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RE: Today I Feel "Gratitude Challenged...." - 1/30/2008 1:32:52 PM

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Dear Lori,
I too will light a candle in the All group for your friends.

Love Jude

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RE: Today I Feel "Gratitude Challenged...." - 1/30/2008 7:21:57 PM

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Thanks to all of you for your support. I felt pretty drained today after all of the emotion of last night. But today I'm feeling really grateful that the one choir member has such a good prognosis. And I'm really glad that the choir was able to sing for the one who is passing. It was a very sad moment, but a very moving one.

Hugs to all.
Lori

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RE: Today I Feel "Gratitude Challenged...." - 1/31/2008 8:09:55 AM

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Dear Lori, I just lit a candle for your friends in the group Barbara T. started with the name "choir".

With prayers and good wishes for you and your friends,
Much love,
Edda

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RE: Today I Feel "Gratitude Challenged...." - 1/31/2008 7:55:57 PM

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I just visited the candle group "choir" and was overwhelmed by how many candles you have all lit for my friends. Thanks so much to Jude, Edda, Barbara, Juliana, and Betty for your thoughtfulness, your prayers, and your kind words of support.

Love and hugs,
Lori

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RE: Today I Feel "Gratitude Challenged...." - 1/31/2008 10:09:14 PM

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Lori
so happy you saw the candle group Choir and that we are all lighting candles for your serentity and the peace of knowing your friends are in God's loving aura. Sometimes accepting our time is not always God's time is our largest human challenge...Take care Namaste Hope coach...Barbara T.

I also came here to post a brief gratitude challenge I enjoy the first snow of the midwestern winter however the snow, wind and cold challenge my spirit & gratitude for most of the winter I think this is my Southern Bell heritage from my father who was Texan....I do not know if our genes are destind by weather or environment but I swear since I was little living in Houston my body adapted to the heat.....brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

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RE: Today I Feel "Gratitude Challenged...." - 1/31/2008 11:49:54 PM

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Dear Barbara, Maybe you are right, maybe it is in the genes. We finally have a little snow!!!!

. The whole temperature thing a couple of days ago with an upper temperature in the mid 70's at the end of January left me feeling very gratitude challenged.

Winter, cold, snow, is time for interior journey

and spring, summer is the time for the results of the interior journey to bear fruit.

I will pray your snow leaves if you pray we get more.

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RE: Today I Feel "Gratitude Challenged...." - 1/31/2008 11:58:19 PM

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Dear Imenuff
I will pray God heeds our hearts and he gives you cold snow and me warm wind....are you in the southwest????? Perhaps your next retreat should be at Our Lady of the Snows retreat house and in winter Ive been told the location and the retreat are both beautiful....
Namaste
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Barbara T.

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RE: Today I Feel "Gratitude Challenged...." - 2/12/2008 3:38:14 PM

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Today I feel "gratitude challenged", or should I say weather disappointed.

We were "supposed to have at least 5 to 7 inches of snow and we have nothing. Edda, please ask "Mother Nature" to send it this way instead of to Chicago.

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RE: Today I Feel "Gratitude Challenged...." - 2/12/2008 6:36:04 PM

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Imenuff
Today I am so gratitude challenged regarding weather I am a SAD sufferer mildly and for the past years it is improved however today is my peak of SAD, cabin fever it has not stopped here in days frst snow then cold now snow again oh how I wish I had your 70 degree days and you had this snow and all of it all 6 to 12 inches of it....when I lived in Houston for a few uears with my dad's side I know I was ruined all I dream about is a warm weather winter but then I think of the Hot blazing summers.......now thats gratitude challenged suffice to say dear friend life is irony and weather related challenge If I could ship this to you ...I want to say how wonderful Edda takes this Chi Town weather and Leon too hardly a peep from them and how she shovels God Bless Her! Im such a baby I dont even shovel my Joe does Green for Spring
Namaste
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RE: Today I Feel "Gratitude Challenged...." - 2/12/2008 7:01:46 PM

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Dear Betty, I gladly ask "Mother Nature" to send this Lake effect snow, yes, the Lake you love so much, to you who also loves snow. It has been snowing all day and soon I will go out to do another round. Leon has an appointment with the orthopedic doctor tomorrow. The Medicar people need to be able to get Leon and his wheelchair in and out of the house!

Edda

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RE: Today I Feel "Gratitude Challenged...." - 2/13/2008 1:31:19 PM

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Barbara, dear, I am not in the southwest, but midwest. In fact, Our Lady of the Snows??

is about a 25 minute drive from my house!! We just live in the center of the juncture of the Meramec, Missouri, and Mississippi Rivers and usually always are missed by the snow. Regretably, tomorrow is supposed to be in the mid-50's

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RE: Today I Feel "Gratitude Challenged...." - 2/13/2008 2:21:53 PM

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Dear Friend
I am so geographically challenged I can get lost leaving my block seriously. And Florence (Mother) never really thought anything of distance eg she never told me the Retreat House at Our Lady of the Snows was in Missouri for her it would be a bus ride and the experience and that is what she shared...anway I did not realize that area of Missouri can get that warm in winter so sorry you are missing all this white stuff news report we will receive more on Thursday and Sunday we may all have to chip in and send a refrigerator truck with some your way LOL Be Patient with me and keep teaching as I love learning and when I crave a move to milder winters I should check into Missouri
Namaste and Love
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Barbara T.

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RE: Today I Feel "Gratitude Challenged...." - 2/13/2008 10:23:18 PM

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Betty, I'm so sorry for your lack of snow. We're supposed to have quite a bit of it Friday, so maybe you'll get it soon after, up the "I-44 corridor," as our weather prophets are fond of saying (usually they're talking about tornados).

My choir cohort who is dying is still with us, has lived a week longer than predicted. We sang to her again last night, she said a few words to us and sounded in good spirits. Continued thanks to all of you who light candles for her.

Hugs,
Lori

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RE: Today I Feel "Gratitude Challenged...." - 2/26/2008 3:20:50 PM

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Tonight I came onto this site feeling decidedly gratitude challenged, but I read all the new posts first before I came here to this thread, and now I feel much better

I went to the counselling session with my Son feeling quite relaxed and non-confrontational, but just after half-way something triggered lots of past pain and anger and rose up in me very strongly.
I thought I had come to terms with most of the really painful times with my Son, but obviously they are still there waiting to be transformed. Unfortunately we now have to wait a week in order to get back to those feelings.

The therapist saw it as a healthy reaction because we are getting to the 'nitty-gritty' of how we have, are and will live together or not in the future.

I feel better, but still pretty ragged, and my first reaction on coming home was to come here

because of all of you.

YOU RAISE ME UP

and reading all your posts is therapy in itself.

Lots of Love, Jude xx

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RE: Today I Feel "Gratitude Challenged...." - 2/26/2008 10:53:27 PM

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Jude
I've been on both ends of this feeling the person in therapy for issues with my dear mother
You would not believe how close we became after years of confrontational and oppositional
behavior on my part and hers. She literally refused to attend therapy so I had a therapist
come to our home we were such a pair the therapist quit her job and told me our case broke
her spirit. God had other plans and when Mom went to the nursing home we both had a spiritual awakening of some sort anyway we were never closer so take hope and never lose faith in God.
Also as a counselor I was on the other side having to help others through the period and the benefit of the struggle was evident in the positive outcomes ...it's the story of the cocoon and the butterfly.
your in your cocoon right now soon to be a butterfly.
Namaste
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RE: Today I Feel "Gratitude Challenged...." - 2/26/2008 11:03:44 PM

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Dear Jude, I am sorry you had a tough day in therapy. It is good that these old, buried feelings are released in the presence of someone who can help you deal with them. Eventually, bringing them into the open will give you relief! Healing a relationship is hard work.

Keeping you and your family in my prayers,
Much love,
Edda

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RE: Today I Feel "Gratitude Challenged...." - 2/26/2008 11:37:46 PM

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Dearest Jude,
Both sorry and glad to hear about your therapy session.

Sorry because it was going well and then became more difficult and ended without resolution. My experience is that therapy is like school - it works better if you do your homework between sessions. I guess you have a chance to do "homework" on your anger.

I am happy because therapy requires facing things we would often rather keep below the surface. It sounds like this happened this last session.

I am thankful that I have friends willing to face up to the difficult emotional issues we all face. These exciting experiences are the gifts we get for being human and claiming our birthright to have a heart that is open.
I would like to raise you up with this sweet song.

Josh Groban - You Raise Me Up "You Raise Me Up"

When I am down and, oh my soul, so weary;
When troubles come and my heart burdened be;
Then, I am still and wait here in the silence,
Until you come and sit awhile with me.

You raise me up, so I can stand on mountains;
You raise me up, to walk on stormy seas;
I am strong, when I am on your shoulders;
You raise me up... To more than I can be.

You raise me up, so I can stand on mountains;
You raise me up, to walk on stormy seas;
I am strong, when I am on your shoulders;
You raise me up... To more than I can be.

You raise me up, so I can stand on mountains;
You raise me up, to walk on stormy seas;
I am strong, when I am on your shoulders;
You raise me up... To more than I can be.

You raise me up, so I can stand on mountains;
You raise me up, to walk on stormy seas;
I am strong, when I am on your shoulders;
You raise me up... To more than I can be.

You raise me up... To more than I can be.

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RE: Today I Feel "Gratitude Challenged...." - 2/27/2008 12:27:23 AM

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Barbara,
This is for you in Missouri - the show me state - to show you something from Missouri.

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RE: Today I Feel "Gratitude Challenged...." - 2/27/2008 11:26:48 AM

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Dearest Jude, What a positive statement of how much you have grown.

quote:

I thought I had come to terms with most of the really painful times with my Son, but obviously they are still there waiting to be transformed.

There is no doubt you had come to terms with all of that but at a level you were capable of dealing with then. Now that you have grown so much more, you are more capable of dealing with it at a much deeper level. CONGRATULATIONS!!! The quote above truly shows how much you have grown since the last time you visited these issues. Know that you and your son's relationship is held in prayer.

Much love and prayer,

Betty

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RE: Today I Feel "Gratitude Challenged...." - 2/27/2008 1:27:13 PM

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Thank you all for such kind and helpful words. They mean so much.

Yes, it feels like a step backwards, but I do know it isn't

It's just that, when the therapist challenges you it feels like an attack from them, and I have had 'being under attack' up to here, as the saying goes. It's a pity thet the session was only for an hour, as, having to cut off in the middle has left me feeling pretty 'grotty' today.

Thank you once again for all your virtual hugs.

Jude

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