Merry Christmas from Dina
Published: Tue, 12/24/19
A very Merry Christmas to you, and your family and friends. Sending you wishes of peace, prosperity, good health and happiness in the New Year.
I know that it's likely you won't read this today… or if you do, you likely won't dwell on the words for very long. I hope you'll come back to it so we might connect at a later time. Because I did want to send you my heartfelt thanks for being my customer. Your continued support makes it possible to do what I love - write in a way that informs, inspires and empowers others -- and be able to do it from home, where I can take care of, and be there for, my family.
The content that I create here gets passed along from me, to you, to everyone on your list, and so on. Have you ever stopped to consider what a profound effect that could have on the world? What an honor and a privilege to have this powerful technology connecting us. Together we can help others get happy, learn something new, change their perspective, take pride in themselves, feel supported, and maybe even live better, than they did before.
That said, each year brings a new set of challenges, memories, and life lessons to be learned. It is up to us how we choose to receive these gifts. I've been hearing about grace a bit lately, and struggled a bit to understand. Given a few moments of Christmas quiet to ponder… I think that grace has to do with gratefully receiving whatever life sends your way, and doing it with quiet dignity, and faith that all will work out for the best.
At this time of year, I like to bring out my favorite poem to reflect upon, and I'll share it with you now. We were made to memorize these words in fifth grade English class. It's funny how the significance often doesn't hit until many decades later. If by Rudyard Kipling is the basis for how I choose to live my life, or at least try to.
If
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!
I hope to continue creating thought-provoking articles for you to share and help make a difference for others in the coming year. If you have any special requests for content topics, please let me know your ideas.
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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Dina at Wordfeeder PLR