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Fear is a heavy burden.
It strikes a serious blow.
It expends all my energy; it saps all my strength.
It gets in the way of love, friendships, honesty,
achievements, serenity, peace, power and contribution.
Fear builds a wall between a full life... and me.
Therefore...
Fear must be beaten down.
The walls it has built must
be chipped away,
Bit by bit...
until my life is filled with Value,
love, laughter, friendships, honesty,
Well being, good deeds... and a
Powerful inner strength that
Tells me I can handle anything that I face.
But I must have faith...
and patience.
So much patience.
For though it may not seem true,
Bit by bit... even now, I am changing
inside... Changing for the better. (12-2-02)
Susan Gordon, FL |
Among some recent Funny Factoids: Banging
your head against a wall uses 150 calories an
hour... do not do this in front of the kids.
The strongest muscle in the body is the
tongue... ever been hung by your tongue?
(This is not gross... think about it.) An
ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain... I know
some people like that. Starfish have no
brains... yup, repeat.
I was doing a phone support call with a lady who
was facing surgery within the next week. She
shared with me how well her husband understood
her. As he hugged her he said, "Honey, I
wouldn't be in your head this week for nothing." |
| "Dear Lucinda,
I am a 29 year old guy that used to have problems with stress and anxiety. I believe my problems started about 10 years ago. I wasn't someone who had continuous anxiety throughout those years. The "attacks" and the anxiety would come and go... I just thought it was some type of nervous "tic" due to the things I was doing at the time, i.e. coffee, cigarettes and a few other not so healthy things.
(He eliminated the unhealthy things he was drinking, eating and smoking.) I was still experiencing the symptoms on occasion. I was frustrated and still didn't know what it was I was experiencing... ended up quitting two jobs that I enjoyed very much because of it...
(Insomnia lead to), flipping channels when I heard this woman talking about anxiety. Then this man was talking about it and the symptoms he had... I stopped cold and thought to myself, "this sounds exactly like what I am going through." What an awesome revelation it was. I finally had an answer to what it was I couldn't put a name on...
What a difference there is now in me. I have changed quite a bit and am a different man now. I still have a few things to work on and am still experiencing mild anxiety in tight situations... I know with more time and patience I will be even better.
Lucinda, you have given a lot of people hope. Words cannot express truly what you have given. I know that it means a great deal to me to have someone there like you helping people like me, Grateful Friend, Dan Tift" MI
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