MONDAY - AUGUST 23, 2010

So life isn't easy! Is it supposed to be easy and carefree. Is someone else's life so much better than yours. So much so that you would be willing to leave your so called miserable life for some unknown but presumably better one?

What a great question to start the week off! We often see our lives as a collection of unrelated events, chapters in a book without a common thread. Is this you, are you the only one out there in life who is untethered to a memory, or is missing the link or connection to someone or something. Not likely, although you may think you are. Wandering around through time and space without a clue as to your purpose or worse, without any idea of who you really are or where you come from.

Sounds a bit scary huh? Well it need not be, in fact your so-called purposeless life is so much more than you can even imagine, of course it is or you wouldn't feel so abandoned. Is that the right word, abandoned. I though so. We often feel so alone, so alone that is is actually so smothering that we can't even breathe. So alone that the where there was even a glimmer of light,, is now virtual blackness. Though it sounds bleak, there is hope, so much hope if you will only turn the page of your story book, walk that extra few feet, seek out that one best friend you have avoided most of your life, a life filled with so much promise, only so see it dashed on the rocks of desperation and lost opportunity.

Some of us never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity. ( not my words, actually Abba Eban). In any case, it is time to awaken from your stupor, time to shake off the sands of depression and wake up to the life you were meant to have. A life full of joy, love and unimaginable happiness. A life to full, that there is just no room for that old, suffocating and unrelenting life of fear you have lived your whole life. A life so colorful and bright that it would take a canvas the size of our planet Earth to hold all the joy you now possess.

So now that you know ( you always knew), what you need to see, do and accomplish, go and do it. Shake off the old obsessions that have shackled you your whole life. I don't care what your excused were or are, it is over. You no longer have an excuse for living under a rock of desperation, fear and self-loathing. Here is your passport to that life which you have always seen for yourself. That life that has no room for sadness, fear and loneliness. You will moments of being alone, but you don't have to be lonely. You may have had your heart broken, but it doesn't mean you are a broken and shattered soul. Come on, what do you really want? You know it is up to you, it always has been. I don't care who or what you have been listening to. Actually it has always been up to you en though you may not have thought you had the power to break those negative bonds).

So for today and the days ahead, make a conscience decision to listen to your better voice. You have this choice, listen to that loud, nasty and negative darkness, or listen to the soft, whispering lightness that is barely a breath. A voice to light, and yet it pierces your soul to open you to that goodness and joy you want, but deny yourself. So in the last analysis, you decide what and where you will be. So what it is? Where will you be 24 hours from now?

Choose joy, choose joy over sorrow, happiness over sadness and abundance over lack. It is all up to you, it is your responsibility, respond with ability.

AUGUST 1, 2010 - CHASING RAINBOWS BY GINGER ESLER

Good Morning,

This week's post comes to us from a wonderful woman who recently passed away. My wife was reading the paper and came across this article and thought it would be of interest to my readers. As usual she was so correct, I guess that is my we have lasted these past 25 years.

CHASING RAINBOWS

I believe it takes a long time to become the person you want to be, so don't be in such a hurry, it will come to you,, I promise.

I believe you can keep going long after you think you can't. You are all you believe, if you think you can you can, if you think you can't, well you get the picture.

I believe that either you control your attitude or it will control you. You may not always have a say in where you are on your life's journey, but you sure as heck control how you will deal with it.

I believe that our heroes are the people who do what has to be done when it needs to be done regardless of circumstances. Heroism is not a convenience of conscience, it is not an absence of fear, rather a decision to act regardless of the consequences and in the face of the very fear that would in other times would immobilize you.

I believe that money and materialism is a lousy way to keep score. If you are what you have, then if you don't you are not. Makes no sense!

I believe that sometimes the vary people you expect to slap you when you are down, will be the ones to lend you a hand to get you back up.

I believe that no matter how badly broken your heart is, the world does not stop to help you in your grief. What the universe does do is help you heal and in so doing reminds you that though your heart may be broken, doesn't mean you are broke.

I believe that the background and circumstances may have influenced who you are, but do not have to define you and in so doing allow you to become responsible for who you are and what you become.

I believe that even when you think you have no more to give, when a friend cries out, you find the strength to help.

I believe that credentials on a wall do not make you a decent human being. It is the credentials on your soul that define what you are as a human being.

Thank you Ginger Esler, and may you find peace and joy.

Be well, and have a joyful week,

Robb