A New Beginning - June 3, 2012

"Almost everything comes from nothing."
~Henry F. Amiel~

Everyone needs  a vacation, but this one is not my idea of a vacation. Occasionally, life can suck and for me and my family right now; it does. I have received many e-mails and tweets from many readers of daily mood quotes and was overwhelmed by the volume. Thank you for reading. At this time, my family and I are on the road working towards a better life. We were pretty much driven away from our home because of unemployment. Plenty of education and training just not in anything anyone is looking to hire for in our sad sack, little, rust belt city. It's a sad story for America, but for my family and I, it was a lot more like living in a "Toxic Town."

Before we can build a life again, we must first find work, and at the same time, we must accept what happened to us. Then learn to forgive those, who with ill intent harmed us. That may take some time. It requires a bit more grace than I have at my immediate disposal right now. I have spoken about forgiveness in daily mood quotes before, but I never said it is easy. Anyway, telling the story through quotes might be fun, it may also help to ease the pain as I tell the story. 

From nothing... here we go. Remember the end of one thing is the beginning of another.

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Daily Mood Quote - June 6, 2011

Daily Mood Quote

Day 33 – June 6, 2011

Keep your heart open to dreams, for as long as there's a dream, there is hope, and as long as there is hope, there is joy in living.

~Anonymous

I know, keeping dreams and hope alive is not always easy in this time of turbulence. Gasoline prices spiraling out of control, unemployment 9.1% (national average) and people are losing their unemployment, because their benefits had dried up before they could find a job. People are losing their homes, their cars and sometimes everything they ever worked for because greed seems to be running rampant. So, everyday people have to make tough decisions such as, which bill to pay? Do I choose to keep the lights on, or pay to keep the gas on? I know people making these decisions everyday and I see the stress on people faces at the grocery store, at Wal-mart, even while window shopping at the mall. It's hard times out there, no doubt. Don't stop reading now, this will get better.

I am here to tell you, 'You are not alone.” The struggles many of us are experiencing are crappy, big giant piles of poo-poo, but if we close our hearts, we'll lose our hope and then joy leaves the building. Hope gives us the ability to rebound, who remembers the “energy crisis” of 1979? When crude oil went from $15.85 per barrel to nearly $40.00 per barrel. Gas prices jumped to $.90 per gallon and you could only buy five gallons at a time. It may seem laughable now, but it put a lot of people out of work in 1979. People ground through it, they buckled down, looked towards the future and took it one day at a time.

In the movie Titanic, Jack Dawson (played by Leonardo DiCaprio) says to a table of wealthy and powerful people, including Kate Winslet (Rose De Witt Bukater), “I figure life's a gift and I don't intend on wasting it. You don't know what hand you're gonna get dealt next. You learn to take life as it comes at you... to make each day count.” Life can present obstacles and sudden challenges for everyone, even those who are well off, that is for certain. To get past them, its best to learn from the past, take each day as it comes and never stop dreaming about the possibilities of the future. For in those dreams there is hope and in hope there is great power. Hope has carried humanity through some of its darkest times. It is the single thing that helps us to rise above our problems and seek safe harbor to weather stormy times and to be ready to set sail again, once the storms have past. This too will pass, but for now, as Jack said, “Life is a gift....to make each day count”

How will you make today count?

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