Manic Monday Positive thoughts and quotes

 For Monday can be worse than a nightmare but maybe better than a dream.  For today can be as bright as the moon or as dark as the sky but either way other things in your life are at play.  Sleep is very important to a your body, so on the weekends many of us love to sleep in.  Yet when Monday comes back around we wish to pull the covers over our head and sleep a little longer before we get up and back to work. 

WHY?  

Everybody needs sleep because it can help boost their physical, mental and emotional health. It can make you feel better and more able to tackle the day.
Enjoy the beauty of starting a new week.
 Feel blessed that you can live in the day and not in a place where shadows lay.
Take a chance on enjoying all you can,
Feel free to explore this great land.
No one was made to be alone,
no one was given a guide book was given
So do more and have others be shown.
Who you are and what your about,
Love life for every moment,
From inside and out!
- Shelley "Silverwine" Sprecher - Hitch

   I dream, therefore I exist.
-J. August Strindberg

Sleep is the balm for hurt minds,
natures great second course.
- William Shakespeare

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
-Virginia Woolf

Now Allah has created the dream not only as a means of guidance and instruction, I refer to the dream, bu he has made it a window on the World of the Unseen.
- Mohammed, the Prophet

 Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.
-Sigmund Freud

 Dreams are illustrations . . . from the book your soul is writing about you.
-Marsha Norman

The dream was always running ahead of me.  To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
- Anais Nin 

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Lord, teach me, as Your faithful follower, how;
To have fun without foolish acts,
To be cheerful without vanity,
To have self-respect without pride,
To be faithful without illusion,
To be relaxed without laziness,
To be serious without gloom,
To be friendly and not fickle,
To be sunny without the fluff.

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Inspired by Make Me an Instrument of Peace - (prayer of Francis of Assisi)

Make me an instrument of your piece
where there is hatred,
May You bring love into my heart;
Where there is wrong,
May You bring honesty to my soul;
Let the truth be known.

Help bring The Spirit back into my life,
So that I can be shown forgiveness of my past;
Where life has the errors in what is right,
May You bring truth to the situation front and center to everyones eyes;
Where there is doubt in my mind,
May You help me regain my faith, direction and path;
When I feel helpless with despair,
Help me regain hope that life will be better;
Where there are the shadows,
Bring to my eye Your light;
Where there is sadness in my heart,
Please fill it with an abundance of joy.

Lord, grant that I can seek to comfort others,
For when I do, that comfort will  make me feel;
For to understand Your love,
may be what I need to be understood;
To love, as to be loved.

For when I die knowing that You love me,
I know that I will be awakened into eternal life;
Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace,
For your mercy and love is ever lasting.
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See You more clearly,
Love You more dearly,
Follow more nearly,
My Savior and Guide.
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Love so amazing, so divine,
Demands my soul, my live, my all!
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Body rethink about - You are beautiful!

Images

thinner me 155

     Everyday you see images that can make you go "Wow, I want to look like that".  Yet, do we really know the real story behind the pictures.  Body dissatisfation is not a new concept.  There are many people who have a different idea of beauty.  This is common in both westernized and non-westernized cultures.  My son in kindergarten can home to tell me that one of his new friends were on a diet because they thought they were fat.  It was such a sad thought to be coming from someone so  young who is growing and changing daily.  Where do these thoughts come from?  Why can't we be happy with oneself?

heavier me 185

the other thinner me 135

Even for myself, I always felt that I was too heavy.  No matter what weight I was or what size I had been I always felt I was never good enough.  The term used for feeling this was is Body Dissatisfaction (BD) and it is a pretty big problem.  The way you feel can affect your mental state as well.  There is a range of adverse psychosocial outcomes, including depression,
eating disorders, obesity, and suicidal ideas and attempted suicide.  There is that of cultural values/norms regarding appearance that can typically be measured in terms of an individual’s perceptions of oneself and that of the pressures of society to meet the external standard of appearance.

 While individual-level perceptions are meaningful because they are likely to indicate the pass on of sociocultural values and disaggregating these group level ideals to the individual level has several serious implications. There are individuals within groups that tend to be more similar to each other than to out-group members in terms of their appearance-related experiences, values, and behaviors.

We cannot guarantee what we will be like when we grow up but genetics can play a big factor for our body type.  Studies show that the way western society view of a persons body plays a big factor in how one feel they look.  The way the body is shown in western society is very unrealistic and needs to be put out there as wrong.  In recent years there are some magazines breaking the mold and using bigger model sizes.  Good for them!

It doesn't matter the size of your body what matters is the size of your heart and mind.

a look back into the past - poems from seventeenth century english verse

A pleasing look at what was written long before many could have the chance to look at a book yet alone be able to read it.  I had found a treasure among aisles of books in our local book store.  The year of print was that of 1920, Macmillan & Company, Limited St. Martin’s Street London.  The works were chosen by H. J. Massingham for the book A treasury of Seventeenth Century English Verse, From the Death of Shakespeare t the Restoration (1616-1660).  There were many that caught my eye, but you decide for yourself what you think.

do we really ever look what is around us?

            Upon a Funeral

To their long home the greatest princes go

In hearses dressed with fair escutcheons round,

The blazons of an ancient race, renowned

For deeds of valour; and in costly show

The train moves forward in procession slow

Towards some hallowed Fane; no common ground.

But the arched vault and tomb with sculpture crowned

Received and corse, with honours laid below,

Alas! Whate’er their wealth, their wit, their worth,

Such is the end of all the sons of Earth.

-Sir Joseph Beaumont (1583 – 1627)

the friends we keep where are they really?

            Drinking Song

I have been in love, and in debt, and in drink

This many and many a year!

And those are three plagues enough, any should think,

For one poor mortal to bear!

‘Twas love made me fall into drink;

And drink made me run into debt!

And though I have struggled, and struggled and strove;

I cannot get out of them yet!

There’s nothing but money can cure me;

And rid me of all my pain!

‘Twill pay all my debts;

And remove all my lets;

And my Mistress that cannot endure me,

Will love me and love me again!

Then I’ll fall to my loving and drinking amain*.

- Alexander Brome (1620 – 1666)

On that lonely path to where?

  To Death

Death, be not proud, though some have called thee

Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so;

For those whom thou think’st thou dost over throw

Die not, poor Death; nor yet can’st thou kill me.

From rest and sleep, which but they picture be,

Much pleasure, then from thee much more must flow;

And soonest our best men with thee do go –

Rest of their bones, and souls’ delivery!

Thou’rt slave to fate, chance, kings and desperate men.

And dost with poison, war and sickness dwell;

And poppy or charms can make us sleep as well,

And better than they stroke.

Thy swell’st though then?

One short sleep past, we wake eternally,

And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.

- John Donne (1573 – 1631)

 

even in the most explosive place life will 

live but may not thrive

Drop Golden Showers, Gentle Sleep

Drop golden showers, gentle sleep;

And all the angels of the night

Which do us in protection keep,

Make this queen dream of delight.

Morpheus, be kind a little, and be

Death’s now true image, for ‘twill prove

To this poor queen that thou art he.

Her grave is made I’th’ bed of love;

Thus with sweet sweets can Heaven mix gall,

And marriage turn to funeral.

- Thomas Goffe (1592 – 1627)

what kind of light will lead us into the right direction

Death Invoked

Why art thou slow, thou rest of trouble Death,

To sop a wretch’s breath.

That calls on thee, and offers her sad heart

A prey unto they dart?

I am nor young nor fair; be therefore, bold:

Sorrow hath made me old,

Deformed and wrinkled; all that I can crave

Is quiet in my grave.

Such as live happy, hold long life a jewel;

But to m thou art cruel,

If thou end not my tedious misery

And I soon cease to be.

Strike, and strike home, then; pity unto me,

In one short hour’s delay, is tyranny.

-Philip Massinger (1584 – 1639)

Dare to dream, live big and enjoy it all . . . .

Every day we live but do we really do what we can to make life really ours.  How are you making your mark in this life?  Do you lead or do you follow?  Are you trailblazer or a tail rider?  With death there is always a new beginning.  Get rid of what does not serve you, get on with what does and grab it with both hands and move! Always smell the roses, drink the coffee and experience all you can.  It doesn't have to be far, and you don't have to spend lots of money.  It is the little things in life that can be the most enjoyable.

 

 pictures by: Shelley "Silverwine" Hitch

1. Clouds of Rapid City, SD

2.  Full moon of Sturgis

3.  Cemetery in North Carolina