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Published: December 23, 2018
‘Tis the season for lots of love.
Gather all friends and family
And celebrate the joys from above.
Plan a feast and wrap gifts happily.
Distribute it all around.
Gather all friends and family.
Add the carols to make it sound
As it adds love to spirit.
Distribute it all around.
Enjoy the decorations as you share it.
Bask in the smiles of the season
As it adds love to spirit.
Friends and family are good reason
To spread warmth and cheer.
Bask in the smiles of the season.
Christmas! Celebrate with all who are dear!
‘Tis the season for lots of love
To spread warmth and cheer
And celebrate the joys from above.
Check out this site for more poetry!
Source: https://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/tis-the-season-for-lots-of-love
I found this information by Joyce Chung on yogiapproved.com. I just made the ideas short and sweet so that you are able to read quickly and do! Look forward to your time, don’t dread it. Remember you have worked hard to get the time off, now enjoy it.
Cut back on the holiday stress and enjoy the holidays with five strategies:
Keep your calendar updated with all the festivities you plan to attend, but also block off some time for self-care.
Create a packing list prior to a trip. This helps with visualizing the necessities, and helps prevent too much stuff.
Stay hydrated. Coffee, tea, and alcohol will all dehydrate you, so be mindful of those drinks.
Holidays are a time of celebration, which usually means there will be food and alcohol. If you are drinking, make sure to eat some protein to slow down the alcohol from entering into your bloodstream. Pace yourself and drink plenty of water in between drinks and before bed. Remember you can always so no thank you and still have a good time.
Do something you enjoy or is good for you and your health or self-care.
Take a moment to reflect on your year. This reflection will help you in 2019.
Write down all the things you are proud of having done, ways in which you have grown as a person, the people you want to thank in your life, and the things you want to work on for 2019. A gratitude journal is the perfect place to do this, and maintaining a gratitude journal is a great practice year-round.
The Holidays
The end of the year should be spent reflecting back on the year, and spending some quality time with your loved ones . . . not dealing with holiday stress.
Have you ever had a week with it’s ups and downs, from great to not good, from hurtful to thankful, to being in pain to having relief? It’s like hearing the tragic news of another school shooting and then witnessing the fairy tale wedding of British royalty, all within the same week.
How confusing life can be, but yet so much to give and take in at the same time. Hold on, and continue to move on.
As I reflect, one may think of Rudyard Kipling’s poem- IF.
IF
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too:
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise;
If you can dream- -and not make dreams your master;
If you can think- -and not make thoughts your aim,
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same:.
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build them up with worn-out tools;
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings,
And never breathe a word about your loss:
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on! ‘
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings- -nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much:
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And- -which is more- -you’ll be a Man, my son!
Woman’s version- you’ll be a Woman, my daughter!
May you have more ups than downs, and more smiles than frowns in your weeks ahead.
Thank you reading my thoughts and allowing me to share the works of other individuals that I admire.
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Even though you may be disappointed with Mother Nature’s choice- see the short lived beauty of the moment or have a laugh after reading a cartoon from Glasbergen. Just trying to ease the pain a bit…
Walking on water at sunset
First I want to say- thank you for continuing to follow my blog and welcome to new readers that have viewed some of my posts these past few weeks. I haven’t written in awhile due to my current schedule of work, but I hope to be more active in the coming months.
It’s been one of those days. I had planned to go to church but I slept in due to being up late and needing the sleep. I also have been looking for a night service with my beliefs and spiritual upbringing in mind, but I haven’t been successful. I then went to go on line to a favorite church of mind, but much to my dismay, they wouldn’t be broadcasting today due to being off site.
So I thought I would listen to sermons on line to consider churches in the area for future reference. If you are looking for a church-it’s a great idea to listen first to a sermon. I realize that the minister, priest, pastor, etc. doesn’t entirely make a church but listening to a message based on god’s word is important. How the message is delivered is also key. If I am unable to understand the sermon, you have lost me. I want to reflect on the message and put it into practice in my own life.
Spirituality is so personal. It looks and feels differently to everyone. I just recently discussed spirituality with a close friend who is a psychologist and she sent me this article- she has a practice that she helps people in many different ways. I enjoyed the description of spirituality and how it’s important in healing and making yourself a better person.
Healing the Spirit by Anna Deeds
Spirituality can be an important part of your life, and it’s often neglected. Spirituality is not necessarily about any particular religion – it can be about believing in something bigger than you or it can be about personal well-being and personal development. Here are some ways to heal spiritually.
I know that healing your body, mind and spirit may seem overwhelming. However, you have plenty of time to work on healing your whole self. It is an ongoing process which you may work on over your entire lifetime. The important thing is to continue working to improve yourself and your life.
Spirituality has always been an important part of my life in good times and bad. It brings me clarity, calmness and peace. It’s funny how things work, my blog has been my church today. Have a wonderful day and my best wishes to you in the coming week.
Respect is such an important characteristic in our daily life. The term is used with children, friends, loved ones, or significant others when describing a value that is needed in any type of relationship. What does respect mean to you? Are you being respected?
The truth is that, when love or care lacks respect, it may be self-serving. Definition of self-serving-serving one’s own interests, especially without concern for the needs or interests of others. A disrespectful individual is concerned with how you make them feel, how you can serve them, how you reflect on them.
A loved one will respect you, and value you for you, as a full-fledged, thinking person. Someone who respects you will take joy in your independence and honor your boundaries.
Wondering if you have relationships built on respect? Here are signs of respect:
Being respected is very important to any relationship. Are you being respected? You deserve to be respected!
Happy 4th of July!
When I think of the 4th of July, I think about the importance of respect for our country. Please remember the lives of those who gave us our freedom and who are still fighting for it!
Fourth of July
Have the sense of freedom,
Have the sense of joy,
I am proud to be an American,
And I am proud to be free,
But I won’t forget the great men and women,
Who also died for me! Happy 4th of July!
Taken from: http://www.wishafriend.com/4thofjuly/id/8021/#6HFzteLOgii0mmrZ.99
This week I truly understood the word acceptance. I learned it in my workplace, I learned it in my personal life and I learned it in decisions and choices that may have come to me but were out of my control.
Once you have acceptance, then you can have peace of mind, with clarity, of knowing to live one day at a time.
It is clear in the following poem that we can all live by:
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
The courage to change the things I can,
and the wisdom to know the difference.
How timely to have the realization of acceptance with the coming of spring which brings to us new life. As a wise person told me, “Winter may be in my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.”
Have a great day, a wonderful week, an extraordinary month, followed by years of astonishing!
P.S. Don’t forget to tell your family and friends how special they are and how much you love them.
