The joy of life lies in a grateful heart.One who learns to see good in everything,everyone and every circumstance lives counting blessings.No matter who or where you are in your life today. Gratitude increases joy and diminishes pain,guaranteed! Patience,Persistence and Practice of the few simple gratitude laws brings one to unimagined Peace. The byproduct of a grateful heart.
Thursday, May 27, 2010
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
LOVE CAN BE THE VISION.
Today was a day when discord was just a byproduct of music. Agreements followed the creative law of accepting disagreements without reservation, as facts. And love was experienced as love.
Love is love; it cannot be qualified in the realm of being untrue. Love does not exist in the wrong.
If you need to question if it’s true or untrue then know it’s not love.
Intention and motive can be untrue.
Not love.
Love is just love. It needs no qualifying adjective.
Love is love.
It lets you be the real you.
It does not judge.
Its stands by you in the U turn of life.
It puts you before self.
It understands and empathizes.
In love, hopes lives unflinching.
It never slanders.
It does not distrust when tough times visit.
Your happiness is the vessel in which it is enclosed.
It books no blame, knowing that blame is a tough cookie; which neither crumbles nor tastes good, ever!
Love is just love.
It craves no qualification or categorization.
It looks for no title or medal.
It seeks only peace for the loved one and rests its dreams there.
I saw a vision of love and Today, I lived completely.
Love always
Joscelyn
Thursday, May 20, 2010
FEAR! MY CHAMPION. MY FRIEND.
Harrowing emotional days popped up every other day.
I should stop.
Many painful physical conditions challenged me sometimes morning, sometimes night.
I could stop.
Fear gripped the mental faculty on seldom occasions but the time it did it left me horrified.
I can stop.
But sanity reigned with a conscience choice
to think differently and
do things in my own way that being
one step at a time,
one day at a time.
Each day I dressed up and showed up for 20 days.
By the goodness of God ….
TODAY I AM a HOLDER OF AN INTERNATIONAL DRIVING LICENCE.
Just 6 months short of my lucky birthday 55/55.
2010 is my kind of year.
Challenging situations and full of ups and downs is a life worth living.
I realized as the day unfolds and things happen and
if I slow down I can see that
every situation is a way to find out who I am.
If things are going my way how does that make me feel,
how do I react and
what is my behavior in such an environment.
What is my personality when mud wheels turn
spitting its delights with no concern
for me or my sensibilities and sensitivities?
How does the moment tick when I am blamed for something I did not do?
What is my mind gripped with at a time like this?
Life talks, life lives, life is present always,
but am I present in the present?
Open your mind to the wonders of what life has to offer
and let it impact your life and affect your thinking.
Years ago I took to heart the saying “Do it afraid”.
It was a great step forward to know that
you don’t have to be brave first and act later.
Everything does not have to be right before
you endeavor or embark on a project.
You just have to do it !
I did!
Yes, I am on my feet.
It’s true you heard right fear can be zapped right out of existence.
Here is how you can do it.
Make fear your friend when it knocks asks questions…
Be persistent if it’s persistent.
Don’t back down…stare it in the eye.
Don’t blink.
You are in charge, do not freeze or it will lead you by the nose.
Fear, is my Champion, my friend when I ……..
F…..Follow my belief
E…..Enact my faith
A…..Accept and dwell in the
R…..Righteousness of God
Love always
Joscelyn
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
HOW TO 'PLAY SPOILSPORT' WHEN THE CHIPS ARE DOWN
Go ahead and Trust yet again
Laugh another time and yet again
Be at peace once more.
Let nothing tamper with that.
Feel guided for a second time and
let the counting begin.
Recognize you are watched over for all time
Identify you are held in high esteem
Discern you are adored at all times
and in these times more specially
Make great stuff happen
Make more great things happen
Change lives. You changed your own life.
Move mountains and do the impossible
Scared, you will overcome
Knocked down, breathless with shock and disbelief, Know you will rise
Lost? Only to find you are actually at
the threshold of creativity, love and fun.
Do; stay humble amid all this glory!
You have done it before you can do it again!
Spoil the plan of negativity with these steps ……..
There, you are now the
most delightful
and crazy
and lovely spoilsport
to the
era of fear and negativity.
Love always
Joscelyn
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
A PRAYER BY A KNUCKLE HEAD!
Forgive me Lord for the times I do,
but I know not what I am doing.
Be patient with me Lord when
I forget to do what I need to be doing.
Don’t give up on me Lord when
you find me wandering and wondering what to do.
Grace my thoughts now, before that
vacant sign goes up in my eyes.
Shower me with blessings when a drought of ideas floods my mind and threatens to over whelm.
Grant me the peace to know when
it’s going to pieces and when
it’s time to pick up the pieces.
Remind me to laugh again once
the pain subsides and I catch my breath.
Stay by my side as I shave a sliver of life
and try to do better than my best.
Step on the slow motion button if
I trip or stumble and fumble for
want of affirmative thinking.
Yes that’s it Lord,
I can’t think of anything more I can let you do for me.
Amen
“You were on a roll why did you stop….. Knuckle head!”
You said it.
Maybe,I am the Knuckle head!
Love always
Joscelyn
Monday, May 3, 2010
My Realistic Goals – as easy as ABC
Bounce back. Beckon all possibilities.
Cultivate the positive. Call on forward thinking.
Do yourself a favor. Dive into creativity.
Expect change. Exist in today.
Foster good practices. Feel the energy of progress.
Give yourself a break. Go have some fun.
Have kindness in the till always. Hold on to genuineness.
Increase your faith. Imbibe hope in shuttered eyes.
Jump for joy. Jig whenever you want.
Kid around. Keep peace near.
Leave something’s unsaid. Long for nothing.
Make a child smile. Make parents partners in their children’s education.
Never delay a good action. Note what makes you happy.
Open your mind to another perspective. Offer only the viable.
Pull a bunny from a hat. Practice patience & persistent
Quiet the rumble of self doubt. Queue up constructive action.
Return a Smile. Reverse a frown.
Signal negative thoughts to disperse. Savor healthy ones.
Thank your sadness. Take time to laugh.
Unfold the layers of your personality. Uncover your eyes to bliss.
Voice your love. Vote for peace.
When the tick in your heart yells now know it is the time. Wake up to contentment.
X-ray your intentions. X out the mistaken.
Yellow is also a colour. Yell for help, its ok.
Zigzag into peace. Zing it to last.
Go for it!
Love always
Joscelyn