(It's a Billy Blanks Workout Video for kids.) Works like a charm!!
is a foundation for sharing our aliveness and building a more humane world.
~Martin Lowenthal
How do you show compassion for others? It's nearly Thanksgiving... think about how you can show compassion to those around you.
I know I whine a lot about our personal circumstances, but when it comes down to it, we really do have it pretty good. A family, a beautiful home, jobs (whether we like them or not is besides the point) food, health... You know, when it comes down to it, things could be a lot worse.
Reach out to someone in your life that's struggling right now. Especially with the Holiday season approaching us. Invite them for dinner, bake them a cake, send them a card, whatever is in your means. Show them some compassion and help to build a more humane world.
Today is Wise Wednesday and have I got a good one for you!
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Are you proactive in keeping up with your monthly Breast exams? These young Boys Scouts are helping to promote the early detection of Breast Cancer. How might you ask?? Well, you'll just have to see for yourself... (trust me, you wont want to miss this one!)
Yikes. I wonder what kind of patch they earn for that!?
(I especially liked the one talking about using the correct technique, waving his hands in circles and pinching his fingers together. LMAO!!!!!!!!!!)
Holding onto anger is like grasping hot coal with the intention of throwing it at someone else.... 
In the end,
YOU are the one getting burned!
Let it go.
To: YOU
Date: TODAY
From: GOD
Subject: YOURSELF
Reference: LIFE
This is God. Today I will be handling all of your problems for you. I do not need your help so, have a nice day. I love you.
P.S. Remember...
If life happens to deliver a situation to you that you cannot handle, do not attempt to resolve it yourself!! Kindly put it in the SFGTD (something for God to do) box. I will get to it in MY TIME. All situations will be resolved, but in my time, not yours.
Once the matter is placed into the box, do not hold onto it by worrying about it. Instead, focus on all the wonderful things that are present in your life now.
Should you decide to share this with a friend, thank you. You may have touched their life in ways you will never know!
Now, you have a nice day.
God
Okay, so I think I've gotten everything fixed as far as the look of the blog is concerned. Please leave me a comment if the sidebar isn't back where it's supposed to be.
On a different note, Christopher was indeed barred from playing football due to his grades. (Well, the F in particular.) I've been shooting emails and phone calls all week back and forth to the school counselor and his teachers. Things are bad. My usually chatty son is withdrawn and depressed in the classroom. They are all very worried about him and the School Counselor strongly urges us to get him some professional help. Yikes. That's something a mother never wants to hear. Football was his last joy in life and I'm extremely worried now that he can't play things are going to take a spiral dive downward.
He has been through a lot this year, and I suppose I like to put my blinders on and pretend none of it effected him. Alas, it's not working. I must face the reality. How do you get a 12 yr old to understand that it's not his fault that his biological father wanted nothing to do with him? Why the "father's" family pretends he doesn't exist. Why he'll never get a chance to ask his "father" these questions himself someday? Why he was left out of the Obituary when his "father" died over the summer? These things will forever scar my son. I cannot even begin to tell you how much I'd really like to kick that man's ass for what he's inexplicably done to my child's mental health. Is that wrong of me to want to kick a dead man's ass? lol
On a good note:
After a 14 week break due to a shoulder injury, my hubby will HOPEFULLY be released from restrictions today! He's doing very well and we're hoping and praying the surgeon releases him. YAY!!!!!!!!! I'm tired of money being tight and all the stress that comes along with that.
Gah- this has been the crappiest year.
And finally, I'll leave you with some Wise Wednesday wisdom:
"Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that was left out by mistake."
~Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by A.A. Milne
Hahaha! This made me laugh. See, just when you think you're down in the dumps... remember, it could always be worse. You could be like this man and literally be down in the shiter.
I love the following quote...
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.
~Leo Buscaglia
Now if only I could apply it to my current life situation, things would be so much better.
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