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Let's Talk About It STRUGGLE ...

Struggle is a large part of life.

This is my life. This is where I’m at and I need to make peace with it, because it must be where God wants me.

Unless you believe that things just randomly happen with no rhyme or reason to them, you must believe the alternative, which is everything happens for a reason.

And if that’s true – then one can assume that you are where you need to be and it is what it is. You can hate it and be miserable or you can accept it and make the most of it.

It’s kind of like the grief process, acceptance is the final step and that is when you make peace with the hand you’ve been dealt. In grief, the other 4 stages (denial, anger, bargaining, depression) come and go and are even repeated, but acceptance is always the final stage and it’s always the best part of the process.

I have to stop fighting my life and start accepting and enjoying it.

I have to choose to do this because no one else can do it for me. I have to decide how I will live my life. There are many seasons, there is always some chaos and there are most definitely highlights, but none of it

Struggle Makes Us Stronger!

lasts forever – the good or the bad.

My life is not that bad, really...

We can always look next door and find someone who is suffering way more than we are, however you can’t get this perspective from Facebook usually. If we listen though, people are hurting, suffering and fighting battles that make our problems seem childish to complain about. So really, how bad is our life if we compare it to what some of our friends are going through?

My problem is - I’m a spoiled brat.

I need to own it and correct it.

I need to realize how good I’ve got it and appreciate it rather than complain about my life. Anyone who has all the luxuries that I do should never complain. Even if everything seems to be broken all at once and my health is failing, I’ve still got a damn good life compared to what others are dealing with.

Forgive me Lord, I’m sorry.

I don’t have to hurry.

I don’t have to worry.

God’s got everything under control.

He knows about it.

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This is part of a four part video series on small steps you can take each day to train yourself to be a happy person.

The Black Pit : How

To Stop Digging Deeper And Learn To Claw Your Way Out

I often get emails and comments asking how I stay so positive. Those who have read me for a while know about my somewhat epic battles with depression in the past and that creates even more questions as people who are in the battle now want to know how I manage to maintain victory over it.

I have truly been at that place in my life where I felt no hope – I have been in the very bottom of that dark pit where I found myself desperately looking for even the smallest ray of light and found none.

To feel totally without hope is one of the most painful places to be and unless someone has been there, they have no idea how excruciating it is. Everything aches, from your heart to your spirit to every muscle and bone in your body.

to have to work harder than you ever have before – But for a goal you’ve longed for.

If you think you are ready, here goes…

I know you’re hurting. I know you’re sad and I know you’re tired. I know you feel like you’ve been fighting, struggling, day in and day out for so very long and yet have gotten nowhere.

I know your heart desperately longs for hope or warmth or some sort of reprieve from the constant ache. I know because I’ve been there.

I wish I could hold your hand and walk you out of this, but I can’t. I wish I could look into your life and tell you exactly how to handle each situation, but I’m not able. But I can tell you how I got through it and I can tell you that if you are in that pit, you are not meant to If you are there now, I have a few remain there. things that I would like to say to you – if you are ready to hear them. It is up to you God has a plan for you. to determine if you are. If you have any doubt, maybe you should come back to He has a purpose for you. And He can take this later because it is not gonna be a soft this pain and use it for good. cushy blanket.

He can take the darkest moments It will be more of a battle cry. of your life and use them to make you stronger, wiser, and happier than you ever Even though you feel exhausted, dreamed possible, so much so that you will if you are ready for this, it will cause you find yourself years down the road looking

back and being grateful for this moment, because so much strength and joy came out of it.

A lot of people end up looking so hard for a person to hold their hand in the darkness that they miss out on the opportunity to hold God’s hand instead.

Sure, there might be people in your life you can lean on and that is all good and well, but when it comes down to the big battles…I’m talking the life and death battle between me and the hopelessness, if I have a choice to have the creator of the universe as my coach and team mate, I’m going with those odds.

I learned a long time ago that going to people (friends, relatives, etc) with my problems might help on a temporary level, but they can’t do anything for me.

Instead, I started taking my problems directly to God because He is the only one who can actually help me. If He leads me to a person then, so be it, but it is about you and him solving this together.

There is no easy way to get from point A to point B, but it begins by realizing that this is a journey that you are on and you deciding that you are ready to get to point B and dedicating yourself to do what it takes in order to do that.

You have got to want to be happy.

The STRUGGLE is real.

1. Do you really want to change?

2. Are you ready to accept responsibility for your own actions, thoughts, and words?

3. Is complaining one of your primary activities and if so, are you willing to give that up? there is, discipline yourself. You’ve got to be willing to do whatever it takes, chastise yourself when you complain, make yourself step out of your comfort zone.

We’re not talking about having someone hold your hand here. That is what we do for children crossing the street.

We’re not kids anymore. We’re adults and an adult that is not capable of disciplining themselves is a train wreck waiting to happen. Chances are, if you are depressed/ negative life right now, you are a current train wreck. You feel it. You know it.

But you can get out. You can be happy.

I PROMISE you.

You’ve got to want it so bad that If you’re ready for it... you can read the rest of Christy’s post HERE. you are willing to do the hardest thing

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God Never Blinks 50 Lessons for Life’s Little Detours

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If you don’t have much time to born. When we got the news, we cried. read or you like to read in little chunks - The good news was they had a baby boy. this is the book for you!

The bad news was, he had something wrong with him.

With chapter titles like “Breathe.

It calms the mind.”, “Believe in miracles.” and “Life isn’t fair, but it’s still good.” you know right away - it’s a GOOD book. Each story is written independent of the next and they culminate to make an entire book of nothing but encouragement, wisdom and humor. This New York Times bestseller is a very personal book.

It is compiled by an award winning writer who just happens to be a cancer survivor. Anyone who has survived cancer holds the secret to just how precious life really is and the author shares the value of it very honestly with her readers.

Here’s an excerpt...

Lesson 10 God Never Gives Us More Than We Were Designed To Carry.

Some of us are asked to bear more than others. My uncle Paul was chosen to carry part of the sky. He and my aunt Veronica were my godparents. They had five children when their last child was

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Brett Francis Kelly was born back in 1972, when people used words Continued on page 14.

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Self is the problem.... it’s always the problem.

Move self out of the way and life gets GOOD!

Is this when we become the trees planted by the water?

In the midnight hour when our troubles are bouncing around in our heads like ping pong balls and we can say peace be still and it works?

When we have the wisdom and maturity to realize that we don't have the answers and it no longer matters that we don't, because we know you do?

When we can't sleep because of our troubles until the light bulb pops on and we hand all of them over to the one who loves us. The one who said they would handle them for us?

Exchange your focus from yourself to God and you've got a life worth living. Perspective always changes everything.

Face the storm.

Doubt, worry and fear steal your peace and then you have been robbed of the life you were given.

Face the storm.

It's not white knuckled determination to hang on and make it through... it's refusing to let your circumstances steal your peace and joy.

In your struggle, never lose sight of the prize.

It's mind control - it's you controlling your own mind. Taking your troubles to the altar and leaving them in the hands of the man who can still the waters.

Before you say anything remember this...

You have the power to stop the theft by refusing to carry your troubles yourself.

That's true dependence and trust. That is faith in action and that is why our faith matters.

I took you, wretched soul that you are, into my arms That’s why it’s called and forgave you all of your sins. I loved you when no fighting the good fight. one else did and I gave you eternal life - an abundant life more than you could have ever dreamed of and this is how you say thank you?

You walk up to my other children and act better than they are, you look down on them and judge them?

How dare you? Had I not saved you - you would be in worse shape than they are. After I have shown you so much mercy, you give them none?

Everyone has struggles you know nothing about.

“Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.” ~John Wesley

Grace

The Practice of the Presence of God

by Brother Lawrence

He believed...

That we should establish ourselves in a sense of GOD’s Presence, by continually conversing with Him. That it was a shameful thing to quit His conversation, to think of trifles and fooleries.

More of what he believed from an excerpt...

That we should feed and nourish our souls with high notions of GOD; which would yield us great joy in being devoted to Him. That we ought to quicken, i.e., to enliven, our faith. That it was lamentable we had so little; and that instead of taking faith for the rule of their conduct, men amused themselves with trivial devotions, which changed daily. That the way of Faith was the spirit of the Church, and that it was sufficient to bring us to a high degree of perfection.

whether He lead us by suffering or by consolation, for all would be equal to a soul truly resigned. That there needed fidelity in those drynesses, or insensibilities and irksomenesses in prayer, by which GOD tries our love to Him; that then was the time for us to make good and effectual acts of resignation, whereof one alone would oftentimes very much promote our spiritual advancement.

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Continued from page 9. like Mongoloid and retard. It was a time when relatives whispered the bad news through tears, when doctors suggested institutional care, when support for special needs children didn’t exist.

Brett wasn’t the perfect healthy baby every parent prays for. He had ten fingers and ten toes, but he also had something else. Down syndrome. Back then, children with Down syndrome weren’t considered special. They were considered disasters. But my aunt and uncle loved him the same as their other five.

life.” He made Brett his life partner. The two were inseparable.

Brett had no edit button. If he thought something, he said it. He couldn’t lie. When he saw a woman with a large derriere, he would announce, “You have a big butt.” When he caught the reflection of his fuller than full figure, he’d tell the mirror, “I’m so sexy” and he believed it.

Brett left his imprint everywhere.

At my cousin Bridget’s wedding, he pretended to be the bartender. At my brother Jim’s wedding, he gyrated on the dance floor until his pants nearly fell off.

Then my aunt got cancer. The At my uncle John’s funeral, he spilled breast cancer spread to her bones. She died water on himself and took off his pants when Brett was only three. She left my and ended up wrapped in a blanket. uncle a widower with six children. How could my uncle Paul raise six children He never grew up. That was the alone? The oldest was only 14. joy of Brett. He stayed a child. He also stayed his dad’s best buddy. The decades It got worse. Uncle Paul got fired flew by. Each child played mom, then went from his job. He had missed too much off to college and passed the role on to the work caring for his sick wife. There was next younger sibling. no Family Leave Act to protect him. What happened to the family? My uncle held When my uncle turned 80, we them together. He made Brett the center of wondered who would take Brett one day. their universe. That broken piece somehow The problem wasn’t that Brett would made them whole. be a burden no one wanted to bear. The problem was that all his siblings wanted Uncle Paul never complained him to move in with them. about being a single parent of six. He got a real estate license so he could work from It wasn’t long after my uncle turned 80 home. He did the laundry and cleaned the that we got the bad news. house after the kids went to bed. He never remarried. He always said, “I married for The day before Brett’s sister was

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CALL or you can email me HERE. “We need the Bretts of this world,” he said in his sermon. “Brett wasn’t handicapped. He showed us what God expects from us: to celebrate every time we take a breath.”

We need the Uncle Pauls of the world, too. It was his quiet strength that held After dinner, Brett collapsed from a up the world so Brett could skip through pulmonary embolism. it, so Brett could celebrate everything as No one could revive him. only Brett could. In his world, the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus were real, birthdays The funeral home overflowed lasted seven days, and there was no such with photos. Brett in his First Communion thing as race, only people with better tans. jacket. Brett in a cap and gown. Brett in his basketball uniform. Brett with his Special My uncle smiled as his son, Paul Olympics medals. My uncle had made gave the eulogy. “People always told us sure Brett’s life was a rich one. we were a great gift to Brett,” Paul said, “It was the other way around. He was a At the funeral Mass, the priest great gift to us.” asked us to examine how we use our gifts. Brett came by his gifts naturally, Uncle Paul made it so by holding the the priest said. They came with that extra family together, by holding up the sky chromosome. above them.

It’s a very encouraging read!

“Regina Brett is a gifted observer of the experiences that shape who we are, and her lessons unfold with buoyancy, humor and a courageous honesty. She has given us a beautifully written roadmap for life.”

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I have asked the LORD for one thing;one thing only do I want: to live in the LORD’s house all my life, to marvel there at his goodness, and to ask for his guidance.

Psalms 27:4 | GNT

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Sam Elliott plays an ailing movie star coming to terms with his past and mortality in the first trailer for Brett Haley’s Sundance dramedy called “The Hero”. It’s coming out in limited U.S. theaters on June 9th before expanding on July 4th.

It is rumored to be Sam Elliott’s equal to John Wayne’s “The Shootist” performance. At 72, Sam Elliott is making mature living look like a walk in the park.

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The Hero starring Sam Elliott, Laura Prepon, Nick Offerman, Krysten Ritter, Katharine Ross, Ali Wong, Cameron Esposito, and Patrika Darbo.

Directed by Brett Haley.

He’s acting nonstop in a great variety of shows lately. He’s got a sitcom on Netflix for binge watching called “The Ranch” which is NOT for all audiences. He’s been dropping in for bit parts on several TV sitcoms and because of “that voice” he’s in some animated films as well. The Hero might just be some really GOOD stuff.

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PEACH TREE PRUNING FOR THE HOME ORCHARD (a hands-on demonstration) Thursday, June 1st 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.

GC Master Gardeners Herman Auer and Robert Marshall will give a hands-on demonstration showing how to prune your peach trees and other stone fruit trees to create a good scaffold and to prepare for next year’s fruit production. The program will be held in the Demonstration Garden Orchard inside Carbide Park.

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Along Galveston’s Gulf Coast runs a seventeen-foothigh, ten-mile-long protective barrier— a response to the nation’s all-time deadliest natural disaster.

The seawall remains a stoic protector more than a century later, shielding the island from much more than physical destruction.

As the foundation of Seawall Boulevard, this structure created an entirely new tourism industry that buoyed the city’s economy through war, the Great Depression and hurricanes.

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The LAST WORD

Let's meet in the middle, find some compromises and unite to heal our nation beginning in our homes first.

AMERICA is struggling...

FIGHTING doesn’t FIX anything...

You don’t see women duking it out to fix the problem at their child’s school, (well most don’t handle their business like that anyway). What we need to do is find hundreds of intelligent compromises and move forward. If you don’t like what you see around you - change it.

Change can begin in your home and mine and let’s leave the outcome up to God.