![]() ![]() Sometimes, the more you start to name, the more you think of.” Something that has helped me at different stages in my life is to specifically list all the things I can think of that I’m thankful for that go along with that stage. Some clearly are more challenging, but I think we miss out on the joys and gifts of the present if we are too focused on the future. “The thing is, you won’t get these moments back, and each stage is unique. “You are a wise mother to understand that already,” I explained. “That’s why I loved reading the part in the prayer that talks about enjoying the moments, because I keep wanting to rush through them thinking it’s just about to get better or easier, but I think I’m missing things in the meantime,” she said. ![]() It is a wonderfully exciting and exhausting time. I told her that she was making perfect sense to me, and would to any mother who remembers what it was like to have little ones. I don’t think I’m making any sense at all, I’m sorry.” “I guess I’m always thinking about how things will be easier as soon as my kids are at different stages, but then I realize that already it seems like they are growing too fast,” she said, “It just dawned on me that my baby isn’t really a baby any more at all, I mean he’s almost walking already, and some things were actually easier when he was a baby. I asked her to tell me what was going on with her. I think I’ve been trying to live way too much in the future.” I really needed to read the part about living one day at a time and enjoying one moment at a time. ![]() I’m glad there is more and I loved reading the rest of it. “I only knew the first part and always liked what it said, but I thought that was all there was. “C indy, thank you for including the entire Serenity Prayer last week,” a friend said. We show our gratitude by giving back to Him a part of that which He has given to us.” One day at a time pilot free#“Life itself, every bit of health that we enjoy, every hour of liberty and free enjoyment, the ability to speak, to think and to imagine - all this comes from the hand of God. ![]()
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