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As 2012 Closes………

26 Wednesday Dec 2012

Posted by Cheryl Ries in Celebration, Choices, Happiness, Opportunity, Trials

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2012Sparklers-25As this year, 2012, draws to a close, many find reason to happily close the doors upon this one, as it was simply not the type of year they had envisioned. Some things changed, things happened, pain ensued & their personal history became altered. But the truth of life is in the fact that it is ever-changing, ever-testing, ever-filled with those elements which try us & make us stalwartly who we are.

 

We would never be much of anything were it not for the wisdom learned through our tests, the strength built through each battle & the compassion learned by being hurt. We aren’t here to live half lives of just the pleasant & the rewarding, for they aren’t the moments which build much of any character in us. We can pray, hope & wish for only those types of moments, but reality will rear a head more authentic, & we will have to develop something within us that permits us to be more, to do better & to live happily regardless.

 

My hope for each of us as we move onward in life is to see the pathway illuminated less precisely but with more clarity by recognizing our own inability to control everything. We must see our very need to cede power but retain strength in all life events which are concurrently happening around us as well, our inherent desire to live faithfully & with a sense of contentment regardless the circumstances.

 

It is possible to make 2013 a much better year now sight unseen, just by changing your mindset & securing that outcome  It is truly up to you! Life won’t probably be all that less challenging, the world will be just as chaotic, but you will be standing firmly & resolutely on solid ground regardless. And that is the great truth of life . . the firmament you seek is within you!_Sign01

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Love is a form of wisdom

18 Tuesday Dec 2012

Posted by Cheryl Ries in Love

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RedLoves - 50Love is a form of wisdom . . which often times, as in all aspects of life, we learn to “do better” as we age, or is it? It is so very natural to us when we’re younger, we just know how to be love when we were babies without knowing how, but at some age we probably cannot even remember if we tried, we start to cast a lot of our life’s baggage, neediness, messes, hurt & limitations in the mix, weighing love down & throttling its natural ability to be what it first was so easily to us.

We were just  love once. We didn’t need to study it, to measure it, to define it, to control it, to change ourselves, to change others, to suffer for it or manipulate it. We just loved instinctively, once. But aging, life & our wounds make it so heavy & downtrodden, so full of feelings, in that they alter our concept of it, even though love itself hasn’t changed. Some of us find ourselves seeking it from others when we forget or have never really loved ourselves. We desire being in love with that person who’ll verify in us something. We aren’t sure we can now assure it in ourselves. We look within a veritable sea of people for one person who’ll find our love to be worthy. Yet it doesn’t seem that  odd in a world where, just by virtue of the sheer numbers of people, just given all the necessity & the need we see for love & with all the inherent ability we had when born. That we strive so much & have to overcome so much just for us to give our love away “easily”?

What a vexation is this love! If only we could remember that we are love, we haven’t anything in us or anything that has befallen us which casts it out. We haven’t anything which stops us from love once we’re sure we have it within us. So why do we let fear, baggage, analytic nonsense, need & the like to stop the flow of love? Love isn’t a problem, we are! Our wisdom comes from learning how to be love again! We’ve assigned to that which once flowed so naturally within us, a heavier weight, a costlier price-tag & a messier consequence. We’ve dammed the very flow from within & we wonder why we thirst?! If we could only love ourselves enough to open the floodgates & again love naturally, wouldn’t we all be so welcoming the flood?! It’s the one flood in which we should all hope to drown!_Sign01

Life Is Like A Piano

13 Thursday Dec 2012

Posted by Cheryl Ries in Choices, Life

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Life is like a pianoOur lives are played out like the many keys on a piano, we make the music of our life- our score, by those keys. . we have highs & lows, sharps & flats, notes which move us to celebrate joyfully & those which remind us of something much less joyful. We move along the keyboard, finding a suitable range for the most part, up until we hit a note or several which take us out of our comfort zone.

We have to learn to be comfortable on the entire keyboard, for at any time, we might find experiences have brought us to a new range on their own. Through no fault of ours, we are then transported to a place with little familiarity, but we explore the range of notes there as we must endure our difficult emotions or experiences, up until we again are able to play the keys we are comfortable playing. Often at times we mistakenly hit a key, playing a sour note in our lives & so we just must learn to play that note again, in better form.

Our life is a composition, which like music, we must learn to not only experience through all the variations of notes, but to savor them all! In all the keys, all the variations in the range of emotions we must explore, we can learn to compose a spectacular life inherently ours alone! Don’t ever be afraid to play all the keys & to hit all the notes, you don’t have to limit your composition to only on one emotion or just a fleeting mood, you are truly able to vary the score of your life by just choosing to play keys which convey your happiness & well-being! Choose to play your life’s score with exhuberance no matter the many experiences, moods, notes & all the ranges in which you find yourself on any given day. That is how life will go & that is how your life’s score should go too!_Sign01

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