LIFE IS FULL OF DIFFICULTY, THAT IS A GIVEN. I FIND THAT A LOT OF DIFFICULTIES ARE DUE TO A CHANGE IN CIRCUMSTANCES THAT WE HADNT ANTICIPATED, INSTEAD OF ACCEPTING THAT WE CANT BE IN CONTROL OF EVERYTHING, WE RESIST THE CHANGE, AND AS A RESULT WE SUFFER. IVE OBSERVED THAT THOSE PEOPLE WHO ACCEPT SERIOUS, LIFE LIMITING ILLNESS, LIVING EACH DAY, INSTEAD OF DYING EACH DAY, SEEM TO LIVE LONGER, HAVE BETTER QUALITY OF LIFE, AND LEAVE HAPPIER MEMORIES..... “Life is a bowl of cherries. Some cherries are rotten while others are good; its your job to throw out the rotten ones and forget about them while you enjoy eating the ones that are good! There are two kinds of people: those who choose to throw out the good cherries and wallow in all the rotten ones, and those who choose to throw out all the rotten ones and savor all the good ones.” ― C. JoyBell C. Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. – Melody Beattie “I told Ella Mae Cheeks Johnson, then age 105, that she was the only person over 80 who Id ever met who never referred to her physical infirmities or health problems. To which she replied, I have my difficulties; I do not rejoice in them.” ― Patricia Mulcahy, THE SERENITY PRAYER... God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference. Living one day at a time; Enjoying one moment at a time; Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace; Taking, as He did, this sinful world as it is, not as I would have it; Trusting that He will make all things right if I surrender to His Will; That I may be reasonably happy in this life and supremely happy with Him Forever in the next. Amen. –Reinhold Niebuhr
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