Wednesday, August 3, 2011

MIRACLES



Miracles

I have found an inordinate amount of pennies at the weirdest times and locations. When my husband suddenly died after 31 years of marriage. My life forever changed. I was devastated. We did everything together, so where was he now? Once I told him that when I find a shiny penny, I pick it up, kiss it, look to heaven, and say "Thanks, GOD. I guess he was listening that day. Several days after he died, I returned to my empty tiny home all alone turned down the bed covers. On my pillow was the shiniest new penny I have ever seen! I knew exactly what it meant. He knew I loved him dearly he wanted me to know he was okay. The next morning, I put my feet over the side of the bed and took a step. Something felt cold under my foot. There was a penny stuck on the bottom of my bare foot! I knew he was proud of me for trying to work. My last message was when I packed to go out of town on the one year anniversary of his death, and wondered if leaving town was cowardly. When I picked up my bags, a penny had appeared on the bed between them. Then I knew I was going with his blessing. It is so like my husband to find ways to comfort me. Some of his gift pennies are now on his grave marker. I kiss them and move them between the letters in his name each time I visit. I will love him forever. I hope he knows that. I sometimes think I catch a whiff of his aftershave (musk) when I find these pennies everywhere.


My brother passed away couple weeks ago..... I was left in complete shock... he had come to visit me a few days before. I was sooo sad I wasn't home--He had not seen me in a while but wanted to see how much weight I had lost. Asked for a sign…. “So I said” Show up on my window sill as a bird or throw some pennies at me... just something... So days later I was at my job when two new pennies suddenly appeared on the desk.... at that moment I felt a sense of relief that he was with  me...I do not know how else those pennies got  there or how they could have appeared…


HUMM--were these are magic pennies....


I believe in pennies from heaven....


DREAMS

     DREAMS

While going after your dreams it is certain you will meet discouragement, rejection, failure disappointing, grief and pain as you go forth happily to deal and dance with our most hated intangible enemies to advance progress toward the glorious future we envision. A price must be paid for you to make the great crossover, to bring forth the vision that has held the attention of your minds eye for so long. And if you dare not just to dream but to dream larger than your imagination has done before and willingly pay any price and bear any burden, having courageously done so will cross that great divide, the abyss separating mediocrity and greatness, dreams and reality. Certainly with your tenacious effort, the grace of God will take you farther than you ever thought possible and with his holy help it shall be so.


PENNIES FROM HEAVEN

PENNIES FROM HEAVEN

Raising my right hand --When in doubt, tell the truth. I Wait for PENNIES FROM HEAVEN. They say when an angel misses you; they toss a penny down from heaven. Sadly, not everyone knows how much truth there is in this old adage. But I do. In my deepest depair -- I heard a metallic sound and looked down and there it was a shinny new penny on the back it said in GOD WE TRUST I only Seeking your support and encouragement along the way. Help me bring back that spark the strength, courage, and persistence I had before cancer. Am genuinely grateful to have found my voice here. The quest that is our lives is finite. It's ever changing ... and This above all: To thine own self be true, No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted this I know~~ . No matter the fragility of your life, your vulnerability to external forces that can, at any time, take away your joy and happiness, there will be moments of happiness. Whether it is like the person who walks through the concentration camp offering comfort or a last piece of bread. Blessed are those people who have grand memories of many loved ones during the holidays yet they are no longer with us. Sure, I know and fully understand your tears I've cried every one, don't we all carry a certain amount of sadness with us in our heart. I have my share of experiencing such deprivation, humiliation and isolation–however, it is somewhat comforting to know that moments of happiness can exist in such times and, therefore, during our own trials and tribulations. It is being open to such moments of happiness, peacefulness, joy, calmness and excitement that make life worth sharing with others like you.

What's happened to me has been experienced by THOUSANDS… These hostile circumstances that pour in to all of us every single day. ...  “What am I doing wrong?” “Why is this happening to me”? “What can I do about it?  Please don't try to sugar coat the agony, trauma, devastation that comes from being poor in USA -- WE SUFFER GREATLY on both physical or emotional levels. I know first hand how not having healthcare --proper foods can rack the body with diseases. We are not alone. We are not the first people to try and figure out the meaning of life or how to live a good life. When you have lived for more than 54 years, there are hundreds of other people who have helped you become who you are. Some of them teach you what you need to learn. Others teach you, through their examples, of what not to do. Each provides an opportunity of acquiring or recognizing life kinda like a blue print.. What we each control most are our attitudes and how we go about the rigors of life in spite is due. If it is our attitude that determines our altitude, as suggested by a wise person once, then the choice to either sink or swim or to levitate and rise above the drama and succeed at all cost is ours alone. Oh this is deep my friend but so true. Yet there’s not the least thing can be said or done, but people will talk and find fault in all humans