“Each morning I wake up and say to myself, Jerry, you have two choices today. You can choose to be in a good mood or you can choose to be in a bad mood.
Category: coping with tragedy
POEMS: “Even on the darkest night”…(Spirituality)
Seek light, even on the darkest night,
for one light always shines.
POEMS: “The fire inside” (to bring you hope)
When all is lost and hope has fled
When fear is strong and strength is dead
When love and joy abandon you
When mental anguish grows in you
POEMS: (about grief) “There is no night without a dawning” by Helen Steiner Rice
For those who leave us for a while have only gone away out of a restless, care worn world, Into a brighter day.
TRUE INSPIRATIONAL STORIES: “A Life That Makes A Difference” (story of Helen Keller & Anne Sullivan)
Queen Victoria of England asked Helen Keller: “How do you explain the fact that even though you were both blind and deaf, you were able to accomplish so much?”
INSPIRATIONAL POEMS: “Storms Bring Out The Eagles But The Little Birds Take Cover” By Helen Steiner Rice
When the “storms of life” gather darkly ahead,
I think of these wonderful words I once read
INSPIRATIONAL STORIES: “We each get the cross that we can bare”
One man complained that his life was too hard for him. He came to God, told him about his troubles, and asked:
INSPIRATIONAL POEMS: “IF” BY RUDYARD KIPLING
He had a difficult and traumatic childhood. He was sent away to England by his parents
INSPIRATIONAL POEMS: “DON’T QUIT” by Edgar Albert Guest
I found that this poem reminds me that after the biggest storm, the sun always shines again; and after the darkest hour is when the dawn of a new day brings us hope and light once again.
ZEN BUDDHIST STORY: “MAYBE SO, MAYBE NOT”
There are always 2 sides of the coin in a story, so which one is right, which one is wrong? Yet they both belong to the same coin, the duality is an indivisible whole.
INSPIRATIONAL STORIES: “The lake”
instead of complaining about your life,
INSPIRATIONAL STORIES: “The magical mustard seed”(dealing with sorrow and depression)
“Fetch me a mustard seed from a home that has never known sorrow…