All posts by VELINDA
Gratitude
This man’s home was destroyed by the tornado in Alabama. In the picture he is grateful after finding his dog alive. Devastation makes us realize what’s important…
Gratitude: “Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what you have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of your past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow” Melody Beattie
Love…
“Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own”
Robert Heinlein
You are what you have overcome
“I am not what I have done, I am what I have overcome” Unknown
“The key to survival is faith” Colonel Coffee, MIA Survivor
Risk
“Great freedom comes in taking risks, stepping outside that tiny little line that society prescribes as “normal” Pam Grout
Life is full of Possibility
Life is full of possibility, healing, growth and re-birth. A negative past does not have to define who you are. What has been in your life up till now has nothing to do with what can be
Velinda Peyton
Something Different
Today I heard the news that a friend of mine took his own life because of immense stress he had endured for many years. None of this was necessary.
My friend went through a divorce many years ago and has two teenage children from that marriage. Subsequent to the divorce, his wife decided to do the unthinkable….to turn his children against him. For many years she badly disparaged him to his children and told many untruths. Children are innocent and they only believe what they hear. Children have such a limited life experience that they are sometimes not able to properly discern between truth and fantasy. The truth is…and not because he was my friend…that he was a deeply devoted, loving father who loved his children more than any other people on earth. He was always there for them as any loving parent would be. He also did not act in like to his ex wife’s vengeance. Continue reading Something Different
Relationships are Work
Most of us are probably allured by the attractive notion that effortless relationships exist. Whether happily ever after marriages, friendships which last forever, or parenting, we would all like to believe that our most intimate relationships are unconditional and strong enough to withstand whatever may come. However, at some point in our lives we need to face the reality that relationships require effort to keep them alive and positive. Even wonderful, close, strong relationships can be destroyed by neglect.
We Come This Way But Once
“We come this way but once. We can either tiptoe through life and hope that we get to death without being too badly bruised or we can live a full, complete life achieving our goals and realizing our wildest dreams” Bob Proctor
POSITIVE THOUGHTS ON LIFE 