Thoughts, Poems and Feelings...(ugh! LOL)

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Thought to Ponder . . .

E G O = Edging God Out.

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Midlife Challenge #5: Midlife often brings a lot of disappointment and
regret.

By their forties, most people have begun to experience at least one or
two of the Big Disappointments: divorce, illness, addiction, financial
ruin, etc.

But you come to realize that life isn't about never falling down. We
all fall down at some point or another, because it's a fallen world.
But spiritual victory is about who gets back up, and how. Falling down
isn't the end of the story, unless you allow it to be. Sometimes those
disappointing, painful situations you go through are things that make
you ultimately stronger, more humble, more good.

There are also things we did that we wish we hadn't done, and things we
didn't do that we wish we had done. But when we take a good, hard look
at how we contributed to our disasters — and God knows, that's not
always easy — then something extraordinary happens, when you admit your
errors and are willing to learn from them. You become even more
beautiful than you were before.

Based on The Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife by Marianne
Williamson. Interview republished with permission of Hay House.

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• #1 Comment from loving4leo 
  8/7/08 9:10 AM | Permalink

  Funny.... I'm reading at the moment " Everyday Grace" by Marianne Williamson. Love the way she writes..... with such spirituality. She just makes sense to me. Like Sylvia Browne. Much of what I've spiritually gained and grown has been fostered by these two women. Hope all is well with you. LOve, Barb