MOVED: HOW's for the day...

"...and for one moment you get this amazing gift and you want to laugh and you want to cry because you feel so lucky that you found it and so scared that that it will go away all at the same time..."-from Never Been Kissed

This is so true..

How can something so precious, so beautiful as falling in love be so scary.. Well, it is scary, but how..I am not making sense..But it is scary, right?

How i wish that for once every person (esp. the people i kow) will just love -that somebody- with all the love that they can give and never worry about that dreadful time.

oOo

How i wish that there'll be a time that i can just do something and never think of its consequences. Its not that i don't like to take risks it's just that i was taught to always be responsible for my actions. And it's not easy being like that, i feel so stupid and a failure when things don't go as i have planned them..

MOVED: ...

Today, I’ve learned that sometimes God may even leave us in the difficult circumstances we ask to be liberated from so we can grow. I don’t know if I’m exactly in the same situation. It may seem that I have almost every basic need of an average 21 year old, but I still feel that something’s lacking. It’s not that I’m not happy, well, sometimes I wish I’m in a different place or situation, but that doesn’t mean I ‘m not grateful for the blessings I’m receiving each day. I just know that some things aren’t just right.

MOVED: Thank You!!!

got this one from an email...i liked the idea of a "thank you" journal.

THANK YOU
By Oprah Winfrey

I live in the space of thankfulness - and I have been rewarded a million times over for it. I started out giving thanks for small things, and the more thankful I became, the more my bounty increased. That's because what you focus on expands, and when you focus on the goodness in your life, you create more of it. Opportunities, relationships, even money flowed my way when I learned to be grateful no matter what happened in my life.

"Say thank you!" Those words from my friend and mentor Maya Angelou turned my life around. One day about ten years ago, I was sitting in my bathroom with the door closed and the toilet lid down, booing and ahooing on the phone so uncontrollably that I was incoherent. "Stop it! Stop it right now and say thank you!" Maya chided. "But - you don't understand," I sobbed. To this day, I can't remember what it was that had me so far gone, which only proves the point Maya was trying to make. "I do understand," she told me. "I want to hear you say it now. Out loud. 'Thank you.'" Tentatively, I repeated it:
"Thankyou - but what am I saying thank you for?"
"You're saying thank you," Maya said, "because your faith is so strong that you don't doubt that
whatever the problem, you'll get through it. You're saying thank you because you know that even in the eye of the storm, God has put a rainbow in the clouds. You're saying thank you because you know there's no problem created that can compare to the Creator of all things. Say thank you!" So I did - and still do. Only now I do it every day.

I kept a gratitude journal, as Sarah Ban Breathnach suggests in Simple Abundance, listing at least five things that I'm grateful for. My list includes small pleasures: the feel of Kentucky bluegrass under my feet (like damp silk); a walk in the woods with all nine of my dogs and my cocker spaniel Sophie trying to keep up; cooking fried green tomatoes with Stedman and eating them while they're hot; reading a good book and knowing another awaits. And when I feel that life is hard, all I have to do is read my gratitude journal. IT truly helps. My thank-you list also includes things too important to take for granted: an "okay" mammogram, friends who love me, 15 years at the same job (and loving it more than the first day I started), a chance to share my vision for a better life, staying centered, having financial security. I won't kid you, having money for all the things I want is a blessing. But as I look back over my journals, which I've kept since I was 15 years old, 99 per cent of what brought me real joy had nothing to do with money . (It had a lot to do with food, however.)

It's not easy being grateful all the time. But it's when you feel least thankful that you are most in need of what gratitude can give you: PERSPECTIVE. Just knowing you have that daily list to complete
allows you to look at your day differently, with an awareness of every sweet gesture and kind thought
passed your way. When you learn to say thank you, you see the world anew. And as Meister Eckhart so eloquently stated:
"If the only prayer you ever say in your whole
life is 'Thank you', that would suffice."

Life can be so complicated at times but when we learn to thank God and appreciate every blessing that comes our way, every answered prayer, every dream that becomes a reality, we'll realize that it doesn't matter how many pains and sufferings, challenges, heartbreaks, disappointments even failures that we go through for we know that, as Maya Angelou would put it, even in the eye of the storm, God has put a rainbow in the clouds... It's just a matter of how long we can wait to witness that rainbow.