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"We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop."                          Mother Teresa

Date: Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 10:23 AM
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I agree that the drop in the ocean seems so insignificant but so does one rain drop upon the earth. one smile, one handshake, etc.  It all starts out with one of something, like the first step of a long journey.  If you had to contemplate the "one" of anything, nothing would get done.  How many times must you hit the nail with the hammer in order to build the house?  If you thought about it no houses would get built. 

Your contribution to the whole depends on your insight.  Something as simple as a smile, or in my case, just the touch of the human hand, can make all the difference in the world.  People want to know that you are there, and that you care. 

There are reasons why we never know how our one drop affects others.  It would never allow us to move on, we would be caught up in the moment and not think about the future.  We would be so enamoured with ourselves that we would not move forward, and contribute another drop to the ocean. 

So my thought for the day is this: It is the small things in life that move us, it is the bigger things in life that sustain us, and in the end we answer to a higher being about what we did in this life.  It will be reveled then, and you will know how you did. 

 

Quotation of the Day

"We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop."                          Mother Teresa

 

 

I allow the first part of this quotation to override the second much to often.  Do you?  I do get caught up in my little piece of the pie and forget to relate my contribution to the whole.  Particualarly in moments of difficulty or disappointment.  The the mass of all I don't comprehend, that that I have no grasp of and my part, my drop eludes me.  Like in the movie "It's A Wonderful Life" could any of us really go back through our lives and measure the changes in everyone's lives we've touched, the contribution we've made to whole?  And with out that "drop" what may be different had we not existed.  I allow the feeling of being simply a drop in the ocean to diminish my enthusiasm, faith and confidence.  I must take time each day to focus on the whole, the vastness of all and allow my drop to count for the drop that it is.  Allow this to renew my faith, feed my enthusiasm and bolster my confidence to dontinue to do the part of my drop and to allow all the good I may have ever done to sooth me. 

 

Any thoughts you'd like to share?

 

Love you all,

Jacky 

 

P.S.  Find this and other wonderful quotations/responses at:  http://jackyabell.blogspot.com/
 

Quotation of the Day

"For a time     I rest in the grace of the world, and am free."                —  Wendell Berry

 

 

Of all the places in my life I need to improve this is probably the most profound.  Always caught up in the list of things to do for the day, my mind consumed with thinking, thinking about the past, the future, situations, desires, and on and on and on.  Little do I "sit",  empty my mind and bask in the grace that exist all around me.

 

The comfort, calm, peace and clarity all come when we're present, when in touch with this ever present "grace".  The wonder of all that is possible exist, surrounds me each moment and it is lost to me as I allow my mind to be consumed with thoughts.  The thoughts that constantly occupy my mind.  The pressure I feel in everyday choices that present themselves feel as though they are a test, tests of my soul, my character and that feel as though they are pivotal to my future path. 

 

If I'd only stop, become quiet (quiet my minds ever present chatter), know and trust in the grace that is present every moment and trust it, I am confident I would be able to hear my hearts desires and know path I desire to take at that moment, feel at peace and accept all around me with more love and grace.

 

Any thoughts?

 

Love you all,

Jacky

 

 

P.S.  Find this and other wonderful quotations and responses at:  http://jackyabell.blogspot.com/

Quotation of the Day

I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness."      Johann Kaspar Lavater    

 

 

 

I have shared with a friend in the last few weeks that I struggle to "ask" for those things of which are very important to me.  As I read this quotation (repeatedly) and I considered this confession, clarity of this resistance arose.  I am not "delivering" therefore; I am timid and hesitant to "ask".   I am not experienced in "giving" of those things I resist asking for.  Wow what a revelation.  How freeing it is to simply "know" to gain an understanding of what is going on in my mind, my thought process, my decision making processes and my auto responses. 

I can, now with this knowledge, look back at times when some of this nature of this nature was asked of me and I resisted.  I justified my resisting fulfilling the request by telling myself that my fulfilling this request was somehow not proper.  

With this new perspective; when something of nature is being asked of me, now,  I can deliver with open grace.  Thank you Johann Kasper Lavater, thank you. 

The test of success?  When I am accustom to fulfilling these desires for others I will in turn be capable of asking boldly. 

 

Any thoughts?

 

Love you all,

 

Jacky

 

P.S.  Find this and other wonderful quotations and responses at:  http://jackyabell.blogspot.com/

Quotation of the Day

"There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them."         Denis Waitley

 

 

Wow, I love this quotation.  I often catch myself whining in my head or feeling overwhelmed and sorry for myself based on surrounding conditions.  If I could only learn to see each situation as an opportunity to stand up, take control, assess the situation and determine what I can do in the one situation I'm facing at that time, to create the environment/conditions more amenable to my desires or desired outcome.  Changing how I think, and how I respond to things takes effort, daily effort and the things that I don't happen address regularly are the ones that throw a wrench in assuring a more positive response.  Therefore, developing a pattern by which I "think" my through situations will aid me when circumstances present themselves unexpectedly.  

 

This quotation will be a part of my pattern, when I find myself frustrated, feeling sorry for myself or whatever, I'll ask, do I choose to accept these conditions as they exist or take responsibility and change them?  Good first step:  You agree?    Wish me luck. 

 

Anything you'd like to share?

 

Love you all,

 

Jacky

 

P.S.  Find this and other wonderful quotations/responses at:  http://jackyabell.blogspot.com/

Quotation of the Day

"…to make an end is to make a beginning."

— T.S. Eliot 

"How soon not now, becomes never."

Martin Luther 

"The greatest amount of wasted time is the time not getting started."

Dawson Trotman

 

Isn't it interesting how things come to you at the approrpriate time.  At year end we typically take stock in the year just passed and when we look forward to the year to come our thoughts will often examine what it is we'd like the coming year to bring.  These three quotations helped focus me on exactly what is required of me if the things I desire this next year will be to delivered; me, only me, it's all up to me.

 

Only if I choose to make an "end" a "beginning" will it happen.  Only if I decide to "act now" will "soon" not become never.  And only when I choose to get started now, this very moment, will I manifest those things I desire. 

 

I have found some very helpful skills in the last year that I will continue into this next year as they have been very helpful in aiding me in knowing that who I am right now is not who I want to be tomorrow as there is always deeper understanding, a more complete and sincere acceptance and genuine grace that can be delveoped with in me. 

 

Share your thoughts as we all grow from reaching out to one another.  Thank you all for being in my life.  I have learned from each of you.

 

Love you all,

 

Jacky

 

Find this and other wonderful quotations at:  http://jackyabell.blogspot.com/