Hello and Welcome to StressingSpirituality.com
Sincerest thanks for taking time out of your hectic schedule to visit this site. This site has been created for a place for people to come to and unwind and to hopefully learn from.
Everyone has their own story to tell. I am no different, just an ordinary person living their normal, everyday life.
And I was, until a severe medical condition hit me very suddenly and literally turned my world upside down, overnight.
I went from being a very hard working person who was surrounded by people all day; to a person who couldn't even tolerate the sounds of music, talking, or having a TV or radio on.
My business mentor and friend advises me that I should not divulge such personal information and put it out on the Internet. But what is a story if it cannot be told? What is a story if you cannot learn from it?
For I have been deeply humbled, when my good health was taken away from me. And with that humbling came the need to make some positive changes in my life. To have the ability to look for other ways of dealing with crisis and to re-learn some new coping mechanisms. Instead of relying on the old standby of prescription meds, food, and "retail therapy" in the form of shopping. (Whip out that card and charge to feel better!)
I'm very happy to report that things are a lot better in my world again. After numerous tests and through much trial and error I finally got correctly diagnosed and have had the appropriate medical treatment that I needed. Yahoo, I'm feeling back to about 98% of my former self and all is good.
I am now truly thankful and express my gratitude in many different ways, every single day.
Some people, observed psychologist Abraham Maslow, "have a wonderful
capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic
goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder, and even ecstasy."
So the moral of this story is to treat life with respect as you never know what may happen to you or when. I want to share this poem with you that came to me at a time when I really needed it. I hope that it helps to put some things into perspective for you.
People
come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime.
When you know
which one it is, you will know what to do for that person..
When someone is
in your life for a REASON, it is usually to meet a need you have expressed.
They have come to assist you through a difficulty, to provide you with
guidance and support,
to aid you physically, emotionally or spiritually.
They may seem like a godsend and they are.
They are there for the reason you
need them to be.
Then, without any wrongdoing on your part or at an
inconvenient time,
this person will say or do something to bring the
relationship to an end.
Sometimes they die. Sometimes they walk away.
Sometimes they act up and force you to take a stand.
What we must
realize is that our need has been met, our desire fulfilled, their work is done.
The prayer you sent up has been answered and now it is time to move on.
Some
people come into your life for a SEASON, because your turn has come to share,
grow or learn.
They bring you an experience of peace or make you laugh.
They may teach you something you have never done.
They usually give you
an unbelievable amount of joy.
Believe it, it is real. But only for a
season.
LIFETIME
relationships teach you lifetime lessons,
things you must build upon in
order to have a solid emotional foundation.
Your job is to accept the
lesson,
love the person and put what you have learned to use in all other
relationships and areas of your life.
It is said that love is blind but
friendship is clairvoyant.
you for being a part of my life,
whether you were a reason, a season or a
lifetime.
