Quotes & Mantras

In our family we have a lot of good quotes we live by or as mantras to get us thru the rough patches in life for example “If you lie down with dogs, you'll get up with fleas." or” Show me your friends & I will show you your future."-Glen Beck.  Above our back door in which we exit the most we have some wall words that say "Always Remember-Be honest, Be Kind, Be True and all these things will come back to you."   On the Pinterest website people are always posting the best quotes and brilliant ideas for a fun filled life.

Recently I believe I was watching Dr Drew interviewing Bristol Palin and he repeated a Quote from Winston Churchill "You have enemies?  Good!   That means you stood up for something you believe in your life,"  I now I have seen it a lot.  So reflecting on that quote has brought me some solace. I defiantly
have a few true enemies and I have never been one to believe that you should not burn bridges once burned it should light your path.  Sometimes being Christian it is hard to reconcile these feelings between disgust, frustration and still loving people when in side you really don't even want to be around them.  Society & culture makes it so much easier to dislike & stay away from the bum pan handling on the street, who has not bathed in a few days or the meth addict mother with sores on her face, smoking a cig, with a stinky diapered baby on her hip., or how about the tattoo clad male or female with body piercings as if they belong to a ethnic tribe of some sort but they don't.  These people seem threatening.  As if it is them against us.  What I can say I have truly learned in this life is that it is always going to be someone you know and love that is actually more dangerous to you.  Why is this?  I have had things stolen from me, a car, money, jewelry and yes I felt a sort of violation, but nothing compared to what happens when you stand up for something and you truly are standing alone or when trust is broken by a loved one.  These situations almost always have deeper consequence.

If a person can perceive that we are all only one bad choice away from being in a very bad situation such as the meth mom, or the drug addict/dealer or homeless person or an abuser, adulterer thief, liar.  Would that thought make it easier to help the less fortunate or love all people around us?  Or are the less fortunate really those people who look like they are keeping it together as long as know one knows the truth and they all have appearances of being a friend?  There is a book titled "We're All Doing Time" by Bo Lozoff I have not read the book but I love the title and I get it.  I do not want prison bars around me figurative or literally.  So what keeps them away?  Is forgiveness the only answer or just the easiest?  Being obedient to firmly taught principals?  I recognize my own prison walls, do you?  That knowledge does not make life easier.  It makes my journey less bumby, and I don't feel lost.

 "Now go and Cease the Day "

On your mark, get set, GO !!!

Ok so here I go, my husband has been encouraging me to do this for a couple of years.  He says I have a lot to say, and he thinks I should share my profound words of wisdom with the world.  I hope the world is ready. 

I was listening to public radio a few weeks ago and Ben Stein has written a book.  So he was being interviewed and he was talking about parents and how parents have that innate responsibility or ability to shield their children from the harshness of life, like a protective barrier from the world.  I was so touched by his thoughts and his gratitude toward his parents.  His relationship had not always been good with them, but mutual respect had grown over the years.  While I realize that not everyone gets that from parents, unfortunately.  I would like to be a sort of on-line mom, a place where I can offer some words of encouragement or course correction advice if asked for.  The one thing in life I have loved doing and being is a mother, a wife sometimes a little harder for me.  None the less with love, from mum is a blog for anyone.  And so my husband’s ears get a rest, he can be my first member I hope.  I can’t wait to see what this new venture holds; truth is always stranger than fiction.  On with the blog.

A little love, a dash of laughter mixed with hugs & kisses but always topped with good,sound advice.