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"Life’s not about waiting for the storm to pass..

      Its about learning to dance in the rain."

                                  author unknown

    Facing the Facts

“We are pulled, Gentle One, like a turkey wishbone in this balancing act of illness.  We ping-pong between accepting and denying, giving up and fighting. Give us strength to find and face facts, for there is freedom and power in knowledge.  Help  us understand that accepting is not throwing in the towel; rather, through grace, accepting is like going to the bank to withdraw our savings...our spiritual, mental and physical resources.  As we make the transaction, we know You are our endless, bottomless, forever source."

Margaret Anne Huffman

From Get Well Wishes

Surrender

melting into the well worn pockets of my bed

my body attains a certain sense of weightlessness

floating as it were on a feathery cloud of white flannel

it implores that the fine print

in my agenda

be deferred to another day

when energy or resolve

are replenished

Laura C-M

Self Preservation

fatigue

heavier than a dense fog 

enveloping a windswept tree

bending slender limbs downward

every cell in my body sags

I cannot defy gravity’s call

I surrender for the sake

of self preservation

   Laura C-M