down but not out

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Have a great & blessed weekend, my friends!

We make the Choices

We have dominion over our thoughts.

Lincoln: “I guess people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”

Shakespeare: “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”

Thomas Paine: “We have the power to start our world anew (through thought).”

Buddha: “All we are is the result of our thoughts. We are made by our thoughts.”

Jesus: “As we thinketh in our hearts, so we are.” 

Chocolat

The movie Chocolat is about a woman who opens a chocolate shop in town that is badly in need of help.

It seems that Madame Chocolat has psychic powers and uses the power to dispense the correct chocolate to ease the burden of each individual customer.

One of the first was a plain-looking woman with an ordinary-looking husband.

Madame Chocolat sized up the situation and advised the woman to buy the chocolate that had aphrodisiacs.

She purchased the chocolate, which her husband partook of.

The next day, she was back for a double portion.

As each townsperson purchased her suggestion of chocolate, they found that negative situations in their lives cleared up.

Never did Madame Chocolat ask for anything in return except sometimes the price of the chocolate.

The end of the movie shows her dreams coming true.

The moral?

Give and be of service. It’s a shortcut to God.

Father’s Eyes

I may not be every mother’s dream for her little girl,
And my face may not grace the mind of everyone in the world.
But that’s all right, as long as I can have one wish I pray:
When people look inside my life, I want to hear them say,

She’s got her father’s eyes,
Her father’s eyes;
Eyes that find the good in things,
When good is not around;
Eyes that find the source of help,
When help just can’t be found;
Eyes full of compassion,
Seeing every pain;
Knowing what you’re going through
And feeling it the same.
Just like my father’s eyes,
My father’s eyes,
My father’s eyes,
Just like my father’s eyes.

And on that day when we will pay for all the deeds we have done,
Good and bad they’ll all be had to see by everyone.
And when you’re called to stand and tell just what you saw in me,
More than anything I know, I want your words to be,

She had her father’s eyes,
Her father’s eyes;
Eyes that found the good in things,
When good was not around;
Eyes that found the source of help,
When help would not be found;
Eyes full of compassion,
Seeing every pain;
Knowing what you’re going through,
And feeling it the same.
Just like my father’s eyes,
My father’s eyes,
My father’s eyes,
Just like my father’s eyes.
My father’s eyes,
My father’s eyes,
Just like my father’s eyes.

I may not be every mother’s dream for her little girl,
And my face may not grace the mind of everyone in the world.
But that’s all right, as long as I can have one wish I pray:
When people look inside my life, I want to hear them say,

She’s got her father’s eyes,
Her father’s eyes;
Eyes that find the good in things,
When good is not around;
Eyes that find the source of help,
When help just can’t be found;
Eyes full of compassion,
Seeing every pain;
Knowing what you’re going through
And feeling it the same.
Just like my father’s eyes,
My father’s eyes,
My father’s eyes,
Just like my father’s eyes.

And on that day when we will pay for all the deeds we have done,
Good and bad they’ll all be had to see by everyone.
And when you’re called to stand and tell just what you saw in me,
More than anything I know, I want your words to be,

She had her father’s eyes,
Her father’s eyes;
Eyes that found the good in things,
When good was not around;
Eyes that found the source of help,
When help would not be found;
Eyes full of compassion,
Seeing every pain;
Knowing what you’re going through,
And feeling it the same.
Just like my father’s eyes,
My father’s eyes,
My father’s eyes,
Just like my father’s eyes.
My father’s eyes,
My father’s eyes,
Just like my father’s eyes.

Although Amy Grant is referring to the eyes of Our Heavenly Father, my Earthly Father truly did have “the eyes that saw the good in things”.

I LOVE YOU, DAD.

Time-Out!

You’re busy… stressed… over-worked. You don’t have time to catch up with yourself.

Sometimes you just have to stop whatever you’re doing. Call a time-out. Catch your breath. Catch up with your spirit. (The words breath and spirit come from the same root – no wonder I need to catch both of them right now!)

Doors

Who’s the Idiot?

WE ALL ARE.

I am sure that many times in your life you’ve said to yourself, “That man is an idiot.”

Well, you know, like attracts like. It is like a magnet. We attract to ourselves the very thing we are suppressing.

And the thing we are suppressing yearns to be brought into the light, where it can be part of our whole being, not just shoved into some dark corner.

So up pops a man in our life who does idiotic things that remind us of the “idiot” we have suppressed. So our idiot is brought to the light. Because we now think, “Hey I’m not the only one.”

I’m not the only one who

burns the toast…

locks my keys in the car…

forgets appointments…

takes the wrong turn…

forgets a birthday…

Suppressing is depressing. It is saying you have something to hide. Do you really want to tie yourself in knots over some minor mistakes? No. Neither does your neighbour.

I wonder if there is a way to rid ourselves of dark places to hide.

Then, with no place to hide, everything would be forced to remain in the light. Where it belongs.