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Powerful Thoughts
Dear Rita Mae
Brown,
“If you realized how powerful your
thoughts were, you would never think a negative thought”
~Peace Pilgrim
Today life
tested my patience. Was I exhausted and angry…stressed? Just a little. The
changes afoot have placed me beside myself. Minor frustrations, like the kids not
being unable to locate a DVD case, put me over the edge.
We found the DVD,
but not the case. I pack up the all boy crew of three and we headed to the
library, DVD in hand. I explained to the nice lady, that the case could not
have disappeared, it must be someplace in their home and requested a few more
days to track it down.
She took the
DVD from me and informed me that she can work magic. “Don’t tell anyone I did
this.” She smiled conspiratorially and checked it in and back out to me, giving
me another week to locate the wayward case.
She was
exceptionally kind to me, seeing that I was obviously upset about the lost
item, although I was more upset about needing to ask for help with the
situation, old issues rear up now and again. Her kindness dispelled my
frustrations.
I returned to
the car a different person than I had been an hour before when we searched for
the case. Her goodwill was contagious. I believe in Peace Pilgrim’s words about
the power of our thoughts. Yet, sometimes it takes another person or some other
element to turn our thoughts from negative to positive. Sometimes it takes
something more than that which we have within us.
Fortunately
for us, today, there was a kind librarian willing to fill that bill. The source
of my discontent had nothing to do with a DVD case, but that’s what I focused
on. The tonic for my discontent had everything to do with one person assuring
me that all would be fine, that every challenge has a solution.
The saying
“Be patient, God isn’t finished with me yet” comes to mind.
We are all works
in progress,
Loraine
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