Prayer Journals
Did you know you can write your prayers? You can keep a prayer journal.
You don’t have to try to write anything formal. I know that in some religions, prayers are ritualistic and memorized.
It can be more informal, as if you are talking to God on paper; sort of like writing a letter.
On a bad day, you could write something like, “Today, I am having a bad day, Lord.”
And then explain why it is such a bad day, and what your hopes are for improving it or surviving it. Ask God to give you strength.
It might take more time than rattling off a verbal or thought form prayer, but the process of slowing down, may actually help you connect with God and your spiritual side.
Remember, God doesn’t give us everything we want, but usually the things we need. Writing will help you slow down and focus in on what it is that you need so that you are forming a more effective prayer.
In times of extreme distress, it can be hard to find the words for prayer. This method of prayer will help you put words to your prayer.
Just imagine going back later and reading your entries and seeing your own spiritual growth. What a blessing it would be to read what you had asked for and then realize what you received. Sometimes people forget that they asked and don’t stop to notice when their wish has been granted.
Reading back over a spiritual prayer journal would allow you to take stock of your life and realize what you have been given over time and how blessed you are. Then you could write down your thankfulness. People tend to forget to give thanks in prayer.
Remember, there is not just one proper way to communicate with God.
Writing down your prayers at regularly scheduled times is a good practice. Couples schedule time for their relationships so how much better would it be to schedule time to talk to God?
Homemakers Journal
I just found a FANTASTIC idea for a journal. It is called a Homemakers Journal.
People used to keep them all the time and pass them down to their children when they left home.
I wish someone had done that for me. My two children are still somewhat dependent on my husband and I. I still have time to cram some stuff into a journal. That’s what I am going to have to do. Oh, if only I had started one years ago for each of them.
What do you put in one? According to the article I read, you can put all kinds of useful information in them. Recipes, first aid tips, lists of birthdays and anniversaries. (Just think what a valuable resource that could be for family historians).
–Tips and hints for helping to keep your home running smoothly.
–Inspirational quotes or Scriptures.
–Cleaning tips, Gardening trips
–activities and projects for kids
–holiday traditions and maybe an explanation of how they started.
–an outline of your daily activities
–meal planning
–budget planning
You could put all kinds of things in there about what you have learned in life. What a wonderful gift for a newly married couple–your daughter or your son and his new wife.
Just imagine receiving one in which multiple generations had written their small morsels of wisdom acquired over a lifetime.
Love Quotes in Honor of Valentines Day
One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other,
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
- Clive Staples Lewis, The Four Loves
Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1807 – 1882
A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.
- Logan Pearsall Smith, 1865 – 1946
We should measure affection, not like youngsters by the ardor of its passion, but by its strength and constancy.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106 – 43 BC
It is with books as with women, where a certain plainness of manner and of dress is more engaging than that glare of paint and airs and apparel which may dazzle the eye, but reaches not the affections.
- David Hume, 1711 – 1776
Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine! ~Thomas Hood
When love is not madness, it is not love. ~Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Many are the starrs I see, but in my eye no starr like thee. ~English saying used on poesy rings
Loving is not just looking at each other, it’s looking in the same direction. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand, and Stars, 1939
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. ~Albert Einstein
I don’t understand why Cupid was chosen to represent Valentine’s Day. When I think about romance, the last thing on my mind is a short, chubby toddler coming at me with a weapon. ~Author Unknown
For you see, each day I love you more
Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
~Rosemonde Gerard
Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end. ~Author Unknown
Love – a wildly misunderstood although highly desirable malfunction of the heart which weakens the brain, causes eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow, blood pressure to rise and the lips to pucker. ~Author Unknown
I claim there ain’t
Another Saint
As great as Valentine.
~Ogden Nash
Trip over love, you can get up. Fall in love and you fall forever. ~Author Unknown
Anyone can catch your eye, but it takes someone special to catch your heart. ~Author Unknown
A hundred hearts would be too few
To carry all my love for you.
~Author Unknown
You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover’s arms can only come later when you’re sure they won’t laugh if you trip. ~Jonathan Carroll, “Outside the Dog Museum”
We are all a little weird and life’s a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love. ~Author Unknown
Must, bid the Morn awake!
Sad Winter now declines,
Each bird doth choose a mate;
This day’s Saint Valentine’s.
For that good bishop’s sake
Get up and let us see
What beauty it shall be
That Fortune us assigns.
~Michael Drayton
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. ~William Shakespeare
kisses are a better fate
than wisdom.
~e.e. cummings
If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular? ~Author Unknown
Who, being loved, is poor? ~Oscar Wilde
In melody divine,
My heart it beats to rapturous love,
I long to call you mine.
~Author Unknown
Grow old with me! The best is yet to be. ~Robert Browning
Without love, what are we worth? Eighty-nine cents! Eighty-nine cents worth of chemicals walking around lonely. ~M*A*S*H, Hawkeye
The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough. ~George Moore
We loved with a love that was more than love. ~Edgar Allan Poe
Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat. ~Ben Hecht
Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity. ~Henry Van Dyke
Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
A bell is no bell ’til you ring it,
A song is no song ’til you sing it,
And love in your heart
Wasn’t put there to stay -
Love isn’t love
‘Til you give it away.
~Oscar Hammerstein, Sound of Music, “You Are Sixteen (Reprise)”
I’ve fallen in love many times… always with you. ~Author Unknown
Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia. ~Judith Viorst, Redbook, 1975
What I need to live has been given to me by the earth. Why I need to live has been given to me by you. ~Author Unknown
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach. ~Elizabeth Barrett Browning
When you’re in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks. ~Natalie Clifford Barney
Take away love and our earth is a tomb. ~Robert Browning
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. ~Zora Neale Hurston
Love is a game that two can play and both win. ~Eva Gabor
Without love, the rich and poor live in the same house. ~Author Unknown
We don’t believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack. ~Marie Ebner Von Eschenbach, Aphorism
I love thee – I love thee,
‘Tis all that I can say
It is my vision in the night,
My dreaming in the day.
~Thomas Hood
Love, and a cough, cannot be hid. ~George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum, 1651
Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren’t even there before. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966
Poetry spills from the cracks of a broken heart, but flows from one which is loved. ~Christopher Paul Rubero
A man is not where he lives, but where he loves. ~Latin Proverb
Tell me how many beads there are
In a silver chain
Of evening rain,
Unravelled from the tumbling main,
And threading the eye of a yellow star: -
So many times do I love again.
~Thomas Lovell Beddoes
The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of. ~Blaise Pascal, Pensées, 1670
At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet. ~Plato
True love stories never have endings. ~Richard Bach
The eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love. ~Margaret Atwood
Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold. ~Zelda Fitzgerald
Love is missing someone whenever you’re apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you’re close in heart. ~Kay Knudsen
Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs. ~Ovid
Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips. ~Percy Bysshe Shelley
I need the starshine of your heavenly eyes,
After the day’s great sun.
~Charles Hanson Towne
Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960
Love would never be a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with light of faith, water of sincerity and air of passion. ~Author Unknown
Sometimes we make love with our eyes. Sometimes we make love with our hands. Sometimes we make love with our bodies. Always we make love with our hearts. ~Author Unknown
The eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love. ~Margaret Atwood
You know when you have found your prince because you not only have a smile on your face but in your heart as well. ~Author Unknown
Love puts the fun in together, the sad in apart, and the joy in a heart. ~Author Unknown
Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law. ~Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy
Candle light, moon light, star light,
The brightest glow is from love light.
~Grey Livingston
A baby is born with a need to be loved – and never outgrows it. ~Frank A. Clark
Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly. ~Rose Franken
Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies. ~Swedish Proverb
I love you like crazy, baby
‘Cuz I’d go crazy without you.
~Pixie Foudre
How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said. ~Victor Hugo
It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves. ~John Bulwer
Love is not singular except in syllable. ~Marvin Taylor
They who meet on an April night are forever lost in love, if there’s moonlight all about and there’s no moon above. ~E.Y. “Yip” Harburg and Fred Saidy, dialogue just before the song “Old Devil Moon” in the musical Finian’s Rainbow (Thanks, Katherine!)
Love me and the world is mine. ~David Reed
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. ~Robert Frost
Love is the poetry of the senses. ~Honoré de Balzac
Come live in my heart and pay no rent. ~Samuel Lover
True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked. ~Erich Segal
Love is what you’ve been through with somebody. ~James Thurber, quoted in Life magazine, 1960
Love is being stupid together. ~Paul Valery
For twas not into my ear you whispered
But into my heart
Twas not my lips you kissed
But my soul
~Judy Garland
As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words. ~William Shakespeare
My heart to you is given:
Oh, do give yours to me;
We’ll lock them up together,
And throw away the key.
~Frederick Saunders
Love is the greatest refreshment in life. ~Pablo Picasso
What the world really needs is more love and less paper work. ~Pearl Bailey
Give me a kisse, and to that kisse a score;
Then to that twenty, adde a hundred more;
A thousand to that hundred; so kisse on,
To make that thousand up a million;
Treble that million, and when that is done,
Let’s kisse afresh, as when we first begun.
~Robert Herrick, “To Anthea (III)”
Falling in love is so hard on the knees. ~Aerosmith
Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. ~Voltaire
The most beautiful view is the one I share with you. ~Author Unknown
The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them. ~Stephen King
My whole heart for my whole life. ~French saying used on poesy rings
Like I’ve always said, love wouldn’t be blind if the braille weren’t so damned much fun. ~Armistead Maupin, Maybe the Moon
Love is metaphysical gravity. ~R. Buckminster Fuller
If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden. ~Attributed to Claudia Ghandi
“Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.”-Shakespeare
“You don’t marry someone you can live with – you marry the person who you cannot live without.”-Unknown
“Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.”
-Saint-Exupery
“A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.”
-Ingrid Bergman
“I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.”
-Henry Ward Beecher
“True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.”
-La Rochefoucauld
“Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.”
-St. Augustine
“To love another person is to see the face of God.”
-Les Miserables
“Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.”
-Alexander Smith
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“Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.”
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.”
-Lawrence Durrell
very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.”
-Stendhal
“There is no remedy for love but to love more.”
-Thoreau
“Love cures people – both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.”
-Dr. Karl Menninger
“To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.”
-William M. Thackeray
“If you love someone, let them go. If they return to you, it was meant to be. If they don’t, their love was never yours to begin with…”
-Unknown
“True love never dies for it is lust that fades away. Love bonds for a lifetime but lust just pushes away.”
-Alicia Barnhart
“Who says love never lives? Maybe we’ve never lived.”
-Unknown
“Some love lasts a lifetime. True love lasts forever.”
-Unknown
“If love is great, and there are no greater things, then what I feel for you must be the greatest.”
-Unknown
“The Eskimos have 52 words for snow because it is so special to them; there ought to be as many for love!”
-Margaret Atwood
“Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart.”
-Unknown
“Within you, I lose myself. Without you, I find myself waanting to be lost again.”
-Unknown
May love hold you in the palm of its hand
Smile and the World Smiles With You
Thought I would pass on some of my collection of quotes about smiles. There are a lot of them here.
Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day. ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
A smile confuses an approaching frown. ~Author Unknown
People seldom notice old clothes if you wear a big smile. ~Lee Mildon
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight. ~Phyllis Diller
Smile. Have you ever noticed how easily puppies make human friends? Yet all they do is wag their tails and fall over. ~Walter Anderson, The Confidence Course, 1997
The world always looks brighter from behind a smile. ~Author Unknown
Start every day with a smile and get it over with. ~W.C. Fields
Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available. ~Jim Beggs
A smile is an inexpensive way to change your looks. ~Charles Gordy
Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. ~Mark Twain, Following the Equator
A smile is the light in the window of your face that tells people you’re at home. ~Author Unknown
If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it. ~Andy Rooney
If you smile at someone, they might smile back. ~Author Unknown
Life is like a mirror, we get the best results when we smile at it. ~Author Unknown
Always remember to be happy because you never know who’s falling in love with your smile. ~Author Unknown
Everyone smiles in the same language. ~Author Unknown
If you don’t have a smile, I’ll give you one of mine. ~Author Unknown
I’ve never seen a smiling face that was not beautiful. ~Author Unknown
Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. ~George Eliot
She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket. ~Raymond Chandler
Smiling is infectious,
You can catch it like the flu.
Someone smiled at me today,
And I started smiling too.
~Author Unknown
A smile appeared upon her face as if she’d taken it directly from her handbag and pinned it there. ~Loma Chandler
A laugh is a smile that bursts. ~Mary H. Waldrip
Smile – sunshine is good for your teeth. ~Author Unknown
The shortest distance between two people is a smile. ~Author Unknown
If you don’t start out the day with a smile, it’s not too late to start practicing for tomorrow. ~Author Unknown
Smiling is my favorite exercise. ~Author Unknown
Wear a smile – one size fits all. ~Author Unknown
No matter how grouchy you’re feeling,
You’ll find the smile more or less healing.
It grows in a wreath
All around the front teeth -
Thus preserving the face from congealing.
~Anthony Euwer
Every day you spend without a smile, is a lost day. ~Author Unknown
Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing. ~Mother Teresa
A friendly look, a kindly smile, one good act, and life’s worthwhile. ~Author Unknown
A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles. ~Washington Irving
Beauty is power; a smile is its sword. ~Charles Reade
A smile is the universal welcome. ~Max Eastman
Keep smiling – it makes people wonder what you’ve been up to. ~Author Unknown
You’re never fully dressed without a smile. ~Martin Charnin
A smile can brighten the darkest day. ~Author Unknown
It takes seventeen muscles to smile and forty-three to frown. ~Author Unknown
Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important. ~Janet Lane
All the statistics in the world can’t measure the warmth of a smile. ~Chris Hart
If you would like to spoil the day for a grouch, give him a smile. ~Author Unknown
Smile – it increases your face value. ~Author Unknown
Peace begins with a smile. ~Mother Teresa
A smile is a powerful weapon; you can even break ice with it. ~Author Unknown
Most smiles are started by another smile. ~Author Unknown
A smile is something you can’t give away; it always comes back to you. ~Author Unknown
A smile costs nothing but gives much. It enriches those who receive without making poorer those who give. It takes but a moment, but the memory of it sometimes lasts forever. None is so rich or mighty that he cannot get along without it and none is so poor that he cannot be made rich by it. Yet a smile cannot be bought, begged, borrowed, or stolen, for it is something that is of no value to anyone until it is given away. Some people are too tired to give you a smile. Give them one of yours, as none needs a smile so much as he who has no more to give. ~Author Unknown
It takes a lot of work from the face to let out a smile, but just think what good smiling can bring to the most important muscle of the body… the heart. ~Author Unknown
~ All people smile in the same language. ~
Proverb
~ Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. What do we live for if not to make the world less difficult for each other? ~
George Eliot
~ Nobody needs a smile so much as the one who has none to give. So get used to smiling heart-warming smiles, and you will spread sunshine in a sometimes dreary world. ~
Lawrence G. Lovasik
These last few are some of my favorites, possibly because we have a saying in our family that you never let your enemy know that they have gotten the better of you if you smile at them.
And we have a personality quirk that only those close to us know; if we smile at you when we are angry, you are about to have your head removed. I believe that comes from our Native American ancestry. I have read many accounts of Indians smiling at their enemies while in combat.
~ Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening. ~ Greta Garbo
~ If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work. ~
Thich Nhat Hanh
*The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief. ~William Shakespeare, Othello
~ Beauty is power; a smile is its sword. ~
John Ray
Good Quote on Experience
“Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.”
Picture Your Future
What would you like your future to be like. I recently received a prompt in my email that asked just this question.
Hope is what keeps us going, one foot in front of the other. Why do people only attempt suicide? Because we are born with an inherent desire to live and the hope that tomorrow will be better. People are only able to commit suicide when they have either lost that hope, or when they feel that they have done all there is here for them to do, or when they have the bad luck of not being able to change their mind at the last moment.
I have been depressed, but I have never yet lost my hope for tomorrow.
Here are the hopes that came to mind today:
My Ideal Future
In the future, I would like to be in a place where my health issues and my husbands were not so much a part of every waking moment. I would like to be in a more stable financial position and not have to worry about how much the economy as it is now, might effect my quality of life. I also have the fear that the economy will place others in a posiion of needing help and I will be unable to help, friend and stranger alike. I would like for my extended family to have better health, too.
Some of my family have personal issues in their lives that are very painful for me to watch them struggle through, being totally helpless to help them.
I would like to re-establish a good relationship with my Mother before she dies. I want to be a better Christian. My two main faults are that I can’ figure out a way to go to church without leaving my husband alone on the times that he is ill and I am well. Obviously, it is because I fear what might happen when I leave.
And I use profanity too often. I never used to do that, but when my kids started picking it up in high school, I fell into the very bad habit. I am not exactly foul mouthed, but I could do better. My Dad used to say that Profanity was the attempt of a feeble mind to express itself. I do not have a feeble mind, so I need to better express my frustration. The problem is that I am surrounded by people who are not impressed when you say, “I am really annoyed with you and the situation, and am at my limit.”
I guess that would mean that as well as cleaning up my act, I need to impress upon others, that I deserve a certain measure of consideration.
Pranks and Nostalgia
I was getting some steak out of the freezer to thaw this evening and I suddenly remembered something my brother and I did when we were kids. I almost peed on myself trying not to laugh, because it was a late night trip to the freezer and everyone was asleep.
We used to go to this steak house with our parents. There was a half wall that separated the dining area from the area patrons walked through to make their orders. We, my brother and I always sat at the table that was up against that wall.
I am not sure who thought it up, but we used to dip steak fries in ketchup and drop them on the floor on the other side of that half wall. Then when people went through there, we would say, “Watch out don’t step on that dead french fry!” Only we usually only got to the word “dead” before they were jumping around, trying to lift up their trays to see and backing up when they would see red on the floor. Then we would say, “Oh, no. You killed it.”
When they finally realized that we had said french fry, they usually didn’t think it was as funny as we did. I don’t know why we never got into trouble.
Another time we were in a buffet style restaurant with one of my friends. She and my brother were on the opposite side on the table from me and there was a table with a bald man and his wife and some other people behind me. My friend and my brother started taking ice cubes and flinging them with their spoons. I kept giggling and trying to get them to quit. Then all of a sudden both of their mouths dropped open and they had that uh oh look of being busted on their faces.
I turned around to see if I could figure out what they were looking at. The bald man was reaching up and wiping off the top of his head. One of them had shot an ice cube and it had skidded across the top of his head.
Fortunately for us, we left shortly after that. I think they had been shooting for his head all along.
Got any good stories about trouble you caused as a kid?
Here are some good “Nostalgia”, quotes to help inspire you.
We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it. ~George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, 1860
Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson: you find the present tense, but the past perfect! ~Owens Lee Pomeroy
If you’re yearning for the good old days, just turn off the air conditioning. ~Griff Niblack
People seem to get nostalgic about a lot of things they weren’t so crazy about the first time around. ~Author Unknown
It’s never safe to be nostalgic about something until you’re absolutely certain there’s no chance of its coming back. ~Bill Vaughn
The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past. ~Robertson Davies, A Voice from the Attic
[I]t becomes increasingly easy, as you get older, to drown in nostalgia. ~Ted Koppel
Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days. ~Doug Larson
Things ain’t what they used to be and probably never was. ~Will Rogers
Nostalgia is a seductive liar. ~George Wildman Ball
Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory. ~Franklin Pierce Adams
True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories. ~Florence King
I don’t like nostalgia unless it’s mine. ~Lou Reed
Who wants to live with one foot in hell just for the sake of nostalgia? Our time is forever now! ~Alice Childress
Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had…. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960
Prodigal Blogger Returns
I have been so caught up in my own drama the last quarter of the year that I haven’t been posting and blogging. So, my prompt for myself is to think of ways to drag yourself into the new year. I’m going to find some kind of craft to do for charity and get started on it. The best way to put aside your self absorption is to do something for someone else. Find someway to help others and then journal about what you gain from it.
Fall Inspiration For Your Journal
We only have a few weeks until Thanksgiving. I remember when my kids were little, we made a Tree out of Construction paper and every time we thought up a new thing we were thankful for, we wrote it down on a leaf and stuck the leaf to the tree.
I could shoot myself now for not taking a picture of that tree. I was proud of my kids for filling that tree with so much foliage. Never under estimate a child. They can remind you of the important things in life, because they focus on the simple things.
I have a new entry in my journal that is a thankful list. Every Day I am going to add something that I am thankful for. But, even beyond Thanksgiving, I could just keep going.
Historical Events and how they Effect Our Lives
January 20, 2009 at 1:32 am (Founding Fathers, POLITICALLY INCORRECT, TOP 100 THINGS THAT MAKE ME SCREAM, political commentary, politics, religion)
I have been thinking about going to one of those, “This Day In History” sites and writing in my journal about how different events have had an impact on my life.
Then last night I watched Obama’s Inaugural Celebration on HBO. I was not pleased. Someone on an email list I subscribe to noticed that HBO did not air the prayer given at the beginning. They believe this to be because he way Gay.
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