The Art Of Kindness

Treasures In The Garden

                                               

                                       "Kindness is a SUPER power!"

                   For such an unremarkable word ,kindness has a shine                                   that leaves a glow long after the act of kindness has                                                             been ignited. 

Amid our relentless demands of everyday living, we need to keep in mind that goodness and generosity are real life actions- not dreams.We need to practice  them everyday. Kindness is the glue that patches up the cracks in humanity.

                                                                                 angelamollard@gmail.com

                                        Find the courage to be kind.

                    When we have a kindness paid to us, give it the ripple                                                    effect and 'pass it on'. 

                            My word for today is "GENEROSITY!"

                  

Never Give Up

Treasures In The Garden

A positive mind plus positive thinking .......

 

Have courage and a belief in yourself,

Maintain a positive outlook, 

Encourage others to be positive too.

Don't get caught up in negatives- 

Stick to the positive,

 Listen to others to find ways to be be positive,

Always look for ways to improve,

Focus on the here and now,

 Don't dwell on past mistakes,

Don't get distracted from moving forward,

Inspire others to believe in themselves.

Always do your best,

 Never give up!

Sarah Wall- professional basketballer

Australian Catholics magazine 

.......adds up to a positive outcome!

 

My word for today is"STICKABILITY!"

 

 

 

Starting out anew

Treasures In The Garden

What can we do.......

As we start a new year

untouched and unmarred,

Unblemished and flawless,

 unscratched and unscarred,

May we try to do better 

 and accomplish much more

And be kinder and wiser

than in the year just gone before-

Let us wipe our slates clean

and start all over again,

For this privilege has been given to all sincere (wo)men

who will humbly

admit they have failed in some ways

But are willing to try to improve these "new days"

By asking God's in all that they do

 And counting on God to refresh and renew

Their courage and faith when things go wrong

 And the way seems scarey and dark

  and the road rough and long-

What can we do 

when the year is so new?

The choice is ours

 - "GOD LEAVES THAT TO YOU!"

                                    Helen Steiner Rice

 

....... To make our new year better?

 

My word for today is CHOICES!" 

 

 

 

Wistful Wishing

I wish for:

Comfort on days that are difficult,

Smiles when sadness intrudes,

Rainbows to follow clouds,

  Laughter to soothe yearning lips, 

Sunsets to warm aching hearts, 

Gentle hugs for sagging spirits,

 Friendship to brighten each day,

Beauty for longing eyes to observe,

 Confidence for when in doubt,

Faith to help flagging belief,

Courage to know our true selves,

Patience for acceptance of truth,

And LOVE to make life complete.

                                              Soul Writings

Chances Are....

Treasures In The Garden

 

What Insight will I gain?

 Please don't cry because something has ended.

Smile because it has happened.

 Maybe this will be a new beginning.

May be we need to take a chance on trying something new.

Unless we do we'll never know 

how absolutely perfect

 that new something may turn out to be.

  

Chances are, the chances are awfully good!

 

 

Still on the Journey

 

Treasures In The Garden

 If today was my last day on earth....

....I wonder who  I would spend it with

.....where would I like to be

.... what would I like to write about?

What am I looking for?

I think that I must not count the days I have left in my life
but make the days count for something in the rest of my life,

....Because, today is the first day of the rest of my life.

DO IT NOW!

Journal Jottings

FAMILY

I want to have more contact with my family. I want our family to realise they have parents. I want to see more of my family. We are in the downhill run of our life and I want to be remembered with love.

We will still live in Nanango The peace that is there makes life worth living- not rushing through life, through each day without remembering what happened. Live every moment- not just exist. Not sitting around , not being lazy, not vegging- getting lots done

 We already have pets- lots of work but good company, and give unconditional love It's better when we go on holidays in the van and they can go with us.

 This time next year I will be close to retirement.
 I will be seeing more of my family.

 I will do more travelling

 make things for my grandchildren

loving life in general

enjoying relaxation.

 I am going to phone my children once a week

 my goal is to gain courage to do it- put aside a time each night to ring one family. DO IT. (Thursday is out because I go to art class, which I enjoy)

At this present moment I am working towards retirement.

my goal is to be ready, not to suddenly get there and find I have nothing in place to fill the void where work used to be.

I will get courage to phone my family every week. COURAGE! COURAGE! COURAGE!

I will LIKE using the phone

 It can be user friendly COURAGE!COURAGE! COURAGE!

 I LOVE my Family.

 I am proud of their achievements

 I like who I am

I am proud of my Achievements!

Whatever you can do, or dream, you can begin it.

Boldness has genius power and magic in it. Goethe

05/11/12

What's happened since then

I have semi retired

 I have a part time job to be with children to ward of lonliness

 I do get to travel

 I have been to see my children on a number of occasions.

 I still have not conquered my telephone phobia.

 I have gained a driving Phobia.

 I keep busy.

Most of the time I enjoy life. I don't attend art classes any more. Have to find another art class.

Moving Forward...

Treasures In The Garden

What could I be missing?

I will live in today.

 I will live life to the fullest.

I will not live just for today.

 I will not live just to exist- 

serving myself, oblivious of the needs of others

 I will live my life with courage,

pushing through and past doubt and fear.

 I will live with optimistic vision and hope.

Calling on Inner Strength and Power



Early morning fog at the bottom of my garden



From My Garden

When something seems impossible I need to go
within myself and call upon my inner strength, and
engage the power of God's love. With all this power
of God's love and my own inner strength anything is possible.


Today is the first day of the rest of my life.
 I have 100% of the rest of my life to live.
Good morning!
I woke to a bright, sunny, very chilly morning. How exhilerating is that! The fire is burning and inside our home it is so toasty warm.

Well, yesterday went just as I planned. We went to church . Father Dan is still with us. Our sermon this week was from John's Gospel about the loaves and the fishes, and how differently John portrayed this story than Mathew had done in his Gospel. I had never realised that before.
Being a literal person I had always seen it as a miracle that Jesus performed when there was not enough food to feed all of his followers. Father Dan is certainly very good at engaging me to listen in and actually hear what  I am really being told.

I managed to get more fertiliser for my rose garden (among other things), and after lunch I finished pruning, fertilising and watering my rose garden. Gardening is certainly soul food. Not only did I finish my planned rose garden chores, but I managed to start on my geranium garden as well. Yesterday was such a glorious wnters day as well - so crisp, so clean, so bright , so exhilerating- a really God-filled day.

So, on such an inviting morning, I have much planned and hope things turn out as rewarding and prodictve as yesterday.

I hope you too have an enjoyable day and find God in all that you do.

If I am going to participate in the game of life, I will need to appreciate each delightful and precious moment. C.

The Ripple Effect

Welcome to my front door.

             From My Garden

Happenings in life are like a series of chain reactions

- just like when I throw a stone into the water and the

ripples circle out. Each event has an effect on the the

 next one down the line. I may remember the end result,

but not all the small choices I made each day that either

 got me closer to my goal or took me farther away.

Well, life is back to the mundane again - washing and ironing and cleaning and cooking dinner. I have done none of these in the last 5 weeks, not even making my bed.

And yet the mundane is important. This brings me back to earth and grounds me into who  I really am. Iam not the served but the server. There is no pleasure or achievement in being served and having no accomplishment other than having a good time. However, there is a accomplishment in having a clean house in making a pleasant, tasty meal, in being able to make someone happy, in being a human being with purpose a and worth.

And my memories are still there from my wonderful holiday, sharing my experience with my work colleagues and listening to their aspirations and dreams for their coming journeys or journeys they have already travelled on. Yes, I am back at work already. I didn't know haow much I missed the company of my younger work mates or the babble of small children asking me where I had been. Even they were interested in the story of being on the plane and the boat.

 I am glad to be back to the mundane. There's excitement and fun even in that. That is who I am.

Hoping all your dreams come true and I can be a part of your sharing of the fulfillment of your dreams as well . C.

Making Memories

From My travels

                             

Today is the first day of the rest of my life.

 I have 100% of the rest of my life to live.

Every King was once a helpless baby.

Every mighty tree was once a seed

Every great ocean began with a ripple…

And every mighty structure started out as a drawing.

It’s not where I am today that that counts, but where

I am going in the future with what I learned today that matters.

Well, this exciting adventure is on the downhill run. We will be home in our little town of Nanango this time next week. Who would ever have thought what an exciting time we had ahead of us when we set out on this great experience .And who would have ever thought that at our age we could take this journey and embrace all the experiences and run with it. We’ve tried everything( except kissing the blarney stone- I had good intentions) and enjoyed our new experiences.

We have been to many different places:

 A walking tour of Miltenberg.

A walking tour through the Palace at Wurzberg. What a magnificent place.
 Another walking tour, this time through Bamberg- a very picturesque place.

Our next day we visited Nuremberg, where we visited the Palace of Justice where the Nazi war trials were held in 1945/ 46. We went to church at Frauenkircke ( a catholic church). The service was in German and they sang the gospel (and it was very long). And we turned the latch three times  at the fountain for good luck ,so we would return again to Nuremberg.

And then Regensberg:. We took a boat ride along  through the Danube gorge  to the Weltenberg Abbey, tasted salty pretzel and drank dark beer. In the afternoon we did another walking tour and ate German sausages and saurkraut. That night before dinner we had Bavarian beer tasting. We were pretty beered out by the end of all that. And that night the entertainment was Bavarian folk music with a pretty crazy Bavarian who could play many musical instruments and made us laugh till we cried.

Our most exciting experience was being inside the  river lock and watching the water level rise 25m, and our ship sail out  the other side on a different level.We have to pass through 68 of these locks before we get to Budapest. But this one was particularly interesting because of the height the water had to climb to get us to the next level of water.The eventual height we had to get to was 1183mt above sea level before we got down the other side and into the Danube River.

After that we sailed up the Rhine / Danube canal on our way to the Danube River, We crossed a viaduct which was a bridge affair that crossed a four lane highway and we could see cars passing below us. All that happened in the space of about an hour. All the passengers were out on deck with cameras ready watching and enjoying these exciting experiences.

3/7/12 Today  we visited Salzberg- where Mozart was born, where “The Sound of Music” movie was made.We visited Mondsee (a lake) where the church was where Maria and Gerhardt were married in the movie. We ate Austrian sausage and apple struedal.

The puppy dog made out of towels sitting on the bed

Our waiter Ciprian dressed in Bavarian Costume He is really Romanian

The Town hall at Bamberg that straddles the river and looks like a ship.

Moving into the river lock and the 25m wall the water had to climb

  

A sign about opa. couldn't find one for Oma .In German

The Palace of Justice where the Nuremberg Nazi trials were held

The mad Bavarian. See his moustache

The church at Mondsee where Maria and Gerhart married in the "Sound of Music"

           

Sailing out the other side of the lock after rising 25m

This marker showed when we got to the highest level above sea level -1183m

This will probably be the last blog I will send before we go home because the internet is so difficult to manouvre. Tonight we are going to a concert in Vienna, I am so excited. Today we did a tour of Vienna. It is very lovely. We visited ANOTHER church- St. Stephen's Cathedral. They are all so different, It was finished in 1400's.


 Soon our dream will be over, but these lovely places will always live in my heart, I wish you peace. I am so glad that we at least, got to touch places so different from home- the country where our grandchildren have connections, and the countries where our ancestors came from. Love C.