1. The Plain Girl - Chapter 6: Crash Recovery


    Date: 10/24/2017, Categories: Love Stories, Author: xreynolds, Rating: 4, Source: LushStories

    smart. In a way, we exchange our ability to experience those things for the clarity of our intelligence. We think we’re smart, but it’s nothing compared to what an angel knows. If you can learn to count on your Angel, they’re right there when you need them.” “Well, since you can see them, it is easier to keep that in mind.” Karla reminded her that not everyone is a visionary. “Seeing them is a whole other matter and mind you, it wasn’t always that way. Besides, that doesn’t stop them from helping you. It means the entire world to them, if you just know about them; that they are there. You don’t have to see them to recognize that they are there. It’s not that it doesn’t make sense. It is only prejudice that denies the spirit.” “They are as near to us as we allow them to be. They constantly radiate the promise of the future to us. When that certain future seems to draw so close that we can begin to live in it, or rather it can live in us – we create a space for it, make room for it. The ‘be here, now,’ slogan has its value only in a limited way. In reference to the past, it is healthy to let it be the past. We can’t go back, but we can learn from the past. We just shouldn’t get stuck there. But without the promise of the future, there would be no point to the present either. This is at the heart of the Christmas mood. That special feeling that children, who are still in touch with the regions from where they descended, can still experience.” “In a way, if you want to have a ...
    balanced life, you need to make room in yourself for the future. If you don’t, you can’t find a healthy relation to the past or the present. The past only tells us how old we have become, and the present can’t build anything new on that. Everything just crumbles into pointlessness. In a way, you have to become a child again.” “What the wise kings of old had waited for and sought, what had become forgotten about and shunned by that present, the present that had no room, what glowed in the visionary hearts of the simple shepherds – this is what needs to quicken your inner child. The way to make for a healthy future is to make room for it; first in yourself, then it appears in your life. That is what Christmas is all about.” Claire turned around and pulled a slip of paper she had stuck on her refrigerator door. “Let me read something that Martin once said to me. I wrote it down, to help me remember.” Claire held the note before her like it was a treasure. Her eyes glowed as she read from it. “Often people are at a loss because they can’t seem to find the will that they need to go forward and really improve their life. This strength gradually coalesces out of forces which at first appear only as ideals, but they eventually translate into forces of will that enable you to live those ideals. They become realities. As such, it is the fulfillment of persistent dedication; actualization is something that is granted to those who commit.” Claire had become transfixed. She could make it ...
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