Alphabet Poem

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ALTHOUGH THINGS ARE NOT PERFECT - Written by Cindy Blackmore, November 1994

Although things are not perfect 
 Because of trial or pain 
 Continue in thanksgiving 
 Do not begin to blame ...
 Even when the times are hard 
 Fierce winds are bound to blow 
   God is forever able 
  Hold on to what you know 
  Imagine life without His  
  Joy would cease to be 
  Keep thanking Him for all the things 
  Love imparts to thee 
  Move out of "Camp Complaining" 
  No weapon that is known 
  On earth can yield the power 
  Praise can do alone 
  Quit looking at the future 
  Redeem the time at hand 
  Start every day with worship 
  To "thank" is a command 
  Until we see Him coming 
  Victorious in the sky 
  We'll run the race with gratitude 
  Xalting God most high 
  Yes, there'll be good times and yes some will be bad, but... 
  Zion waits in glory...where none are ever sad!

www.cindyblackamore.com.  Cindy has written over 1,000 poems and hundreds of devotionals.

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Fun Quote

Sent to me by Innerkiddies


Since it's the early worm that gets eaten by the bird, sleep late.

Great Vacation

I just got back from a great vacation.  A safe drive to see lovely family and new a member of our family, one month old grandson.  I was up with nightmares while I was there so did the 3-5 AM shift with sweet, squirmy bundle.  My nightmares seemed so small compared to the amazing bundle in my arms. 

Acceptance

Innerkiddies continues to be a daily inspirational quote that I keep reading.  Sometimes I delete but other times something comes in my email that is so profound that I think and ponder about it for a long time.  This is one of them: 

Until you make peace with who you are, you’ll never be content with what you have.
Doris Mortman

Someone asked me recently how I integrated.  I realized that the first thing I did was make peace with who I was as a multiple.  I became really good friends with all the parts of me.  When I integrated, it was like all my best friends were with me forever.  Making peace with who I am right now brings a contentment I used to dream of.  

Vacation?

Now here is a different twist for vacation plans.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_weekend/20101119/ts_yblog_weekend/survival-evasion-vacation
I wonder if they have a survival schools for children of narcissistic or abusive parents?  Can you imagine Gaslighting 101: How to survive being lied to?  Or how about Extending punishments: Guidelines to getting your abuser to give you the silent treatment?  The possibilities seem fairly endless.

You don't know?

I get frustrated when I learn some new thing about life that most people learned as a child.  When I was venting my frustration, KavinCoach simply said, "You don't know what you don't know."  I had to puzzle over this for several weeks.  (I am a little slow sometimes.)  I finally understood that I didn't know enough to ask the right questions.  I reflected back to when I was first learning to trouble shoot and repair computers.  I took one class on servers where most of the information seemed like a crash course on an alien world.  The teacher asked the question at the end what we got out of the class.  I simply replied, "I can read my computer magazines."  First starting out I was so lacking in knowledge that I couldn't even ask a dumb question.  I had nothing to draw on.  I was so clueless on interpersonal relationships, I couldn't ask the right questions.  When I read self help books, the authors were talking over my head.  I wasn't stupid, I just didn't know.  "You don't know what you don't know!"