Re: to Tricia(Faye)

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Faye - I thank you for your words of encouragement and support. Know that I think you are very special and that you do have a gift for communicating what so many of us feel in such an elegant way. Right now my balance between the good and the bad is just a little off.....a lot of which has to do with outside forces that I have no control over and yet I fret about them anyway. Always was a bit of a worrier I guess. I'm sure to right myself once again, to the place where I can see all of the good things that I do have and be grateful for them. In every life's journey there are always going to be bumps on the road......guess as a group we just happened to get on the obstacle course....silly us. Helps to know that you're out there with me though, and that I do not travel the road alone. Thank you......Hugs, TriciaFAYE PAPPLE-MURRAY wrote:

Dear Tricia - I read your letter and I think that it was as articulate and meaningful as anything I have ever written myself, and I thank you for thinking that I even am articulate. I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder, as I don't think myself as anything special at all. You and I have a lot in common - just from what I read in your letter, about your "being an accident waiting to happen in your own house" - me too - I"ve made fires and floods, broke lots of stuff - by accident, gave myself too many bruises and bumps, and even had my own family tell the O.T. to not bring the long handled reacher into the house. I also have lots of people that I still very much care about "friends" - why I ever called them that, well, because they are my friend - but I guess I am not enough of 'their' friend. I am housebound, I have one girlfriend that I "see". Yet my heart is full of love and my life is full too.

So is my future full of hope - because that is the choice that I make.

When you feel sad, upset or otherwise with the situation that you are in, that is one of the many reasons that everyone is here in this group.... to offer a gentle hand of guidance and assistance - difference solutions to the myriad of problems that we all face at one time or another. There is no corner too dark that we can't together help to find the light switch, no heart gone so cold that we can't all help to quilt a blanket to warm a soul.

By all means Tricia be grateful for all the wonderful things you have and will have in your life and there are and will be many - but at the same time - please take the troubles that weigh heavy on you and disburse them to us, and as a group it is not a heavy load at all, but a pleasure to help a friend to find the "sunny side of the coin" again. When we all work together as a team the work load is very light and the teamwork is very bonding.

You said in your letter that only you had the power to change how you felt about things - and that you also feel for every step forward right now, is 2 leaps back. For right now that may be true.... I could BS you and say that it isn't that bad, but I don't know - but what I do know is that if you do keep taking steps forward - no matter if you end up going back after or not - eventually I promise you - you will end up ahead of the game.... persistance, never give up. If you ever want to rant, rave, yell, talk or anything - know that I'm here for you - in group or personal if you rather....

May you have more sunny days, Faye

Tricia Skiba wrote:

Barb - Feel so horrible; been using the delete key like it's going out of style lately and just browsing here and there to see if I can pick up glimpses of how all are doing.Keep to myself except for those rare occassions when I actually have something helpful that I can contribute to a particular topic.