Another exerpt from my book.....

"HER"
"When the Japanese mend broken objects, they aggrandize the damage by filling in the cracks with gold. They believe that when something has suffered damage, it has a history and therefore becomes more beautiful and valuable*. Too often the world sees those who admit to being hurt as “damaged goods” and somehow lacking, yet it's the breaking that makes even the weak stronger, and the mighty more compassionate. What could be wrong with that? I agree with the Japanese, after all, it's what can assist in making us more divine, if we're willing.

"I myself have been broken and glued back together, not sure if gold was involved, but something was used, perhaps not a very good adhesive, but something gooey.

"I smile as I help my children ready for school. I hug them before they leave for the day. I promise that all our dreams will one day be fulfilled and mommy won't be this way anymore. I lie to them each time I utter this promise. Not on purpose. I just know of myself that a life with no hope is no life at all. So I give them a hope. I too must believe this will someday be lifted from me, even if in my death. The Savior died so that I might live. I only wish I could do more of it here and now, for them more than for me. And thus re-begins that depression that won't ever truly end. The stink of it ever present. I remind myself everyday that it only takes the slightest move in any direction to begin change in a life. Even a fractured action today is more powerful than nothing for days on end and then a frenzied attempt at measurable changes over night. The small and mundane lasts longer as it builds up, and the change is irreversible......for good or bad. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” I trip into hope each day, willing it to at least be a beginning. But a beginning at what?"

At LIFE.

Inspiration for today:

"Are you green and growing or ripe and rotting."
~Ray Kroc

"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."
~John Wooden

"Trip into hope each day."
~Kelly Petersen


*I first read a quote about this on Pamela Bray's facebook page, I thank her for her contribution.