Written by Regina Brett, 90 years old, of the "Plain Dealer", Cleveland , Ohio
"To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most requested column I've ever written.
Life doesn't seem fair at times, because we cannot possibly see to the end of it while it is happening. We have to then trust in the universe at times like this. If you look back on situations in hindsight it is easy to see where this has come into play in your life. Take the time to look at this and learn that trust is all you can have that things will eventually right themselves.
I have this on a daily basis in my own life. In my hand I have choices. What I do with those choices is up to me. I have the choice to make the most of the day anyway whether everything in it is favorable or not. Mostly its not because I miss my kids in my life. I grieve for the lost time that has occurred because of the meddling of other fools. Fools who have no idea. Zero idea of the enormity of the emotional toll they have caused on the many lives involved in this dynamic.
To this day I still stand in front of the sun each morning when I can and ask for forgiveness and I say thank you that I am here to ask forgiveness and to say out loud to the universe that I indeed love them very much and will continue to do so from the post I have to stand at. It is like a military post! I feel like I have been commissioned to withstand this battle to strengthen me once more. One more time in the fiery furnace I go to be refined even more! I will come out like pure gold in the end. In God I trust.
Image by Brice Brennan - Taken January in Urunga on a wet day
"To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most requested column I've ever written.
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| Hibiscus all wet at Urunga |
I have this on a daily basis in my own life. In my hand I have choices. What I do with those choices is up to me. I have the choice to make the most of the day anyway whether everything in it is favorable or not. Mostly its not because I miss my kids in my life. I grieve for the lost time that has occurred because of the meddling of other fools. Fools who have no idea. Zero idea of the enormity of the emotional toll they have caused on the many lives involved in this dynamic.
To this day I still stand in front of the sun each morning when I can and ask for forgiveness and I say thank you that I am here to ask forgiveness and to say out loud to the universe that I indeed love them very much and will continue to do so from the post I have to stand at. It is like a military post! I feel like I have been commissioned to withstand this battle to strengthen me once more. One more time in the fiery furnace I go to be refined even more! I will come out like pure gold in the end. In God I trust.
Image by Brice Brennan - Taken January in Urunga on a wet day
beautiful!!
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