Some life lessons

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When you’re lucky enough to find help putting together a satisfying and productive life, as I was, you come away with a few lessons. I’d like to share them with you, if I can, though I’m still learning and growing and nowhere near ready to stop. 

Just because you’re poor doesn’t mean you have to be poor in spirit. 

Just because you’ve lost faith doesn’t mean you can’t learn to.

Just because you’re hurt doesn’t mean you won’t heal. 

Just because you fell back a few steps doesn’t mean your next step can’t move you forward again. 

Just because it’s very dark doesn’t mean there is no light ahead. 

And just because you’ve been let down and disappointed doesn’t mean you won’t find love. The kind of love that is safe, enduring and powerful.

~ Robyn Carr 

Letting go

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Hanging on to it a little, are you? … There’s a trick to letting it go, in case you’re interested… 

You can’t try. Trying is a struggle and doing is an act. You can’t witness the act of trying, but you can see the results of doing. Trying brings on stress because not only do you have the problem, but now you have all this frustration with it not going away just because you want it to. It’s kind of like being told not to think of pink elephants - impossible. 

What you have to do is stop. You say to yourself, this is over for now. I’m done for now. Take your mind to another place and concentrate on that peaceful place. Deep breaths. Go limp. Put your mind in another state. It takes practice, but it gets easier, over time… 

My gramma used to say, you can only feel one feeling at a time. For example, you can’t feel trust and fear together. If you want to trust but you’re afraid, fear is still in charge. If you trusted, there wouldn’t be fear. She also used to say you have to listen to what you feel - feeling fear could be warning, right? ... 

Don’t make love to your problems - they’ll never give you back the satisfaction you give them. And, your troubles aren’t worth the paper they’re written on, but that doesn’t mean writing them down won’t help you get a fix on ‘em. 

And, God respects you when you work, but he loves you when you dance… she also used to say, ‘if Jesus walked the earth today, he wouldn’t be hanging out with Billy Graham. He’d be found with the drug addicts and prostitutes and the like. 

~ Robyn Carr