See how much more you accomplish, how much easier life is, how much more you enjoy life when you aren’t forcing yourself.
Forcing can turn into fear – fear that the job won’t get done, fear that the natural way things would evolve won’t be right, fear that you’re not good enough.

p. 321, Journey to the heart, Melody Beattie

The challenge for us is to have soft, tender, open hearts so that when God seeks an encounter with us, we can respond whole heartedly and receive a blessing for our own soul and the souls of many.

Encounters with God, Kenneth Kropf, Beside the Still Waters, vol. 27, iss. 6

Now is the time to practice what you know. Trust. Let go. Stay as peaceful as you can. Stay right here in the present moment.
Sharpen your tools – your intuition, your inner voice, your consciousness, and your awareness.
Do the little things, the small actions that appear right, the things that are right before you. …
Then let the journey unfold.
Trust that you are being guided and led.

pp. 320 – 321, Journey to the Heart, Melody Beattie

All that we have endured in this life will then seem as nothing.

Fred Beachy, Crofton KY Beside the Still Waters, vol 27, issue 6

And keep in mind, Americans:

each November,

and December;

Just 3 short weeks before

thanksgiving and christmas

Embrace your destiny. Know you help create it by what you choose each step of the way.

Let your choices come from your heart.

p. 319, Journey to the Heart, Melody Beattie

Sometimes when life shifts and changes, it can feel like we’ve lost our place.
We may ache, feel irritable and doubt the course of our entire journey. We may doubt whether the magical way we were living was ever real.

p. 317, Journey to the heart, Melody Beattie

Where the sky and the earth touch are the boundaries for all things to live. All things share in the essence of life through cycles of life and death.

p. 315, open up your connections., Journey to the heart, melody beattie

… bitterness is actually a seed of beautiful potential not yet planted in the rich soil of forgiveness?

The consideration of how to let tenderness in again.

pp. 208-209, seeing beautiful again, Lysa TerKeurst.

Watch out that no poisonous root of bitterness grows up to trouble you, corrupting many.