July Journal

We celebrated our ninth wedding anniversary.

Together for 13.

Brandon and his friends celebrated his Dad's birthday

out on the lake. They witnessed one of their friends drown.

Our hearts are heavy.

This week Brandon listed his house, so he can buy one 

and get settled in with his best friend/girlfriend three hours away.

I passed my 3rd. test at IIN, and am cleared to

start coaching.

 My first client comes Wednesday.

Hubby is doing well, and has been back to work.

It is his happy place.

Some writings and quotes from my journal this month:

"There will be times in your life when your hands are tied,

your mouth is shut, your mind is blank, & you feel totally

helpless. These are God jobs."

"There is nothing more challenging than sitting through a God job"

Healing is a detox process. Things come up that 

need to be released.

Sometimes, falling apart- getting it all out-

is how we get put back together.

God will reveal areas of our heart that He wants to heal.

(yup)

God can only take from us what we are willing to give Him.

What we've looked at.

"You can only be where you are, & it is up to you to make the best of it.

You cannot get to where you are going until you have learned

all there is to learn about where you are."

"You are capable of much more than you think possible."

JUST SAW A CHIPMUNK !!!💝 

"Sometimes the most infinitesimal unexpected change can shift everything"

" The reason you may have missed the lessons to be learned,

or refused the gifts being offered right where you are,

is you are preoccupied with where you want to be."

"Ever' thing there is but lovin' leaves a rust on yo' soul."

~Langston Hughes~

" Do not look at where you fell, but where you slipped."

"Serenity isn't the freedom from the storms of life.

It's the calm in the middle of the storm that gets me through.

It's up to me to try to keep this calm,

even when the storm gets worse."

"Fear prevents you from showing us in your greatest capacity."

Fear thrives where trust is lacking.

Everyone deserves the right to be who they truly are.

Including you.

"The only thing that defines our journey is not how others treat us,

 but how we respond to others.

How someone treats you is their journey.

How you respond is your journey."

I can love others and not forfeit love & respect to myself.

"Self-pity is a slimy bottomless pit."

Stop trying to figure everything out!

Respect what you need & trust your intuition.

Wherever you are, be there totally.

" When you let others expectations drive you,

you scatter your energy to the winds."

"Find the spirit that you share in common.

Then you will have a resource for strength

rather than a target for negative thinking"

In demanding attention from someone else,

you are giving away pieces of yourself that are too valuable to lose.

Ease up on yourself. Let go. Stop trying so hard.

"The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time."

"....to be on pause is a good thing. Everything has to stop

at some point in order to keep going.

Unless you pause, you may not know if you are

fast forwarding or going in reverse."

Stop. Refuel. Reset.

My pain is my pain.

It is the result of what I am telling myself about myself & others,

about situations or circumstances.

I have the power to move through all things 

I would rather not remember.

I  make a commitment to honor everything about me.

"Allow your each-ness to shine in the all-ness of life."

Do not be afraid to be different from other people.

"What you do, how you do it, and when you do it affects 

every person in front of you and every person  coming behind you."

"That which leads us away from love is never our friend, never

true self-care, and never from God."

"Each time you say I can't, you dim your inner light.

Each time you are able to acknowledge, accept and embrace the truth

about yourself, your light becomes a little brighter.

Turn on the power of your light by remembering who you are."

When you believe you can, you can!

"It takes time to get self-love into the core of us."

When you get flustered and frazzled with yourself, 

do not get upset. You are only human.

"This is life, not a funeral service. Have fun.

Enter it. Take risks. Be spontaneous.

Don't always worry about doing the appropriate thing.

Do not worry about what others think or say.

Do not worry about making a mistake.

Enjoy the gift of being alive.

Be who you are! Free yourself, let yourself go

and enter a full life. Begin enjoying life."

~God~

"We often have what we really want and need, or sometimes better.

Letting go is part of what we do to get it."

God is in every tomorrow.

xoxo

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