If you have hope, you can heal and do anything.
By Diane Pearl • Mar 5th, 2010 • Category: BlogSunshine and over 40 degrees…whoo hoo! I can finally take down my Christmas lights or do I just leave them up? You certainly do need to simplify as you grow older, so they just may stay up. What the heck! Rosie is pacing for a chance at squirrel chasing AKA hiking and so am I. It sure has been a long, cold, hard winter. But it seems if we stop playing because we are old or cold; we grow old and stay cold because we stop playing. Here are four thoughts to staying warm in a cold world: Give to others instead of wanting things for yourself. Belong to an “adventure club” to walk, run, laugh or find some humor every day. Even if you are the only member like me! Never lose your dreams and just meet needs. In other words, don’t waste time being angry or dead just surviving. Grow up but don’t grow old because there is always an opportunity in every life change or challenge. Mistakes are learning lessons and just hesitations. Lastly, have no regrets no matter what. We make a living by what we get but we make a life by what we give…if you believe and have true faith in good times as well as bad, the promise is for a safe landing, but never ever ever is it a calm passage. However, If God brings you to it, He will bring you through it. I have seen so many medical and life miracles to share these words hoping they help. If you have hope, you can heal and do anything.
Diane Pearl is the mother of Austin, Alexandra and Matt. She has co-authored and published five financial books and currently is writing Purpose For the Pain, a story of faith, family and friends facing the medical challenges of Fanconi anemia and two bone marrow transplants. She volunteers at the children’s schools and hospitals, speaks regularly for Ronald McDonald House charities, Fanconi Anemia Research Fund, and the National Marrow Donor Program. Her favorite is maintaining this site started in 2001 to inform and inspire other families.
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Alex and Matt signify HOPE to so many….actually your whole family does. May God continue to bless you with happy, healthy days. Have a great weekend.
Love,
Debbie