Sunday Sayings . . .

Found on Google Images.

 “ Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow. ”

~ Melody Beattie

Sunday Sayings . . .

This one really strikes a chord with me and I plan to read it over and over again . . .

Making it Happen

Stop trying so hard to make it happen.
Stop doing so much, if doing so much is wearing you out or not achieving the desired results.
Stop thinking so much and so hard about it.  Stop worrying so about it.
Stop trying to force, to manipulate, to coerce, or to make it happen.

Making things happen is controlling.  We can take positive action to help things happen.
We can do our part.  But many of us do much more than our part.
We overstep the boundaries from caring and doing our part into controlling, caretaking and coercing.

Controlling is self-defeating.  It doesn't work.
By over-extending ourselves to make something happen, we may actually be stopping it from happening.

Do your part in relaxed, peaceful harmony. 
Then let it go.
Just let it go.
Force yourself to let it go, if necessary.  "Act as if."
Put as much energy into letting go as you have into trying to control.  You'll get much better results.

It may not happen.  It may not happen the way we wanted it to and hoped it would. 
But our controlling wouldn't have made it happen either.

Learn to let things happen because that's what they'll do anyway.
And while we're waiting to see what happens, we'll be happier and so will those around us.



Taken from "The Language of Letting Go" by Melody Beattie
Image from Google Images


Many blessings for a happy and peaceful Sunday ~ Wendy

Sunday Sayings . . .

Accepting Change . . .

The winds of change blow through our life, sometimes gently,

sometimes like a tropical storm. Yes, we have resting places -

time to adjust to another level of living, time to get our balance,

time to enjoy the rewards. We have time to catch our breath.

But change is inevitable, and desirable.

Sometimes, when the winds of change begin to rustle, we're

not certain the change is for the better. We may call it stress

or a temporary condition, certain we'll be restored to normal.

Sometimes, we resist. We tuck our head down and buck the

wind, hoping that things will quickly calm down, get back to the

way things were. Is it possible we're being prepared for a new

"normal"?

Change will sweep through our life, as needed, to take us where

we're going. We can trust that our Higher Power (God) has a

plan in mind, even when we don't know where the changes are

leading.

We can trust that the change taking place is good. The winds

will take us where we need to go.

~ From "The Language of Letting Go" by Melody Beattie

Many blessings ~ Wendy