Trying to Find a Way

So now autumn is half over.  Leaves are on the ground and in the gutters.  No rush to rake them up.  After a few days of rain, it is again sunny and 60ish.  Still warm.  The weather forecasters tease about possible snow this week - but it won’t happen.  I wish it would though.

Sadness found its way back into my heart.  Just thinking of losses old and new.  Even of the impending gloom over our country.  How far will the damage take over?  Why are so many falling for lies?

I feel so powerless.  The truth is there was never a guarantee we would always be free.  Many people want to believe in a new Messiah, want someone to take over and make their lives so easy.  So I guess believing the lies, using denial, rationalization, and hero worship was their great quick fix.  But history yet again repeats itself.

Only I didn’t think it would happen here.  But it is happening.  What about those checks and balances?  The checks are figuratively bouncing around avoiding justice.  The balances are totalling up the grift to be distributed to the wealthy.

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What about us old folks?  Us poor?  And those who are in even more “categories” that are vulnerable?  Who do we all matter to?  Certainly not to the ones taking charge next year.

At least they didn’t get my soul.  They couldn’t take away my belief in God.  They didn’t defile my commitment to virtues, like faith, hope, love.

There is a power greater than ourselves, greater than the grifters and their new messiah.  Greater than their hate.  God is love.  Love will find a way when there seems to be no way.  

Maybe we’ll even get a bit of beautiful snow this winter.    Theresa M

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Time to Move

"Don't judge yourself by your past.

You don't live there anymore. - unknown

We’ve all been there.  We made mistakes in the past, as we were growing and learning.  We made some stupid decisions.  Consequences followed - hopefully - or else why bother to do better?

Sometimes old memories may haunt us.  Yet we can work on changing for the better.  As the above quote says - we don’t live in the past - except in our minds where we make ourselves  go back, and end up judging ourselves for how we acted back then.

🎨Belgian artist Jos Troch

We are able to make a strong effort to move away from the past, into today.  OK, we carry luggage while moving.  Well, time to change that too.  Letting go of past mistakes, finding forgiveness in oneself, and sharing the burdensome past with a friend, or therapist, with someone, can help ease that transition.

It’s time to move into the present - into a new house of the mind.  Be kind, be warm, be forgiving.  Be accepting.  And if you please, be a good Christian.  Don’t be angry and hateful or exclusive.  Be human with a touch of loving spirit, inclusiveness, acceptance of who is different.

We can transform our lives and be an influence for others as well, without forcing our beliefs and ideas on others.

We can live in the here and now and be free of judgment.

We are not going back.  We are moving forward.     Theresa M

🎨New Zealand artist Peter Siddell

Autumn Life

 It's October now, and the leaves have been changing colors and swirling about.  This is my favorite season.  Yet this time I feel a bit sad, from losing Lilly in August.  She always loved autumn too, enjoying sunshine days on the screened porch, and cuddly evenings with me and Luke, and the past two years with Merci.

Life goes on, always in memories, in hearts, in spirit.  Somehow I do not feel a dread about the future, I just feel as if I am getting closer to home, our heavenly home.  Although I feel the sadness, I also feel the hope and upcoming joy of eternal life.  Not time yet though - I must live in today.  I will enjoy the beauty around me, the leaves, the pumpkins, the colors of fall.  The comfort of life - how fortunate to have this. 

Enjoy life as best as you can.  Some days are real terrors, others are pure joy.  Keep the faith, and the hope, and overall the love.     Theresa M

Lilly October 2023

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