Joe: “I got a job as a security guard and my supervisor told me to watch the office.”
Pete: “How’s it going?
Joe: “I’m not sure. I’m in season 7 of the Office reruns and don’t know why I’m supposed to watch them.”
Month: June 2023
Something to Think About ~ The Ultimate Path
From Viktor Frankl’s, Man’s Search for Meaning, “Another time we were at work in a trench. The dawn was grey around us; grey was the sky above; grey the snow in the pale light of dawn; grey the rags in which my fellow prisoners were clad; grey their faces. . . . I was struggling to find the reason for my sufferings my slow dying. . . . I sensed my spirit piercing through the enveloping gloom. I felt it transcend that hopeless, meaningless world, and from somewhere I heard a victorious “Yes” in answer to my question of the existence of an ultimate purpose. At that moment a light was lit in a distant farmhouse which stood on the horizons as if painted there, in the midst of the miserable grey of a dawning morning Bavaria (pp. 53).”
Note: We each have an ultimate purpose. It’s different for each one of us. Sometimes it takes mountains of suffering as Viktor Frankl experienced to discover it. Even in our deepest sufferings there are lessons we can learn if we are open to listening and acting on their message. Once we discover our ultimate purpose, our path becomes clear. We can take no other.
Joke for Today
Joe: “I’m not sure the factory where I work is going to stay in business, we’re having too many ups and downs.”
Pete: “What do you manufacture?”
Joe: “Yo Yo’s”
Something to Think About ~ “Nothing Could Touch the Strength of My Love.”
Viktor Frankl words from Man’s Search for Meaning: “I did not know whether my wife was alive, and I had no means of finding out (during all my prison life there was no outgoing or incoming mail): but at that moment it ceased to matter. There was no need for me to know; nothing could touch the strength of my love, my thoughts, and the imagine of my wife (pp. 50).“
Note: No matter our situation, no matter where we find ourselves, no one can take away the memories we choose to cherish. No one can take away the moments we felt loved. No one can take away those moments when we were surrounded in a bubble of happiness. We can recall those moments anytime we choose. Try it. Recall a time when you felt happy, truly happy. Who was there? What was the occasion? Now that you’ve recalled it, how do you feel?
Feeling Good Tip for Today ~ “Darkness Cannot Shut Me In Again.”
Helen Keller at age 19 months developed an illness that left her deaf and blind. Here’s what she said in her autobiography: “Once I knew the depth where no hope was, and darkness lay on the face of all things. Then love came and set my soul free. Once I knew only darkness and stillness. Now I know hope and joy. . . . I learned to live, to think, to hope. Darkness cannot shut me in again.”
Note: Don’t let darkness shut you out. Don’t let the darkness strip you of hope and joy. Open your heart to love. Never quit. Never stop trying.
Health Tip for Today ~ Onions Pack a Nutritional Punch
Add Onions to Your Daily Diet
Onions are part of the Allium family, a group of spicy, sharp root vegetables that includes garlic, leeks and chives. They’re especially high in organosulfur compounds. These chemicals give onions their strong odor and taste (and make you cry). They also have many health benefits. “People have used onions for medicinal purposes for centuries,” says registered dietitian Gillian Culbertson, RD, LD.
Here’s How Onions Help
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- Onions lower cancer risk.
- Onions fend off chronic conditions
- Onions protect against heart disease.
- Onions strengthen bones
- Onions fight bacteria
- Onions aid digestion
Inspiring Quote for Today ~ It’s All Around Us
“Around us, life bursts with miracles, a glass of water, a ray of sunshine,
a leaf, a caterpillar, a flower, laughter, raindrops.”
Poem of the Day ~ Risk
Risk
Author Unknown
To laugh is to risk appearing a fool
To weep is to risk appearing sentimental
To reach out for another is to risk involvement
To expose your feelings is to risk
exposing your true self
To place your ideal, your dreams before a crowd
is to risk their loss
To love is to risk not being loved in return
To live is to risk dying
To hope is to risk despair
To try is to risk failure
Yet risks must be taken
Because the greatest hazard in life is risking
NOTHING
The person who risks nothing
Does nothing
Has nothing
Is nothing
Self-realization is harder than
Self Sacrifice
Poem for Today ~ I Must Go Down to the Sea
I Must Go Down to the Sea
John Mansfield
I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,
And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by,
And the wheel’s kick and the wind’s song and the white sail’s shaking,
And a grey mist on the sea’s face and a grey dawn breaking.
I must go down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide
Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied;
And all I ask is a windy day with the white clouds flying,
And the flung spray and the blown spume, and the sea-gulls crying.
I must go down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life,
To the gull’s way and the whale’s way where the wind’s like a whetted knife;
And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow-rover,
And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick’s over.
