They say no good thing lasts forever, but that's what eternity is for.

Just one of those days

Photo by: Sheryl Seiler

Some days you have to just sit back and realize the beauty around you. There is so much in this beautiful world that we take for granted. We look over so many simple yet marvelous creations. We must learn to be thankful for the little things in life. In a city it is easy to get lost in the hustle and bustle of cars and people on the streets in a forest of concrete sky scrappers yet when you step back and look at the big picture, its true beauty is found.

Thoughts

There are times in our lives when we face trials or experience something that makes us grow up. Although we may never realize how much we need these hard times until after we see the end result, they still serve a purpose. Sometimes we have to reach rock bottom and walk on our own for a while in order to have the will to climb our way to the top. Our ability to reach the top was always there within us, yet our perspective of our capability to reach that peek changes when we have nothing to lose. We must experience failure, heart ache, and sorrow in order to fully be grateful for the good times in our lives. We know that we make mistakes to learn from them. So why do we beat ourselves up for making them. Learn to move on, but never forget. If you don't like what you did the first time, do it differently the second time, until you get it right. Life was never meant to be easy. If this life is a test, we must experience it in order to know how to learn how to survive it. Experience pain to learn tolerance. Experience failure to learn endurance. Experience heart break to learn compassion. In doing so, we will not only build strength to endure future trials, but we will be able to help others through these trials as well. Never give up. Never ask why. Never say never.

-Sheryl Lynn Seiler

Friends

Friends are a blessing when good times turn bad.
They are a shoulder to cry on when you are sad.
Someone who will listen when you need to vent.
The one your parents call to ask where you went.

God couldn't be here so he made us a friend.
Now we will stick together till the bitter end.
I love my friends with all my heart,
And I always pray for them when we are apart.
(written: June 2006)