someday I will dare to hope to find a real companion to share life with.............

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So this is Crhistmas

Merry Christmas from MyDailyInsights

To the American People: Christmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind. To cherish peace and good will, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas. If we think on these things, there will be born in us a Savior and over us will shine a star sending its gleam of hope to the world.

Calvin Coolidge
(1872-1933),
American president. Presidential message (December 25, 1927)

So this is Christmas