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Thursday, August 2, 2012

When life calls you

Life has been one roller coaster the last couple of months for me... It has been a period of unprecedented pain and misery. I am just glad to be alive and writing this with a sane mind. Loss has been compounded by more personal losses. Life has happened in ways un-thought of.. or should I say deaths. My mom passed on from this world a couple of days ago, she was with me until the last days, she just left me a few days before she could face death. Devastated as I am I have learned one lesson through all this, there is more to life than was is seen on the periphery. You may have no control over what happens, but you have perfect control over yourself. You are the designer of your own destiny. Pain, loss, troubles and misery may fall upon you, but you are just a decision away from living life on your own terms. Fear and worry have no foothold on you if you do not let them in. Nothing can change your destiny but you.
The strength that is there within can only be tested at times like these. Benumbed by pain, devastated by life you know not only yourself, but those who stand by you, those who will remain with you always.
I have much to thank my husband for. He is indeed the strength of my life. My children who have stood with me in pain, my friends with their unending support, my God who is above all things.
What more do you I need in life than such love? I stand in awe, thankful and truly humbled in my heart. My debt seems to be ever rising. I hope I will someday repay it with love.
I can only say joy and grief bring balance and harmony to life...

“Hearts united in pain and sorrow will not be separated by joy and happiness. Bonds that are woven in sadness are stronger than the ties of joy and pleasure. Love that is washed by tears will remain eternally pure and faithful.” ~ Khalil Gibran


Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears. And how else can it be? ~ Khalil Gibran

And when the storm comes, and the mighty wind shakes the forest, and thunder and lightning proclaim the majesty of the sky, - then let your heart say in awe, "God moves in passion." 
~ Khalil Gibran 

And since you are a breath In God's sphere, and a leaf in God's forest, you too should rest in reason and move in passion. ~ Khalil Gibran

"The dance of life finds its beginnings in grief......Here a completely new way of living is revealed. It is the way in which pain can be embraced, not out of a desire to suffer, but in the knowledge that something new will be born in the pain."~ Henry Nouwen


Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain. ~ Khalil Gibran

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