Light, Love, Hope

In the quiet moments, it is hard to escape your thoughts.  They tend to take over, no matter if they are good or bad.  You speak to yourself more than you do anyone else, it seems.  Are you kind and gentle?  Or do you beat yourself up over past things that cannot be changed?

It’s over.  Let it go.

Words so easily spoken but so hard to live by.

Old wounds still hurt deeply.

You said and did things that you’ve never done before, and it has left you wondering if you even know who you are any more.

Go easy on yourself.  You are your own worst enemy.  Just learn from the mistakes of the past and move on to become a better person.

Make that vow to yourself.  You are the only one that can make the change deep inside that is necessary.  Do it …

We all search for things in our life. It might be a new home, a new car, a new job or something that is not really a physical item such as kindness, comfort or love. There is a lot of time and energy that can go into your search. What I wonder is if people are really searching for what really matters to them. So I ask you, what do you really want? I am not talking about the superficial things like a car, a house, a job. I am talking about what is truly deep in your heart. What do you REALLY want? It is a hard question that many people overshadow with things they think they want. For me there is only one thing I really want. I know what that is. But after all these years of searching, it still continues to elude me. I may never get what I really want and I am okay with that. But I can always hold it in my heart as a dream for the future.

Pause. This is something that we all should do at various times in our lives. We are all so busy that we get wrapped up in everything going on that we can miss out on a lot. Think about this. If we would just pause for a minute. If we would take a breath for a minute. We might just discover something we would normally have let pass right by. You see we all have things that we want in our lives. They might be right there in front of us but we are wrapped up so much in being busy with everything we just can’t see that a thing that we have always wanted is right there in front of us. So we should pause for a moment or two and take a good look around us and really see what is there. We might be surprised at what we find. We might just find that one thing that we have always wanted. So pause, take a deep breath, look out at the sky at the wonder and beauty of this earth that God gave us. You never know what you may find.