The works of Author C.L. Harmon
Never let someone else’s burden become your priority. What they hold onto is given to them for a purpose and is theirs to let go in the appropriate time. Empathy does not equate to responsibility of ownership. It does, however, require acknowledgment that their suffering should be eased by all the hope, kindness and peace we can loan them.
C.L. Harmon
Leave a CommentFor some, today will be a destination. But for others it’s only a leg of their journey. It is imperative that we understand and accept this. We all wish to accomplish and move forward. But today is purposeful and requires our attention more than what is to come. There is something in today that was not available yesterday and will not be tomorrow. And it is that discovery today that allows us to make sense of yesterday while preparing us to recognize the meaning of the destination awaiting us tomorrow.
C.L. Harmon
Leave a CommentYou may be on the verge of a breakdown or swimming in a misery that seems all consuming. But know that it is in the midst of such hardships that the most moving forms of art ever created, the greatest discoveries of self and the breakthroughs which changed the world came forth out of that chaos. As difficult as times may become, it is in this desperation that we are compelled to reach deeper inside than ever before to find our way out.
C.L. Harmon
Leave a CommentWhen we visualize the path we wish to take in this life, we should remain open to venture off a bit into the wilderness. There are experiences which await us in the wild that teach a destination should be flexible enough to show us that the journey itself has the ability to provides us with new directions.
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Leave a CommentMindset
What Makes Us?
What makes us? Is it our chemical makeup, our cells and molecular processes that give us identity? What about our choices and experiences? Are we a product of them or are they our identity? Our likes and dislikes, where do they originate and are they choices or something ingrained in us that we have little or no control over? Are we a perfect design completely programmed from the factory or a self-driven result created from a blank slate to fill with failures and triumphs?
Maybe it’s as simple as we are a part of everything and all things. Perhaps we are a reasonable creation whose creation is beyond our own reasoning. We are, it seems, a mystery unto ourselves. And yet ignorant, we understand so profoundly our needs and feel so strongly our desires that it makes us question even more what we are. How can we be so absolutely sure of ourselves and utterly lost for direction in the same mind, heart and soul?
Perhaps it is because we are born lost but not without direction. There is no reward in directing one who is not lost, but praise for the one who sets us on the path to be found. We are created of everything so we can be led and counseled from everything. Nothing was left to chance that we would not have the opportunity to receive direction. It is not that some are always right and others wrong, but that each of us receive direction, according to the universe we relate to. When we understand that we are not enemies with purpose but simply travelers in search of a destination, we invite the smaller pieces of everything to become a larger piece of everything else.
~C.L. Harmon
Finding yourself out of rhythm with the music doesn’t mean your steps are wrong. It simply means that particular tune is being played for someone else at that moment. Not every song is meant to be danced to. Some are just melodies we are given to enjoy until it’s our time to dance to the rhythm which is only playing for us.
C.L. Harmon
Leave a CommentPatience is a gift we offer ourselves. Happiness is a gift we give ourselves. Joy is a gift we allow ourselves. Tolerance is a gift we teach ourselves and success is a gift we define for ourselves. And within all of these gifts is peace, the only one which comes because we recognize we must gift ourselves that which we wish to fulfill us.
C.L. Harmon
Leave a CommentWhen we focus on what is negative we give it an importance in our life that it should not have. We create a place for it to exist. Free will affords us many things; the most important of them is the choice to assess value to what happens to us. Whatever worth we assign it, will determine how much happiness we allow ourselves to purchase.
C.L. Harmon
Leave a CommentWhen you realize you can never do enough to repair the world, but you try anyway, then you finally understand that hope isn’t designed to make the world better, but designed to make you a better person in a world in need of repair.
C.L. Harmon
Leave a CommentQuote of the Day
I don’t believe God tests our faith so much as I believe He places us in situations where we must rely on it.
~C.L. Harmon
