Illinois ladies facing bc
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Lovely day here and we have been having almost un-seasonably cool days and nights. Boy this may just bring on Fall in a big way much faster than we care to have it.
Anyway, I wanted to let you all know that I'll go to work in a while and not be back until Sunday afternoon. Makes for a great payday, but I do miss spending time with all of you and finding the quotes I hope you will enjoy. Never fear though --- I'll be back as soon as I can.
Blessings,
Jackie
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Missing you Illinois Lady--don't work too hard....
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Hello Everyone!!
Jackie -- things in Naperville are actually rainy today. Yeay!! My flowers and grass is very happy. And, unfortunately, I do not know of any "Linda s" that I can think of. Is she a Breast Cancer Survivor? I live on the Southeast side of Naperville. I've been here, along with my husband and three kids, for thirty years! It's really grown so much since we first moved here. But we've raised our family here with great schools, amazing community, and have developed amazing friendships.
Oh well, it's the weekend! Time to spend as much as you can with the ones that you love!❤️❤️
Bev
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This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do
and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and
love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a
part of nature. Take the power to control your own life.
No one else can do it for you. Take the power
to make your life happy.
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Jackie, I THINK you introduced me to Dr. Wayne W. Dyer. I may be wrong. If not, you remind me so much of his proactive approach to life and living. I am sad to hear he died.
On a happier note, today is Rita's (our founder) birthday.Happy Birthday, Rita! You truly are a remarkable lady.
Susan
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Life is not a level, smooth path, but rather a series of hills and
valleys. There are times spent on the
mountain top, when everything seems clear and perfect. Then there are those times when we feel like
we’re wandering around in a dark cavern, feeling our way along and trusting God
for every step of faith. Runners get a
“second wind” after forcing themselves to go on when they feel they can’t. We feel the joy of God’s Spirit lift us up
and carry us on when we choose to continue in faith, no matter how we feel or
what’s going on around us. Take a moment
and set your heart to be persistent in faith—faith in God to lead you, pick you
up when you have fallen, give you strength to go on, and ultimately bring you
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Susan, I think you may be right, but even if not the world has lost a great spiritual man. Not everyone who is spiritual chooses to stand up and shout it out to the world. I'm sure some part of him ( very un-assuming ) knew that for many of us he filled in so many, many blanks and gave us a reason not to doubt our own personal knowingness about our spirituality and intuition. He may have stepped ( hopefully, quite peacefully ) to the other side but he left much behind of himself to continue to treasure.
I think Alan Cohen is another ( still with us ) who is very insightful.
Rita -- I hope your birthday was as fantastic as you have always been.
Blessings,
Jackie
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Congrats to you, Lago! Celebrate indeed.
Happy Birthday, Rita. Hope you are doing something fun today.
Thanks you, Jackie for always keeping this thread going.
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YAY Lago--- I am doing my HAPPY DANCE FOR You !! I got 4 to go....
Happy Birthday RITA---- Hope you had one full of the things that make you the happiest!!!!!
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Oops, I forgot to say way to go Lago!!! Most of us have had some pretty neat milestones in life, and this is right up there with the best. Let it stay like this forever.
Jackie
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Way to go Lago! Hurrah!
Happy Birthday Rita!
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A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside. ~ Denis Waitley
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Congratulations Lago,it is a day to celebrate life!
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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful
beyond measure. It is our Light, not our
Darkness, that most frightens us. We ask
ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you NOT to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the
World. There is nothing enlightened
about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of
God that is within us. It is not just in
some of us; it is in everyone. As we let
our own Light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the
same. As we are liberated from our own
fear, our presence automatically liberates others. -Marianne
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A woman once told me that she did not feel the need to reach out to those around her because she prayed every day. Surely, this was enough. But a prayer is about our relationship to God; a blessing is about our relationship to the spark of God in one another. God may not need our attention as badly as the person next to us on the bus or behind us in line in the supermarket. Everyone in the world matters, and so do their blessings. When we bless others, we offer them refuge from an indifferent world. -Rachel Naomi Remen
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Good afternoon, Illinois ladies! Thank you so much for the birthday wishes! After the scares that we have all had, it is always good to celebrate birthdays!
It is especially hot here today. We golfed this morning to get ahead of the heat a bit. Now I am going to make a few $$ by wriring some questions and then later I'm meeting Mary Jane and another teaching friend for birthday dinner in Pekin. I think this is the laslt of the celebrations for this year!
Everyone try to stay cool. We really need the rain. I have been tryinig to keep my flowers alive but they are beginning to look a little droopy no matter how much I water them.
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When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.
Jean Shinoda Bolen
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Great news, lago. I'm a little less than a year behind you. Amazing how the time flies.
Happy birthday, Rita. I think it is amazing how you still check in. Also, Jackie's commitment to this thread is remarkable.
Dang, just happy it is Friday and there is a three day weekend!
Sorry I'm late. Somehow missed this thread for days.
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Lago I want to say congratulations on the 5 years. I was in Chicago last weekend and it brought back happy memories of the evening we got to spend together when I was there 3 years ago with my exercise thread ladies, I passed right by the intersection where I fell flat on my face and the lovely park where we went to check me over for scrapes, again congratulations on the milestone.
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If you can accept the flow
of life and give in to it,
you will be accepting what is real.
Only when you accept what is real
can you live with it in peace
and happiness. The alternative
is a struggle that will never end
because it is a struggle with
the unreal, with a mirage of life
instead of life itself.Deepak Chopra
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Doxie -- thank you. I think BJ really started something asking me to leave a quote every day. She likely struck a nerve in me that seems to be a pretty permanent one. I don't know how not to come here every day. I think I'd have a lot less joy and am un-willing to do without that. Wishing all my friends here a wonderful, fulfilling life flow.
Blessings,
Jackie
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hbcheryl I remember that fall. I took out my band aids and anti bacterial kit. It happens. I have had 2 falls since April. First one took me to the emergency room with stitches in my chin. Had a bandage taped to my chin as I drove myself. LOL Last one was 2 weeks ago… both times in the same running shoes. I tossed them out after the 2nd fall.
BTW I have photos
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Life rushes us along and few people are strong enough to stop on their own. Most often, something unforeseen stops us and it is only then we have the time to take a seat at life’s kitchen table. To know our own story and tell it. To listen to other people’s stories. To remember that the real world is made up of just such stories. Until we stop ourselves or, more often, have been stopped, we hope to put certain of life’s events “behind us” and get on with our living. After we stop we see that certain of life’s issues will be with us for as long as we live. We will pass through them again and again, each time with a new story, each time with a greater understanding, until they become indistinguishable from our blessings and our wisdom. It’s the way life teaches us how to live.
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We can stop waiting for life to become perfect and start working with
what we’ve got to make it as satisfying as we can. We can accept, bless, give thanks, and get
going. Today, we can begin to call forth
the riches from our everyday life.
Procrastination has robbed us of too many precious opportunities. Call a friend for lunch, begin to read or
even write that novel, organize your papers.
Try a new recipe for dinner, smile at everyone you meet, sit and dream
before a blazing fire, pick up your needlepoint again, act as if you’re
grateful to be alive, scatter joy. Think
of one thing that would give you a genuine moment of pleasure today and do
it. -Sarah Ban
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Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom. -Thomas Jefferson
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Find out where joy resides, and give
it a voice far beyond singing. For to miss the joy is to miss all.~Robert Louis Stevenson
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Just popping in to read Jackie's quotes and to say HI to everyone. I hope you all had a great Labor Day weekend. We went to a cheese festial in Arthur Illinois on Saturday, golfed with friends on Sunday after church, and spent Monday on the lake in the boat with our fishing poles. It was simply delightful!
Thanks again Jackie for keeping the quotes coming and congrats to Lago. That's the type of news we like to hear.
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The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help that would never otherwise have occurred. A stream of events issues from the decision, raising unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance which no person could have dreamt would have come his or her way.
W. H. Murray
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Silence must be comprehended as not solely the absence of sound. It I the natural environment for serenity and contemplation. Life without silence is life without privacy. The difference between sanity and madness is the quality of our thoughts. Silence is on the side of sanity.
Norman Cousins
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