Today I attended a Make A Wish charity event. The young wish chld was there to participate and assist. As I interacted with over 125 individuals all gathered for this amazing cause and saw the smile on the face of the 6 year old girl, stronger and healthier then she was less than 8 months ago my live came more into perspective. The things I spend my time concerned about, the attention I put on what is important seem almost silly as the evening progressed. The young mom of this girl stood at the front of the room and explained what had happend over the last 16 months and the journey they had and how this one single foundation had restored hope and fight in their little girls life. I am so grateful for organizaitons like the Make A Wish Foundation and all the other ones out there that remember the people that wake up every day fighting to survive. This is my inspired thought.
We often reach out to others to help. We offer to be there to assist people that we feel can use some help. Sometimes this is to a total stranger sometimes it is to close friends or family. We open ourselves up and give without any expectation except that we hope. We hope that if someday we need something they or someone else will be there. We hope that if someday we need a big hug someone will give us one. We hope that our willingness to be there for another person to care and put their needs on our list will enable us to matter to them. In essence we give hope in exchange for hope. Hope propells us to take risks, to put others first to care when otherwise we may not have. In the ends sometimes our hopes with those we give to so willingly are not fulfilled. My suggestion, hope that instead of passing that hope back to su they passed it on to someone else and keep hoping. Hope is like a big hug, it lifts the spirits of those that give and receive.
There is something to be said for laughter. I know I have talked about this before, however, I must say it again. Tough day, didn’t go according to plan at all. Had a very long to do list and barely made a dent. Then decided to be completely honest and lets face it nobody wants anybody to be completely honest. Then my evening ended at “Young Frankenstein” broadaway. Needless to say 3 hours latter there is a smile on my face and the reality is that my to do list not getting done didn’t stop the world. However, the 3 hours with my daughter and her boyfriend laughing at totally inappropirate parts of the play made me realize that this moment 10, 15 or 20 years from now will make me smile when I think of it. The reality is our lives are woven over time with a combination of laughter and tears and those are the things that matter. This is my daily inspired thoughts.
Sometimes there are moments when we try to analyiz a situation to understand it , or to find out what we have done to cause a change. At work, in a relationship with family members. There are times that no matter how much we try to understand why things are changing or what we have done wrong it isn’t about us. There is nothing we have done wrong. The truth is we seldom know the entire story to things that happen within our immediate circle let alone understand those outside that circle. We have to sometimes put ourselves first. Do what is best for us and if those in our life or situations come back around again to where they once were then they were meant to be that way. However, we each must respect ourselves and not allow ourselves. In doing this we will attrack those to us in our lives that will also respect us.
Dishes, why is it a great meal has to come with dishes. It’s part of our life. We have a great meal wth friends and family and when it is over there they are the dishes. There are many things in life like dishes, they keep coming back. However, the key to dishes is to tackle them early and get it over with. That is the key to many other things in our lives. The things we hate that we want to aviod, just because we don’t deal with them doesn’t mean they will go away. They actually just pile up and create a mess. So like dirty dishes face them head on clean it up and when it is all done there is nothing like a kitchen that sparkles. The same is true for our hearts and minds, clean out the dirty dishes and there is a sparkle where once there was greasy build up. Under there is hope, inspiration and creativity.
In essence we give hope in exchange for hope. Hope propells us to take risks, to put others first to care when otherwise we may not have. In the ends sometimes our hopes with those we give to so willingly are not fulfilled. My suggestion, hope that instead of passing that hope back to su they passed it on to someone else and keep hoping. Hope is like a big hug, it lifts the spirits of those that give and receive.
