Let it Go

There are people who can walk away from you: let them walk. Don't try to talk another person into staying with you, loving you, calling you, caring about you, coming to see you, staying attached to you. In other words, hang up the phone. When people can walk away from you let them walk. Your destiny is never tied to anybody that left. The bible said that, they came out from us that it might be made manifest that they were not for us. For had they been of us, no doubt they would have continued with us. [1 John 2:19] People leave you because they are not joined to you. And if they are not joined to you, you can't make them stay. Let them go. Now this doesn't mean that they are a bad person, it just means that their part in God's story for you is over. And you've got to know when peoples part in your story is over. You've got to know when it's dead. You've got to know when it's over. I've got the gift of good-bye. I believe in good-bye! It's not that I'm hateful, it's that I'm faithful, and I know whatever God means for me to have. He'll give it to me. And if it takes too much sweat I don't need it. Let them go!! If you are holding on to something that doesn't belong to you and was never intended for your life, then you need to...... LET IT GO!!! If you are holding on to past hurts and pains ......LET IT GO!!! If someone can't treat you right, love you back, and see your worth..... LET IT GO!!! If someone has angered you.....LET IT GO!!! If you are holding on to some thoughts of evil and revenge...... LET IT GO!!! If you are involved in a wrong relationship or addiction...... LET IT GO!!! If you are holding on to a job that no longer meets your needs or talents LET IT GO!!! If you have a bad attitude.......LET IT GO!!! If you keep judging others to make yourself feel better...... LET IT GO!!! If you're stuck in the past and God is trying to take you to a new level in Him...... LET IT GO!!! If you are struggling with the healing of a broken relationship....... LET IT GO!!! If you keep trying to help someone who won't even try to help themselves......LET IT GO!!! If you're feeling depressed and stressed .........LET IT GO!!! If there is a particular situation that you are so used to handling yourself and God is saying "take your hands off of it," then you need to...... LET IT GO!!! Let the past be the past. Forget the former things. GOD is doing a new thing for 2007!!! LET IT GO!!! Get Right or Get Left .. think about it, and then LET IT GO!!! "The Battle is the Lord's!" Stop and think and appreciate God's power in your life, for doing what you know is pleasing to Him. God loves you and watches over you every day

Let it Go

There are people who can walk away from you: let them walk. Don't try to talk another person into staying with you, loving you, calling you, caring about you, coming to see you, staying attached to you. In other words, hang up the phone. When people can walk away from you let them walk. Your destiny is never tied to anybody that left. The bible said that, they came out from us that it might be made manifest that they were not for us. For had they been of us, no doubt they would have continued with us. [1 John 2:19] People leave you because they are not joined to you. And if they are not joined to you, you can't make them stay. Let them go. Now this doesn't mean that they are a bad person, it just means that their part in God's story for you is over. And you've got to know when peoples part in your story is over. You've got to know when it's dead. You've got to know when it's over. I've got the gift of good-bye. I believe in good-bye! It's not that I'm hateful, it's that I'm faithful, and I know whatever God means for me to have. He'll give it to me. And if it takes too much sweat I don't need it. Let them go!! If you are holding on to something that doesn't belong to you and was never intended for your life, then you need to...... LET IT GO!!! If you are holding on to past hurts and pains ......LET IT GO!!! If someone can't treat you right, love you back, and see your worth..... LET IT GO!!! If someone has angered you.....LET IT GO!!! If you are holding on to some thoughts of evil and revenge...... LET IT GO!!! If you are involved in a wrong relationship or addiction...... LET IT GO!!! If you are holding on to a job that no longer meets your needs or talents LET IT GO!!! If you have a bad attitude.......LET IT GO!!! If you keep judging others to make yourself feel better...... LET IT GO!!! If you're stuck in the past and God is trying to take you to a new level in Him...... LET IT GO!!! If you are struggling with the healing of a broken relationship....... LET IT GO!!! If you keep trying to help someone who won't even try to help themselves......LET IT GO!!! If you're feeling depressed and stressed .........LET IT GO!!! If there is a particular situation that you are so used to handling yourself and God is saying "take your hands off of it," then you need to...... LET IT GO!!! Let the past be the past. Forget the former things. GOD is doing a new thing for 2007!!! LET IT GO!!! Get Right or Get Left .. think about it, and then LET IT GO!!! "The Battle is the Lord's!" Stop and think and appreciate God's power in your life, for doing what you know is pleasing to Him. God loves you and watches over you every day

Family Traditions

       As traditions exist in families and in cultures, so true is this existence in the Italian heritage. My family is steeped in traditions- some cherished, some dreaded, others just our unique daily routine.

      I am known, quite proudly I may add, as an Italian Princess. I am the youngest in my family with three older, over-protective and over-bearing brothers. I remain on a pedestal throughout all family events and always the center of all family photos. Family events could not begin until I, the princess, would arrive. I am the godmother to many within and out of our core family. My imaginary crown is often a joke at family events, as too my royal duties and obligations. Within the Italian culture, all understand the status of the Princess and the power she holds. Outsiders just look at us with confession to its mire existence.

      Men often believe, as women often let them, that they truly are the head of the family. As "we" all know it is the women; the mothers and daughters who truly control, guide and exist as all powerful. We need not shout this from omuntain tops or beat on your chests proclaiming this fact. It is a fact known as truth in the hearts and souls of all who we love. And all who love us silently bow to this power.

     The passing of the rings is the hardest most honored tradition bestowed upon a princess. It occurs at the most difficult moment in a family's life or history.  A moment like no other, not recorded with photos or cards. This is quiet, somber moment the echoes throughout a thousand years of a family. This is a short moment in which the rings are passed from a mother to a daughter.

      The rings I speak of are my mother's wedding rings. Rings she wore for 55 years. Rings she wore as she bathed us as small children. Rings she wore as she made meatballs for the family Sunday meal. Rings I seldom if ever saw absent from her left hand. The rings which circle, engulf, unite, and mend our family with the strength of raging bulls or gentle doves. Rings which are the reason this family was created.

      In a moment, just a moment, during the heart wrenching death of my mother; a royal ceremony must be preformed. Upon my arrival to my parent's home, I was greeted by my father and brothers. Without trumpets or glory and in the simple, yet meaningful palace of my mother's kitchen the ceremony begins. My father places my mother's wedding rings on my right hand. He gently hugs me and kisses each cheek which are now wet with tears. Then my brothers follow him in that tradition and they too gently hug and kiss each cheek.

     In a moment, the proud princess removes her imaginary crown and exchanges it for the realization of the rings and of that family tradition. Rest in peace mother, our queen; your reign has ended yet your love lives on in our hearts, our family, your grandchildren, great grandchildren and so on- forever.

  Happy Birthday Mom on what would have been your 81^st birthday. Today was a very hard day in my life and I so wish you were still here. I love you Mommy. 1-16-2008

I’ve Learned..words from a friend

I've learned that you cannot make someone love you. All you can do is stalk them and hope they panic and give in...

I've learned that one good turn gets most of the blankets.

I've learned that no matter how much I care, some people are just jackasses.

I've learned that it takes years to build up trust, and it only takes suspicion, not proof, to destroy it.

I've learned that whatever hits the fan will not be evenly distributed.

I've learned that you shouldn't compare yourself to others - they are more screwed up than you think.

I've learned that depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.

I've learned that it is not what you wear; it is how you take it off.

I've learned that you can keep vomiting long after you think you're finished.

I've learned to not sweat the petty things, and not pet the sweaty things.

I've learned that ex's are like fungus, and keep coming back.

I've learned age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

I've learned that I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy it.

I've learned that we are responsible for what we do, unless we are celebrities.

I've learned that artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.

I've learned that 99% of the time when something isn't working in your house, one of your kids did it

I've learned that there is a fine line between genius and insanity.

I've learned that the people you care most about in life are taken from you too soon and all the less important ones just never go away.
And the real pains in the ass are permanent.

Time Tested Beauty Tips

Time Tested Beauty Tips
by Sam Levenson..

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..> ..> ..>..> For attractive lips, Speak words of kindness. For lovely eyes, Seek out the good in people. For a slim figure, Share your food with the hungry. For beautiful hair, Let a child run his or her fingers through it once a day. For poise, Walk with the knowledge you'll never walk alone. People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed and redeemed; Never throw out anybody. Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands; one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

"The Seat of the Soul"

+ "The soul is legitimate, period. It doesn't need validation.

+ The first man to see an illusion by which men have flourished for centuries surely stands in a lonely place.

+ We are in the most significant evolutionary transition that our species has ever encountered. There is no way to compare what we are now experiencing with anything in our past. This new event has no historical antecedent. The only event in the history of our species that compares with this one is Genesis.

+ Changing the world begins with the very personal process of changing yourself, the only place you can begin is where you are, and the only time you can begin is always now.

+ When you feel an emotion such as despair or in a depression, that is a low frequency current of energy. It has very little energy. And someone who is in despair or in a depression soaks up energy.

+ You cannot find your soul with your mind, you must use your heart. You must know what you are feeling. If you don't know what you are feeling, you will create unconsciously. If you are unconscious of an aspect of yourself; if it operates outside your field of awareness, that aspect has power over you.

+ Eventually you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is.

+ There is no scientific way to validate anything that I or you can say about the soul because science cannot validate the existence of the soul any more than it can prove the existence of God.

+ If you hear anything that I say, then I invite you to take it and use it as your own. If you resonate with it because that's what we will make it your own. And if you don't, then throw it away. Don't try to wear a shoe that pinches."

-----Author Gary Zukav - books include "The Dancing Wu Li Masters", "The Seat of the Soul", "Soul Stories" and "The Heart of the Soul: Emotional Awareness".

Friendship

Think about this for a minute.....
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> If I happened to show up on your door step
> crying, would you care?
> If I called you and asked you to pick me up
> because something happened,
> would you come?
> If I had one day left, to live my life; would
> you be part of that last
> day?
> If I needed a shoulder to cry on, would you give
> me yours?
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>  Do you know what the relationship is between
> your two eyes? They blink
> together, they move together, they cry together,
> they see things
> together and they sleep together, BUT THEY NEVER
> SEE  THE FAULTS OF EACH OTHER...
> that's what friendship is. Your aspiration is
> your motivation, your
> motivation is your belief, your belief is your
> peace, your peace is your
> target, your target is heaven, and life is like
> hell without FRIENDS.
> It's "world best friend's week". Who is your
> best friend?

This is to my best friend...Paula. What would I do without you. All of these questions have not a second thought.  We have been through  a lot of shit with each other. Just like the two eyes we are. I love you girl...

Leg Irons

Leg Irons

One of our main tasks in life is to free ourselves from the fears and beliefs that chain us to limitation –  to do that we must remove the leg irons that hobble us. It's a  HARD  job and it takes a great deal of courage. Often, we attempt to carry everyone else's leg irons also, thereby making it almost impossible to unlock our own. The weight is actually too heavy for any one person to bear, realistically speaking. This is such a difficult fact to accept. We always think of ourselves strong enough to carry any load. As the song goes, He Ain't Heavy… well, realistically speaking again, yes he is. You, as a good person, only want the best for all those around you.  How can you not carry the weight of the world for them of which they can not? But, spiritually speaking, you can not. This is not what God has truly asked of you, or me. Spiritually it will drain you from God.

When we shackle ourselves to the belief that we must be in charge of everyone's growth and happiness, we create guilt and frustration in ourselves and dependence and resistance in those we try to rescue. We only have the keys to unlock our own leg irons. To attempt to save others, even the ones we love, is really only a subtle putdown. We are saying in effect, " you  poor thing, I don't  believe you can run your own life. Therefore I guess I have to do it for you…sigh." But it doesn't work that way. You can not free them. This has nothing to do with being enslaved which we automatically connect to the word shackled. There are people who want the leg irons, who accept the leg irons and find great comfort in those leg irons. Being shackled in a cave for some is easier and less painful then dealing with freedom. Living freely, even loving freely, is entirely too risky for them. So they resist you, they push you away; they refuse all you offer them because somehow it offends them. You are offensive to them. This is the point where you must walk a different path from them. Dragging only your own leg irons, that may rightfully have been cuffed on you by that same person.  WE must be in search of only our key to salvation.  

WE need to be patience with ourselves and gentle to ourselves, for the belief that we are responsible for everything woven deeply into the fabric of our lives is not always true. You must accept the knowledge you can not change another person no matter how hard and right your concerns are. The only one who can change is you. The true key, the true strength, is accepting the knowledge that we ourselves will change.  And to accept that change will grant us freedom, freedom from what we can not change if nothing else.

Simple Wisdom

I received this from a friend...not sure where it come from but thought I would pass the thoughts on.

 

Simple wisdom tells us that we most fully manifest who we are in our relationships.  Simple wisdom also tells us that it is there between self and other that the deepest meaning of life is realized.  But we also know that it is there that we are also exposed to the deepest pain, to wounding and being wounded in turn. So it is hardly a surprise that many of us turn away -- inwardly if not outwardly -- from the people in our lives, seeking to protect ourselves from the risks of exposure. Such safety comes at a high price, at too high a price really, since we cannot be fulfilled or happy if we keep ourselves at a safe distance. 
Simple wisdom tells us that we must connect, that we must not flee into the impersonal and that self-sufficiency is a wrongheaded ideal. But more significantly, simple wisdom helps us to stay the course by teaching us how to stay the course, by teaching us what we need to know if we want to deepen and strengthen our relation- ships. Simple wisdom shows us how to navigate the rough water that is part of every relationship except the most superficial. Even more, simple wisdom shows us how to turn the inevitable difficulties into opportunities for deepening our connection with the people in our lives. Practicing acceptance, learning forgiveness and above all learning the art of conscious conversation give us the tools for enriching and developing our connection reflex.

Embracing Ecstasy

From the book Simple Steps   by Dr. Arthur Caliandro……

Embracing Ecstasy

We can not plan or demand those encounters with eternity. They just happen. It's the work of the spirit, the activity of God. Yet with the right kind of mindset, we can remain open to those moments every day. And when we are open, we often find that those transcendent moments have away of happening far more often. Coleman Barks often spoke of his belief that people have that core that is ecstatic, recognizes these moments, and responds with wonder.

In response to the question about what he meant by " ecstasy", Barks talks of his boyhood in Tennessee, and the golden April sunsets he used to see there. When he was a boy, he would get so excited by their beauty that he couldn't stand it. He would have to lie down and hug himself.

"Mama, Mama I have that full feeling again," he would say. And she would respond, " I know you do, honey."

Barks felt his mother give him a great gift: "I grew up knowing it was okay to lie and the floor and hug myself."

I'd like to make a further recommendation. It is not only permissible to hug yourself. It is also permissible to hug LIFE.

It is also a very good idea for us to hug each other. We often need to say, "I Love You."

We need to say, "I believe in you."

We need to say, "You hurt me, but I forgive you: let's start over again, let's have a resurrection of our relationship."

These things can happen with faith and patience and some hard work. But it all starts by embracing the ecstasy- the ecstasy of life- and welcoming it into your every day.

Life Ain’t Always Beautiful

Life ain't always beautiful
Sometimes it's just plain hard
Life can knock you down
It can break your heart.

Life ain't always beautiful
You think you're on your way
And it's just a dead end road
At the end of the day.

But the struggles make you stronger
And the changes make you wise
And happiness has it's own way
Of taking it's sweet time.

Chorus:
No, life ain't always beautiful
Tears will fall sometimes
Life ain't always beautiful
But it's a beautiful ride.

Life ain't always beautiful
Some days I miss your smile
I get tired of walking
All these lonely miles.

And wish for just one minute
That I could see your pretty face
Guess, I can dream
But life don't work that way.

But the struggles make me stronger
And the changes make me wise
And happiness has it's own way
Of taking it's sweet time.

No, life ain't always beautiful
But I know I'll be fine
Life ain't always beautiful
But it's a beautiful ride.

What a beautiful ride..

Sung by Gary Allan