What did I learn today....

To have patience is a great virtue. Today I nearly broke a lot of my own rules when impatience ruled the day. People pushed past me in a shopping centre, I was forced to communicate with people to whom reason and reality is a stranger, my children were begging me for attention and after a few hours of the constant battering the telephone wire that was my patience almost snapped and shut off communication. I then began thinking back over the morning and something, actually two things, my gorgeous husband said over tea this morning came back to smack me alongside the head and remind me who I am and who I want to be. He said, "remember always that the circle will turn" and then later he said "If you keep planting lemon seeds all you are going to get is lemon trees". I decided that if the circle was going to turn then I wanted something good to come back at me and not something bad, and, although I really like lemon trees, I will not let my life only bear sour fruit. I feel that I am breathing again, my patience is back and life suddenly looks a whole lot more cheerful.

What did I learn today ....

I learnt that when someone starts a conversation "with respect" they in actual fact really mean you no respect at all. To me when you say something which incorporates words like "respect" and "love"you must always mean them from you very heart and not use them as a sarcastic retort or in an effort to mislead someone. If you do not mean something in the very best way, do not say it. You will only end up robbing yourself of self-respect if you cannot feel true and honest respect for another; you will not love yourself if you tell someone you love them and do not mean it from the heart. As you take a bite of a delicious food which has been placed before you, you savour every morsel and our words should be dealt with in the same way ... savour your words in your heart, your mind, your soul and if they feel good on the tongue then by all means voice them, but if they taste bad you had better re-think before you speak, because those words could poison you.

What did I learn today....

I learnt that there is a greater purpose to it all. Just when you think you are about to break a window is opened and you just have to realise where the sunshine is coming from. I learned that "nobody is a nobody - God doesn't make mistakes" and that what I am, who I am, what I do and what I think cannot be regarded as mistakes but only as ideas and things original to me. I am an original as are you and everybody else. Unless we do harm to others there should be no apology for the things we do and think and the people we are. As long as we are true to ourselves and have open and honest love for mankind and the world around us then what we think and do can never be wrong in the grand scheme. Always remember that "there is a purpose for everything" and sometimes you have to step away from the darkness to see the light.