Quote of the Day

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. - Anne Bradstreet

I saw this in an email that I got today. I normally pass right through that section of the email but today I stopped and read this. I thought it was a good quote.

Have a wonderful day.

Quote of the Day

"Hope is holding on to faith when quitting would be easier"

Wow.

I was talking to my sister Amy today, aren't sisters great, and she told me this quote that she read (sorry I don't know where it is from).

I guess I never thought of hope being something hard to hold on to but when things get ugly or hard or you just want to give up hope is sometimes hard to see. But I am learning it is worth holding on to with everything you have.

Happily Ever After?

I love fairy tales. My favorite is Beauty and the Beast. However all of them seem to start the same: "Once Upon a Time..." and end the same: "...and they all lived happily ever after." Awww isn't that sweet. But realistically what does happily ever after look like?

Is it a life of well, perfection? Do they go along with their lives with no more trials or hardships to work through? I don't think that happily ever after means perfectly ever after.

So then what does it mean? I think that real life throws curve balls our way to solidify that happily ever after. It is how we work together through hardships that takes us to happily ever after.

Think back on any kind of relationship that you've had where you and that person faced hardship together. Doesn't matter if you faced it together or whether it was between you two. If you both made the commitment to work hard and face it no matter what comes, more than likely your relationship was strengthened. You went deeper in that relationship to another level of respect, love, trust, appreciation of each other.

There are times when this doesn't happen but why? Sometimes people are not willing to fight for relationships, fight to have a happily ever after.

So what am I getting at. Happily ever after is not just something that happens overnight, it is something to work hard for and to fight for. Something that you will be proud of and never let go.

I know for me that is what I want, and am going to fight for.

Where Did I Go....?

So yes I know that I haven't added anything to my blog well since November. I have procrastinated writting. Not in the way of just putting it off, but I wanted each thing I wrote about to be "perfect". I wanted to write about he perfect thing. Have it written perfectly. And well I just need to get over that becuase wanted the perfect thing just kept me from doing anything at all. How often does that happen to you?
Do you procrastinate out of fear of unknown? Or how about like me wanting things to be perfect? Do you procrastinate because of the risk factor? Whatever your excuse is all it is doing is keeping you from experiencing life, from really accomplishing things you want to do. So just like me get over you excuse and try it who knows you made do a good job or things will go really great!!!

So I will try this again. Who knows what you will find here anymore, but I will try to keep it updated now. Thanks for being patient. :)

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