Thursday, February 15, 2007

Reasons To Stay

1. No repairs or maintenance cost, just a rental fee
2. No mortgage, or responsibility
3. Safe neighborhood is at the top of the list
4. So much privacy that after living
there for an entire year your parents
were unable to locate the house to drop
off a package!
5. A good roommate, morally sound. She
will work with you after a sincere com-
munication session, and new regulations
for shared living space is mapped out.
6. The time has come to face your situation
in life and work through it for a solution.
time to stop running away from what isn't
working. Time to work on making the present
what you want it to be where you are now.
7.Time to accept your challenges. Release your
past and place your future in the Lord's hands.
8. Time to listen to your inner being, "Your Voice"
not that of everyone else. Only you can live your
life.
9. It is time for you to be happy with yourself. Stop
looking for external beings to fill the places for you.
Pick your own flowers and make your own bouquet each
day by day and soon you will find peace and contentment
that will come your way.

Words of advice not given for I know the argument they will start.
Words of advice now written, for my daughter that I truly love, yet
I must let her go her way once again; even if I fear another wrong
new start.

written by Pauline February 15, 2007( for Shelly)

3 comments:

Katie McKenna said...

The truth is that regardless of whether or not we agree or disagree, the lessons chosen are simply that... lessons. Necessary for growth. Your views different as you are both your own individual... through your own choices, paths.

I finally realized that ... I am no longer responsible for my daughters. I continued to help them and they appreciated it, but.. it was not necessarily the best thing to do. So... I let go.

Pauline said...

Thanks Katie! Tonight I attented a service and I found myself thinking that it surely must have been a mother that invented the first bandaid. We are forever trying to mend. Yes, letting go is the most difficult lesson any parent learns. I do not tell my off spring what to do I only pray that they will be guided by the power above, in this way I am attempting to let go or at least turn over the reins to someone I trust.

Bill ~ {The Old Fart} said...

Words to live by Pauline, how many people are happy with themselves. I always doubt myself and have to reassure myself "Life is Good"

Hope you have a wonderful weekend