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Cookie Cutter People?

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Are We Really Meant To Be Cookie Cutter People? Had a major Epiphany today!   We are all who we are meant to be – we have ALL of the ingredients we need to grow into who we are meant to be and become the best “ME” each of us is designed to become!   Even if we think that because we are not the same as this one over here, or that one over there, we might even think that we may be “less than.”   Less than perfect?   Less than acceptable?   No – not only are we acceptable we ARE perfectly designed to be who we were meant to be! It is so easy to compare ourselves to someone else, and, if you’re anything like me – you come up so very short in that comparison game! We run the risk of wanting to be just like someone else – like cookie cutter people.   But we are not meant to be cookie cutter people all the same with the only variation being the outer frosting on each one of us! There can never, ever be another “you” that is just like the remarkable and unique “y

Thoughts on the Grief Process

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                           Thoughts on Grief My 53 year old son laid down to take a nap on Dec 12, 2015 and never woke up.   This event has left a great hole in my heart. Grief – the grieving process, and it is a process – a process that just keeps on going.   It takes many forms but it is never really over.   It is a lot like riding the waves – sometimes you are up, and other times you are down, and there is no way of predicting when the next wave will grab you. Just when you think you are really going to be over it – something comes along to ramp it up again.   A memory of an event, or a birthday, or the anniversary of their passing, or a picture that you come across, or a favorite song that you hear on the radio.   It could be anything.   And your feelings spiral up down and around, leaving you with your sadness once again. As I write this, Joe has been gone 3 ½ years.   He had what most people hope and pray for – a peaceful kind of death – a quiet kin