Jemima’s Journal

I’m always there with you..

When you don’t accept yourself, you become oversensitive to rejection.

When you don’t accept yourself, you lose faith every time you trip over an old weakness.

When you don’t accept yourself, you waste time looking for love to make you complete.

When you don’t accept yourself, you try to beat others rather than seeking your best.

When you don’t accept yourself, you always feel lonely, and being with other people doesn’t seem to help.

When you don’t accept yourself, you live in the past.

Acceptance is not a hopeless position; it is the only position from which you can grow.

If you accept all of your life, none of it will have been wasted.

When you don’t accept yourself, you dread what each day may reveal about you.

When you don’t accept yourself, the truth becomes your enemy.

When you don’t accept yourself, you have no place to hide.

Accepting yourself is everything.

If you accept yourself, you can accept the world.

Painting: Girl at the mirror by Norman Rockwell

“Mother’s love is peace. It is not to be acquired. It need not be deserved.” says psychologist Erich Fromm. Mother’s love is instinctual, unconditional, and forever.

Mother’s love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible, goes a saying. Why? Because “Mother is the home we come from. She is nature, soil, ocean.” says Fromm.

Mother is the bank where we deposit all our hurts and worries. A Jewish proverb says, “God could not be everywhere and therefore He made mothers”.

Mothers are instinctive philosophers. A mother understands what a child does not say. That is why to a child’s ear, “mother” is magic in any language. English novelist William Makepeace Thackeray puts it aptly: “Mother is the name of God in the lips and hearts of children.”

A mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom. “All I am I owe it to my mother”, said George Washington, first US President. Is it any wonder that the Irish proverb goes, “A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest”.

Have you ever watched kids on a merry-go-round,
or listened to rain slapping the ground?

Ever followed a butterfly’s erratic flight,
or gazed at the sun fading into the night?

You better slow down, don’t dance so fast,
time is short, the music won’t last.

Do you run through each day on the fly,
when you ask “How are you?”, do you hear the reply?

When the day is done, do you lie in your bed,
with the next hundred chores running through your head?

You better slow down, don’t dance so fast,
time is short, the music won’t last.

Ever told your child, we’ll do it tomorrow,
and in your haste, not see his sorrow?

Ever lost touch, let a friendship die,
’cause you never had time to call and say hi?

You better slow down, don’t dance so fast,
time is short, the music won’t last.

When you run so fast to get somewhere,
you miss half the fun of getting there.

When you worry and hurry through your day,
it’s like an unopened gift thrown away.

Life isn’t a race, so take it slower,
hear the music before your song is over.

A group of graduates, well established in their careers, were talking at a reunion and decided to go visit their old university professor, now retired.

During their visit, the conversation turned to complaints about stress in their work and lives.

Offering his guests hot chocolate, the professor went into the kitchen and returned with a large pot and an assortment of cups - porcelain, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite - telling them to help themselves to the hot chocolate.

When they all had a cup of hot chocolate in hand, the professor said:

“Notice that all the nice looking, expensive cups were taken, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress. The cup that you’re drinking from adds nothing to the quality of the hot chocolate. In most cases it is just more expensive and in some cases even hides what we drink. What all of you really wanted was hot chocolate, not the cup; but you consciously went for the best cups. And then you began eyeing each other’s cups.”

Now consider this:

Life is the hot chocolate; your job, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain life. The cup you have does not define, nor change the quality of life you have. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the hot chocolate God has provided us. God makes the hot chocolate, man chooses the cups.

The happiest people don’t have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything that they have.

Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. And enjoy your hot chocolate!!

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Happy Weekend!

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Hope you like the song, LB.

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“Don’t ask me why, but time has passed us by..”

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I LOVE this special personalized stamp. Thank you, Trinity.