Tag Archives: ACCEPTANCE
The poet, Rainer Maria Rilke wrote, “Where something becomes extremely difficult and unbearable, there we also stand already quite near its transformation.” I believe this is because when we are at a place where we think we can’t go on, we are at the point of surrender, where something greater than our own ego can take over. But why do we wait until everything has fallen apart and all our defenses are down before we surrender and allow Nature to…..
What if you could change the past? A movie I watched recently, About Time, is the story of a man who happens to have the ability to travel back in time by imagining some situation from the past. He is then able to re-live the situation, changing the parts that didn’t go well, recreating his life the way he wants. He uses his power to help others as well as himself. As his life progresses, though, he finds there are…..
The summer heat in Arizona was at its peak as extended family gathered together to celebrate Grandma Perry’s hundredth birthday. True to form, she fully enjoyed being the center of attention in her bright red dress with an over-sized, white lace collar. She had been quite sickly early in her life and had almost died in her thirties, but she had gone on to live a full and healthy, not to mention long, life. It seemed to all of us…..
