Wild flower, beautiful you are The wilderness your home is A blanket the sky becomes Wild flower, beautiful you are You never give up You never stop trying Your best you always give Your beauty you always share Once I met you before And never my mind you left Beautiful flower you are Wild flower, happiness to me you are Copyright 2020 Ricardo and JoJo My Unique Stories.com
Today’s Words of Wisdom
Knowledge helps you live wisely and to share to others.
A New Day
Today is a brand new day, we can either choose to move forward or get stuck in the past. The choice is ours to make.
But, does it mean that once we decide to move forward we forget the past? Not exactly. We should learn from our past, but do not let it control us. We are shaped by anything that happens to us, but we also have the power to not let us control the rest of our lives.
Sometimes moving past certain moments from our our lives is not easy. They seem to have a hold on us, they seem to want to control us. Never give into those moments, look for the good that can come out of it, and if you see that you need assistance, then look for someone who can help. Never be ashamed to look for help.
Once you are able to move past those moments, that’s when you can see that it’s a brand new day, one that it’s full of possibilities and one that can fill you with happiness. Never forget that you are worth it, never forget that you will be ok.
Never give up and always move forward. A new day will always come.
Today’s Adage
Laziness is limiting yourself in the four corners of walls.
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Beauty Inside the Shadow
As we go through life, we find ourselves many times crossing some shadows, sometimes they are scary, sometimes they are not, but we often see them as something that we do not want to enter. Is it fine to try to avoid them? Is it fine to be afraid of them?
Life will always be a mixture of light and shadow, of happiness and sadness, but it is this mixture that makes us who we are. We should not fear the shadow, we might even find some beauty inside of it.
Look at this picture for example. There is a rainbow that we can see on the shadows due to the light interacting with the water. In the same way we can find something positive on our shadows if we let our light, our family and friends, become our support.
If you ever find yourself in a situation that looks dark, looks for the rainbow inside of it, look for the positive on it. It is not an easy thing to do, and it takes a lot of work to get to this level, but it is worth it. If we can see the beauty inside the shadow, we will be able to overcome adversity with a better attitude, which in turn will reduce our stress.
Work on your thinking and make it to a point where thinking positive is automatic, where looking for a rainbow in any situation is part of who you are. Never give up and continue moving forward with everything you got.
God’s Love
Lord in my darkest time you are my flickering light
Lord in my despairing moments you are my hope
When my knees are weary and weak you send your angles to lift me up
In times of despondent and loneliness you send your Holy Spirit to give me life once more.
When I run out of ideas, you send many
When I complain of overwhelming problems you pointed me to your cross
When the battle is hard and knowing I am lost, you send your soldiers to fight with me
When laughter seems far off
You shine your face upon me
When I feel I am unloved you reminded me that your love is greater and unending
Reminding me always that your awesome love is shown as you die on the cross.
You save us and you want us to be victorious in our adversities.
There should NOT be complaining, but thankfulness of what wonderful Lord you are.
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A Morning’s Cup of Coffee
I find myself waking up to the warm embrace of the sun light, reminding me that it’s a new day and it’s time to get up, which I start to do as fast as my still half sleep body and mind let me do.
The first order of business is getting myself a cup of coffee; without it I probably would just sit across from the TV and staring blankly at it. Mind you, the TV is off, but my mind probably would not register it.
I await patiently, or as patient as I can be, for the coffee to be prepared, but once it’s ready I go for it without any hesitation and start to drink it, slowly, and this starts to wake up my mind.
Today it’s Saturday, so no need to worry about getting ready for work, the kids, or anything that usually needs to be taken care of during weekdays. Today is relaxation day!
With my cup of coffee in my hand I proceed to the living room to find my favorite spot on the couch. Am I going to look for news? Of course not, today I take a brake from that too and instead find something that I can stream from my online services. Will it be the new movie that my friend told, or how about the next episode of my favorite show?
Finally I decide that I will watch the next episode of one of my favorite series, something that should take around half an hour to do, which would be enough time for my stomach to also wake up and ask me for some food.
Once the show is over, I proceed to the kitchen and open the refrigerator. I decide on making some sunny side eggs with some toasted bread for breakfast, with some milk to enjoy it more.
It is at this moment that I hear noises coming from the rest of the house; it seems they are awake. This signals the end of my quiet time, but it will be replaced with laugher and company.
What would the rest of the day be? Will it be a relaxation time? Will it have some activities that need to be taken care of which I probably don’t know about it? It probably would be a combination of all.
Whatever the day bring I know that it would be a happy day, a day to make
more memories to those that I love.
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Moods
Mood is like a swing
It swings back and forth
It is like a see saw
It goes up and down
He who loses control of its fury, fails
He who controls its anger conquered the greatest foe within
We can choose to be sad or happy
We can choose to be kind or generous
We can choose to practice patience
We can choose to be pessimistic or optimistic
God gives us the free will to do things, but we are given guidelines to follow
It is up to us to decide which to follow
We may encounter hardships but going through it
Has its own prize only we keep doing what is right.
Never stop doing what is good but it starts in our mind
When we think of good consequently good deeds come into place.
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A Friend
She was thirteen years old and freshman. The school just began for the school year. She entered the school classroom finding seats, looking at the classmates they were seated on their respective chairs with right side wide tablet arm desk. Everybody was wearing their uniforms. The skirts were covering the knees. She found a seat available at the back. She slowly walked toward the seat and sat down. Everyone was introducing each other and knowing each other. When she found a seat, she sat down and put her school stuffs on her desk.
Behind her seat was another student who introduced herself: Hi I am Anne. What was your name? I am Kikay. The two got to know each other well on the first day of school. They went to lunch together.
Anne and Kikay had some common things they liked. Both liked to sing so they joined the choir. The choir they joined was assigned to sing every 10:00 A.M. mass. Sometimes they were invited to sing as performers on town festivities.
When Anne and Kikay had misunderstanding they wrote on a small piece of paper apologizing each other of the mistakes or wrong that was done. Because of their humility the friendship continued. During lunch time they ate together and sometimes shared their foods.
One day Kikay’s father was sick and was in and out of the hospital. Kikay shared to Anne of the conditioned of her dad. How she was so sad to see her dad being in the hospital. Anne was very supportive of Kikay and tried to be there and comfort her. One day Kikay’s father passed away. Anne stood there to console Kikay of her loss. Then one day Anne lost her father due to a car accident. It was Kikay’s turn to give consolation to Anne. Their friendship was tested with different events in their lives, but they had true friendship.
When they graduated from high school, they had not seen each other after high school. They went in a different university. Anne went with her mother moved to a different place and started a new life because of her dad’s passing away. Her mom had to venture something else to support the family.
Many years had gone by, so they had not seen each other. Then one day Anne came to Kikay’s house looking for her. But during her visit, Kikay was out of town. It was Kikay’s brother that told Anne that Kikay went out of town and that she will be back in 2 weeks. When Kikay came back home, her brother told her that her friend Anne came by and was looking for her. Two weeks had gone by, Anne did not come back to see Kikay. Kikay had left the country for a job and tried to fulfill the dream career.
It was years that had gone by, before they finally see each other. That was when Kikay came back to the country to visit her family. By the time they met again, both had different careers. They shared their experiences and keeping in touch from time to time ever since. They were very thankful of the good friendship they shared.
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