SPIRITUAL FOOD FOR THE DAY
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY - LEARNING TO PLAY
When students first learn to play the piano, they are usually taught to use only one hand and include very few keys. Then they move on to using two hands, eventually learning to play all the keys, the high ones as well as the low. In fact, part of the pleasure of playing lies in hearing the rumble of the lowest bass notes and the light chiming of the high treble.
Today in my life I am learning to play a new instrument - myself. I am a person with the capability to experience a wide range of emotions, from love to joy to wonder. I am profoundly grateful for laughter and light spirits - and also for anger and fear, because all of these feelings are part of what makes me whole. I believe that my Higher Power, the God of my understanding, wants me to be fully alive and fully aware of all my feelings: The crashing crescendo of great anger, the soft chant of serenity, the heights of wonder, and the new insights that stretch my heart and mind just as my fingers stretch to reach all the keys in a challenging chord. I am learning to play richer sounds than I ever though possible.
TODAY'S REMINDER
Today i will appreciate the full range of feelings available to me. They make my experience of life full indeed.
QUOTE FOR THE DAY
"I have sometimes been wildly, desparingly, acutely miserable...but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."
----Agatha Christie----
PRAYER FOR THE DAY
GOD,
LET ME FEEL AND EXPERIENCE ALL THAT IS YOUR WILL AND HELP ME TO UNDERSTAND THAT IF I AM NOT ACCUSTOMED TO WHAT I AM FEELING, THEN I MUST BE WILLING TO LEARN WHAT YOUR WILL FOR ME IS, AND HAVE FAITH THAT YOU WILL SHOW ME THE WAY. AMEN.
I PRAY THAT YOU HAVE A SAFE DAY AND GOD BLESS.
==KUMA== 5/1/06
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY - LEARNING TO PLAY
When students first learn to play the piano, they are usually taught to use only one hand and include very few keys. Then they move on to using two hands, eventually learning to play all the keys, the high ones as well as the low. In fact, part of the pleasure of playing lies in hearing the rumble of the lowest bass notes and the light chiming of the high treble.
Today in my life I am learning to play a new instrument - myself. I am a person with the capability to experience a wide range of emotions, from love to joy to wonder. I am profoundly grateful for laughter and light spirits - and also for anger and fear, because all of these feelings are part of what makes me whole. I believe that my Higher Power, the God of my understanding, wants me to be fully alive and fully aware of all my feelings: The crashing crescendo of great anger, the soft chant of serenity, the heights of wonder, and the new insights that stretch my heart and mind just as my fingers stretch to reach all the keys in a challenging chord. I am learning to play richer sounds than I ever though possible.
TODAY'S REMINDER
Today i will appreciate the full range of feelings available to me. They make my experience of life full indeed.
QUOTE FOR THE DAY
"I have sometimes been wildly, desparingly, acutely miserable...but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."
----Agatha Christie----
PRAYER FOR THE DAY
GOD,
LET ME FEEL AND EXPERIENCE ALL THAT IS YOUR WILL AND HELP ME TO UNDERSTAND THAT IF I AM NOT ACCUSTOMED TO WHAT I AM FEELING, THEN I MUST BE WILLING TO LEARN WHAT YOUR WILL FOR ME IS, AND HAVE FAITH THAT YOU WILL SHOW ME THE WAY. AMEN.
I PRAY THAT YOU HAVE A SAFE DAY AND GOD BLESS.
==KUMA== 5/1/06