Shine On!

Madison had a dance recital this past June and the title of their song was Shine On. . . Although I didn't realize it then, I think back now how that song has such a great message for all of us. A message that Paul and I have been discussing for a few months now. No matter where we came from, what we've done, what people think they know of us or about us, we ALL have the ability to shine. Here are some things I've rediscovered or asked myself over the course of my life.Writing it down and seeing it in print helps it to resonate in my mind once more....

1. Be always conscious of the company you keep and in all ways.
2. That moment of greatest darkness may yet become your grandest gift.
3. Truth is often uncomfortable for those who wish to ignore it, but for those who seek it are not only comforted, but inspired.
4. Grief, Anger, Envy, Fear, and Love are all natural emotions. It's when people tell and teach you to repress them that they become problematic. (depression, rage, jealousy, panic, possessiveness)
5. What do you choose? If you choose to be happy, cause another to be happy. If you choose to be prosperous, cause another to prosper. If you choose more love in your life, cause another to have more love in theirs.
6. Experience is all knowing rather than all knowing is experience.
7. Is it possible for religion to take out the spirituality in a person?
8. What you resist persists.
9. Be a gift to everyone who enters your life, and to everyone whose life you enter.
10. It is not for you to judge the journey of another's soul. It is for you to decide who YOU are, not who another has been or has failed to be.
--originally posted on August 1, 2007