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Befuddled

I am befuddled,
Baffled and feeling dreary.
Nothing can help me!

Except some sunshine
Or a good heavy rainfall –
Anything but gray.

Gray, cloudy, and cold:
Recipes for feeling blue.
How do these treat you?

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Reach beyond the gray
Rest assured the sun’s up there
Even if eclipsed!

Sending love your way.
Even from my gloomy day
I can find beauty!

Hugs,
JanBeek

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Haiku, Life's Challenges, Love, mental health, Montana, optimism, Poetry

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Love is Louder

God bless the Jefferson County Mental Health Local Advisory Council here in Montana!

Let’s all shout it out, “LOVE IS LOUDER!”

Let’s make it true!!

Th distance between me and my friend, Carol Orr, is from here to Eternity … but our love is louder than the distance! I was her Senior Companion – and she was my friend and mentor… always right for a laugh and a hug … always ready to share her 95 years of wisdom from her beautiful, sparkling soul.

LOVE is LOUDER than death! LOVE is LOUDER than disguises! LOVE sees through the darkness to the sparkle beneath and behind. LOVE brings out the best in us and in others. Let your LOVE SHINE!!

The motivational video below tells us, “One of life’s gifts is that its greatest moments are often disguised.” Our inability to see through the dark glasses finds us sometimes lost in a state of hopelessness. We live disguised as people behind a gloom of despair, seeing life as lost and hard.

My friend, Carol, was an upbeat person who enjoyed life to its fullest I posted a blog about her back on August 15, 2018 when she was in the hospital, looking toward the end of her time on earth. If you have time, check it out at

https://janbeek.blog/2019/07/28/95-years-of-life-lessons/

Carol spent her last months in our local nursing home, The Manor, hooked up to oxygen, and knowing her time was short, but LOVE was LOUDER than impending death. She never lost her smile nor her sense of humor. Ah, we should all be so blessed!

When all hope of living an eternity on earth, or of solving all the earth’s problems is lost, we need to take off the disguises, toss the dark glasses, and take each moment to see life’s infinite possibilities. What you seek is waiting. You are never too old to seek LOVE and you are never through positively influencing others – even (and maybe most especially) after leaving this earth.

Love is LOUDER

LOUDER than ANYTHING!


Every day you are :

  • smarter and
  • stronger and
  • better equipped
  • wiser and
  • sharper and
  • braver

What you seek is waiting for you.
Go for it!

Love is Louder

Shout it Out!!
I LOVE YOU!!!
See ya tomorrow.
Hugs,
JanBeek

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Aging Gracefully, blessings, friendship, happiness, Life's Challenges, Love, Memories, mental health, self-acceptance

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Sharing Sunshine

Good Morning, Sunshine!

Thank God

 

Click on this link for a cheery message today:
https://passcodelove.com/2019/09/05/wake-up-sunshine

I read the blog whose link I posted above – and it brought sunshine to me on this gloomy, gray Friday morning. I hope it brightens your day, too. It is so true… we can’t rely on outward circumstances to bring us our joy. The door opens inward!

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When things look cloudy and gray
Just turn your focus away
From the things that are dark and gloomy
Let joy spring from your heart today.

Life IS an amazing journey
It DOES all begin and end with LOVE
So open the door to your heart’s love
And let JOY bring you strength from above.

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You may be facing some darkness
Your skies may be cloudy and gray
But they don’t have to dampen your spirits
Let the Son shine in to brighten your day.

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Have a bright and beautiful Friday.
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See ya later!

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blessings, blogging, God, Gratitude, happiness, Life's Challenges, Love, mental health, Poetry, prayer, writing

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S = Sunshine

Day #19 in the A-Z series of “What Makes Me Happy?”

SUNSHINE

You expected that would be my S word, didn’t you?

I mean, just look at my header up there!

Yes, sunshine makes me happy!

But look out there this morning…

Sunshine’s late today

Get up? But it’s still dark out!

Daylight saving’s time

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I’m not a fan of dark, rainy mornings.

Sunshine, Light, and Love make me happy.

But on dark and rainy days like this one,

The other S word that makes me happy

Is SOUP!

Ah yes, I think I’ll go

Get a crockpot started now.

 

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What’s your happy S word?

And what’s your favorite soup?

Here’s the recipe for the one I’ll have simmering

while I’m in church on this otherwise gloomy Sunday.

I won’t do the on-the-stove method suggested here:

 

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This is the cookbook in which I found that nice, simple recipe. It’s a great book:

 

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I had some leeks from a neighbors garden that needed to be used.

Great way to do so, don’t you think?

Ah yes, homemade soup makes me happy!

Cheer me up with a recipe and an S word of your own!

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food, Haiku, happiness, Love, nature

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