Scenes from a week.

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The past few weeks have been one long lesson for me. 

Every morning, I receive a morning meditation. 

This morning: 

The way we react to disappointments can often be 

more painful and debilitating than the actual events. 

Some people, for example, miss out on the joys of life

because they never get over disappointments. 

They actually become immobilized by their bitterness and cynicism. 

Others burden themselves with long-lasting resentment 

against those who supposedly let them down or spurned them. 

Still other people withdraw to lick their wounds, 

refusing to trust anyone ever again. 

Major disappointments can be personally tragic, 

there's no question about that. 

However, we don't have to go to the aforementioned extremes. 

In most instances we have choices. 

Let's remind ourselves first that life has to go on -- and will go on -- 

in spite of adversity and our subsequent disappointment. 

Let's make every effort to learn from the event 

and to accept things the way they are right now. 

If we can do that, 

it will be much easier to make new plans

and develop new strategies in line with

our changed situations. 

Most important, 

we can seek comfort in our faith, 

trusting in God's wisdom 

and the rightness of his plan for us.

Thought for today: 

Everything happens for a reason, 

in accordance with the plan of a loving God. 

After reading this, I said to myself

"this should have begun with 

Dear Marie......" 

The thing is, because of some situations I don't want to go into here

nor do I want to disclose the who and what of it all, 

I have become bitter and cynical. 

More cynical than anything. 

I admitted just this past weekend

I'm just not happy right now. 

I was not looking for advice

nor did I want to be fixed.

I may be broken, but I know from whence my real Help comes. 

However, saying that, I realize that help comes through 

the spoken and written words from people who know me well. 

BAM. 

There it was. 

The answer. 

Three times this weekend.

Three times after speaking these words from my heart: 

I'm just not happy right now. 

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I'm engraving these words into my heart

so that they embed themselves into my thoughts

and roll forth from my mouth: 

Here and now, life is good. 

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Thank you for being with me today. 

Some of you 

-- and you know who you are --

are with me in my heart

every moment of every day. 

Big BIG thanks to thee. 

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P.S. 

Yesterday I discovered what my cat looks like naked. 

Mountain Milo slipped out of his perpetual harness while outdoors

with Mister Pencilfox. 

Don't worry. 

No cats were harmed in the proceedings of the day. 

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