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This River Called Life, A Letter to My Children

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Today, my ebook was published on both Kindle and The Nook.  The preview for the book  is listed below as well as a review by my proofreader.  She read the book and was so motivated by it to change her life that she started her own business.  See reviews and links below.

Preview for book:  There comes a time when you know the world you are living in is not your home.  When that happens it does not matter the existing circumstances. It does not matter how late in life you may have waited. What matters is that you are ready to jump into the life your soul has longed for.  This is when you feel alive. This is when you know everything you have been prepared for is coming together, and it is time…time to finally live who you are.  This realization is magical and resonates possibly for the first time with your life’s purpose.  My message is don’t wait for what you know you are born to do.  When you have a talent, it needs to be shared.  When you have a dream, it needs to be lived.  When your heart is leading you and your passion is talking to you, listen!  Life is about your unique journey, and the difference you can make.  There is nothing that will compare with your decision to finally go in the direction you are meant to go and all the magic that happens from that decision.  This is when life finally falls together. 

 Originally written only for my Children as inspiration and guidance about life, This River Called Life, A Letter to My Children is encouragement…about taking control of your destiny instead of accepting what life lays in your lap.  It’s about finding yourself, believing in your dreams, believing in yourself, leaving yesterday behind, and creating a world as unique as you are.  What has been in your life up till now has nothing to do with what can be.

Review:  It is my distinct pleasure to have read the first draft of Velinda Peyton’s new book This River Called Life, A Letter to My Children.  She writes in such a clear, informative manner and is inspirational in her encouragement of others to pursue their dreams. Consequently, I have started a business with my husband after reading her book because I also have found my passion.  In addition, she tunes in so well to many of the longings we all have, in every aspect of our lives.  One particular passage that moves me is her description of coming across a deer in a remote area of Colorado.  Her description is so poetic and moving that I feel as if I am actually there with her in the moment. I often find myself wanting to reread certain passages because the writing is simply that good.  Fantastic job, Velinda!  Cathy

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The whole point in believing…

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“People seem to lose faith so easily.  Isn’t that the whole point in believing?  Tomorrow always brings promises that yesterday couldn’t make”  Jenna Gilbert

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Unconditional Love….Happy Valentines Day

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When all Else Fails:  “They laughed and asked me what I see in you.  I smiled back and said…everything you don’t” Unknown

 There have been times that my children expressed to me a lack of confidence in themselves.  It’s natural at times for people to fall into feelings of doubt.  But what I see in them is everything they don’t.  I see their love and worth.  I see the good that is innately there.  I see all the potential they have going for them.  I see love.  If they could only see what I see in them they would never doubt themselves.  I see the two most precious people I have ever known.  I love them deeply and see everything in them that makes my heart know my life is beautiful for having known them.

From the Book:  This River Called Life, A Letter to My Children http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0077SF3GY

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Sometimes the worst things turn out to be the best things

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Isn’t it funny how sometimes the adversity we experience that we thought was the worst thing that could possibly happen, turns out to be the best thing that could have happened!  I’ve known so many people who went through an excruciatingly devastating event in their lives….even to the point of losing everything, just to emerge happier, more authentic and finding more meaning from their downfall than they could have imagined. I was thinking about this last night watching the Grammy Awards.  Adele won 6 Grammys last night for her song and album about a relationship that broke her heart.  She talks openly about this when interviewed, how she writes songs about love and love gone wrong.  She channeled her heartache into growing and overcoming.  From her song writing she has emerged victorious in her resolve to move on better than ever.

Discover the answers in the misfortunes that happen to you, and know it is exactly where you are meant to be.  There is something here in this storm of life that you need to know, something that needs to change, or a new you that needs to emerge.  Learn and grow from your challenges instead of letting them own you.  You are worth it.

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Believe in Yourself

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The authentic self gives you power, vision, and passion.

You’ll never get something in your life unless you believe you deserve it. You have to believe and fall in love with yourself.  Believe in yourself, your worth, your value.  Dr. Phil

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Know Yourself

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Nothing is more important than to know yourself.  This makes all things on all planes in all realities easy. 

To grow and change we need to integrate insight into our lives.  The irony is that we create all the situations in our lives to teach us things.  We set ourselves up for lessons and when they come along we feel hurt.  Self-pity means you need to be aware of your illusions.  The very hurt and fear that you feel is part of the lesson you yourself have created.  When you stop resisting the feeling and realized that the persons involved in the situation are just actors on the stage, then you are free to receive insights into what is going on.  If you know yourself, then your life works.  You do not have problems in one-to-one relationships.  You do not set yourself up to be rejected or dumped on, lied to or ripped off.  You do not set yourself up to be bored or frustrated, for you are in tune with and following your creative life path. 

Betty Bethards, The Dream Book

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Dreams Are Whispers From The Soul

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Dreams Are Whispers From The Soul.

What you really want to do is what you are really meant to do.  When you do what you are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, you feel useful, and the work you do feels like play to us.  Julia Cameron

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We are Worthy

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“So many of us were emotionally abandoned as children and learned that the only safety or thing to count on was doing it all by ourselves.  We fill the emptiness by being beholden to no one.  The alternative is giving and receiving.  We are worthy.”  Sark

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Love…Our Ultimate Reality

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Love is the essential existential fact.  It is our ultimate reality and our purpose on earth.  To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life.  Love is who we are and love is what we are here for.  Nothing else is real and nothing else matters.

 When we attach ourselves to things, we are searching for meaning in the meaningless.  Money, of itself, means nothing. Material things, of themselves, mean nothing.  It’s not that they’re bad.  It’s that they’re nothing.

 Denying love is the only problem, and embracing it is the only answer.  Love heals all of our relationships: to money, the body, work, sex, death, ourselves and one another.   Through the miraculous power of pure love, we let go of our past history in any area and begin again. 

 It doesn’t matter who we are, where we came from, what Mommy said, what Daddy did, what mistakes we made, what diseases we have, or how depressed we feel.  The future can be reprogrammed in this moment.  We don’t need another seminar, another degree, another lifetime, or anyone’s approval in order for this to happen.  All we need is a gentler perception.  All we have to do is ask for a miracle and allow it to happen, not resist it.  There can be a new beginning, a life unlike the past.  Our relationships shall be made new.  Our careers shall be made new.  Our bodies shall be made new.  There can be a new beginning, a life unlike the past.

                   Marianne Williamson  “A Return to Love”

 

 

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Kindness

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“How do you change the world?  One random act of kindness at a time”