But a good Psychologist may well address a condition from a different angle.
But a good Psychologist may well address a condition from a different angle.
It really would be so easy to bow my will to what seems to be the inevitable direction my health is headed.
Keep trying the best I can or surrender.
Insanity….I'm told, is doing the same thing repeatedly, expecting a different outcome.
"These people arrived with a shovel and broom and said "How can we help?"
"These people arrived with a shovel and broom and said "How can we help?"
"When it's all stripped away...who am I?"
I am not there yet…..and not sure if I ever will be, wherever 'there' is.
The gentleman in the red suit and any entertainer for that matter, may go by many names but for me, only Christ Himself is my King of Christmas.
I'll just have to remember what I've written here the next time my beloved Commodore is scratched.
Those bits of me that argue with arthritis know what's coming over the following few days and they don't look forward to it at all.
I didn't see it come down nor feel it land. I happened to look at my hand and there it was - no bigger than my thumb nail.
The more I looked and listened, the more I saw and heard, which is quite precious for one with little sight.
I think I accept the principle that I have significant limits. Accepting how I live with this reality every day and night is a very different thing.
Expecting that the unexpected is possible or likely, is as necessary as dealing with the unexpected.
For example, getting out of bed is often a decision of my will and nothing more.
The good thing is I don't need a Certificate 4 or degree in Kindness to listen to another person.
Whatever control I imagined I had, is no longer.
After his dad told him I was 73yrs old, he stared at me then at his dad and said with some force and a shocked look on his face, "You're joking!!
Courage is not that easy to grasp. It's like looking for what's inside a can of fresh mountain air.
Still, we are all wired for courage. The trouble is I don't know if I have enough courage for my day until I start my day.