“Outside, the ocean was crashing, waves hitting sand, then pulling back to sea.
I thought of everything being washed away, again and again.
We make such messes in this life, both accidentally and on purpose.
But wiping the surface clean doesn't really make anything neater.
It just masks what is below.
It's only when you really dig down deep, go underground, that
you can see who you really are.”
: o ) Sarah Dessen
We try don't we, to just wipe the mess away. Clean the surface from the last mistake and move on. We blame another, we blame fate, we blame our past but the past can only haunt us and effect us if we let it.
The same with others and yes even fate.
We are in control of our mistakes and unless we dig down deeper and truly see what is going on underground in us we will continue the same mistake over and over and over again.
So how do we upright the ship, our ship?
We correct anything by understanding what we truly wanted in the end.
Understanding the end in mind and visualizing that we are already present in that moment, the end.
The next step is to plan our process, its all process.
The process of spoken gratitude.
The process of prayer and meditation.
The process of taking time to listen to ones self and what that still small voice inside will speak to us in the guidance process.
Then the final step is action.
Nothing happens with out action. We take charge and we do. Is it ok if we still fail, of course, we learn more from a failure than from success. We always have, always will learn more from that process.
Discovery of who you want to be and how much your willing to do to get there.
The new affirmation for you and smiles as always sent your way : )
I create joy and happiness in the time that I am given. Time is shared with those I care about and I freely give my gratitude to the choices I make. Choices to laugh, love, think, share and create that which will empower my self and others. I create joy and happiness and I empowered by those creations. Love follows me daily and I cherish its attention to my daily actions.
71 words that I hope starts to change your spirit from within. The spirit that says, yes we can and we should make a difference.
Enjoy your week, share a smile, share in some laughter and dream big and love always : ) Smiles to you this day and everyday
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On this day in history
1524 – Giovanni da Verrazzano sets sail westward from Madeira to find a sea route to the Pacific Ocean.
1595 – Henry IV of France declares war on Spain.
1773 – Captain James Cook and his crew become the first Europeans to sail below the Antarctic Circle.
1781 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Cowpens – Continental troops under Brigadier General Daniel Morgan defeat British forces under Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton at the battle in South Carolina.
1811 – Mexican War of Independence: In the Battle of Calderón Bridge, a heavily outnumbered Spanish force of 6,000 troops defeats nearly 100,000 Mexican revolutionists.
1873 – A group of Modoc warriors defeats the United States Army in the First Battle of the Stronghold, a part of the Modoc War.
1899 – The United States takes possession of Wake Island in the Pacific Ocean.
1903 – El Yunque National Forest in Puerto Rico becomes part of the United States National Forest System as the Luquillo Forest Reserve.
1912 – Captain Robert Falcon Scott reaches the South Pole, one month after Roald Amundsen.
1917 – The United States pays Denmark $25 million for the Virgin Islands.
1918 – Finnish Civil War: The first serious battles take place between the Red Guards and the White Guard.
1929 – Popeye the Sailor Man, a cartoon character created by Elzie Segar, first appears in the Thimble Theatre comic strip.
1944 – World War II: Allied forces launch the first of four battles with the intention of breaking through the Winter Line and seizing Rome, an effort that would ultimately take four months and cost 105,000 Allied casualties.
1945 – World War II: Soviet forces capture the almost completely destroyed Polish city of Warsaw.
1945 – The Nazis begin the evacuation of the Auschwitz concentration camp as Soviet forces close in.
1945 – Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg is taken into Soviet custody while in Hungary; he is never publicly seen again.
1946 – The UN Security Council holds its first session.
1949 – The Goldbergs, the first sitcom on American television, first airs.
1950 – The Great Brinks Robbery – 11 thieves steal more than $2 million from an armored car Company's offices in Boston, Massachusetts.
1961 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers a televised farewell address to the nation three days before leaving office, in which he warns against the accumulation of power by the "military-industrial complex".
1961 – Former Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba is murdered in circumstances suggesting the support and complicity of the governments of Belgium and the United States.
1966 – A B-52 bomber collides with a KC-135 Stratotanker over Spain, dropping three 70-kiloton nuclear bombs near the town of Palomares and another one into the sea in the Palomares incident.
1969 – Black Panther Party members Bunchy Carter and John Huggins are killed during a meeting in Campbell Hall on the campus of UCLA.
1977 – Convicted murderer Gary Gilmore is executed by a firing squad in Utah, ending a ten-year moratorium on capital punishment in the United States.
1981 – President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos lifts martial law eight years and five months after declaring it.
1982 – "Cold Sunday" - in the United States temperatures fell to their lowest levels in over 100 years in numerous cities.
1983 – The tallest department store in the world, Hudson's, flagship store in downtown Detroit closes due to high cost of operating.
1989 – Cleveland School massacre: Patrick Purdy opens fire with an assault rifle at the Cleveland Elementary School playground in Stockton, California, killing five children and wounding 29 others and one teacher before taking his own life.
1991 – Gulf War: Operation Desert Storm begins early in the morning. Iraq fires 8 Scud missiles into Israel in an unsuccessful bid to provoke Israeli retaliation.
1992 – During a visit to South Korea, Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa apologizes for forcing Korean women into sexual slavery during World War II.
1994 – 1994 Northridge earthquake: A magnitude 6.7 earthquake hits Northridge, California.
1995 – The Great Hanshin earthquake: A magnitude 7.3 earthquake hits near Kobe, Japan, causing extensive property damage and killing 6,434 people.
1996 – The Czech Republic applies for membership of the European Union.
1997 – A Delta 2 carrying a GPS2R satellite explodes 13 seconds after launch, dropping 250 tons of burning rocket remains around the launch pad.
1998 – Lewinsky scandal: Matt Drudge breaks the story of the Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinsky affair on his website The Drudge Report.
2001 – U.S. President Bill Clinton posthumously raises Meriwether Lewis' rank from Lieutenant to Captain.
2002 – Mount Nyiragongo erupts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, displacing an estimated 400,000 people.
2007 – The Doomsday Clock is set to five minutes to midnight in response to North Korea nuclear testing.
2008 – British Airways Flight 38 crash lands just short of London Heathrow Airport in England with no fatalities. It is the first complete hull loss of a Boeing 777.
2010 – Rioting begins between Muslim and Christian groups in Jos, Nigeria, resulting in at least 200 deaths.
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Your Daily Prayer
Lord, thank you for today and all the possibilities that lay in front of me
Thank you for this year and another day of life and a chance to make a difference
Thank you for the gift of family, of love, of understanding.
Thank you for the gift of gratitude may I use it and speak it daily to inspire others to do the same
Bless our families, our friends, those in need of hope and faith may be in some way help to inspire their lives.
Help them to construct a plan for a path of increased gratitude, enhanced desire to create a environment of more laughter and smiles.
May we have the insight to understand that we are in charge of our product that we produce
Help all us to understand that we create our results, our thoughts, our actions that make all the difference.
May we also understand the power of gratitude and prayer with meditation regarding all of our emotions no matter how large or small
We have the ownership of the thoughts and actions and may we realize that strengths that we do possess that can make the most difference in the lives of others.
May I choose to make a difference in the lives of myself and others.
May I share a smile, a sincere smile and perhaps a kind word or deed.
May I give thanks more.
Show appreciation more.
To share to be that beacon of light.
To share a simple sincere smile.
Help me to understand that a balanced emotional status and let me always produce and perform at a more positive state.
With humility and gratitude I thank you
Today I will enjoy what gifts and blessings have been given to me.
Today I will share my gifts with others.
Amen
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