Gratitude

Melva with some tomatoes from our backyard.

I am very grateful to be exactly where I am today. I do not need to be a victim of my past or controlled by circumstances.
(Ruth Fishel, Time For Joy, 5 July)

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This past week I neglected blogging for several days.  I also missed a day or to of daily reading. Recently I added several books to the stack of books that I read from each day.  I'm looking forward to the challenge of reading for a few more minutes each morning.

I've been working on some genealogy projects that are time consuming.

Dick Henthorn

13 September 20015

Stand Up

As we stand up for ourselves against negative beliefs, we allow power to run through us. When we refuse to submit to someone else's thinking, we stop being a victim and become powerful people.
(Perry Tilleraas, The Color Of Light, 19 October)
21 April 2015

Powerful People

When we refuse to submit to someone else's thinking 

we stop being a victim and become powerful people.

(Perry Tilleraas, The Color Of Light, 19 October)

7 November 2014

Reality Check

People who are constantly cursing reality doom themselves to lives of needless anger and frustration.  They are apt to victimize themselves ... (Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, Pulling Your Own Strings, p. 186) 21 April 2012

Movement Is Progress

(Melva's Orchid - photo Mr. Dickie)

You only live once, so why should you live at the mercy of man-made institutions?  Obviously you shouldn't, and you won't any longer when you decide to stop being a victim? (Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, Pulling Your Own Strings, p. 181)

... the first step to amendment is to realize that something has gone wrong. (William Barclay, The Revelation Of John, Vol. 1, p. 65)

Even small movement is progress. (Touchstones, 4 March)

Live each day as well as you can, for yourself and everyone you encounter. (One Day At A Time In Al-Anon, 1 April)
4 April 2012