As the seasons move....

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As the seasons move....
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Wed, 09-29-2004 - 12:37pm
It's coming to the hardest time of year on most of us, holidays! It's time to take the extra moment and do something good just for ourselves. It's time to get ahold of ourselves so that our abusers or anyone cannot push us off our paths to healing.

Don't allow yourself to overload your capabilities as it is so easy to do during holidays. We all do it, but we have to try to not let it get out of control.

Here's a little poem from the past, but I hope it brings some comfort to those newer to the boards.

Hope

Hope is such a small word that grows from such emotion

We find hope in such stange places and under such bizarre circumstances

It will find us when we have long given up our search

We find it when we stop and allow it to come into our hearts

Hope is sometimes all we have left

Hope is sometimes all that keeps us from losing our minds and following a misguided path

It lights our life's journey so as to keep us from harm

But if we overestimate Hope, it can also bring us much pain as it will not appear as we think, but as we need

Hope will be mankind's stronghold onto life as it keeps even the weakest of us strong in life's harshest hours

Hope has once again grown in my heart as these words have grown from tears of frustration and pain

When we think that Hope has gone, stop, for it has not given up on us, we have given up on ourselves

As the tears fall, as life seems to be out of your control, give Hope it's due and let it find you and bring to you a brighter tomorrow out of the ashes of today.

Hugs




Edited 9/29/2004 12:54 pm ET ET by buffphone

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Wed, 09-29-2004 - 1:02pm

Aw, Sully!

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