My sentiments exactly!

Good morning! Sunshine!

LOL, sometimes you need to know when to hold em’, or when to fold em’ and sometimes when to walk away or run! Kenny Rogers had it right.

~Thoughts for the day~

“Every thinking person knows it is easier to love someone and to accept them with a warmer and more natural feeling when this can be spontaneous rather than something expected or demanded.” LOL I turned to this page in Joyce Hifler’s book “To everything a season.” I thought I would be inspired by something in the book to pivot into new thought. It continues, ” Making someone feel it is their duty to love, or demanding attention, will surely narrow the chances of anything worthwhile ever developing on its own. So much happiness of life is an invitation not a command, a leading and not a pushing. No one loves us because they ought to, or because our position in life or family demands it, but because we have attracted it to us by our ability to love rightly. Love has been called the bond of perfection and certainly this is the only bond that can endure. For it is everyone’s urge to be free to express what he chooses to express and will be free if only in his thoughts.”

“We like to think others are the reason we live. It is a wonderful think to love and be loved. We are inspired by such love to rise above ourselves higher than we thought possible. It gives us reason to rise in the morning, make us more ready to face the activities of the day, and helps us step more easily over the obstacles. If we become disillusioned about that love, we cannot call it bad. Love is a channel and if that channel breaks down, we cannot be right in falling back to be less than we know we can be. It is then that we should be grateful for the smallest part of that love and know what we have accomplished through it was by and for ourselves. We cannot attach ourselves to another person and make him responsible for us. We are responsible to ourselves, and no one else has the power to make or break us. We merely accept another’s love as a gift, but the responsibility is our own. Well!

“Love is the filling from one’s own another’s cup;

Love is the daily laying down and taking up;

A choosing of the stoney path through each new day

That other feet may tread with ease a smoother way.

Love is not blind, but looks abroad through other eyes;

And asks not, “Must I give? but may I sacrifice?”

Love hides its grief, that others’ lives may wing.

Hast thou a love like this within thy soul?

Twill crown the life with blessings when thou dost reach a goal.”

page 105, 106.

I would have to ponder this more to find it totally applicable for myself. But there is a lot within the text which is good food for thought. Hifler’s always good. I did modify the word he. It does not seem fitting to leave it at he when it is not inclusive to either gender. But that was the way of things when this book was published.

Best wishes! Pejj