Survivor

Today I wanted to share everything from my journal...

to Michael Singer, 

to going out to the farm

with Hubby.

Yet....

when we got home,

I sat down to finish a book....

The Gift

14 Lessons to Save Your Life

by Edith Eger

She is a 97 year old Holocaust survivor. 

A psychologist.

And a light.

...I finished it humbled, teary eyed,

and clear as to what I wanted to share on my post today. 

I want to share her. 

be well...

xoxo

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"Life- even with it's inevitable trauma, pain, grief, misery, and death-

is a gift. A gift we sabotage when we imprison ourselves in our fears

of punishment, failure, and abandonment;

in our need for approval;

in shame and blame;

in superiority and inferiority;

in our need for power and control.

To celebrate the gift of life is to find the gift in everything that happens,

even the parts that are difficult, that we're not sure we can survive.

To celebrate life, period.

To live with joy, love and passion."

"I can't say that everything happens for a reason, that there's

a purpose in injustice or suffering.

But I can say that pain, hardship, and suffering are the gift

that helps us grow and learn and become who we are meant to be."

"Honey, may you also choose to give up the prison and do the 

work to be free.

To find in your suffering your own life lessons.

To choose which legacy the world inherits.

To hand down pain-

or pass on the gift."

~Edith Eva Eger~

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