Comments on: The Places You’ll Go

By: Roz

Roz — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 10:37:36 +0000

I hope that you are feeling better about the setback now. This year has been one setback after another for us and I have started to learn that I can only live for today as I have no idea what the future will bring (and I am the kind of person who likes everything to be planned out ahead!)

Thank you for reminding me to be thankful for the many things I can be thankful for each day. I am doing that daily and, together with living in the present, it is helping me to feel much more positive.

I hope that you’ll feel better very soon and that you’ll have a wonderful Christmas.

Best wishes,

Roz

By: Cathie

Cathie — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 02:24:40 +0000

I don’t know what your bad news is but just remember that God is still on the throne, he is still working things out for the good for us – our eternal good. We can never be righteous in our own strength, or work to earn salvation – it is the gift of God. We are righteous only through Christ who paid the price for our sin. God Bless You.

By: Anna

Anna — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 22:39:08 +0000

Bless you – you sound like you have a lot of thoughts running through you at the moment.

Take care, I have no words of wisdom but there are some fabulous ones from the comments above.

Anna x

By: cherrie

cherrie — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:01:32 +0000

Proverbs 3:5,6

By: rachel

rachel — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:38:24 +0000

i’m sorry you had bad news.

my friend is very wise, and very zen, and whenever i start to worry like this he stops me in my tracks (often literally) and says “you are exactly where you need to be RIGHT NOW. every choice you have made, every thing that has happened to you has brought you to this point. you can’t change them. so rejoice in the “now” and look forward, place one foot in front of the other and embrace what the universe is offering you.”
i hope his words of wisdom bless you the way they have blessed me in the past. remember who “knows the plans” he has for you – plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to bring you a hope and a future…

By: Kathryn

Kathryn — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:03:52 +0000

Oh I’m so so sorry. Please don’t be hard on yourself, I am sure with each decision you made it was made with the best of intentions. You show such strength and character through your words and actions. I think your philosophy in life is inspriational and motivational.

Blessings to you!!!

By: mo

mo — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:00:47 +0000

only today was I revisiting the ideas that a book, that has never left me, brought into my life. One – is that you make the best choices you can at the time, and this is all you can do. You can’t do two different things and compare them because you have this one life. Two – we make our choices, not necessarily by logic but often by what this author called ‘Poetic Thought’ something or other will ring true to you because it makes Poetic sense. For example, a character in the book, falls in love, because she meets someone at six o clock on the dot when her favourite piece of music is playing. Six is a number she likes because she grew up in a house that was number 6 in the street. She may have fallen in love despite this, but this makes it makes sense to her. We all live our own Life Poems. Ah. Life eh. Its what we do with the cards we are dealt. We do the best we can. We make it beautiful the best we can. We cope the best we can. xx

By: M

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:16:07 +0000

I’m so sorry for your setback, I hope things improve quickly. Yet again I am amazed at the grace by which you live and write.

By: Sandy L

Sandy L — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:08:00 +0000

It’s natural to lose perspective once in a while and obsess about what we haven’t accomplished instead of what we have.

I recently went through a funk primarily driven by one aspect of my life. I decided to write down what I had accomplished this year despite my funkiness. It was a big list. It surprised me..and l felt much better afterwards. One bad event or person can overshadow all the other positive things in your life that are great and that you do well.

Lastly, I agree with the feeling thankful thing. It only takes a moment to think about people in developing countries who are struggling to put food on the table to know how lucky we are. My mom grew up hungry, malnourished and cold. I was never any of those things and am so thankful for that.

By: Frugal Trenches

Frugal Trenches — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:57:05 +0000

Those are very wise words Molly, thank you for sharing them!