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Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

From Francesca Bowyer writer at Francesca Bowyer Greater Los Angeles Area I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn. - Francesca Confirm that you know Francesca You are receiving Invitation to Connect emails. Unsubscribe © 2012, LinkedIn Corporation. 2029 Stierlin Ct. Mountain View, CA 94043, USA

We search, we try, but if we leave well alone, it is the Greater Power that leads us to that we wish for to fulfill our needs. Be aware of those you meet when your paths cross.  They are no accident. Many times they can be the creators of the destiny you are looking for.  Never overlook what God puts on your road of your life, but heed and be very aware. I am truly thankful for having run into just such human beings. 

Everybody has turned the treadmill of life on so high that sometimes they walk right over the beauty that falls right below their step. Take more time to see sharply, listen keenly and take in that, which is given freely.

Thought for the day

Awaken every morning looking out at the greatness of Nature with Faith and be one with It .  Let it blanket you with its richness and inspire you to do great things with the abilities you are gifted with.
Every day is a new beginning for us to discover and complete.
Don't waist time on Yesterday while Today is of the essence.  What we do today can impact Tomorrow.
Think positive thoughts and know that Faith will make you strong and bring all you ask for.  It may not be immediate or on our Time Line but with patience, if we do our part and work towards it, we will be rewarded and it will come to pass.
Don't let the obstacles stop you but use them as learning tools to overcome in victory.

My Birthday Poem for my Mummy

Cherished pictures in my eyes

She stand erect her head upheld

Looking at the clear blue skies

Her arms upheld and stretched up high

Like a willow in the summer breeze,

'B e a u t i f u l', I hear her cries

Clear and loud as bells that peel.

Cherished pictures in my mind,

We sit in bed side by side

She tells me stories o her past

And reads me letters of her youth

The words flow softly

Some with joy and some with grief

Like a poets tales of days gone by.

Cherished pictures in my heart

Of Christmas nights and Easter days

And all the joys at my Birthdays

Of bedtime kisses and happy morns

With her embraces sweet and warm.

Cherished notions in my thoughts

She is strong as a mountain

She is fragile as a flower

She can change her course

Like a bird in flight

And paint her moods

From the chill of a winters night

To the warmth of the summer sun

Cherished words from deep inside

It is my Mummy of whom I speak

The one I love with all my heart

And every day I say the Prayer

Thank you God that I am hers

And keep her with me for many years.

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In the drawer of our lives God created partitions for all that makes us whole.

For our body, our mind, our senses.
He gave us the tools to control and manage them as we wish.
For good or destruction.
But most fragile of all, our emotions, the tools for which we search, so often in vain.

Longing is the most punishing pawn God has placed in our drawer of emotions. 

It surfaces when it is not wanted and cannot be found when it is needed.

There is a curse bestowed on those of us who have been raised to feel we have failed.

The fear of failure makes us run after that which we have failed in and endeavor to improve it.

Rather than turn to that which is our strength, we hold on with a death grip, nursing our failures, endeavoring to transform them into a masked success.

Instead let go.

Enjoy the success of that we feel we can accomplish.

It is the constant search for approval and the need to demonstrate that we have not failed which  magnetizes us to our failures, repeatedly trying to repair them. 

Failure is the human frailty which exists in even the most capable.

Therefore to bide with failure is fruitless.

Enjoy the mountains we can climb rather than dwelling on those we can’t.

In doing so, we prove not only to others, but more importantly, to ourselves, that we are not failures.   We are human.

All humans have weaknesses.

All humans have abilities.

The gift is recognizing them.

The power to accept what we cannot do and know what we can, gives us a sense of accomplishment and the sense of self worth to know we are not failures and can be an example to others.

Use our failures to humble us but wear our accomplishments with pride to make us strong.

For with our successes we can be of use to others and proud within ourselves.

Do not accept what others see as your failures, alternatively channel them into your strengths.

Realize the consequence of your failures on others and above all, yourself.