There's A Secret To Get Through Loss,

We Need To Build Downtime Into Our Lives, So That We Can Have Solitude Without Feeling Overcome With Guilt.

We Call It Keeping Up With The Joneses. They Buy A Boat And We Buy A Bigger One. They Get A New Tv And We Get A Big Screen. They Start A Business And We Start Planning Our Articles Of Incorporation And The First Stock Release. And While We're So Busy Keeping Up, We Ignore Our Soul, The Inner Voice, That's Telling Us That It Really Wants To Teach Children To Read. While It Helps To Identify With Each Other, We're Not The Same. So Why Compare Ourselves On The Basis Of Material Things? Are You Walking A Path With Heart In Your Own Life, Regardless Of What Others Have?

Perspective Will Come In Retrospect.

Do We Really Have The Right To Take Care Of Ourselves? Do We Really Have The Right To Set Boundaries? Do We Really Have The Right To Be Direct And Say What We Need To Say? You Bet We Do.

You Can Clear The Land, Plow The Field, Spread The Fertilizer, And Plant The Corn. But You Cannot Make It Rain. You Cannot Prevent An Early Frost. You Cannot Determine Exactly What Will Happen In Your Life. The Rain May Or May Not Fall, But One Thing Is Certain: You Will Get A Harvest Only If You Planted Something In The Field. It's Important To Do Everything In Our Power To Ensure Our Success, But We Also Need To Let The Universe Take Its Course.