I believe that it doesn't matter what religion you choose to worship or believe in. It doesn't matter if you call him Buddha Lord or whatever it is you prefer. I am not here to push my views on you for I feel its a relationship that I have with my faith - its personal and its all mine...just as I want and hope the same for all. We are all different so naturally we all should not believe the same nor pracitice the same when it comes to things like faith. I don't speak for all but during such holidays my main focus is to show kindness true pure kindness not just on such days as Easter and Christmas but each and everyday. I focus on realizing and knowing my blessings and being grateful for what I have been given and who I have the honor to have in my life. My goal is to live a life that reflects such things as kind. compassionate. caring. true. trustworthly. I want my life to be defined by the goodness not just in myself but more importantly the goodness I bring to others as well as bring out of others. I want to live that truth each and everyday that I an granted on this earth. Each and every moment air fills my lungs I want to be grateful for this gift to simply be here.
On this Easter we will gather as a family - like always I am sure it will be loud - full of way to much food - laughter will be heard - stories told - smiles to be seen and prolly even a few tears. We will come together to be grateful for what we have been given and to take this time just to enjoy the fact we are together. Life sometimes presents challenges - changes and struggles that we do not want to accept that such changes will modify our life forever. Changes is well hard. Hard to accept hard to adjust and hard to come to terms that we can never go back. Life is not meant to be a smooth journey if it was we would lose the meaning. We must be tested. challenged so we are force to GROW. to BECOME. some lessons life brings are small and easy to handle take on others requires TIME. But what I know for certain we ENDURE. We can endure so much more than we think we can handle...sometimes our strength is tried and we find an extra source a reserve right off the bat other times we don't find such until we are broken and knock to our knees. Other times its takes us hitting rock bottom and someone helping us back up. Regardless we carry on. Life sure can be tough but we can be tougher.
I know the changes that are happening in my family will test us. It might bring us to the point where we think we might break. It may lead us to a darkness that we must find our way in for some time. BUT it may also lead us to something better. Its hard to say...all we can do is take it one day at a time. The mountain that lies before us is quite massive but there is one thing I know for certain my family is capable of such a climb and we will do it together - step by step LIVING each step of the way this life to its very fullest. Thou the climb will be tough we will still find the happiness and laughter to make it seem not so bad. Becasue you see its all about your attitude and to change from what seems has been DONE to you - to what has been GIVEN to you. Which in return comes back to how will you let this change your life. Will it control you or will you stay true to the core of who you are...is it easy to find the blessings - to show kindness - to be grateful - to be positive - to carry an attitude that reflects such...it is a challenge but I also know life is meant to be held as a gift and its our job to honor that gift not just when things are easy or going our way but esp in moments that challenge us - it may take everything out of us to do so...but it must be done as simple as that.
Sure this holiday is filled with bunnies. baskets. eggs. flowers. ham. and such but its also a prime time for you to stop and reflect on what has simply been given to you the blessings you have and the people that surround you. Its my favorite time to sit or stand in the corner and take my surroundings in...to watch and smile and then close my eyes and whisper THANK YOU. for even I know I have been given way way more than I ever deserved. Its a special moment that to me defines faith...something no-one else knows about its between me and my faith my maker. And then to make sure I live that gratefullness and thankfullness each and everyday...that is how you repay such a gift. HAPPY EASTER.
"More than anything I want to trust in a journey that I don't understand."
"I write entirely to find out what I am thinking & feeling, what I am looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear."
"Loving you changed my life. It should come as no surprise that losing you has done the same."
"I am living proof that a shattered heart can still beat.:
"I am living proof that a shattered heart can still beat.:
LOVEthisLiFE
- Michelle
- "Life lies in the JOURNEY not the Destination." Everyday I awake to embrace the day I have been given. Thru times of struggle and in happiness--I find reasons each and everyday to LOVEthisLIFE.
Every story is one to be heard....
"You have been given the chance to live, so LIVE."
"Your soul knows the geography of your destiny. Your soul alone has the map of your future. Therefore, you can trust this indirect, oblique side of yourself. If you do, it will take you where you need to go. But more importantly it will teach you a kindness of rhythm in your journey."
"Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself. They remember your beauty when you feel ugly, your wholeness when you are broken, your innocence when you feel guilty and your purpose when you are confused."
"I may not have gone where I intended to go - but I believe I have ended up where I needed to be."
"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy.' They told me - I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life."
"If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars."
"Some people just live life in a way that well seems against the grain - never taking the paved way the easy way never living to the checklist of life...but maybe just maybe they are seeking a little bit more from life."
"All of your life is about growing into your personal best...all of your life is about growing into greatness."
"When something bad happens, you have three choices...you can either let it define you, let it destroy you OR you can let it strengthen you."
"I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders."
"Do one thing everyday that scares the complete shit out of you."
"Try to be like a turlte, at ease in your own shell."
"There is a great mystery that none of us will get until that last breath and EVERYTHING will become VERY CLEAR."
"There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with."
"Overcome the notion that you must be regular it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary."
"Too much has been given much is required. You must do something for the greater good to show your gratefulness for the blessings in your life."
"The CHALLENGE of my LIFE is to see how far I can take it."
"There are things that we don't want to happen but have to accept, things we don't want to know but have to learn, and people we can't live without but have to let go."
Never ask, "What reason do I have to be happy?" Instead ask, "To what purpose can I attach my happiness?"
"Maybe mistakes are what makes our fate - without them what would shape our lives? Maybe if we never veered off course we wouldn't be who we are now."
"The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt."
"Michelangelo said the best way to judge the essential elements of a sculpture is to throw it down a hill and the unimportant pieces will breake away. Sometimes life is like that. It tosses us down a hill. But when we reach the bottom and only the important things are left, that's when our vision clears. That's when we hold on tight to what we know, while hope stirs inside us. It's all a matter of perspective."
"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm but to add color to my sunset sky."
"Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces - I would still plant my apple tree."
"Turn your wounds into wisdom and your mess into your message."
"Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness."
"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek & find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."
"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared."
"It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle."
"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet."
"When you find the way others will find you. Passing by on the road they will be drawn to your door. The way that cannot be heard will be echoed in your voice. The way that cannot be seen will be reflected in your eyes." -Choose your own journey even if it means taking a path no one ever has.
"The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer anwsers."
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