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Gail Danny'S Mum

  • Joined:August '08
  • Location:Livingston
  • Age:41
  • Last Online:5 days ago

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A Few Thoughts From Me...

I am not sure who and what God is, I am not sure if our lives are predetermined or otherwise, I am not sure which religion is right or wrong, I am not sure why things happen as they do and I am not sure about the meaning of life. . .

But I do know this…that it is essential, while searching for the meaning, to do so in a way that one can always say ’yes’ to life and find joy in the present moment. Amidst the ups and downs of our existence and even in the decline of life, there can be moments of eternal happiness during the uncertainties and the mundane aspects of living, if we accept and give ourselves to its transience, its contingency and its ‘brightness‘.

There was a time in mid-seventeenth-century Amsterdam when the leading painters of the day caught and expressed, better than anyone had ever done before, a kind of stillness and perfection and rapture in the midst of ordinary secular life. A young woman stands by the window reading a letter; a maidservant bends over a child in the tiled courtyard behind a house and a patient governess teaches a rather slow child to read. Look more closely and there are moments when just light fills us with rapture…when the beauty of the visual field is overwhelming…and times when just ordinary life seems religiously ultimate and in no need of any external justification.

An insight of this kind comes to us now and again. Ordinariness is contingent and fleeting and yet there are moments when it seems ultimate and just right as it is.

And right in the middle of an ordinary life…if we pause, breath in deeply and reflect for a moment, we realise that these ordinary, yet quite extraordinary human moments, fill our soul with love and peace and despite everything, help us feel able to continue and say ‘yes‘ to life.

Gail



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THE FRIENDSHIP ROSE::::::::::::::

JUST LIKE A ROSE SO PRECIOUS AND RARE,
IS THE FOREVER FRIENDSHIP THE TWO OF US SHARE.

PLANTED WITH KINDNESS, IT IS WARMED BY THE SUN,
OF CARING AND SHARING LAUGHTER AND FUN.

ITS GROUND IN TRUST AND NURTURED BY LOVE,
WITH A SPRINKLING OF GRACE FROM GOD UP ABOVE.

TEARS OF SADNESS AND JOYLIKE DEW,
RENEW THIS FRIENDSHIP, I SHARE WITH YOU.

THANK YOU FOR BEING A WONDERFUL FRIEND.
LOTS OF LOVE LINDA.XXX
HAVE A GOOD WEEKEND.XXX

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Yesterday afternoon

♥~*~SPECIAL LOVE AND HUGS FOR MY DEAR FRIEND~*~♥

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LOVE ALWAYS LIZ XXX

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TAKE CARE LOVE MARGO XX

Thursday evening

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lots of love linda.xxx

Thursday midday

Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ✿ܓƸ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ✿ܓƸ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ✿ܓƸ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ✿ܓ

If the eyes had no tears,
the soul would have no rainbow.
(Native American Proverb)

Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ✿ܓƸ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ✿ܓƸ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ✿ܓƸ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ✿ܓ

Love to you Gail ~ love Hazel xxx

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