Life's Loving Memories

INTO EVERYONE'S LIFE A LITTLE RAIN MUST FALL "Every man/woman is a nation unto him/herself, a nation inhabited by many thoughts, feelings appetites, and talents. Every man/woman is a nation of consciousness." Ernest Holmes,                     -- Living the Science of Mind  A few sayings that are related to spring are, "April Shower's bring May flowers" and "Into everyone's life a little rain must fall." Both are a way of saying "God never gives us anything we can't handle." Challenges may come up, and they may seem like obstacles, but after we have resolved them, we can realize that they were stepping stones to something new and improved. A divorce, followed by a wonderful new relationship; losing a job, resulting in a magnificent new one; thinking that life has nothing more to offer into, finding a splendid new Spiritual Teaching that truly speaks our language of mind and heart-all of these allow a shift to a new life. I look at

  FORGETFUL or LACK OF FOCUS? Wasn't the meeting today? “Forgetting happens. If you stress about it, it'll happen even more.” ―  Lisa Genova,  Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting What happens if you forget something? Are you just not thinking straight? You know you wrote the information down, but where did you write it down? You are sure you placed the meeting on your phone, but was it in notes, or on your calendar? For me, it is more that I am hyper-focused on something, and not present enough to know what time it is. I try to set the alarm on my phone to remind myself that I need to move on to that meeting or phone call I need to make.  The point of all of this, is that when you have planned to be somewhere or do something at at certain time, you feel bad when you have missed it. Really all you can do is to try and do it differently the next time so that you don't miss out on meeting your time slot in the future. It wouldn't hurt to turn the focu

WRITE TO YOUR HEART'S DELIGHT  Books ARE a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind. Toni Morrison I find it very interesting that there is such a discussion about banning books floating around in the news. Just a few days ago was a spot in "Sixty Minutes " about Buford, South Carolina. They came up with a list of 97 books that should be banned in public schools. The discussion led to choosing a panel of  numerous readers, from librarians to mothers, church leaders to teachers. from all levels of education. They formed book reading circles and read all of the books. They narrowed it down to five that they thought should be banned. It is my belief that a well-rounded intelligent person should sink there teeth in to a wide variety of books to learn more about life and the history of all nations, countries and the accomplished people who live in them. This includes events and real live examples; real life histories of the pe