Here we are…Today we awakened to a brand new day and a brand new year. What hopes and expectations will be realized? 2017…Year One…January 1st…Day One…carry over noth…
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Year One…Day One…2017
01 Jan 2017 1 Comment
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Here we are…Today we awakened to a brand new day and a brand new year. What hopes and expectations will be realized?
2017…Year One…January 1st…Day One…carry over nothing…and begin anew. The world can have a fresh beginning…you can have a fresh beginning…if you leave your baggage behind, and shed your old skin for your new “set of clothes.”
While you’re at it, give yourself a new attitude and a new agenda. Bathe yourself in spiritual truth and arm yourselves with clear and balanced emotions. Clean up your clutter and clear the way for putting your contributions into motion toward constructing a future with promise!
2017 is presenting itself as an interactive new year…a year of “hands on” change. The shackles of yesteryear have no place in 2017, and the future this year will build.
What do you see? A better place for your children? A world which celebrates the gift of diversity? A whole and flourishing worldwide environment, healing from the leaching of our planet? Humanity finally embracing peace and unity?
Year One…Day One, is the place to begin…. Resignation of yourself does not have a place in 2017. What was, is not “now.” Remember…you hold the power of change…you have been given a New Year, to make a difference….the “old” has given way to the “new.” Every second is fluid and subject to change…
Be the change you would like to see in the world…Be the man or woman in the mirror…Realize the dream…Gandhi…Michael Jackson and Martin Luther King left behind these seeds…2017 can be the soil in which they take hold…each and everyone of us can make it so!
2017…Year One…Day One…our time to build….
Goodbye 2016…What Now 2017?
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2016…we hardly knew ya, now you’re just about gone! Let me see…what did we get from you? We got from you that death is really certain by the many incredibly talented and iconic pe…
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Goodbye 2016…What Now 2017?
31 Dec 2016 1 Comment
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2016…we hardly knew ya, now you’re just about gone! Let me see…what did we get from you? We got from you that death is really certain by the many incredibly talented and iconic personalities that left us in 2016…Beginning with David Bowie…and rounding out the end of the year with George Michael…Carrie Fisher…and a day later, her mom, Debbie Reynolds… Wow, Prince!!! Gene Wilder…Muhammad Ali…Gwen Ifil…and dozens more…
Losses of our own…My mom on March 17, 2016…a brother on December 16, 2016…
2016 gave us a genuine look at the cycle of life, and the realities of the world and the country in which we live… God Almighty, what will 2017 bring?! 2016 showed us that desperation opens the door to acceptance on many levels…especially casting all morals, values and spiritual growth out the window…accepting lies for truth…and truth for lies…and embracing the worst of humanity, if it will put food on the table…a roof over one’s head…and a job to go to…lambs going to slaughter is a better choice…than standing up for the right to be, on your own terms!
When will people realize that the ruby slippers on your feet will give you everything you need…if you will just trust the God in you, and understand the power in numbers! A “trump” card does not guarantee a winning hand!!!
You, and you alone…are the power and instrument of change…Imagine what can be accomplished with “like minds” working together in the preservation of humanity and our planet…if only common sense and God’s meaning of love could be distributed through a glass of water!
2016 is a year of endings…2016 is and was a year to look inward…2016 showed us all who and what we really, really are…don’t be afraid to step outside the box and be the change that will usher in our salvation as the “human race,” and give us rights of passage to be here beyond 2017… This year of 2016 “revelation” doesn’t need to be our legacy….
Goodbye, 2016…
What now, 2017? Well…we will see what will be…because the aftermath of 2017, is up to you and me… We can start with love…learn the meaning of “unconditional,” couple it with love, and ignite a beginning that will knock down the walls of Jericho!!!
Happy New Year! May 2017 give us all the courage to be heard…forces to be reckoned with…and the understanding of our power to change the world in which we now live to reflect the best of ourselves….
Hope…
31 Dec 2016 Leave a comment
“Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up.” This is a…
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The Eve Before New Year’s Eve
30 Dec 2016 Leave a comment
in Food For Thought, Uncategorized Tags: God, New Year's Eve, reflection, sociopaths, tribulation
A day and 39 minutes until the New Year…39 minutes until New Year’s Eve…for me, a day of reflection on a year gone south in many ways! On March 17, 2016, my mom passed away…it was bittersweet because she had been a pawn in the most egregious incident of sibling rivalry, jealousies and envies, and lessons in evil I could have ever encountered from a family with their own self-interests at heart! 2016 was hands down, “The Year of the Sociopath.”
Read up on sociopaths…because next year will give rise to many more…one especially, in a key role…armor up!
2016 is also a year of endings…eye-openers…self-awareness…self-scrutiny…enormous trials and endless tribulation. A time for preparation and recognizing true sisterhood and brotherhood…and joining together to restore humanity to an ailing and fractured planet…as well as the lost and aimless among us.
Many have left us to go “home” before great changes begin…the challenges are many…and peace, and the need for rest was a louder call to those souls who chose home…Many left behind great and noble reminders and gifts of their time here, as well as tools, examples and comforts in spirit to use in aiding with the gargantuan struggles which lay ahead…
The eve before New Year’s Eve…a time of reflection and setting the course for tomorrow…let go…and let God…we cannot save those who have set their course without Him….
Christmas Day 2016
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Christmas Day 2016 will be unlike any other…Today is a day to focus in on the true meaning of Christmas, and make it a part of your daily living from this day forward. God’s Promise to …
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Christmas Day 2016
25 Dec 2016 3 Comments
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Christmas Day 2016 will be unlike any other…Today is a day to focus in on the true meaning of Christmas, and make it a part of your daily living from this day forward.
God’s Promise to Mankind was kept over 2000 years ago, to deliver a Savior…A Savior who came into the world to bring forth a miraculous way of living that would transform any obstacle…in the blink of an eye! That “way” is love. In His many demonstrations, this savior ultimately delivered the belief His Father had in the salvation of mankind, by laying down His life for our gift of everlasting life…
Each Christmas that we are here to celebrate the great sacrifice of “The Lamb of God,” we are enabled to carry forth this beautiful, selfless legacy by loving one another, as He so loved us, by giving love in words, thoughts and deeds, with deep commitment and reverence to Him…in selfless abandon.
We must never forget the true meaning of Christmas…examine your day today and ask yourself, “Did I give this Christmas in such a way, that I truly changed a life in giving love selflessly, without thought as to what I would get in return?”
Love without a price tag is a miracle within itself. Celebrating the true meaning of Christmas is a transformation of life itself!
Christmas Day 2016, is the last Christmas to show God’s love for us in the way you show your love for others…Have ears to hear and eyes to see…Rejoice…Behold…Be Love…Renew in this miracle…in this time…in this moment! Lift up the day that Christ was born…Give the selfless gift of love…..
August 5, 2016…A Celebration of Life.
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Mom passed away on March 17, 2016…August 5, 2016 would have been her 84th birthday had she stayed until that day…However, it became her “Celebration of Life” to those…
August 5, 2016…A Celebration of Life.
31 Aug 2016 24 Comments
Mom passed away on March 17, 2016…August 5, 2016 would have been her 84th birthday had she stayed until that day…However, it became her “Celebration of Life” to those of us she left behind.
Fifteen people gathered together for a Luncheon and Dinner held in Mom’s honor…celebrating the many precious memories filled with an abundance of love…joy…laughter…fun…compassion…spirit…spirited comments…wisdom…magic…courage and courageousness…kindness…thoughtfulness… and everything that made Mom a mother, friend, companion, sage and Samaritan to many…especially to those in attendance.
Her Spirit filled the gatherings with warmth, tears, passion for the future and a bountiful joy in knowing that she was home at last with all those who loved her first, safe within the haven of her Loving Father, our Lord…
God has a way of bringing his Angels together on earth to attend and watch over His children…and lead them home, when He calls them…They take on the forms of life-long, loving and watchful and devoted friends, such as Dora and James Smith…the caring and nurturing of those called to one’s bedside during the final moments on earth…such as Shelita Reynolds, her loving and compassionate nurse…a loving niece who shared in her caregiving, Natalie Jiles…a warm and compassionate caregiver whom Mom came to love and favor, Megan West…
Loving friends who spent time with her, visited her, and held her up in constant prayer, Leroy Geter, Richard Packard, La Seona Smith, Tracie Thomas, Sheila Parker, Babette Easley, Renee McElroy…To those who joined us for the first time that day, Dawn Shirelle, and Shelita’s wonderful son, thank you for your beautiful spirits and presence…and David…He came into our lives when we moved to New England…and became a part of our new family…
God’s Angels…everyone of you! Thank you for your love…your presence and your support…Thank you for sharing in Mom’s journey…her life…and her celebration of a life well traveled… well-lived… and well-loved…Much Love to you all….
The following Memoriam was written for Mom at her time of passing, and was used again to honor her celebration of life….
Gerlene Mae Bangs
Touched down in Ryan, Oklahoma…August 5, 1932…Headed home…March 17, 2016
It seems that I’ve had more than my fair share of time in missing Mom…
She always said that I was her “rock”…that I was the “backbone” of the family…But what she didn’t know, was that she was mine…She was always there for me… and if I was her rock and the backbone of the family, that is who and what she taught me to be…that is why her passing will be so difficult for me…because she counted on me… waited for me to come for her…and I couldn’t manage to deliver that promise…
So I asked God for a miracle…I asked Him to let me see her one more time before one of us left this place…I just didn’t know that it was going to be when she had lost hope and tired of waiting for me to come and get her back…
I would like to believe that this God fearing woman decided that she had delayed her homecoming long enough…and glided into the waiting arms of her Father, our Lord…
I would like to believe that she who gave all that she could to everyone who passed her way, was finally relieved of the burden this life had cast upon her, in the form of an egregiously, erroneous and unlawful Conservatorship…
I would like to believe that those who committed and joined in the taking of her freedom…life…liberty and her pursuit of happiness, will come to see the error of their ways, and beg forgiveness of her, and all that were victimized, and continue to be persecuted by their unsavory deeds…
I would like to believe that Mom is smiling down upon all of us who are constant in the battles for our beloved family…friends and neighbors who are caught up in this web of systemic dysfunction, deterioration and business of “harvesting” our elderly and disabled for their earthly goods…and ultimately their lives…
I would like to believe that Mom’s life was a road well-travelled…well spent…well loved…full of content…with content…I would like to believe that this woman who came to visit our planet…who spread and gave joy…who fought for the downtrodden…who stood up for justice…who spoke out against oppression…who opened her heart to those without a home…by always giving refuge in hers…a woman who believed that if she only had one child out of six that she could depend on…that was enough…then…I believe….
Thank you Mom, for being my mother…for teaching me to look beyond the “rose-colored glasses” at life…for allowing me to be your daughter…your friend…your sister…your protector…your student…your teacher…all the things you were…and still are…to me. I believe in you…and that belief will carry me through the darkest and brightest days…knowing and remembering…you’re just a heart away…
Be still with joy and happiness in the presence of God…I miss you terribly, and I’ll always…always love you…and thank you, Mom… for loving me…Heaven is now your home….XXXXOOOO…Your Loving Daughter….
Charlene Bangs Pedersen
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