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I
apologize that my letter this month is so late. It seems like October is
running away with all of us. Some of it is fun like our annual Balloon fiesta.
Some is sad with the loss of the husbands of two of my long time friends. Some
of it is just hard with an overabundance of the delicious apples from our
orchard. I wish each of you could come get a box full. I would like to just put them all into
production for a lot of canned applesauce and canned apples. As I am awaiting
surgery on my hip I can only manage drying them. One problem is that my husband
and daughter can eat a whole days work in a few hours. And then there is
politics!
As I
have been flying through my month I have reflected back about what brings joy
into my life. What brings me up after a down week. My family comes first of
course. But here are some thoughts that I found.
“Expectation
has brought me disappointment. Disappointment has brought me wisdom.
Acceptance, gratitude and appreciation have brought me joy and fulfillment.”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru
― Rasheed Ogunlaru
“Joy always
follows on the heels of pain. If a person escapes a mindset that current events
represent an ongoing tragedy, they will encounter and comprehend all the beauty
that surrounds them. We find bliss by living alertly and unequivocally
accepting whatever is occurring in the present moment. If a person realizes
that the present moment is all that matters, they will gain an inner stillness
and appreciate the beauty and joy of each day.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
“Joy cannot be confused with the mere
absence sorrow, misinterpreted as experiencing minimal despair, or
misunderstood as living without crippling trepidation. Bliss necessarily
encompasses uncompromising acceptance of life’s defining permutations.
Emotional harmony necessitates beholding the pleasant and unpleasant exigencies
of life while expressing unstinting appreciation for the ordinary and the
extraordinary events in our lives. Joyfulness transcends the variations in
physical and emotional demands exerted upon us. Elation for life allows us to
rise above environmental determinates and associated stresses that might
otherwise vex our souls including death and other sorrowful events.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
“Our most
intense joy comes not from personal feats, but from helping other persons
achieve their goals. We become suppler human beings when we find true joy in
witnessing other people’s successes and unabashedly share in their joyful
accomplishments.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
“A
storm-filled life replete with piercing and unearthly sounds ravages the soul
of any thoughtful person. In contrast, the genteel wind of restoration moves
silently, invisibly. Renewal is a spiritual process, the communal melody that
sustains us. Inexpressible braids of tenderness whispering reciprocating chords
of love for family, friends, humankind, and nature plaits interweaved layers of
blissful atmosphere, which copious heart song brings spiritual rejuvenation.
For when we love in a charitable and bountiful manner without reservation,
liberated from petty jealously, and free of the toxic blot of discrimination,
we become the ineluctable wind that vivifies the lives of other people. The
mellifluous changes in heaven, earth, and our journey through the travails of
time, while worshiping the trove of fathomless joys of life, constitute the
seeds of universal poetry.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
2 Nephi 25 Adam fell that men might be; and men are,
that they might have joy.
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