ALL IS WELL! BE PATIENT

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Yesterday is history.
Tomorrow a mystery.
Today is a gift.
That's why it's called the present!

Your Duck is Dead

A woman brought a very limp duck into a veterinary surgeon. As she laid her pet on the table, the vet pulled out his stethoscope and listened to the bird's chest.

After a moment or two, the vet shook his head and sadly said, "I'm sorry, your duck, Cuddles, has passed away."

The distressed woman wailed, "Are you sure?"

"Yes, I am sure. Your duck is dead," replied the vet..

"How can you be so sure?" she protested. "I mean you haven't done any testing on him or anything. He might just be in a coma or something."

The vet rolled his eyes, turned around and left the room. He returned a few minutes later with a black Labrador Retriever. As the duck's owner looked on in amazement, the dog stood on his hind legs, put his front paws on the examination table and sniffed the duck from top to bottom. He then looked up at the vet with sad eyes and shook his head.

The vet patted the dog on the head and took it out of the room. A few minutes later he returned with a cat. The cat jumped on the table and also delicately sniffed the bird from head to foot. The cat sat back on its haunches, shook its head, meowed softly and strolled out of the room.

The vet looked at the woman and said, "I'm sorry, but as I said, this is most definitely, 100% certifiably, a dead duck."

The vet turned to his computer terminal, hit a few keys and produced a bill, which he handed to the woman..

The duck's owner, still in shock, took the bill. "$150!" she cried, "$150 just to tell me my duck is dead!"

The vet shrugged, "I'm sorry. If you had just taken my word for it, the bill would have been $20, but with the Lab Report and the Cat Scan, it's now $150."

LET THERE BE PEACE ON EARTH
(An American Soldier)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EsMZ1w6nrU&feature=related

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. People come into our lives for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. Embrace all equally!

~author unknown~

A REMINDER:

This is a Reminder of what is important in our life; let us cross over into 2012 with a mindset of new beginnings. This was sent to me as a reminder:  A friend of mine opened his wife's underwear drawer and picked up a silk paper wrapped package: 'This, - he said - isn't any ordinary package.' He unwrapped the box and stared at both the silk paper and the box.

'She got this the first time we went to New York , 8 or 9 years ago. She has never put it on, was saving it for a special occasion. Well, I guess this is it. He got near the bed and placed the gift box next to the other clothing he was taking to the funeral home, his wife had just died.

He turned to me and said: Never save something for a special occasion. Every day in your life is a special occasion'. Those words changed my life.

When I read this I made a change in my life.  I now I read more and clean less. I am learning to sit without worrying about anything. I spend more time with my family, and less doing for others that will never appreiciate the scarfice you made for them. I made the decision to return school just for me and I wanted to see what I could and can accomplish.

I now understand that life should be a source of experience to be lived up to, not survived through. I am no longer just a survivor.  I no longer keep anything. I use crystal glasses every day... I will wear new clothes to go to the store, if I feel like it. I do not save my special perfume for special occasions,  every day is special, I use it whenever I want to.

The words 'Someday....' and ' One Day...' are fading away from my dictionary. If it is worth seeing, listening or doing, I want to see, listen or do it now....

Ask yourself if you knew this was your last day on earth what would you really want to do or what would you be doing?  Sometimes there is no next day, next hour or next minute.  The day or the hour is unknown to us.  Make a list… the list will tell you a lot about you.

It is these small things that I would regret not doing, if I knew my time had come…Each day, each hour, each minute, is special. Live for today, for tomorrow is promised to no-one.

I have learned this lesson, and this year has been a very large reminder for me. I read when I want to, watch old black and white movies, I wear my favorite perfume every day, I tell people that I love them and I mean it. I listen to beautiful music and thank God for creating it just for me. Each day I thank our God for loving me and giving me the opportunity to learn exactly what love is and what it is not. The moments of life are precious to me and when I sometime forget that important fact I ask God to forgive me for wasting the time He has given me on hurtful people you can never please, taking on the burdens of the world and mine own when I could have given them to Him.

Each day I worry less, I forgive myself and people more. I make a list of my priorities each day. The top of the list is to please God and me next. I make my choices with wisdom and understanding and sometimes it means letting go of people, places and things so that I can live the life that God ordained for me at the beginning of time. I do not want to make it into heaven and see all the blessings that were for me that I never claimed or thought I did not deserved so I never claimed them. Today and every day I claim God's Divine Blessings and Favor in my life.

2011 has been a year of illness and set-backs but I have learned.  I listen to family, I take time to talk to them and not at them.  I play games with my grandchildren.  Sometimes I can see further down the road then my family but the decisions they make are there own and I have learn to never ever say “I told you so!   I am building memories for myself, my son and my grandchildren.  I have learned to take time to tell them about their family, share old photos, and stories about our family and the church.  I want to leave them a foundation that they can stand on, both in the family and the Church.  They have a heritage that is imbedded in the Church that they can stand on.  I believe  whether we know it or not are all making shared memories in our lives they do last forever. 

I know the heart of my natural and spiritual family because I have learned to take the time to listen.  Sometimes when we shut-up and listen we learn the heart of the person. You talk to them, your stop talking at them, you listen and sometimes you share your experiences, your hopes and your dreams or sometimes you enjoy the moments of the sharing and the growing together in love of God. When you know the heart of a person you are growing in the grace and mercy of God.  I promise you God does know our heart. 

I am encouraging both my natural and spiritual family; and  others to learn to walk in the midst of the peace of our Lord and Saviour and enjoy the moments of life's journey that our God has given you for in reality all we have our the moments.

This day I shall encourage each of you to walk to the beat of the music you hear in your heart, look around you and see the beauty that God created and claim that beauty for yourself.

Claim the victory for your life, and know in your heart that you are beautiful or handsome, intelligent, giving and loving because God created you in His image and when He sees you He sees His wonderful, loving creation. You deserve the best because you are God's best. Please remember the blessings that our God has stored up for you, He wants you to have them so claim them and make a determination in your mind and heart that you will live in the Divine Blessing of our Lord!   

Again Walk in the midst peace of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and enjoy moments of life's journey our God has given you. Remember: All we have are the moments.        Agape,   Mother C          

WHEN LOVE WAS BORN

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKSU9Dbxvrw&feature=related

Comment from a Resurrection Group member:  "The scope and size of this process is  beyond my comprehension or ability to describe".  So well stated!


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