gray skies are going to clear up...

“Hope
Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, 
Whispering 'it will be happier'...” 
― Alfred Tennyson

...you know those days where it is dark and gloomy and it feels like the sun is never going to shine (if you live in Michigan you know what I'm talking about, especially this winter ;)...every time you wake up the sun is not there to greet you but rather a gray sky...

...& many times in our life it feels as if the sun might never shine...that each day we will be greeted by another dark sky...& I don't know about you, but it feels like life is sticking it to you, all you want is for a moment for the sun to hit you in the face and give you light...to lift the load a little...& most days the gray skies linger or life keeps kicking you in the face but there are those days when God opens up the gray sky & lets the sun shine down...& says I have not forgotten about you and the gray skies are going to clear up...

...so the next time you are wondering when you will get a moment of reprieve, a moment of peace, a moment of happiness, a moment of sun...look up God just might be smiling down on you in the midst of all of it...

to be a part of the big picture & make a difference...

“the two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” 
(Mark Twain)

...last year i wrote about something that was seriously funny a.k.a. laughfest which gilda's club hosts to allow us to be reminded that those that are suffering from cancer need to not only treat the physical being but also the mental/emotional being...so as this event kicks off they come up with a record to try & break, rubber chicken throwing, most people doing the chicken dance & this year, the most people gathered together wearing a fake mustache...

...so am i writing to tell you that they broke this record & it was the most amazing thing ever??...nah, but they did break the record by quite a few hundred...but as i stood in the crowd watching all these people of all ages come together for this purpose of breaking a world record, i thought why show up, why come out in the cold & stand in line to put on a fake mustache...i know people stand behind the cause but it is also a feeling inside (most humans) where we want to be a part of the bigger picture...we want to leave our mark; so that we can say i was a part of that movement, that cause, that record...no matter how big or small, we all want to be remembered in some way shape or form...

...and for many that means helping the unfortunate, savings lives and becoming a doctor, entertaining people either through the stage, the big screen or a novel...& for some it is raising kids to make society a better place; or maybe you write a blog in hopes that someone will read it and for that moment you make your mark...however what we all must remember that no matter the record, the event, the movement, or the path our mark is left it is just left in way we sometimes don't see but it's there...

...so be a part of the record, be a part of the event, save a life, write a book, raise some kids...pick your path & make your mark...


as ghandi once put it, "be the change you wish to see in the world..." or rather leave the mark you want to leave...

your heart...

“There's nothing more inspiring than the complexity and beauty of the human heart.”  
(Cynthia Hand, Hallowed)

...according to webMD & sciencekids...your heart beats about 100,000 times everyday; that laughter is the best medicine for your heart because it causes it to pump more blood throughout your body...it is one of the most important organs in your body & it has  4 parts to it...and when you place your hand over your heart or your fingers to your neck or wrist you hear a beat...that is your heart letting you know you are alive but more importantly that...

...your heart is so much more it is the way we see things & hold on to what is important & just when we think our hearts cannot hold any more love; someone new comes into our life and our heart grows...it is the place where we hold memories...it is the being that writhes in pain when we or the ones we love hurt...it is forever a reminder of how amazing life is...it allows us to believe in the miracles, & know that by this organ, this thing in our body, our life would not exist; nor those that  surround us...our heart holds so much that once you open it up it can tell its own story...it bleeds with joy, with happiness, with sadness, with pain, with life, with sorrow, with any & all emotions...it is us...& to know our heart is to know us...

...so be thankful, feel blessed that you have a heart...be glad that when you feel it beat; you know its beating for a reason...