My theme for the A to Z Blog Challenge @AprilA2Z during the month of April is ~ My Life Is My Masterpiece ~ Lessons Learned
COMES THE DAWN
After a while you learn the subtle difference
Between holding a hand and chaining a soul,
And you learn that love doesn’t mean leaning
And company doesn’t mean security,
And you begin to learn that kisses aren’t contracts
And presents aren’t promises,
And you begin to accept your defeats
With your head up and your eyes open
With the grace of a woman, not the grief of a child,
And you learn to build all your roads on today,
Because tomorrow’s ground is too uncertain for plans
And futures have a way of falling down in mid-flight.
After a while you learn
That even sunshine burns if you get too much.
So you plant your own garden and decorate your own soul,
Instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
And you learn that you really can endure…
That you really are strong,
And you really do have worth.
And you learn and learn.
by Veronica A. Shoffstall
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“You have been worthy since you took your first breath and you will be worthy till you take your last.”
~ Gratitude for Grace ~
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The 2016 A to Z Challenge #atozchallenge@aprila2z is 26 Days in April (No Sundays) of blogging using each letter of the alphabet as a prompt for each blog. My theme for this Challenge is My Life is a Masterpiece ~ Lessons Learned
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Me In The Middle 
That’s a great quote. Thank you.
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Thanks Elizabeth! Glad you like it! 🙂
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Some very insightful thoughts. Can you believe we are at letter S already?
Mary
#AtoZChallenge T is for Tina Turner
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The month sure went by quickly! Congratulations on hanging in there! 🙂
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Beautiful post with lots of great advice through the poem and the quotes you used. ~Meg Writer‘s Crossings
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Thanks, Meg! One more week of AtoZ! It’s been a rewarding challenge! 🙂
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I love the line in the first poem “plant your own garden and decorate your own soul’.
In the end, we must be accountable for our own happiness because no one can create it for us 🙂
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So true! I still like to receive flowers and be inspired by others. I guess the difference is it’s no longer an expectation.
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Beautiful, moving poem. Thank you for sharing.
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Thank you! It really spoke to me at the right time in my life. 🙂
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Thank you for re-blogging my Letter S post! ❤
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What a beautiful poem.
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It’s been around awhile. I just discovered it on Facebook and it was the right timing for me to read it. So real and so true! 🙂
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“Reflect to learn, but don’t dwell.”
Good advice. In fact, everything here is good advice! Thanks.
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That’s a tough piece of advice. When I return to thoughts of the past that are hurtful, I try to remember this.
🙂
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that poem sums up so much about the truth depth of self worth – shame it’s taken me until my 50’s to figure it out! Looking forward to your trust post tomorrow! Leanne @ cresting the hill
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That’s one of the reasons why I made my theme for AtoZ about ‘Lessons Learned’. Maybe we need to all learn in our own time and in our own way. 🙂
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Beautiful post. Shared.
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Thank you, Alana! We’re coming to the end of the challenge. I’m going to try to return to other AtoZ bloggers and read more of their posts. 🙂
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Amazing poem and uplifting quotes. What a great post.
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I guess that poem has been around for awhile and passed on through the years. I just discovered it recently through Facebook. 🙂
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And I read it on your blog 🙂
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Mon nom de famille commence par un S, ta lettre est très belle.
Bises.
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Pas étonnant que vous l’aimez, Carole! Merci! 🙂
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