“You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith and hope.”
~ Thomas Merton
Day: April 6, 2020
🍎 Today’s Health Tip ~ Keep a Healthy Mind
Your mind is a powerful tool in managing anxiety. By changing your thought patterns, you can shift your perspective and calm your nervous system.
Beware of Fortune Telling
The news can often trigger terrifying thoughts and images about the future, and it can feel like these fears are sure to come true. You might even believe that something awful is likely to happen because you thought of it. Distinguish today between the mind’s fantasies and reality. When you notice you’re fearing an imagined disaster, call it what it is: “That’s a fantasy.” Take a slow breath in and out, smile, and return to reality.
Pass it on – #we’reinittogether
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Learn from the Best
“I love and care about literature, and great writers are our teachers. You’re studying their mind when you read their work.” ~ Natalie Goldberg
Today’s Poem ~ Still Be a Child
Still Be a Child
Victor Hugo
In youthful spirits wild,
Smile, for all beams on thee;
Sport, sing, be still the child,
The flower, the honey-bee.
Bring not the future near,
For Joy too soon declines—
What is man's mission here?
Toil, where no sunlight shines!
Our lot is hard, we know;
From eyes so gayly beaming,
Whence rays of beauty flow,
Salt tears most oft are streaming.
Free from emotions past,
All joy and hope possessing,
With mind in pureness cast,
Sweet ignorance confessing.
Plant, safe from winds and showers,
Heart with soft visions glowing,
In childhood's happy hours
A mother's rapture showing.
Loved by each anxious friend,
No carking care within—
When summer gambols end,
My winter sports begin.
Sweet poesy from heaven
Around thy form is placed,
A mother's beauty given,
By father's thought is graced!
Seize, then, each blissful second,
Live, for joy sinks in night,
And those whose tale is reckoned,
Have had their days of light.
Then, oh! before we part,
The poet's blessing take,
Ere bleeds that aged heart,
Or child the woman make.
🌞 Today’s Inspiration ~ The Storm Will Pass
“Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.”
~ Robert H. Schuller
Today’s Smile 😃
Ken: “I got fired from my job as a taxi driver.”
Jen: “Oh no. What happened?”
Ken: “My riders didn’t like it when I tried to go the extra mile.”
👊 Today’s Power Thought ~ Good Things are Coming
I’ll get by. I’ll adjust, adapt, and keep on moving. Good things are coming my way.
