MAY YOU ALWAYS FEEL LOVED

MAY YOU ALWAYS FEEL LOVED

May you find serenity and tranquility in a world you may not always
understand.

May the pain you have known and the conflict you have experienced give
you the strength to walk through life facing each new situation with
optimism and courage.

Always know that there are those whose love and understanding will
always be there, even when you feel most alone.

May you discover enough goodness in others to believe in a world of
peace.

May a kind word, a reassuring touch, a warm smile be yours every day of
your life, and may you give these gifts as well as receive them.

Remember the sunshine when the storm seems unending.

Teach love to those who know hate, and let that love embrace you as you
go into the world.

May the teaching of those you admire become part of you, so that you may
call upon them.

Remember, those whose lives you have touched and who have touched yours
are always a part of you, even if the encounters were less than you
would have wished.

May you not become too concerned with material matters, but instead
place immeasurable value on the goodness in your heart.

Find time in each day to see the beauty and love in the world around
you.

Realize that each person has limitless abilities, but each of us is
different in our own way.

What you may feel you lack in one regard may be more than compensated
for in another.

What you feel you lack in the present may become one of your strengths
in the future.

May you see your future as one filled with promise and possibility.

Learn to view everything as a worthwhile experience.

May you find enough inner strength to determine your own worth by
yourself, and not be dependent on an other’s judgments of your
accomplishments.

May you always feel loved.

– Author Unknown

When You Thought I Wasn’t Looking

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#6223          Wings Over The Mountains of Life
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When You Thought I Wasn’t Looking
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When you thought I wasn’t looking,
I saw you hang my first painting on the fridge,
and I immediately wanted to paint another one!

When you thought I wasn’t looking,
I saw you feed a stray cat and I learned that it was good to be
kind to animals!

When you thought I wasn’t looking,
I saw you make my favorite cake for me, and I learned that the
little things can be the special things in life!

When you thought I wasn’t looking,
I heard you say a prayer, and I knew there was a GOD I could
always talk to and I learned to trust in GOD

When you thought I wasn’t looking,
I saw you make a meal and take it to a friend who was sick,
and I learned that we all have to help take care of each other

When you thought I wasn’t looking,
I saw you give of your time and money to help people who had
nothing, and I learned that those who had something should give
to those who don’t!

When you thought I wasn’t looking,
I saw you take care of our house and everyone in it,
and I learned we have to take care of what we are given!

When you thought I wasn’t looking,
I saw how you handle your responsibilities even though you
didn’t feel good, and I learned that I would have to be
responsible when I grew up!

When you thought I wasn’t looking,
I saw tears come from your eyes, and I learned that sometimes
things hurt, and it’s ok to cry!

When you thought I wasn’t looking,
I saw that you cared, and I wanted to be everything that I could
be!

When you thought I wasn’t looking,
I learned most of life’s lessons that I needed to know to be a
good and protective person when I grew up!

When you thought I wasn’t looking,
I looked at you and wanted to say, “Thanks for all the things I
saw when you thought I wasn’t looking!”

~Author Unknown~

No Excuses

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#1281          Wings Over The Mountains of Life
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No Excuses
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The next time you feel like being bitter, resentful and angry –
- even if the circumstances justify these emotions —
consider the inspiring words of a man who, after 27 years of
imprisonment by his government, had every right to be bitter,
resentful and angry:

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate,
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

We ask ourselves, ‘Who am I to be brilliant,
gorgeous, talented and fabulous?’

Actually, who are you NOT to be?

You are a child of God.

Your playing small doesn’t serve the world.

There is nothing enlightening about shrinking so that
other people won’t feel insecure around you.

We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.

It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone.

And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give
other people permission to do the same.

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence
automatically liberates others.”

These are words of Nelson Mandela, who gave this inaugural
speech in 1994, after being elected President of South Africa.

He became the leader of the government that had for so long
sought to take away his voice.

This man had every right to be bitter, resentful and angry at
the world.

How dare he inspire us to greatness?  Shouldn’t he have instead
approved our sloth?

After all, is anyone really appreciated for what he does,
regardless of the extent of the sacrifice?

Nelson Mandela confirms that you are expected to be great.

Nothing less.

You can even be more than great if you decide to ignore the
non-existent limitations that everyone else can see.

What kind of glasses are they wearing?

I know I’m gorgeous, brilliant and talented.
Simply put, I am fabulous.

What about you?

~A MountainWings Original By C. Elijah Bronner
(With credit to Nelson Mandela)~

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BLESSINGS WE MAY NOT RECOGNIZE

1. If you own a Bible, you are abundantly blessed – about 1/3 of the world
does not have access to one.

2. If you wake up each morning with more health than illness, you are
blessed to rise and shine, to live and to serve in a new day.

3. If you have anyone on the planet, just one person that loves you and
listens to you; count this as a blessing.

4. If you can freely attend a church meeting without fear, then you are
more blessed than over 1/3 of the world.

5. If you have a yearning in your heart to parent a child, you are
blessed because you still desire what you cannot see.

6. If you pray today or any day, you are blessed because you believe in
God’s willingness to hear your prayer.

7. If you pray for someone else, you are blessed because you want to help
others also.

8. If you have food in your refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof over
your head, and a place to sleep; all at the same time; you are rich in this
world;

9. If you have a brother or sister in Christ that will pray with you and
for you, you benefit from a spiritual unity, bond, and agreement, which the
gates of hell cannot stand against.

10. If you have any earthly family that even halfway loves you and supports
you, you are blessed beyond measure.

11. If you attend a church with a church family that offers you one word of
encouragement, you are blessed with some form of fellowship.

12. If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, or some spare change in
a dish someplace you are among the world’s wealthy.

13. If you can go to bed each night, knowing that God loves you, you are
blessed beyond measure.

14. If you try each day to imitate our Lord Jesus Christ for even a minute,
you are blessed because you show a willingness to grow up in Him.

15. If you can read this message, you are more blessed than about 1/3 of
the world who cannot read at all.

16. If you have never had to endure the hardship and agony battle,
imprisonment, or torture, you are blessed in indescribable measure.

17. If you have a voice to sing His praises, a voice to witness God’s love,
and a voice to share the gospel, you are blessed. About 1/3 of the world do
not even know who the one true God is.

18. If you can hold someone’s hand, hug another person, touch someone on
the shoulder, you are blessed because you can offer God’s healing touch.

19. If you can share a word of encouragement with someone else, and do it
with His love in your heart, you are blessed because you have learned how to
give.

20. If you have the conviction to stand fast upon His Word and His
promises, no matter what, you are blessed because you are learning patience,
endurance, and tenacity.

21. If you hold up your head with a smile on your face and are truly
thankful, you are blessed because most people can, but many will not.

May God Bless You And Keep You Safe.

– Author Unknown

Why Women Are Crabby

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Why Women Are Crabby
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I just had to share this. I’m not sure if it’s appropriate to
post as one of your daily “MountainWings Moments.” However, I’m
absolutely positive your wife, sister-in-law, mother, mother-in-
law and any other woman you can think of will enjoy reading
this. PLEASE PASS IT ON!
Tameka Hudson

Why Women Are Crabby

We started to “bud” in our blouses at 9 or 10 years old only to
find that anything that came in contact with those tender,
blooming buds hurt so bad it brought us to tears. So came the
ridiculously uncomfortable training bra contraption that the
boys in school would snap until we had calluses on our backs.

Next, we get our periods in our early to mid-teens (or sooner).
Along with those budding boobs, we bloated, we cramped, we got
the hormone crankies, had to wear little mattresses between our
legs or insert tubular, packed cotton rods in places we didn’t
even know we had.

Our next little rite of passage (premarital or not) was having
sex for the first time which was about as much fun as having a
ramrod push your uterus through your nostrils (IF he did it
right and didn’t end up with his little cart before his horse),
leaving us to wonder what all the fuss was about.

Then it’ was off to Motherhood where we learned to live on dry
crackers and water for a few months so we didn’t spend the
entire day leaning over Brother John. Of course, amazing
creatures that we are (and we are), we learned to live with the
growing little angels inside us steadily kicking our innards
night and day making us wonder if we were preparing to have
Rosemary’s Baby.

Our once flat bellies looked like we swallowed a watermelon
whole and we pee’d our pants every time we sneezed. When the big
moment arrived, the dam in our blessed Nether Regions invariably
burst right in the middle of the mall and we had to waddle, with
our big cartoon feet, moaning in pain all the way to the ER.

Then it was huff and puff and beg to die while the OB says,
“Please stop screaming, Mrs. Hear-me-roar. Calm down and push.
Just one more good push (more like 10),” warranting a strong,
well-deserved impulse to punch the %*#!* (and hubby) square in
the nose for making us cram a wiggling, mushroom-headed 10lb
bowling ball through a keyhole.

After that, it was time to raise those angels only to find that
when all that “cute” wears off, the beautiful little darlings
morphed into walking, jabbering, wet, gooey, snot-blowing, life-
sucking little poop machines.

Then come their “Teen Years.” Need I say more?

When the kids are almost grown, we women hit our voracious
sexual prime in our early 40’s – while hubby had his somewhere
around his 18th birthday.

So we progress into the grand finale: “The Menopause,” the
Grandmother of all womanhood. It’s either take HRT and chance
cancer in those now seasoned “buds” or the aforementioned Nether
Regions, or, sweat like a hog in July, wash your sheets and
pillowcases daily and bite the head off anything that moves.

Now, you ask WHY women seem to be more spiteful than men, when
men get off so easy, INCLUDING the icing on life’s cake: Being
able to pee in the woods without soaking their socks…

So, while I love being a woman, “Womanhood” would make the Great
Gandhi a tad crabby. Women are the “weaker sex”? Yeah right.
Bite me.

~Author Unknown~

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I did let my wife and sister-in-law read this.

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Japan, China and The Philippines

Fooooooooooooooooooooooook!!!

I just got a phone call from my travel agent. She wanted to know if I want to move my trips for/to an/other day/s or should they just cancel all of them or I could just pay now and get on the next flight!!!!

When will I be brave enough to go to another country alone? Never been anywhere else but home 1 and home 2. Has got nothing to do with the country or the people. It’s all a matter of my comfort and my convenience. And maybe, a lot about my sanity – can’t shop – at the moment. Actually…no, I can’t shop.

When will I get it in my head that time, presence and people are what matters most? It doesn’t matter how much money I spend or got left or even have to pay for for the rest of my silly and ridiculously capricious life!

What matters is I am there, I was there and I will be there.

I have arranged trips to China and Japan for my summer vacation. Yes, I got plan B, The Philippines, 4 days with my family and 4 days with my GFs in Palawan. All possible if I would just get my fat ass off this bloody squeaky chair. I should also stop blogging in gumbo mode.

Why the hell am I sitting here and blogging? I could be with friends who are on vacation, too. Bwahahahaha. I know why I am here ;p. None of my friends are happy about it. They, too, agree that I am blind. Get me those lenses and glasses and I assure you, my dear darlings, I am not blind just color blind.

I believe we judge people for many reasons based on many things. Mine are what they read, what they’ve done in the past, what people say about them and what shoes they wear. What they say when they are drunk or angry is quite important. I like drunk and angry people but not the violent kind. Yup, there’s a twisted bitch that lurks inside the spacesuit.

I miss my mom’s phone calls way back when I was always there. “Where are you? Where the hell have you been? Where are you going?” It’s the family rule. We don’t really care what you’re doing just tell us where you are (my mom’s rule). Oh! and you better have good grades or you could forget about TV or your next escapade (mom n dad’s). My parents got 6 smart kids – it must be Christmas coz everyone is home (my dad’s rule).

It is not my/our fault. They raised me/us living in a suitcase. I remember my grandma telling me stories how I would be sent like a package when I was a kid. Monday to Friday I’d be in school most of the time. Other days, you’re lucky to see me at home watching TV. The usual answer my parents would give to people looking for me would be “She’s with her grandma or her great grandma. If not, with her aunts. If you find her, there’s a new book waiting for her”. That goes for my bros and sisses, too.

Traveling has become very difficult for me. I travel light, very light. I come home way too heavy for my own good. And I get so tired and bloated. My last trip cost me $5000 for five days. I had only 24 hours of sleep equivalent to my travel time in cars and on planes. I got 5 gigs of pictures. And enough stories to last me a lifetime. All with just my family.

I prefer driving now, my car is my home 3. With the car, I have the luxury to get the hell out of wherever I am if I get so pissed off. I love driving angry. I should never drive in another country. Btw, I think none of those speed cameras work ;p.

What I think I want instead of a plane ticket is a new toy. What I would not give for that 7″ notebook TOT. My cellphone is good enough. It’s got TV, mp3, blue tooth and a camera. But no movies or I just don’t have the tiny memory card. I want the 4 gigs one or bigger. All that costs less than my weekends nowadays.

China, I think, is something I should forget about. Their size 10 or 40 is too small for me. Also, it is probably the dirtiest country in the world – yellow dust. Call it whatever you want, I will resist the temptation to go there. I love silk dresses and high collars and slits!!!

Japan, what is it with you that I wanna go there? Ah! My friends are there. It’s just 3 hours away, too. I am not sure though if I wanna be shaken anytime soon. I’ve gone thru 2 huge earthquakes. I’ve had enough. I like wasabi, sushi, sake and that back pillow that comes with the kimono.

The Philippines is my home sweet home. I would love to see my nephew and my niece. Last time I was home, I almost dropped them. They are so fat!!! I talked to my dad after a week they popped out of their moms, he said he couldn’t carry them any longer than five minutes. I would love to squeeze them and bite them. I think it would be better for me to wait til they could run. Chase the piglets is a traditional game back home.

There. Anger, frustrations and disappointments are great inspirations. Better out than in – all for you to read.