It's the moments that determine the big picture

Storm clouds on the horizon, Lavenham, Manitoba

There have been many times in my life where passion and hope were non existent, where the darkness that had developed around me seemed to be as relentless as the pain that had caused it.
     I will not say for a moment that life has been easy, or struggle free. No life is...no life is meant to be.
    But what I have learned that even the darkest, bleakest of times will and do pass...just as the good ones will as well.

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Angel in the garden.

    I've learned that we need to live in the moment, knowing good or bad, the moment is just that...a moment in time, there to give us what it is we need, often without our knowing that we needed it, and all that we truly have. With each moment, ask yourself what is this teaching me? Giving me? Showing me? If you can adopt an attitude that nothing happens to you, instead everything happens for you, you begin to open yourself up to the events as they happen, knowing it's for your greater good. You learn to trust that you are not the one who really knows what your greater good really is, but rather it's  a source much beyond your control
knows that much better than you do.

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Summer Asters...beauty in the everyday,

     So what do we do when the bad times surround us?   Remember they will pass. Remember that your reaction to events, and not the events themselves, often determine the outcome you will experience emotionally and mentally.   Do your best to make your reaction and attitude a positive one, creating a chain of positive energy moving forward through it. And when the bad time passes, and the good times come into your life again, remember that these too are impermanent, and that you must relish and drink in all that they have to offer, in the moment that they are there offering them to you!   

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Leopard Swallowtail in the lilacs.

      Don't miss the moment, good or bad. Instead, take it all in, drinking deeply from the fountain of experience that they offer you. Trusting deeply that whatever is happening is part of the plan you made for this journey long before you started it, as you try to unravel the mystery of all that is going on about you. The power to come through it is in you, it is you, so know that you can manage whatever the current situation is.  Let each moment be part of what it is that leads you to being exactly who you are meant to be, that is....'Truly You'.

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