so vague

Hi friends!

I know the pace and overall feel around my blog has changed over the last three weeks or so.  I am definitely going through a transition.  I know it will be for the best, but for now, I am vague.

I am okay.  I don't want any of you worrying about lil ole me.

But prayers, positive thoughts and love and light are always welcome here. 

Honestly, I am all out of sorts.  But just trying to relish in the good.  Soak up the joy.  Live in peace.

I hope you are all doing the same. 

Taking joy in life is a woman's best cosmetic.

~ Rosalind Russell

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Manic Monday - 12.05.11

Some people are afraid of what they might find if they try to analyze themselves too much,

but you have to crawl into your wounds to discover where your fears are.

Once the bleeding starts, the cleansing can begin.

~ Tori Amos

{I am trying.}

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start December off right

Our destinty changes with our thoughts;

we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do,

when our habitual thoughts correspond with our desires.

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~  Orison Swett Marden

what is holding me together

Jeremiah 29:11

"For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."

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randoms

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Manic Monday - 11.28.11

Every king was once a helpless baby and every great structure once a blueprint... it's not where you are today, but where you'll reach that counts.

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Things happen to you to make you realize your true potential, strength, will power, and heart.

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I truly respect the people who stay strong, even when they have every right to break down.

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Manic Monday - Overcome 11.19.11

The greatest glory in living lies not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail.

~ Nelson Mandela

We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.

~ Martin Luther King

Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.

~ Robert Schuller

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials. 

~ Chinese proverb

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

~ Japanese proverb

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P.S. If the winner of the My Memories giveaway, KEPACANINS, does not contact melifaif(at)yahoo.com by Sunday, 11.27.11 to collect their winnings, I will announce a new winner on Monday. 11.28.11.