Archive through April 23, 2001
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Flint | Saturday, April 21, 2001 - 09:39 am     We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey no one can take for us or spare us. - Marcel Proust |
Karuuna | Sunday, April 22, 2001 - 01:02 pm     LETTING GO To let go doesn't mean to stop caring; It means I can't do it for someone else. To let go is not to cut myself off.... It's the realization that I can't control another..... To let go is not to enable, but to allow learning from natural consequences. To let go is to admit powerlessness, which means the outcome is not in my hands. To let go is not to try and change or blame another, I can only change myself. To let go is not to care for, but to care about. To let go is not to fix, but to be supportive. To let go is not to judge, but to allow another to be a human being. To let go is not to be in the middle arranging all the outcomes, but to allow others to affect their own outcomes. To let go is not to be protective, It is to permit another to face reality. To let go is not to deny, but to accept. To let go is not to nag, scold, or argue, but to search out my own shortcomings and correct them. To let go is not to adjust everything to my desires, but to take each day as it comes and cherish the moment. To let go is not to criticize and regulate anyone, but to try to become what I dream I can be. To let go is not to regret the past, but to grow and live for the future. To let go is to fear less and love more. ~ Author Unknown ~ |
Grod | Sunday, April 22, 2001 - 02:53 pm     Karuuna I like this one: To let go is not to cut myself off.... It's the realization that I can't control another..... Here is my contribution: "Knowledge is knowing about the fire, Wisdom is remembering the burn" |
Tess | Sunday, April 22, 2001 - 04:02 pm     Pure religion is love in action. (from my fortune cookie at dinner tonight) |
Yankee_In_Ca | Sunday, April 22, 2001 - 04:04 pm     Thank you, Tess. Wish I could tell that one to my brother, who just told me this weekend I was going to h*ll for not going to church enough. That came right at the right time. |
Tess | Sunday, April 22, 2001 - 04:08 pm     The love you seek lives within you. (from Sweetie Cakes' fortune cookie) I have found both of the fortunes to be very true in my own life. The more I give to others, and focus on others, the closer I feel to my God. The more I look within myself instead of relying on others or on material things, the more love I feel and the happier I am. It is no one else's responsibility to make me happy. It was when I stopped looking and started loving myself that I found true, everlasting love with another. |
Soeur | Sunday, April 22, 2001 - 04:09 pm     Funny how people can say thinks like that Yank. I'll bet that hurt. Maybe he said it because he's conflicted and in pain. Hang in there... |
Highlander | Sunday, April 22, 2001 - 04:11 pm     Interesting Yankee. One of my dear friends is a nun with the sisters of charity. Whether you go to church or not to her is unimportant. Some of the most frequent churchgoers sometimes leave their religion at the door when they are leaving. Its how you live your life and treat others that is important not whether you go to church. |
Soeur | Sunday, April 22, 2001 - 04:31 pm     Amen! |
Yankee_In_Ca | Sunday, April 22, 2001 - 04:41 pm     Highlander and Soeur, thanks. I, too, believe it's how you live your life, and the love you give that matters today, tomorrow and in the end. Too bad my brother doesn't respect that. |
Grod | Sunday, April 22, 2001 - 04:48 pm     Good one yankee, I say, live life to the fullest and kill the sibling. |
Grod | Sunday, April 22, 2001 - 05:12 pm     I need to make a correction i don't really mean kill the sibling. i have a brother who problem is a clone of your brother. just maim not kill. so i better say: thou shalt not kill - as a thought for the day |
Soeur | Sunday, April 22, 2001 - 05:27 pm     That is a good thought Grod. Family conflicts are amongst the most painful and difficult to resolve. Sometimes we have to resolve to differ and just keep our distance. |
Zeb | Sunday, April 22, 2001 - 05:40 pm     That sounds like a screwed up family. |
Moondance | Sunday, April 22, 2001 - 06:00 pm     We all have 'stuff' in our families Zeb |
Tess | Sunday, April 22, 2001 - 06:44 pm     We sure do, Moon, we sure do. Yank, I am the only one in my side of the family who goes to church (when my health allows). My younger sister only goes at Christmas to hear me sing at Midnight Mass. Does that make me a better person than she is? Not in the least. She is a loving, caring, compassionate, generous, intelligent person. She is a scientist who says, as a scientist, she can't believe that there is a God. Science, for her, explains everything. My husband is also a scientist. He says, as a scientist, he can't help but believe that there IS a God. Who is right? Is he better for what he believes and because he takes our daughter to church every Sunday? No. They are both wonderful people who just have different beliefs. Neither one tries to convert the other. We can only be responsible for ourselves and held accountable for how we live our own lives. So, don't maim your brother, but don't take it too hard, either. |
Grod | Sunday, April 22, 2001 - 06:47 pm     thank you soeur. i thought i better correct myself before anybody thought i had thoughts of murder on my mind. i agree, i don't communicate at all my with brother, he brought too much trouble to my father's life. he chose drugs as his family. we tried everything to help him but nothing worked. i don't even know exactly where he is now. last i heard he was heading for california. funny chose considering they have a 3 strikes and you're out law there. i have no doubt he has used up a few strikes. Zeb, actually my family is good, just one bad apple. i am sure each family has them. my other thought of day i suppose for him is: Go with God |
Lancecrossfire | Sunday, April 22, 2001 - 07:19 pm     Cynics know the price of everything...yet the value of nothing. |
Karuuna | Sunday, April 22, 2001 - 08:04 pm     Grod, I like to think of myself as the "white sheep" of my family. |
Flint | Sunday, April 22, 2001 - 08:11 pm     To what Shall I compare the world? It is like the wake Vanishing behind a boat That has rowed away at dawn. - Sami Manzei |
Lancecrossfire | Sunday, April 22, 2001 - 09:15 pm     The greatest of rewards don't come without the greatest of risks. |
Tess | Sunday, April 22, 2001 - 09:41 pm     How true, Lance, how true. |
Lancecrossfire | Monday, April 23, 2001 - 10:37 am     Little Johnny was a chemist. Little Johnny is no more. What Johnny thought was H2O Was really H2SO4. This would really hurt! OUCH |
Karuuna | Monday, April 23, 2001 - 10:48 am     I never found a way to tell a good man from an evil one except by what he did. It's popular to say men are both good and evil. Of course, sometimes a good man will do an evil thing. But he regrets it. You know why? Because you have no peace in your heart to satisfy you when you are alone. - James A. Michener in The Fires of Spring |
Tess | Monday, April 23, 2001 - 10:57 am     That which doesn't kill us makes us stronger. Our home flooded in the night so if anyone has a spare prayer this would be a good time to say it. I'll be away for quite awhile today, bailing and tossing. Now, just where did I put my snorkel??? Oh, and MissL...I know what you did and when I get back you should be afraid....be very afraid |
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