It’s been a very long day. I have so many thoughts, which seem to be jumbled tonight. I’m indifferent, calm and very tired.
There comes a time in every one’s life, when we reflect on our relationships and it usually happens around the time we know someone we love dearly is terminally ill. It’s so hard watching that …
Read on »I am sure you will all be aware from my recent posts that my father is in hospital, shortly to go into a hospice.
I will be spending time with family over the next few days, but will still be posting daily and will be on email from …
Read on »As children, we live in fear of the reality that one day our parents will no longer be around anymore. I was always aware that the bubble one day would burst. But then children don’t have the knowledge that adults have. Losing a parent seems scary when you’re a child.
My mother passed away what will be 5 years on the 25th May this year. I have always believed that she will go to spirit but will still be around me as I live my life and make my decisions. I believe that …
Read on »Something inspirational:
“When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.”
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE
Read on »In my late twenties I remember being put on antidepressants by my doctor because I had post-natal depression. In hindsight it wasn’t the best idea, because tablets can potentially become habit forming.
As we become more reliant, the habit becomes even harder to break. I was lucky enough that at the time my depression wasn’t bad enough to stay on my anti-depressants long term. We tend to rely …
Read on »Something inspirational:
“Everybody can be great because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.”
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
Read on »Seeing my father this afternoon put me in somewhat of a reflective mood. It has helped me understand him and his life a little more.
It’s important for me to understand how and why I got to this place with my Cerebral Palsy and to challenge what I need to challenge to find out. I know that we’re not all good at working through …
Read on »We all have to lose a parent, that’s a given but looking back at what I’ve had to deal with in the last 5 years, I cannot believe that my father is now terminally ill.
I had a problem watching my mother struggle with her health before she died, so will probably have a problem watching my father struggle too before he goes. Ever since I was a child I have struggled to …
Read on »A positive thought:
“Focus only on what you can change, don’t focus on what you can’t control, think positive and the positives will come.”
S. REITER
Read on »We’re born with a loving, caring and happy soul, but as we experience life, those experiences have a marked effect on our soul. Those experiences will begin to reflect and make up our personalities.
It is through those experiences that bad patterns are formed. The trouble is that we’re often too busy trying to work on our own survival that we don’t look beyond our opinions and attitudes to what …
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