The serenity and the courage to break your own heart....

Yesterday, at Weaver St. I look to the magazine rack as I do every time I am in line, to check if the newest issue of my favorite magazine has hit the stands. I bought the June issue of the Sun yesterday without hesitation. Reading it today I am inspired by the parallels between the stories, the recent events of my life, and the words of the quote from which the Sun Magazine's title is based and an Irish prayer that is with me in life's daily struggles as well as paralleling events in my life of late.


The Sun: "What is to be light, must endure burning" - Victor Frankl

Irish Prayer:
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change
the courage to change the things I can and
the wisdom to know the difference.

Sun Magazine, June Issue, Excerpts from an advice column "Dear Sugar", reprinted in the magazine.

Question: "Dear Sugar - my question is short and sweet: What would you tell your twenty-some self if you could talk to her now? Love, Seeking Wisdom"
Answer (selected passages):



SERENITY........" You cannot convince people to love you. This is an absolute rule. No one will ever give you love simply because you want him or her to give it. Real love moves freely in both directions. Don't waste your time on anything else."
COURAGE......."be brave enough to break your own heart.... that's all....."
WISDOM......."The useless days will add up to something.....these things are your becoming."
"There are some things you can't understand yet. Your life will be a great a continuously unfolding."


"Most things will be OK eventually, but not everything. Sometimes you'll put up a good fight and lose. Sometimes you'll hold on really hard and realize there is no choice but to let go. Acceptance is a small, quiet room."