You Are

[Ann]

The things you do are important to you. Yet they are not who you are.

The words you speak serve to express you. Even so, they are not who you are.

The circumstances of your life give you a context in which to operate. However, those circumstances do not define you.

The problems you have, the possibilities that are open to you, the challenges you face, the value you've created are all connected to you. Yet they are not who you are.

Your past tells the story of what you've been through, and your future gives you space in which to grow. Your past and the future are not you, though.

You are beyond your words, your actions, your circumstances, your challenges, your accomplishments, your past history and your future opportunities. So who exactly are you?

You are the person who can give it all meaning, and beauty, and love.

-- Ralph Marston

[Ann]

Reading this it sounds, to me, like I am in a Limbo, somewhere between the person I was when my circumstances were different and the person I will be as I learn and grow, but maybe that's what it's supposed to mean. I am on a journey of life, experiencing many things, and the person I am is the person who lives in today and puts my heart and spirit into making it meaningful to myself and all who surround me.

As the universe unfolds with millions of years behind, and millions of years yet to come, with all that enormity of time, today is really all that matters for any of us, because in all of that, today is the only reality. Make it beautiful and fill your heart with love, today.

Hugs
Ann

[nutz]

Thank for reminding me.
I'm a child of god. I need not earn it. It is my heritage.
All I AM is all I'll ever BE.

a dot(life) in a pure white room. I'm not the dot.
I'm much, much, much greater.
I belive....the dot was created for us.

It's like GOD takes me to an amusement park
"it's going to be fun dude, hang on to your arss..oki doki"
"It an experience of a life time"
" don't worry..I'm right here wacthing, kid"

Plus..perhapse I'm learning to create/express, as a child of god.

I might be right and I might be wrong about this.
mmmm.... it's still dosen't change who I AM.lol

[Ann]

It's like GOD takes me to an amusement park
"it's going to be fun dude, hang on to your arss..oki doki"
"It an experience of a life time"
" don't worry..I'm right here wacthing, kid"

I love this, Nutz, really I do. I think God give us each talent and opportunity and plenty of choices in life, and I think He means for life to be meaningful, if not always beautiful, for each one of us. He gives us life, and what we do with it is entirely up to us. I believe we screw it up when our spirits become disconnected from Him and that our lives become so much better when we connect once more, spiritually, and let ourselves be led.

That's how it is with me.

Hugs
Ann

[nutz]

The gifts of soberity.

It reminds me of how my 2 duaghter as young children.
One would draw pictures or make whatever art projects.
Purple tree, blue grass..ect. She would also sing, sing and sing.
Out of tune, but it was beautiful to me. Her creations, Her expression.
I love her and she loves me. We would hang it up on the frigg.
Then later, she would make other painting or drawings.
She also continue to sing, becuase... I guess, that's her gift.
She gets better at it over the years. She sung not for me, but
because it was just her. But i love her no matter what.
AS long as she knew that I love her..she accomplished lots.

Her younger sister expressed love and life in a different way.
She love's gymnitic. That's her gift. To watch a 6 years old
do summersuls...etc or a back flip from a stand still..is a trip.
As a parent, to watch your child land on her head..its gut rentching.
I would asist or spot her during her development stage.
As long as she knew that I love her she was okay or It gave her
comfort in her heart some how. I watch the little girl pick herself
up, again, again and again after many, many falls. Face her fear,
took a deep breath and continued
Holy schmoly...when she misses the parella bars, falls off the high beam
or land in the most auward posistion. She would cry at times.
I had to stop myself from stopping her from living her life.
To see the progress she made in the persuit of mastering gymnastic
it a thing of beauty. While her older sister can't even do a cartwheel.

But then sometimes, when I made mistakes and plenty I've made.
Mmmm like shot of a rocket that didn't fly totally straight.lol
Or eat **** trying to jump 15 feet on my BMX
The girl would tell me, they love me and offer to kiss my boo..boo
After a tough day at work. To have the girls tells me they love me
from out of the blues or offer me a to share their candi or Ice cream.
It's a trip !!!
The girls didn't know what I did for a living or how I earned money.

It's a learning process for me.
That too came to pass