Some days are diamonds

Life, like the weather, changes uncontrollably. See?














Then you get the diamond days. Same house different day and I found the end of the rainbow!

















The trick is learning to survive and thrive on both kinds of days. Strife can strengthen you. Joy can raise you up. Or you can be destroyed by either.

If you feel you are unworthy of joy you can try to destroy it for yourself and you will succeed sometimes. Then you will be as miserable as you feel you deserve to be and make those around you miserable.

To learn to accept the joy you must accept yourself. You may not be a diamond yet, but even an old lump of coal can keep people warm in the winter, can have goodness in it. You are what you are today. Tomorrow you will be what you are then. Yesterday you were a different person. You are always growing and changing. Give yourself the benefit of the doubt, believe you will keep becoming a person who receives joy in their life.

Allow the joy in today to cheer you, because joy isn't gifted where it is deserved. It appears for the smallest of reasons and by the grace of the good in the world. It's as rare as moon rocks and fickle as a cat. It appears for little or no reason and bursts like a bubble of soapy water. Enjoy it while you have it every time. Who and what you are has nothing to do with being happy. Try to just be happy because you CAN be.

If you feel you did not deserve the storm you can spend all your life fighting it moaning and wailing about the trouble it caused for you. I think you can build the storm over and over inside yourself. Clean up the mess it made, put back what you can, do without or replace the rest and put it behind you as soon as you can. Don't let the bad weather of one week wreck your enjoyment of the sunshine later. Get your head out of the dark and put your hair in the wind. Remember everything changes and bad times don't last forever.

Use what you learn from the storm to help others deal with them and you have created sharing and goodness out of danger and pain.

It's lovely out today. My mate loves me, the animals are happy, there is food, heat, transportation and the roof don't leak. No word of troubles from the family yet.

I'm going outside to play!