TruthOrator's Blog

In order to embrace the new, we must release the old. A trapeze artist cannot swing from one bar to another without letting go. An important part of preparing for the New Year is to review the past year—to release it—and to learn from it.… The following questions should stimulate your thinking for this process. I hope that you take time out of your busy schedule this holiday season to ponder where you are and where you've been. Talk with people you care about. Write out your thoughts and feelings. Do some journaling. Consider writing a letter—an end-of the-year-epistle to yourself. It could be profound to write it and valuable to read it in the years ahead. Reflect upon what you did, how you felt, what you liked, what you didn’t and what you learned. Try to look at yourself and your experience with as much objectivity as you can—much like a biographer would. Here are some suggestions to get you started in mulling over the past year—perhaps the last decade. Feel free to add yo...

"One day you will kiss a man you can't breathe without and find that breath is of little consequence." ― Karen Marie Moning "You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams." ― Dr. Seuss "There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment." ― Sarah Dessen "I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close." ― Pablo Neruda "Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave." ― A.A. Milne "She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be e...

“I’m fulfilled in what I do… I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes — the finer things of life — would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.” – Coretta Scott King “Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.” – Coretta Scott King “Not everybody can be famous. But everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.” – Martin Luther King, Jr. “You have very little morally persuasive power with people who can feel your underlying contempt.” – Martin Luther King, Jr. “An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.” – Martin Luther King, Jr. “What we see depends mainly on what we look for.” – John Lubbock “Figure who you are; then do it on purpose.” – Dolly Parton “Just because you don’t take an interest in politics, does not mean politics does not take an int...

“I’m fulfilled in what I do… I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes — the finer things of life — would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.” – Coretta Scott King “Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.” – Coretta Scott King “Not everybody can be famous. But everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.” – Martin Luther King, Jr. “You have very little morally persuasive power with people who can feel your underlying contempt.” – Martin Luther King, Jr. “An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.” – Martin Luther King, Jr. “What we see depends mainly on what we look for.” – John Lubbock “Figure who you are; then do it on purpose.” – Dolly Parton “Just because you don’t take an interest in politics, does not mean politics does not take an int...

“I’m fulfilled in what I do… I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes — the finer things of life — would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.” – Coretta Scott King “Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.” – Coretta Scott King “Not everybody can be famous. But everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.” – Martin Luther King, Jr. “You have very little morally persuasive power with people who can feel your underlying contempt.” – Martin Luther King, Jr. “An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.” – Martin Luther King, Jr. “What we see depends mainly on what we look for.” – John Lubbock “Figure who you are; then do it on purpose.” – Dolly Parton “Just because you don’t take an interest in politics, does not mean politics does not take an int...

In early engagement, when I first began thinking about the idea of “two becoming one,” I pictured it like the process of combining chocolate chips with cookie dough. In other words, the following equation: Something Incredible + Something Incredible = Something Super-Duper Incredible. Yeah Right. Now when I think of the idea of “two becoming one,” I picture it a bit more realistically – like welding two metals together. Here’s the accurate equation: Something Hard and Stubborn + Something Hard and Stubborn = Ouch, That Hurts By “ouch, that hurts” I mean whatever metal being welded would feel like if it had feelings. Like “Oh, dang. This burns. I’m melting. I’m dying.” But really, that is basically what both Brandon and I secretly screamed in the beginning months of marriage. And honestly… sometimes we still do. I think most married people probably started out like me in the beginning – we picture something amazing and then the pain catches us by surprise. Before I go any furt...

“No one else can ever make your choices for you. Your choices are yours alone. They are as much a part of you as every breath you will take, every moment of your life.”  “You may think that in life, a lot of things happen to you along the way. The truth is, in life, you happen to a lot of things along the way.” “Choosing to live your life by your own choice is the greatest freedom you will ever have.” “It is only when you exercise your right to choose that you can also exercise your right to change.” “It is your programming that has created your choices in the past. It is the choices you make today that are creating the programs of your future.” “If you were given only one choice: To choose or not to choose, which would you choose?” “The choices we make by accident are just as important as the choices we make by design.” “Another person’s choice is nothing more than another alternative for you to consider.” “There is no life as complete as the life that is lived by ...

We all have our 'good old days' tucked away inside our hearts, and we return to them in daydreams like cats to favorite armchairs. --Brian Carter Love is like a puzzle. When you're in love, all the pieces fit but when your heart gets broken, it takes a while to get everything back together. --Unknown There are things that we don't want to happen but have to accept, things nwe don't want to know but have to learn, and people we can'' live without but have to let go. They say that if you love someone you should let them go, but they never say what to do when they don't come back. They say that time heals all wounds but all it's done so far is give me more time to think about how much I miss you. --Ezbeth Wilder Trying to forget someone you love is like trying to remember someone you never knew. It is better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all. --Alfred Lord Tennyson Breaking up. It happens kind of suddenly. One minute,...

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow. --Melody Beattie Reputation is what others think of us; character is what God knows of us. When you have spent what feels like eternity trying to repair a few moments of time that destroyed the view others once had of you then you must ask yourself if you have the problem or is it really them? God doesn’t make us try so hard, only enemies do. --Shannon L. Alder The battle you are going through is not fueled by the words or actions of others; it is fueled by the mind that gives it importance. --Shannon L. Alder It is necessary ... for a man to go away by himself ... to sit on a rock ... and ask, 'Who am I, where have I been, and where am I going? --Carl ...