Oh Betty bless you ,you made me smile reading your post.
 
 
Brunhilde sounds like me a stubborn old gal.Your not alone
 
Betty as I see faces on cars too.
 
I found this photo and it made me smile
 

The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love~and be loved in return♥♥  


 

I smiled so much tonight because Betty said I was unbelievably clever.
 
Thank you Betty  ♥
 
 





 

The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love~and be loved in return♥♥  


 

I just found this thread that I have not been to in a while. So many wonderful things being said.  I just finished a long night working and a bit wrung out from the work. so Iwill make this short
 
Juliana,  Thank you for the beautiful story about the free groceries on april first.  Boy do I relate to that !!  Before I started working tonight I got an email from a teacher saying she was giving me a months worth of classes ($250.00) free.  I did not know what to do.  I felt grateful.  But did not know how to write to thank her.  Accepting gifts is not easy for me  
 
After I got done with work I had to write the thank you email.. How difficult it was to write that thank you email.  Issues around deserving were waving.  Saying hello, remember me?  Of course if  I had been a child I would have been in glee that something was given. 
 
I have been given so much lately.  I cannot help but believe that this is Gods message to me that I am being carried through the financial challenge.  And will continue to be.  But its rather cracking my heart wide open.  This is not a bad thing at all.  Just phenomonal.  I never ever would have thought that so many people would offer services for free.  And I, who has  a hard time accepting / feeling deserving,  is being given the challenge of accetping from a place of worthiness and trust.  What an amazing week  Thank you for the story. It really speaks to this week of my life.
 
Betty, I loved reading about the bunny SUV that you saw.  And about Brunhilde.  I enjoy that you find the personality in your cars, as it should be.
 
For everyone else, Xanadue, Edda, Sparrow, Sandra, Jude Barbara, thank you thank you for all you wrote, and pictures you posted. Sandra, I agree with Betty, you are clever !!!   I do not know what led me here.  I was just supposed to just go and write my gratitude for the day.  And then go to bed.   with love and light, gratefulness and angels, liliwings

I smiled today
because others are admitting that they see faces in motor vehicles too.
I think we had a conversation,
Betty and I,
on another thread about our cars.
Mine's name is Persephone .
I, like you, liliwings
have a hard time accepting gifts.
It sounds as if you are making not-so-baby steps too,
in being able able to be gracious
and saying 'thank you'
with love . . .
sparrow

everything counts... ♥

"Giving and receiving are the same"
 
Bea Littlemore

Love is the only way

Perhaps I should add to that.....
 
Sharing has been a life-long struggle for me. What's mine has definitely been MINE!
 
I still have problems with it, but I'm getting better at it every day. In fact I enjoy sharing now.
 
Perhaps I felt materially deprived as a child or in a pevious life..I don't know.
 
Jude

Love is the only way

have been given so much lately. I cannot help but believe that this is Gods message to me that I am being carried through the financial challenge. And will continue to be. But its rather cracking my heart wide open. This is not a bad thing at all. Just phenomonal. I never ever would have thought that so many people would offer services for free. And I, who has a hard time accepting / feeling deserving, is being given the challenge of accetping from a place of worthiness and trust.

I only have a few secondsbut I could not dash before I replied to you Dearest Lilwings.
 
Liliwings what can I say apart from you are one of the most caring ,gentle,loving and kindest
 
people that I Know.You deserve all what is given to you Lilwings and more...I don't mean in
 
gifts I just mean that you offer so much through love and people who are lucky enough to meet you
 
know this .You really do have wings and Gosh how you lift so many people up you really do.
 
 
 
I am going to have to give both you and Saprrow therapy and Jude too I seeafter Betty has given
 
me mine first though.
 
Love to all always, from (a not so dim) Sandraxxxxx see Aunty Betty it's working

The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love~and be loved in return♥♥  


 

sparrow I, like you, liliwings have a hard time accepting gifts. It sounds as if you are making not-so-baby steps too, in being able able to be gracious and saying 'thank you'

I have heard that this is what this time is about.  Sharing, community,  learning to receive as well as give. etc etc.  Its all quite confusing.  This teacher said one can  only give from a place of being full. I am not sure that she is correct. Or that it would best be stated that one can give best from being full.  I guess it depends on the quality of giving and how one defines giving. 
 
Jude

"Giving and receiving are the same"  Bea Littlemore

oh I am so emmersed in grappling with this issue that I will have to take Bea's word for that
 
Perhaps I should add to that.....

Sharing has been a life-long struggle for me. What's mine has definitely been MINE! I still have problems with it, but I'm getting better at it every day. In fact I enjoy sharing now. Perhaps I felt materially deprived as a child or in a pevious life..I don't know. Jude
Interesting that you should say that Jude, because even as a child I had a hard time with that.  I think it was because I dd not have love. So I wanted to hold on to the substitutes that I had.  Yes, misled thinking.  the illusion.
 

Sandra, Love to all always, from (a not so dim) Sandraxxxxx see Aunty Betty it's working

yes, you are catching on sweetie. you are not dim !!!!  And you deserve lots of credit for accepting that truth. "aunt Betty" can tell you until she is blue in the face that you are not dim.  But you get to decide if you want to believe her or not.  And by the way, we all know you are one smart cookie.
 
Sending light and love and angels, liliwings

Dear Liliwings,

I had just started a reply to your post when a friend and former colleague called, staying with me for some time. So I am now going to say what I wanted to.

What you say about finding it difficult to receive and accept reminds me of my Mother. As a young woman I had once mentioned that to my mind it was wrong to deny others the chance of doing good. Years later she told me what impression this had made on her, she had always remembered it. Today I can honestly say that nothing pleases me more than being able to give some joy to others. It makes me so happy when it is simply accepted! 

Juliana
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Speak Peace in a World of Conflict 

Thank you Juliana for what you said.  Your mother must have been very special to have been in recognition of your words enough to remember them clearly years later.  And of course you are correct in what you say.  I once listened to the author James Twyman say that receiving is as important as giving.  like the inhalation is as imporant as the exhalation.
 
The whole giving thing can become a bit tricky for people who believe that their worth is in giving.  They can sometimes believe they lose their worth if they take rather than give.  I have seen it time and again with people.  It can be a self worth thing. Or even an abundance issue.   
Sending love and light and angels, liliwings 

Yes! In receiving graciously you are giving the 'giver' a gift....the gift of pleasure in giving.
 
Jude

Love is the only way

Today I smiled a lot because Sandra came to visit me!
 
and she taught me how to put my pictures on here.
 
these are the beautiful flowers she brought me.  Jude♥
 

 

Love is the only way

Oh Dear Jude I am so proud of you ♥ ...well done..I did nothing you can
 
only lead a horse to water but you can't make them drink it.
 
Oh not that I think your a horseJude bless you so much for being
 
you.I think you are  even nicer in the flesh

Not that I don't think your even nicer here tooopps now I

I am confusing myself .
 
No I am being serious now Jude it was lovely to meet you.. now we just
 
have to save some pennies to travel the world to meet our other dear
 
ones♥

The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love~and be loved in return♥♥  


 

...well done..I did nothing

Sandra, I think you did a little more than "nothing."  You were very patient with me and taught me well.
 
I have to say you are just as you are on the Forum.....only better
 
Thank you for a lovely day.
 
With Love, Jude ♥

Love is the only way

oh Jude those are beautiful flowers and alter table. I am very happy that you and Sandra got to meet !!!!!!!!!  And Sandra said you are even nicer in the flesh !!!  And she said you are not a horse. 
 
Yes Sandra now you both must save your pennies to cross that pond to visit your american family.  Please start with these sweetie

 I am very glad that you got to see each other smile.  Sending love and angels and congrats to Jude for putting up pictures, liliwings

I also smiled today because I met Jude ♥.
 
Well I got lost first on the way but that was part of the fun I think.
 
I will share an incy bit of our day with you as I am sure Jude won't mind ♥
 
First of all we then Jude put the kettle on and made us a nice
 
cup of tea (with Milk Buba).
 
We then chatted and chatted and chatted and chatted...well actually
 
come to think of it I think I should refrase this I chatted and chatted
 
and chatted and Jude did managed to get a few words in between.
 
Jude cooked a yummy lunch ,then we chatted more and more.
 
Everyone here was with us and it was so lovely it was like talking about
 
our dear school friends ♥♥♥♥.
 
 
Yes I must confess we did go onto the for a while
 
but it paid off ♥.
 
I met Blackberry,Apple ,Rosie and Sunny too.I don't think Sunny liked me
 
as I was talking too much to his Mummy ...bless him.
 
Then I left with a heart full of happy memories ♥.
 
Thank you Jude for a lovely day and excellent company ♥.
 
Thank you Ladies for coming too ♥♥♥
 
Thank you Forum Admin Without this wonderful forum none of us would have ever met ♥
 
 

The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love~and be loved in return♥♥  


 

Thank you Forum Admin Without this wonderful forum none of us would have ever met ♥

 
This is so true!!...Thank you to those who created the Gratefulness website.
 
Blessings,
Jude

Love is the only way

Bless you Jude you made my day I was so excited last night !
 
I have always been told to be patient with old people .
 
Jude you are so gentle and well just lovely..I don't mean just
 
lovely ..ok I will stop digging now .
 
 

Lilwings your's is the next stop via Buba,Edda,My Sparrow,Aunty
 
Betty,Diane,Isabella,Xanadue,Barbara ,Juliana,Joya ,Karen oh the list is endless so 
 
we will need way more pennies than that,but I guess the thought was there
 

The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love~and be loved in return♥♥  


 

I smiled just now hearing Chloe talking to a friend on the telephone.
 
"On the way home today with my Grandad, he was playing Beethoven music...oh my goodness....doo-do-doo, doo-do-doo, doo-do-doo, you know? I said, right, now can we have some pop music? Like....Beethoven was music from the last century."

Love is the only way

Dear Jude and Sandra, what a wonderful gift you both received today in getting to meet each other. As I write this, I just can't resist throwing out a challenge--Perhaps the next time you get together, Jude could come and visit you Sandra. I really bet you could do it, Jude. In fact, I know you could.

Just a few thoughts on the whole discussion of giving and receiving. Decades ago, my husband and I belonged to a community that attempted to treat each other as family. At the time we were going to take our guys by train to the home of Abraham Lincoln. Our community coordinator, without our knowledge checked with the community in Springfield, IL and it was tentatively suggested that the Springfield group would pick up up at the train station, take us around sightseeing and then have supper for us and take us back to the train station. Initially I refused because while we were in the same national group, we had never met the individuals in this particular community, and it was at a time during our national economy when finances where tight for everyone, though not as bad as now. As I was discussing this with a close friend, she stopped me short with her questioning. "Betty, what if you were asked to do this for members in the Springfield community, would you do it?" to which she got an immediate yes. Then, Betty, would you feel like you were really being imposed on by the family from Springfield? My response was definitely no, that I thought it would be fun. Her next question floored me --"Betty, why do you think you are so much better than they are???" I just stood there with my mouth open as she went on. "If Springfield asked you to do this for a family you didn't even know, you told me it definitely would not be an imposition but rather you would consider it fun. If you would consider it fun and yet feel like it would be an imposition on those in Springfield to do it for you, you must think you are much kinder, generous and more considerate than they were." Needless to say, I had NEVER looked at it in that particular manner but from then on, it has been much easier to accept from others. That experience along with the fact that when I give the blessing is on me and when I allow someone else to give, the blessing is on them. Not sure this example will have any meaning to the discussion of giving and receiving but my friends questioning me truly led me to new insight into the situation.

Sandra and Jude, may you savor the gift of having met physically and may your friendship now reach new depths and heights. Blessings to all for a very spring filled weekend of new life.

Yesterday is gone forever.Tomorrow may not come. Live Fully each moment today. Look for Good Things that Happen to you Every Day.