Find solace and strength

Today I found this in the box in the attic that I had not looked through in ages. It is a hand-written sheet of paper from many, many years ago written to me by my yet-to-be husband Johnny. It is not dated, but it would have been in the 1989 timeframe when I was having some serious problems in life. I hope its message brings you encouragement in a time of need as it did for me.

“Find solace in the strength we give each other. 

Those who have come before serve only to appreciate what we have or what we want and to qualify those dreams.

When the victim, find peace & pride in that you could not be the culprit, it is not in your nature.

Never stoop to the level of those who would hurt you for you become your own enemy. It is the goodness in you that lets you become the victim and that same goodness will let you be at peace with yourself.”

Although I lost Johnny in the flesh when he died from cancer in 2001, it is little things like this that ever remind me that his kind soul lives on and he is always with me. Thanks be to God.

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Happy start of Fall

Does it feel like the start of Fall to you? We’ve had such a durned hot summer and I am really, really looking forward to a reprieve from the heat. According to the official word, the Autumnal Equinox was today (September 23, 2011) at 5:05 A.M. EDT. Welcome Fall!

Did you know …
1. The four seasons are determined by how our planet orbits the Sun and the tilt of its axis, thus affecting the angle and amount of sunlight reaching Earth.

2. The first day of fall is the Autumnal Equinox on which day and night are each about 12 hours long (with the actual time of equal day and night, in the Northern Hemisphere, occurring a few days after the Autumnal Equinox). The sun crosses the celestial equator going southward; it rises exactly due east and sets exactly due west.

3. According to Wikipedia, the word equinox is derived from the Latin aequus (equal) and nox (night).

4. Catherine Wingate’s Autumnal Equinox Socks design was first published as the September pattern in The Sock Calendar book. The book is now out of print, but the design has been republished as a single pattern so it can continue to be enjoyed by knitters everywhere, anytime. The Sock Calendar is also now available in electronic format as an downloadable ebook from most download sites selling HeartStrings patterns.

Other seasonal patterns in the HeartStrings pattern line celebrating fall can be seen in the Fall Favorites Collection.

 

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