Happy Sunshine & April Showers

Last week so many of you contacted me to declare that keeping our heads in the clouds may help temporarily in taking our minds off difficult life situations. However when seeking relaxation and rejuvenation water is our most calming remedy.

For those of us who are reflecting on the deeper questions of life while spending time near water please consider that water comes from the clouds.


Still being immersed in water soothes the mind, body and spirit. Thank you all for that reminder.

In any case (clouds and/or water) I wish you all peace and blessings in your most life affirming choice of contemplation.

Happy Sunshine & April Showers!  

Jeanette

Keeping Our Heads in the Clouds




Deep Reflection & Relaxation

 

Keeping our heads in the clouds is often the best place for it to be in order for us to move away from our daily stresses and reconnect to the majesty of eternal nature that is far greater than our present condition.

We've all had instances where we've put aside a difficult work assignment, a paper we were writing or a life challenge we were grappling with. To get away from it all we may chose to take a walk to clear our heads, have a lunch break with friends, spend a weekend in the country to get out of the noisy city or take a trip to the city to move away from the quiet of the country.  Often when we return we find we have new solutions to our challenges.   Sometimes we may find we are able to sail through prior obstacles with an ease that we would have thought unimaginable prior to our taking a break from what we believed was an impossible situation.

Let's take time each day to silence ourselves and relax, to listen to good music, to read inspirational words or  meditate. Then come back to our life's challenges with a renewed energy.                              .

Spending time daily with our heads in the clouds may help us live a more peaceful and productive life here on earth.


Peace & Blessings

Jeanette

FROM 40 DAYS OF LENT TO EASTER

Greetings Supporters,

Several of us started out weeks ago sacrificing at least one of our regular temptations for lent.    Some of us may feel we did battle with the devil himself to abstain from the vices we chose to forego at this time of year.  Others may feel that a burden has been lifted in our lives by  having refused to succumb to something we felt was a vice that we could not live without.

No matter how we believe we fared there has been growth for us all.    We have reached the end of our lent journey together and the experience has bestowed many blessings on us all.

Please take this time to reflect and count them.



  HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE!

In Celebration of Women's History Month

"If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them." - Sojourner Truth, Aint I a Woman?

Turn the World Upside Down?. . . .

Wow!  Did we do that? 

And Turn it Back, and Get It Right Side Up Again!?

Well it's the end of Women's History Month.    Everyone think of the women in your life who have turned your world upside down for both good and evil, for pleasure and pain.  Share!

Everyone ----- Your Thoughts please!

The Moral of the Story

This week a friend sent me this little fable.  I thought it would give you all a chuckle.  And uplift all of our spirits with regard to growing older, wiser and more mature.

An old German Shepherd starts chasing rabbits and before long, discovers that he's lost. Wandering about, he notices a panther heading rapidly in his direction with the intention of having lunch. The old German Shepherd thinks, "Oh, oh! I'm in deep shit now!" Noticing some bones on the ground close by, he immediately settles down to chew on the bones with his back to the approaching cat. Just as the panther is about to leap, the old German Shepherd exclaims loudly, "Boy, that was one delicious panther! I wonder, if there are any more around here?" Hearing this, the young panther halts his attack in mid-strike, a look of terror comes over him and he slinks away into the trees. "Whew!," says the panther, "That was close! That old German Shepherd nearly had me!" Meanwhile, a squirrel who had been watching the whole scene from a nearby tree, figures he can put this knowledge to good use and trade it for protection from the panther. So, off he goes. The squirrel soon catches up with the panther, spills the beans and strikes a deal for himself with the panther. The young panther is furious at being made a fool of and says, "Here, squirrel, hop on my back and see what's going to happen to that conniving canine!" Now, the old German Shepherd sees the panther coming with the squirrel on his back and thinks, "What am I going to do now?," but instead of running, the dog sits down with his back to his attackers, pretending he hasn't seen them yet, and just when they get close enough to hear, the old German Shepherd says...   "Where's that squirrel? I sent him off an hour ago to bring me another panther!"   Moral of this story...   Don't mess with the old dogs... Age and skill will always overcome youth and treachery! B.S. and brilliance only come with age and experience.   If you don't send this to five 'old' friends right away, there will be five fewer people laughing in the world.   Of course, I am in no way insinuating that you are old, just 'youthfully challenged'.   You did notice the size of the print, didn't you?

AFTER THE ASHES - BREAKIN' SPRING WEATHER

 

Hi Lent Sacrificers,

Now that the spring tease weather is breakin' does all this lovely atmosphere cause you grief in  keeping your lent vows or make it easier?   For some of us the cold makes us eat more.  For others the thought of removing our heavy winter clothing makes us eat less so that we can slim down. 

I know many of you have given up such things as meat, bread, soda, chocolate, coffee and sugary treats of all kinds. For me it's a struggle.  I surprised myself my eating only leafy green salads for lunch for the last three days. Frosty Fountain Pepsis seemed to be calling me everywhere I went last weekend.  But doggedly I added lime to ice water and I was surprisingly content.

So how about you?

Does this early spring weather help you or hurt you keep your lent vows? 

Please let me know.


Peace & Blessings!

AFTER THE ASHES

Last week on Ash Wednesday we shared our thoughts about what we were giving up for Lent.  I let you in on my decision to give up chocolate and caffeine for this season.

How's it going people?

While at an event yesterday they served chocolate chip cookies.  I noticed some of the little chips had fallen off on to the serving napkin.  So I ask you if we just eat the little chips and not the whole cookie does it still count as a violation?

Well I resisted and didn't munch on them.  But went through terrible withdrawal instead.

And this last week I noticed there was WATER   WATER   WATER   everywhere.  So I didn't succumb to Pepsi.  Because after all Water Is the Real Thing!

Some say I look like I have lost a little weight.  YIPPEE!!!

So  . . . HOW YOU DOIN'?

Let me know your lent story.