Stacie Rife Bailey's Bliss

Encouragement

Wow,

I sure appreciate everyone who has emailed me on my last comment! I have received so much encouragement. It is nice to know other's believe in me, but I think the most obvious thing is, I need to believe in myself.

I think my decision would be so much easier if I wasn't in debt! It is so hard to get ahead of anything!

I shouldn't complain, I know there are so many people who would kill to even have a job! I know it's not THAT bad! It could be way worse, and I think yesterday I just had all I could take and happened to loose it.

I don't want to be known in the "blogging" world as the habitual bitcher. But things AREN'T all pink and rosey all the time (maybe not even 1/2 the time). We have to tell our good with our bad right?

Thanks for everything!

Never walk alone

NEVER WALK ALONE

Something we have to remember when faced with hard times...

Never walk alone and take advantage of those out there who care and love us.

Power to prestige

Drug is of choice

Lethal is to danger

Subconscious, inner voice

Love is to be kind

Sinners will forgive

Take me when I’m ready

Let not to be but live.

Rotting is to guilt

As fever is too high

Choosing is to keep

As blue may be to sky

Banish is to sensor

As senses are to touch

Touching is to live

As toxic is a crutch

Lessons are to learn

Not looking back in fret

Never be forgotten

As falling is to regret.

Stacie Rife 12/22/1995

what more can I do?

I don't ask for much, don't talk a whole lot (which can be a negative)

Don't nag... take care of myself.... try to give as much of myself as I can...

What more can I do?

No need to Fret

There are some things in life that aren't worth fretting about....

It is what we fret about that we cannot change.. and most importantly we cannot change other people.

The people who are good--will ultimately have good things happen to them. The bad ones... well they'll meet their Karma as well.

Courage of your Convictions

Its all fine and dandy to “talk big” but when it comes down to it.. how brave are you?

Last night my Dad flew in from CA to go to my great aunt’s funeral in Canada tomorrow.

My husband, Dad, and I were having a somewhat passionate conversation about something and my Dad made the statement… “It’s one thing to have a strong conviction and be passionate about something but the question is do you have the COURAGE of your convictions?”…….. One of the best things I have heard in a long time and SO TRUE!

This can apply to so many aspects in life!

Anyone can have a passionate conviction.. but do you have the courage for your conviction?

For everything my Dad has said to me… I wish I would have written them down.. he often has so many things to say that make so much sense!

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I took a different road home tonight

Methodical lives

The methodical way we (I) live our lives is often times the death of ourselves. We get comfortable and just survive. I often think.. what happens to people who don’t live their lives systematically…?? Gee… maybe they achieve their goals; maybe they live their dreams… THEY ARE NOT AFRAID..those are the people you have to respect. Even though some of those people could very well be the people sitting outside of the 7-11 with dirty clothes asking for a quarter so they can take the bus back to where they came from. But hey.. at least they tried (never judge a book by it’s cover)… because the other half of those people are the ones who are singing their song of happiness waking up every morning with good REM sleep to keep them going throughout the day. Because at one point in their lives.. they for once weren’t “careful” they took a chance.

There is something to be said about being “careful” or being “safe”.. but there is no excitement in that. Do we honestly wake up every morning and say…GEE “I am going to take the same route I take to work ONCE AGAIN… I am going to drive the same roads.. going the same distance… getting stuck in the same traffic”..….we do it subconsciously—we are careful and we don’t even know it…well for God’s sake.. TAKE A DIFFERENT ROAD! In order to take a different road we need to THINK about it.. and do it consciously.

Just my thoughts for the day… maybe I am trying to psyche myself up to drive the back roads today.