The Screaming Banshee Strikes
October 2nd, 2010
I’m having some trouble today.
I could NOT be crankier. I’m not a big fan of PMS… especially my own. Of course that’s not to say I’m partial to OTHER bitchy women either… but I digress.
In an attempt to not murder anyone, I sat down this morning and started reading Bible passages. I wasn’t seeking anything. I was just trying to turn my focus on to something that would take my mind off the discomfort I’m feeling and maybe give me something a little more productive to contemplate.
Mission accomplished.
It started because I ended up behind a semi truck on my way to a doc appointment yesterday. The truck had a big sticker on the back that just spoke to me at that moment, and I try to always have my camera with me for reasons such as this.
I liked this and felt the need to take a picture because it speaks volumes to why we don’t manifest what we want sometimes. We are not working with love.
We are often doing something we don’t want to do in the hopes that the end will justify the means, but the end NEVER justifies the means. You can not have an end result that you love if the means to the end was not also loved.
If you work hard, every day, at a job you hate, you will never really enjoy the prosperity that the jobs brings you.
If you wake up every day bracing yourself for a day that will hold no enjoyment, you will never reach the place of happiness or satisfaction. You cannot hate the journey looking forward only to the destination, because the destination IS the journey.
Find the love, and then work from within it. With that, you will then create it. It can be no other way, for it is law.
Today, I am going to take my own advice because so far, I’m mostly working from discomfort and the edge of rationality. It can be a challenge to pivot your thoughts and feelings from such a dark place, but it is possible. One doesn’t even need to pivot completely out of bad feelings. Simply moving in the general direction of feeling better helps.
I’m going to go and find something to smile about. Or at the very least, something that doesn’t make me SCOWL. I’d settle for a nondescript, straight face from which screams of frustration are not being emitted. *sigh*
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Here are some pictures I took this morning that made me smile. I mentioned recently in my post, Timing Isn’t Everything, that we had a bunch of sunflowers that took root from falling birdseed. I was hoping they would have enough time to bloom. They did!
These two pics, above and below, are of my favorite flower out of the bunch. It sits happily, showing off it’s multi-headedness.
There are three heads sticking right out of the top, and then each and every leaf that branches off the main stem boasts it’s very own tiny sunflower head, from the very top all the way down to the very bottom. There are seventeen heads on this one stem altogether.
That is just freaking fantastic in my opinion. I love it. (score one for not scowling for a minute!)
It’s also the ONLY one that does this. All the others, and there’s probably 30 growing, have single heads and look like normal sunflowers. Yes, there’re probably 30 growing. It looks more like a sunflower BUSH growing under and around the bird feeder.
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My current affirmations
** My mind is quiet and receptive.
** I see God in all things and all things in God.
** Learning new things comes easily to me!
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