Joy Is My Goal: finding Joy

Monday, August 10, 2009

finding Joy

I have decided I am kinda beaten down and dull lately so I am off finding my joy. wish me luck!? You could also leave any suggestions.

5 comments:

alessandra said...: I wish you luck, and suggest you to start making a list of your blessing, even the most ordinary.; 2:46 PM
bedelia said...: I hope you feel better. My mom's solution for everything is read your scriptures and pray. Its worked well for me.:) I just had a meeting last night and the thought came from President Monson's talk "Finding Joy in the Journey" from the Oct. 08 conference. It gave me food for thought.; 2:47 PM
Unknown said...: Leave it all behind and enjoy you family and friends, you deserve it!; 3:55 PM
I have a good life said...: Good Luck, M! I can't wait to hear all about your travels! When do you get back? I have been thinking of you a lot.; 9:21 AM
Robin said...: Did you find joy. The parks are always a pretty place there. Enjy the scenery. And Amelia ia right, read and pray.; 5:31 PM

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Poem: “Welcome to Holland” by Emily Perl Kingsley

I am often asked to describe the experience of raising a child with a disability - to try to help people who have not shared that unique experience to understand it, to imagine how it would feel. It’s like this…
When you’re going to have a baby, it’s like planning a fabulous vacation trip - to Italy. You buy a bunch of guide books and make your wonderful plans. The coliseum. The Michelangelo David. The gondolas in Venice. You may learn some handy phrases in Italian. It’s all very exciting.
After months of eager anticipation, the day finally arrives. You pack your bags and off you go. Several hours later, the plane lands. The stewardess comes in and says, “Welcome To Holland”.
“Holland?!?” you say, “What do you mean “Holland”??? I signed up for Italy! I’m supposed to be in Italy. All my life I’ve dreamed of going to Italy”
But there’s been a change in the flight plan. They’ve landed in Holland and there you must stay.
The important thing is that they haven’t taken you to a horrible, disgusting, filthy place, full of pestilence, famine and disease. It’s just a different place.
So you must go and buy new guide books. And you must learn a whole new language. And you will meet a whole new group of people you would never have met.
It’s just a different place. It’s slower-paced than Italy, less flashy than Italy. But after you’ve been there for a while and you catch your breath, you look around…and you begin to notice that Holland has windmills…Holland has tulips. Holland even has Rembrandts.
But everyone you know is busy coming and going from Italy…and they’re all bragging about what a wonderful time they had there. And for the rest of your life, you will say “Yes that’s where I was supposed to go. That’s what I had planned”.
And the pain of that will never, ever, ever, ever go away…because the loss of that dream is a very significant loss.
But…if you spend your life mourning the fact that you didn’t get to Italy, you may never be free to enjoy the very special, the very lovely things…about Holland.

Joy Is My Goal

Monday, August 10, 2009

finding Joy

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