as i continue wrestling with the politically incorrect details of managing my three chicken flocks, "courage to change" provided me with another high fiber chew to balance the psychoweirds of ^it^. thought i'd share again in hopes of enhancing the flavor. just hoping. . .

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confusion can be a gift from god. looking back on instances when i felt desperately in need of an immediate solution, i can see that often i wasn't readyy to act. when i became fully ready, the information i needed was there for the taking.

when i know too much about my options before the time is right to exercise those options, i tend to use the information only to drive myself crazy. that's why today, when i am feeling confused, i try to consider it a grace. it may not be time for me to act. 

i think that dealing with confusion can be like cooking. if the bread isn't done, i don't take it out of the oven and insist that it's time to eat. i let it finish baking. if a clear solution to a problem hasn't shown itself yet, i can trust that it will appear when the time is right.

today's reminder

i will thank my higher power for whatever i experience today, even if i feel troubled or confused. i know that every experience can offer me a gift. all i have to do is be willing to look at my situation in the light of gratitude.

"everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and i learn, whatever state i may be in, therein to be content." ~helen keller

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for what it's worth

helen keller was blind, deaf and mute. she lived from 1880 to 1968 and, along with her teacher, anne sullivan, was considered to among the elite sponsors of the american sign language. the 1962 movie of their beginnings, "the miracle worker" is a landmark of my personal herstory, though i didn't see it until it hit network tv some odd years later.