Post by caressa222 on Aug 7, 2018 22:11:48 GMT -5
You are reading from the book Each Day a New Beginning.
To have one's individuality completely ignored is like being pushed quite out of life. Like being blown out as one blows out a light. --Evelyn Scott
We need to know that we matter in this life. We need evidence that others are aware of our presence. And thus, we can be certain that others need the same attention from us. When we give it, we get it. So the giving of attention to another searching soul meets our own need for attention as well.
Respectful recognition of another's presence blesses her, God, and ourselves. And we help one another grow, in important ways, each time we pay the compliment of acknowledgment.
We're not sure, on occasion, just what we have to offer our friends, families, co-workers. Why we are in certain circumstances may have us baffled, but it's quite probably that the people we associate with regularly need something we can give them; the reverse is just as likely. So we can begin with close attention to people in our path. It takes careful listening and close observation to sense the message another soul may be sending to our own.
I will be conscious of the people around me. I shall acknowledge them and be thankful for all they are offering me.
To have one's individuality completely ignored is like being pushed quite out of life. Like being blown out as one blows out a light. --Evelyn Scott
We need to know that we matter in this life. We need evidence that others are aware of our presence. And thus, we can be certain that others need the same attention from us. When we give it, we get it. So the giving of attention to another searching soul meets our own need for attention as well.
Respectful recognition of another's presence blesses her, God, and ourselves. And we help one another grow, in important ways, each time we pay the compliment of acknowledgment.
We're not sure, on occasion, just what we have to offer our friends, families, co-workers. Why we are in certain circumstances may have us baffled, but it's quite probably that the people we associate with regularly need something we can give them; the reverse is just as likely. So we can begin with close attention to people in our path. It takes careful listening and close observation to sense the message another soul may be sending to our own.
I will be conscious of the people around me. I shall acknowledge them and be thankful for all they are offering me.
This is a remember when for me. my ex-husband #2 took me into the Royal Canadian Legion. It became my God. The Legion always came first, I would leave my son with a babysitter to go to get involved in a Legion event. Eve if that meant drinking by libation which was rye and coke and playing Darts, Snooker, Euchre or Cribbage.
When I went to the Legion, I thought that Darts was the worst, silliest, stupidest game on the face of the Earth. We would hardly be sitting down and my ex would get called to play a game. i did not like to be ignored, so I learned this stupid game, so I wasn't sitting alone. I got so I could beat him and was told that I was one of the top 3 players in the game. I poohooed the idea so they say top 5, and that I accept. The ego does wonderful things. Then I decided that I would like to learn to play snooker and join in the mixed league. The day I beat him, he vowed never to play me again. I spoiled his dart game and he wasn't going to let him spoil his snooker game.
Oh the game people play.
. I will be back looking for Lin and others.