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Appreciating Life


I would like to share with you the following post written by my son after going through some tremendous trials recently.  I wish for all of us to have such incredible appreciation for life as he has come to have.

Wonder – the desire to know or to be curious about something.

I’ve tried to live my life with constant wonder. I’ve always been interested in the way things work and how the universe is put together. For instance a flower… Such a beautiful construction of such complexity yet perceived with such simplicity. All the mechanics of nature coming together to produce such an amazing construct that produces pleasure for so many creatures on what we perceive to be the simplest level. Yet to describe to someone how a flower came to be is a very complex question. Proportions are specifically designed yet no one built it, it just came to be by the randomity of life by our physical perception. However; in order for the flower to look, smell, and taste the way it does the universe had to work in just the right way in order for it to become what we see when we go for a walk. The beauty it portrays is one hundred percent a divine construction. A creation of the master plan by the master of all. To me a flower represents the sheer beauty, peace, and awesomeness of life. So when I get a chance through the normal day to day hustle and bustle I try to take a moment and stop and admire the sheer gift that has been given to me by stopping and smelling that flower that was inspired to live right there in that moment which allowed me to come across it to be able to appreciate the wonder of the universe that we live in.

My name is James Perkins. I am an estranged husband of a beautiful wife and the father of three children. I have experienced the sheer destruction that drug addiction causes to ones life and have been homeless and can fully appreciate the lack of compassion that mother nature truly has when it comes right down to survival of the fittest. However; through these experiences I also found love, a true divine connection, a way that everything is connected or what someone might perceive as God. That love and compassion do exist and they are not just a manifestation of perception. Love exists. Beauty exists. Life exists. I’ve realized through my travels that the one common denominator that everyone and everything searches for is love. Sometimes people manifest this in aberrant ways which is what we call evil. From my experiences I have learned that evil is really the pursuit of love by destroying. Of course this is why when you are on the path of evil you don’t find love but rather more evil. One can’t go through life harming those around him and not become harmed himself. I have been clean for a while and now I’m putting my life back together. By grace I’m alive and have a chance to start over. Not everyone gets this chance and with this realization I know that I have been blessed with a chance to understand and live a life filled with love.

by James Perkins

Does Your Significant Other Not Appreciate You?

Do you work hard at being a good husband, wife, girlfriend or boyfriend?

You take care of the kids.  You cook.  You bring her flowers.  You go with him to his favorite game.  You help him clean out his shed.  You help her in the kitchen by doing the dishes.  You bring home the bacon.  You fulfill his sexual fantasies.  You do his laundry.  … etc, etc.

….and yet he or she just does not appreciate you!

Well, this is probably not going to change, if you keep doing what you’re doing.

So many of us are looking to have our bucket filled by the other person, particularly our loved one.   Yet, the truth of the matter is that no one can fill our bucket besides ourselves.   All your partner does is mirror to you your empty bucket.

So, if you are feeling unappreciated, then let’s work together and figure out where you’ve sustained a hole in your appreciation bucket, patch it up and fill you back up with appreciation.

You’ll be amazed at how quickly your partner will appreciate you!

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