In the Arms of an Angel! #angel #compassion #love #forgiveness

Last night I was talking with  my dearest friend and she had said how she was doing a bit for a new found friend. She did not say she was busy, she did not say she was stressed. She did not say I am needed elsewhere so haven't got time for you. She simply said she was doing a bit for her friend. This person is ever humble in her concern, her help, her care for her fellow man.  She sees something needs doing and she ploughs right in and does it. There is self sacrifice without self involved. 

Her friend moved to the area for a new beginning, many miles from her former home. Started life anew. New friends, new job, new goals and new dreams. Everything was moving ahead with her life and those that gave her strength in her new start.  Suddenly from nowhere comes the news that she has a serious illness with a not so good prognosis. Every so often I attend funerals and you hear some crying buckets of tears, crying the loudest. They are also the ones crying, 'I had no idea he/she was even sick'.  I ask myself why?  Why did they not know?  When did they last make contact?  When did they stretch out their hand to help?  Why are they even attending this persons celebration of life?  

We all attend funerals and we all mourn for that person.  But can we honestly say we cared.  Did we offer support for the person or those around them. Yes it is nice to release the tears and show others our loss.  But did we have anything to lose?  When we meet in another life, will that person even recognize us or simply pass us by.  The same way we passed them by in their hour of need.  

My friend is one of these people that no one will ever pass by in another life.  My friend takes everyone on her wing.  I did not say under her wing.  My friend puts them and everyone around on her wing and gives them vision, gives them strength, gives them faith that they can handle these difficult times.  Putting under her wing would smother them.  No my friend lifts them so they can see clearly and helps to guide them.  Quite often she is seen as pragmatist.  Yes, she is, but in one of the kindest ways I could only try to achieve. She offers help. She gives it. But if not required, she steps back and allows that person to believe, and know, that they can achieve without assistance.  Giving everyone the knowledge that even in weakness we can achieve. They can lead, even from behind, whatever curve ball we have been passed.  

I know what I want to be to those around me. I don't want to be one of those crying, when I never built a true friendship, to really know the feeling of loss.  I want to be able, in good times and in bad, to show and share with  my friends, and family, that there is dignity in every stage of life and no one can take that dignity without our permission.  

Yes I want to strive to take my loved ones on my wing, not smother, but to help and guide them in good times and in bad.  But, when they face that stark cold hotel room of life, I want to help  them.  I want to help them make their fears empty and weightless, and deliver them into the arms of a true angel, where they may find some comfort.

My thoughts!

Cheers!

Bitchescoz  

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Life's Pleasures #inspirational #love #heaven #truelove

Today, I am going to talk to you about the pleasures of life, about sharing experiences with your partner or your loved ones.  Think how nice it would be to stroll down the cobbled streets of the oldest streets in Rome with your partner, dine in the most chic restaurants in Paris, share your berth, your bed and romantic views from your own balcony aboard 'The Christina' on the Mediterranean. Meandering hand in hand through the zig zag of narrow streets of Venice, making wishes on the Bridal Bridge in Central Park.  STOP THE PRESS!!! You have no money to do these things!  How do we enjoy the pleasures of life without money?

Do we really need a lot of money to give us pleasure?  Does money bring us happiness? Do diamonds and pearls assure us of love, romance, and true commitment from our partner?  Yes, they are nice, but do these things really give us that warm feeling inside? That feeling, that you are special? That feeling that special person gives you when you touch! That feeling that you can bare your soul and not care what others think but that one person.  To look in their eyes and know without hesitation that that special person sees you, and not cares that you have that little zit on your face.  That person sees beyond your imperfections and, loves you for you.  That person wants to share the ups the downs and everything in between - with you! All they ask in return is that you share your love and build hearts filled with love not money.

How often do we read in the tabloids of the rich and famous - of their romance, their fairytale weddings, their honeymoons in the most desired destinations of the world.  Quite often in our lunch hours, while shopping for some groceries, in our mere mortal workday drudgery we purchase a magazine. We rush back to the drudgery and think, 'Tonight I will escape into the world of glamour and read about a life of which I can only dream.'  But, maybe if I just grab a quickpic, my partner and I can maybe join this glamorous couple once our numbers pop out of the shoot in tonight's jackpot.

You get home, after driving yourself through that peak hour traffic and unpack the groceries. You water the garden, share with your partner how your day was while you are ironing tomorrow's clothes and he is preparing dinner. You trample through the bills that need paying, feed the dog, wash the clothes for tomorrow's iron. You eat, then clean the dishes, and finally sit down on the couch to share your magazine of escapism and watch the numbers drop on your screen. Your partner sits with pen and paper to collect the numbers and, as he shares the numbers that weren't on your ticket, he turns to you and says, 'Hey honey, the headlines say that Mr and Mrs Famous have split!' This is before you have even opened the magazine!!!  You close the magazine, throw it on the coffee table along with the million other unread mags, fall into his arms and toddle off to bed to share the passion with him (a passion that gets better every night). In the after glow, you lay there thinking in your not so dream destination bed, how wonderful it is to share your life with someone who loves me, just for me! Then you click your heels three times and say, 'There's no place like home!' and  fall asleep to face another day.  

What I am saying here is that money can't buy that love.  Take some time with the one you love. Pleasures don't need to cost a dime. Share you life with the one you love and they can bring much pleasure. Whether its cleaning house, washing the car, pruning the garden, just put some fun in it.     And, enjoy, is the word I use here.  Enjoy their company! Enjoy it when you both are bent over the floor scrubbing that spot off the carpet! Enjoy the water play while washing the car! Enjoy wiping the sweat off each other's brow and other places while all hot and sweaty in the garden.  These things don't cost - they bring the achievement that you are still together and that eventually,you will enjoy that day of walking those zigzag streets of Venice.  

In the meantime, enjoy the simple pleasures- take a stroll along the beach, a walk in the park, grab some take out and eat romantically beside the river, go for a drive into the country.  Believe me these are the pleasures of life that money can't buy.

Cheers!

Bitchescoz

 Contact: luke65mcbride@gmail.com