“Ding, Dong!” Oh, wait, that might conjure up “The Wizard of Oz.”
How about: “Silver bells, silver bells
It’s Christmas time in the city
Ring a ling, hear them ring
Soon it’ll be Christmas day!”
Yes, that is more like it! I hope your holidays are filled with pleasant memories of all the Merry Christmases…past and present!
I had a doctor once tell me, “That if it hasn’t killed you yet it’s not going to.” I have never forgot those uncaring words. Needless to say, I have never went back to that doctor. But there was some truth in his words. Some things just cannot be fixed. We have to live with it.
This reminds me of the Serenity Prayer attributed to the American theologian Reinhold Niebuhr. It is commonly quoted as:
This prayer was adapted and popularized by Alcoholics Anonymous in 1941. Niebuhr used it in a 1943 sermon at the Health Evangelical Union Church in Health, Massachusetts. It appeared in the 1944 Book of Prayers and Services for the Armed Forces.
The word serenity means “the state of being calm, peaceful, and untroubled.” The prayer has been used to help people leave their past, haunting, troubling mistakes behind. To leave them in the past. Which, I must admit, is hard to do and I had no serenity leaving that doctor’s office. But the prayer also encourages us to focus on what we can do.
Did you know there was more to that prayer? It continues:
“Living one day at a time; enjoying one moment at a time; accepting hardships as the pathway to peace; taking, as HE did, this sinful world as it is, not as I would have it; trusting that HE will make all things right if I surrender to HIS will: that I may be reasonably happy in this life and supremely happy with HIM forever in the next.”
This thanksgiving season I am thankful for a doctor’s uncaring words that remind me to take one day at a time and focus on what I can do today for my health that works for me.
Some things cannot be fixed, but we can learn how to better live with it.
Which are you? Both have beuaty set on contrast.
One could characterize you as an early riser for picking sunrise and an evening relaxer for sunset. Someone that looks forward or backward. Someone who goes towards a future or looks at the past. No matter what we can all be thankful and blessed every day!
A repeating and periodic disturbance that moves through a medium from one location to another is referred to as a wave.
Like the waves of an ocean, so goes the cycle of life.
In actuality when we look out at the ocean waves they are a force of energy movement rather than water movement. Energy that circles around.
Life takes its course. Its stages. Birth, vitality, equilibrium, decline, death. Then life begins again. Somewhere.
Sometimes the waves and cycles are a slow rhythm something we become accustomed to. Sometimes it is a storm seemingly out of control, fast and furious.
It was in the new book section just waiting to be checked out.
It is available in Bismarck, Beulah, Hazen, Minot, and Fargo Public Libraries.
YAY!
Look! See! How deep can it be?
Depth can be an illusion. What seems close is really far. But taking one step at a time brings you closer. Before long you stand beside the tree between two rock formations and can see beyond into a valley of beauty. Where your perspective changes.
How deep and wide indeed!
Ephesians 3:18-19 (KJV) May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.
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Traveling by car is the best therapeutic screen time! (Even with a cracked windshield).
Storms come and go! Similar to the challenges presented throughout life. Like the biblical Noah who was isolated in a stinky boat many months. Imagine that! “The ark rested in the seventh month….” (Genesis 8:4, KJV). There are many stories in the bible, just like this one, that tested patience and endurance through tribulation. They are to remind us that every storm will pass.
Katherine Murie Webster