Thursday, July 30, 2015
Life: Instruction Manual...
Life: Instruction Manual...: "It's not failure, its practice"... I can remember my mother telling me that life, spouses, children and just about anythin...
Instruction Manual...
"It's not failure, its practice"...
I can remember my mother telling me that life, spouses, children and just about anything we are going to experience here on earth does not come with a "instruction manual"... And gosh was she so right...
I do think tho that life is never a failure its just a point where we are practicing to either get better, do better, think better or just plain life.
I don't know about you but these thoughts really make me sit back and think about my own life.
I really wish my kids had came with an instruction manual, but I feel as tho I did a pretty amazing job of raising the most awesome kids. Or so I am a little biased. No one is perfect and if not for some failure's along the way the end result may not have been such a good outcome.
I think we all have to learn to deal with the guilt we carry.... GUILT is NOT our fault, it's all practice.
I know I harbor so much guilt, I feel as if I could have been a better wife, a better mother, a better employee, better at taking care of myself, but you know this life is all just a practice mode. A practice to strive to get it all right so when we do hit a failure we will stop and realize it was just that "practice" and this practice will help teach us to do better and hopefully not fail.
Failure is just simply a part of life. That is why each and everyone of us on this earth is different, difficult, loving and failures. Because God created us to be failures or we would be just that "GOD" and no one is GOD. (Even tho some people seem to think they are)...
I like to think that all of my failures have been a practice mode for me to move on with my life and strive harder to be all that I can be. No matter what kind of illness has strapped my physical body with. I may have Gastroparesis, COPD, Fibromyalgia, menopausal, a broken back and neck but you know what I am ALIVE.... It's that praise enough???
So I guess my Mom & Dad didn't get an instruction manual when they raised my brother, sister and I. Was it hard for them?? "Hell yes" is it hard for anyone "Hell Yes"...but you know when you children stare back at you once they are grown and the love in their eyes and the tears in their eyes knowing that we (parents) are human and our lives are short here on earth gives us all a sense of gratitude. (Or at least I know I have felt this great sense of accomplishment, and gratitude from my kids)... My kids may not be doctors, lawyers, but they are happy and they are thriving and they are carving out their nitch in this world.
Just because we are old does not mean we have to stop "carving out our nitch" in this world. Nothing is ever perfect, in fact we all face failures. I know I have faced so many different failures that I have come to realize that well life is just that "life"....
So I guess I have decided every since I choose to attempt to take my life that I was going to make major changes and that I have done. I am not going to let anyone stop me. Maybe I can't do the things that I wished I could do, or things that I did when I was young, but you know there is a lot of life left inside of me. I just need to unleash it. So I go to Planet Fitness daily and work out to help my body feel better, I sing to help my voice and heart feel better, I attend church to help me feel closer to God, I read to open up my mind to life that is out there.... I drive simply to show stoooopid people how to drive. I am a great mother, a great wife, a great employee, a great lover of GOD, and so on. Because if you can't believe in yourself then who will?
Now go out there today without the "instruction manual" and remember failure is just that failure, but it is a way towards practice.
Keep Smiling
Carla
I can remember my mother telling me that life, spouses, children and just about anything we are going to experience here on earth does not come with a "instruction manual"... And gosh was she so right...
I do think tho that life is never a failure its just a point where we are practicing to either get better, do better, think better or just plain life.
I don't know about you but these thoughts really make me sit back and think about my own life.
I really wish my kids had came with an instruction manual, but I feel as tho I did a pretty amazing job of raising the most awesome kids. Or so I am a little biased. No one is perfect and if not for some failure's along the way the end result may not have been such a good outcome.
I think we all have to learn to deal with the guilt we carry.... GUILT is NOT our fault, it's all practice.
I know I harbor so much guilt, I feel as if I could have been a better wife, a better mother, a better employee, better at taking care of myself, but you know this life is all just a practice mode. A practice to strive to get it all right so when we do hit a failure we will stop and realize it was just that "practice" and this practice will help teach us to do better and hopefully not fail.
Failure is just simply a part of life. That is why each and everyone of us on this earth is different, difficult, loving and failures. Because God created us to be failures or we would be just that "GOD" and no one is GOD. (Even tho some people seem to think they are)...
I like to think that all of my failures have been a practice mode for me to move on with my life and strive harder to be all that I can be. No matter what kind of illness has strapped my physical body with. I may have Gastroparesis, COPD, Fibromyalgia, menopausal, a broken back and neck but you know what I am ALIVE.... It's that praise enough???
So I guess my Mom & Dad didn't get an instruction manual when they raised my brother, sister and I. Was it hard for them?? "Hell yes" is it hard for anyone "Hell Yes"...but you know when you children stare back at you once they are grown and the love in their eyes and the tears in their eyes knowing that we (parents) are human and our lives are short here on earth gives us all a sense of gratitude. (Or at least I know I have felt this great sense of accomplishment, and gratitude from my kids)... My kids may not be doctors, lawyers, but they are happy and they are thriving and they are carving out their nitch in this world.
Just because we are old does not mean we have to stop "carving out our nitch" in this world. Nothing is ever perfect, in fact we all face failures. I know I have faced so many different failures that I have come to realize that well life is just that "life"....
So I guess I have decided every since I choose to attempt to take my life that I was going to make major changes and that I have done. I am not going to let anyone stop me. Maybe I can't do the things that I wished I could do, or things that I did when I was young, but you know there is a lot of life left inside of me. I just need to unleash it. So I go to Planet Fitness daily and work out to help my body feel better, I sing to help my voice and heart feel better, I attend church to help me feel closer to God, I read to open up my mind to life that is out there.... I drive simply to show stoooopid people how to drive. I am a great mother, a great wife, a great employee, a great lover of GOD, and so on. Because if you can't believe in yourself then who will?
Now go out there today without the "instruction manual" and remember failure is just that failure, but it is a way towards practice.
Keep Smiling
Carla
Tuesday, July 28, 2015
Life: No one is perfect...
Life: No one is perfect...: “No one is perfect... that's why pencils have erasers.” I really like this quote. I am certainly NOT perfect, so an eraser has came...
No one is perfect...
“No one is perfect... that's why pencils have erasers.”
I really like this quote. I am certainly NOT perfect, so an eraser has came in so very handy for me at different times in my life.
I wish I could use this pencil eraser right now to help erase all of the physical pain that I am feeling and to be able to help others in pain. I read alot about other people on my facebook, my inspire website who hurt daily due to multiple health issues. And I just sometimes really struggle with why God chooses so many good people to battle with daily chronic health issues. However I think it is a way for God to make his shepherds stronger on earth and it prepares us for what is to come. (What ever that may be)...
I do like the concept of a eraser. Could we somehow use this eraser when it comes to our own lives?
There are so many areas of my life I wish I could go back and erase and start over. I am sure everyone feels this way in some sort of way. I would love to erase alot of different things in my past.
My life was never an easy one so erasing certain painful memories would be nice. But you know I understand that my past has molded me into who I am today. And I would never ever want to erase my 3 kids out of my life. They are my everything.
I don't have many regrets (well maybe some), but the regrets are only going to tie you down to a life of wishing when we need to focus our life on what's ahead. I have chosen to try to leave my past in my past. It does have a way of creeping up on me, but I then in turn push it back into my past.
I am truly blessed with so many different things, people, etc in my life. And for these blessings I thank God everyday. I also talk to God everyday about why I have so many different chronic health issues and why me? But I think he has chosen me to help reach out and help others thru their enduring process of health issues. (Simply because I have been there and I have conquered some rough times and yet I have so many trials and tribulations ahead of me)... But I choose to forge ahead with my husband, my family and my God by my side.
So how would you like to erase things from your past, present of future?
I would certainly love to erase things such as: Walmart (there really is no need to be exposed to people in their pajamas and slippers to get the cheapest items they can get) sorry if you love Walmart,
animal abusers, children abusers, the auto lights that come on your car's dashboard, flat tires, grocery shopping (you think they could come up with a much better than, than having to go thru the store pick up food, take home, put away and some of it becomes a science experiment because you forgot you bought it and it is in the back of the fridge, morning alarm clocks, lack of siestas in america, push 2 for frikkin english, and so I am sure I can come up with so many more pet peeves. But you know these pet peeves is what makes the world go around.
I think if I could really use an eraser for the good it would be to erase, chronic & or terminally ill diseases. Boy wouldn't that be wonderful. (Except I have meet some wonderful people from my chronic illness).
I really need an eraser today trying to type up this blog, I can not type today... so here's to a large ERASER for everyone's life. Just don't erase the good parts..
Keep Smiling
Carla
I really like this quote. I am certainly NOT perfect, so an eraser has came in so very handy for me at different times in my life.
I wish I could use this pencil eraser right now to help erase all of the physical pain that I am feeling and to be able to help others in pain. I read alot about other people on my facebook, my inspire website who hurt daily due to multiple health issues. And I just sometimes really struggle with why God chooses so many good people to battle with daily chronic health issues. However I think it is a way for God to make his shepherds stronger on earth and it prepares us for what is to come. (What ever that may be)...
I do like the concept of a eraser. Could we somehow use this eraser when it comes to our own lives?
There are so many areas of my life I wish I could go back and erase and start over. I am sure everyone feels this way in some sort of way. I would love to erase alot of different things in my past.
My life was never an easy one so erasing certain painful memories would be nice. But you know I understand that my past has molded me into who I am today. And I would never ever want to erase my 3 kids out of my life. They are my everything.
I don't have many regrets (well maybe some), but the regrets are only going to tie you down to a life of wishing when we need to focus our life on what's ahead. I have chosen to try to leave my past in my past. It does have a way of creeping up on me, but I then in turn push it back into my past.
I am truly blessed with so many different things, people, etc in my life. And for these blessings I thank God everyday. I also talk to God everyday about why I have so many different chronic health issues and why me? But I think he has chosen me to help reach out and help others thru their enduring process of health issues. (Simply because I have been there and I have conquered some rough times and yet I have so many trials and tribulations ahead of me)... But I choose to forge ahead with my husband, my family and my God by my side.
So how would you like to erase things from your past, present of future?
I would certainly love to erase things such as: Walmart (there really is no need to be exposed to people in their pajamas and slippers to get the cheapest items they can get) sorry if you love Walmart,
animal abusers, children abusers, the auto lights that come on your car's dashboard, flat tires, grocery shopping (you think they could come up with a much better than, than having to go thru the store pick up food, take home, put away and some of it becomes a science experiment because you forgot you bought it and it is in the back of the fridge, morning alarm clocks, lack of siestas in america, push 2 for frikkin english, and so I am sure I can come up with so many more pet peeves. But you know these pet peeves is what makes the world go around.
I think if I could really use an eraser for the good it would be to erase, chronic & or terminally ill diseases. Boy wouldn't that be wonderful. (Except I have meet some wonderful people from my chronic illness).
I really need an eraser today trying to type up this blog, I can not type today... so here's to a large ERASER for everyone's life. Just don't erase the good parts..
Keep Smiling
Carla
Friday, July 24, 2015
Life: Believe in magic...
Life: Believe in magic...: “Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.” I don't know about you but I truly believe in magic. Believing is what m...
Believe in magic...
“Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
I don't know about you but I truly believe in magic. Believing is what makes us all unique and yet similar. But you have got to believe in magic to survive this world and hope you find magic in something.
I do truly believe in a lot of different things. My mind is way more "open" than others. I do not think straight down one specific path, and so I do believe that this way of thinking is what makes me unique and this can also make everyone unique.
Wouldn't it be really odd if we all believed the same things the same way? Boy it would be boring. Kind of like the movies where they make robots and these robots all think the same, look the same and therefore life would always be the same. For me, I like to think that robots are a good thing (don't get me wrong), but God intended all of us to have our own free will, our own free minds, our own ways of believing and therefore our culture on this earth makes us all unique and that is what makes the (earth) merry go round, continue to go around and around and around. (p.s. don't get dizzy)..
What kind of magic can you stop and think about that would make you realize you may never ever achieve this magic? I like to think that magic comes in many different forms. It can just simply be the magic of finding a single beautiful flower amongst weeds, or the morning dew hovering over the ground with the sunshine peeking down on it. Or this magic could be well "Magic Johnson" and his dream of basketball. Or the world cup soccer players that achieved their magic of winning.
I guess we should never ever stop believing in magic because it does exist. It exists in all of us. We all have a little bit of magic inside and so that is why we get a little giddy when we see the castle at "Disneyland"... or watch the movie Cinderella with your kids, grand kids, and so forth, and we all stop to believe in the magic of the glass slipper and she gets to fit in that shoe and become the princess.
Oh wouldn't that be so lovely to fit into a glass slipper that could grant us our biggest magical wish and seeing it come true? I know I would love for those kind of magical moments. Its just society has driven some of us to become harsh, quiet, reserved, robotic like and therefore we all loose our one true passion in life and that is to "believe"
So I choose to "believe" in magic because that way I can find it in my present and in my future. Because I really don't want life to just pass by me and I don't take a hold of the reigns and venture off into a magical world. (Ok, I know I have to work, I have to clean, do laundry, cook, feed my dog - oh yeah all of those wonderful daily tasks we all must press onward and do) but it doesn't mean we can't still yearn and strive for those magical moments and simply "believe" in whatever wish you dare to wish for. (I know I have many dreams)
So stop today and take a moment to believe in the world of magic so you can find some of it in your life.
Keep Smiling
Carla
P.S. If you don't believe then don't read this post
Thursday, July 23, 2015
Life: Every moment...
Life: Every moment...: “Every moment holds the potential to cause us to see differently.” I know I have experienced a lot of moments that have made me sit back...
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