When the whole world is running towards a cliff, - he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind. C.S.Lewis
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Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Hump Day! Eat, Pray, Love



This will drive you crazy! Keep at it 'cause it is possible.. This is one way to keep your mind sharp! Here is a little 'test' that is (supposedly) part of a second grade Computer class in China . Some figure it out right away. Others report having to work on it for a week (or more) to solve it. Have fun and don't forget to forward to your kids/grandchildren.
Click here: Frog Leap Test

Now Chatty got halfway through, but her friend Angela came to the rescue! Angela's answer below. Try to work at it awhile though it is fun.

Okay - what am I thinking about today? Hmmm - went to see Eat, Love, and Pray. I had read the book, liked it. Went to the movie - was so so. Went home and reread the book and yes a friend asked me to go see it again, I did, and you know what? I got it! Now I have to put first a disclaimer. I do not like the fact she is not a main stream Christian. I don't really like it when they say the power within you - meaning God. Or sometimes people say you are God - God is within you.

Well, God is within me, but I am not God.

However, I am the type person who can read or hear or see something - discern what is right and wrong - drop the wrong (for me I am not judging others) and keep what is right (again for me not others).

Using that disclaimer - I did learn a couple of good and positive ideas that go along with my beliefs.

One thing I heard them say in movie which I thought was PROFOUND - " You can select your mood or what you are thinking just as you select your clothes. " Isn't that the truth?

"If you want to get a castle, swim the moat."

"Stop wanting to win the lottery, buy the ticket!"

That some times we have to learn the "art of doing nothing." I think that is true in our society. So many people rush (myself included), but we don't practice the art of doing nothing. And it is my belief that is important to once in awhile to clean up our junky old minds. There is a sweetness in doing nothing. Or there should be.

"Don't stay stuck where you are from fear of change." Guilty of that one too and for me that is one of the harder things to learn.

When you think - meditate - or just pass a person "SMILE the biggest smile and smile all the way down to your liver." Now I have tried it and need to do it more - it feels funny - but good.

"If you clear out your obsession (what is in your brain) the doorway to your brain will open and life will rush in."

"Forgive yourself."

"Ruin is the road to transformation." "Some times you have to leave everything behind."

Sometimes your afraid to love again because you feel you will lose yourself, the progress you have made. "If you lose balance in love is to gain balance in life. Which you have to have first. To learn to really love correctly." True love is loving the other and loving yourself simultaneously.

Now know too - I am not necessarily talking about 'guru' kinds of things on my blog although it will seem like it at times. There are two sides to Chatty - but all combined is with God. I have mentioned this before and the only reason I mention it every once in awhile is that it is important to me for you to understand where I am coming from. I am a survivor of child abuse. I am a survivor for many reasons - mainly the Lord, but also for these kind of 'guru' and 'positive think' statements, laughter, good faithful friends, and of course for therapy. Just want you to know where my heart is. I needed the combination of all these things to change and become who I am today. And let me be the first to say - I am not without issues or scars.
My thought is 'God made everything" -

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Love,
Sandie

Answer to riddle:
Move the boy frog on the left first
Jump him with the first girl frog
Move the girl frog on the 6th rock to the 5th rock
Move boy frog on 4th rock to 6th rock
Move boy frog on 2nd rock to 4th rock
Move boy frog on 1st rock to 2nd rock
Move girl frog on 3rd rock to 1st rock
Move girl frog on 5th rock to 3rd rock
Move girl frog on 7th rock to 5th rock
Move boy frog on 6th rock to 7th rock
Move boy frog on 4th rock to 6th rock
Move boy frog on 2nd rock to 4th rock
Move girl frog on 3rd rock to 2nd rock
Move girl frog on 5th rock to 3rd rock
Move boy frog on 4th rock to 5th rock
And that's it!!!!!