Happy New Year

Another year ends, another year begins. 


I love New Year as it is like turning a new page in the journal of life, a brand new chapter in the book of life.


Yesterday I went down to the ocean and it was beautiful and calm, so I went into the water and floated in the calm water, thanking God for the year that has been and asking for health and happiness for the one to come, not just for myself but for everyone. 


As I was floating there, a wave suddenly lifted me up and I floated down the other side, where did the wave come from was my first irritated reaction, then I noticed a few more rolling towards me and realised it was just the wash of a boat passing by. 


Because I had got irritated I had stopped floating, but then after realizing where the disturbance came from I ressumed floating and I realiised it I had kept floating I would have just floated over the waves until the calm returned. I didn't need to worry about where they came from or where they were going. If I just stayed floating I would easily ride over them.


How often is life like this. So after that I made my new years resolution, "to stay calm and flat through the waves of life...hopefully they will all be small ones!!!!" 

Remembrance Day

I know I'm a few days late, but I couldn't face this post till now.
Remembrance Day is about remembering all those who have died serving their country. I appreciate what these people have given us so much and what their families gave was made so much more poignant by the passing of Ruby. Yes Ruby was just a tiny dog, but she was part of our family. It brought home to me how much grief and sorrow the families of our fallen soldiers must have to endure. A grief that never ends. A hole in their heart that can never be filled.
No greater love than this, that a man lay down his life for another....this is what they have done for each and every one of us.

So to all our men and women in the armed forces, thankyou.

Do we need Support networks?

What do you think, do you thing support networks are important?

I know that for myself, having a disease that a lot of people don't understand, that support groups or networks really help. Even if someone is just saying I hear you I know how you feel.

I wonder sometimes if the path we have to travel is to help us develop empathy for others. I know of people who have had very little suffering in their lives and they are often very unemphatic and I find others who have suffered so much and yet still have empathy for others suffering.

I have found I use Facebook and more often now Google+ to link up with others with similar conditions. Living in the counry there are no support groups where I live but via the internet I can get support and help.

Where have you found support for your issues?

What to do when life sucks!

Often we struggle with the cards life deals us, whether it is physically, emotionally, financially or the lives of our loved ones, so how do we handle this? I can only speak from my personal experience and what others have shared with me, and I am still learning every day. When we were selling our house & buying "Rosie" there was a lot of things going wrong causing stress and frustration, but I learnt a lot from the man we brought her off. He had had cancer and is now in remission & his whole attitude was, "don't worry about it, it will work out how it's supposed to".  This is often easy to say when we are not in a stressful situation, but he was in the situation with us. Settlement was supposed to go through on the 18th April, but didn't end up going through till 24th May, so he had to wait all that time for his money, yet he said, "worrying won't make it happen, just let it take it's course" Good advice, but not something I was able to do , so I had a massive flare up & was in a world of pain. It didn't change anything & he was right it all worked out in the end. So I encourage you to try, as I am, to give things over to the universe or to God and trust that they will work out for the best.

I found the only way to get stress relief during this time was to spend time out in nature, for me that meant walks on the beach and grabbing my camera & taking pics.