Rest day.

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Good morning,  today I want to talk with you of the importance of rest. Even God our creator had a rest day when he created the earth. That day is today, Sunday. It can be anyday that fits around your work schedule as long as you do. It’s a day when we can look all around us and see what has been created for us to enjoy. A day where we have time with family, sharing love and wholesome banter with those that we love. All to often we get caught up in the tapestry of life and keep striving for more.  

  
Sometimes when I have real bad days and I can’t walk I sit outside throwing the ball for our dog “Faith” and I hope to hear families outside enjoying each other, laughing and treasuring just being together. It’s all children wasn’t is time, but yet we find it so hard to give to those we love. 

Myself and Andie have adopted us time. A time where we shut our tablets, our phones get ignored. Our lives get put on hold while we remember why we said our wedding vows and why we are together. We hold hands squeeze each other and do something like walk down the garden together. The after effects of chemo 30 days in total, have had an impact on my body. I don’t know how it keeps bouncing back, above that I amaze myself at how positively I can overcome things in life these days.

Don’t get me wrong I get moody when the pain levels are high, Andie just makes sure I have pain killers when I am like that and we carry on.  

 

I just hope for you that you are able to just look around you, and take in the breathtaking world that is all around us. The beauty that’s there for us all to see. The loving smiles from our families given so innocently. Also that you can see the awesomeness in our fellow human beings. Life (I know allot about keeping my life) is amazing. Have an exsperience this Sunday and stop and take in what you have all around you free of charge. The beutiful chorus of the birds, the noise trees make in the wind. We are surrounded by beauty,  I really hope you are able to do that today with me. 

  
You may not see a robin like this, but I hope you get to just take in the beauty that is all around us. I hope above all hope you are able to share that with someone you love.

Mark

Ps, I have committed to doing this for 365 days every morning, what I ask of you is that you share these blogs I make on email, facebook twitter, you can affect people by pressing a button. Please do that. I asked ppl to share yester day at 8pm they did and 100 people saw my blogs in 2 hours. It only takes a click or two.

Giving up is not an option.

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Good morning, today I want to tell you of an experience that I had as a boy. My dad was a minister at portslade baptist church near Brighton. I still remember going to the beech at what seemed like  stupid early o’clock. I can take myself away in my mind, I can smell the bacon cooking mixed with the salty air. The sea crashing into the wind breakers. My brother would have been 2or 3 and I was 5-6.  i remember racing my dad across the field behind our house. I also remember never winning, I would always think I had a chance at winning though and I never gave up not ever. 

  
It’s funny how you can look back at being a child, and see how you still adopt those same attitudes in later life. Richard Branson likes to see himself as the man that, says yes to new ideas. His latest plane having a glass floor, not so sure about that one but it’s certainly different. I love people that are different.  The man from del monte likes to say yes. We as people love people that say yes, but how many of us respond negatively being put in a negative situation. 

“The strongest minds rise in adversity, and enjoy the good times” author Mark Blackwell 

  
There are words that I am omiting from my daily launguage. Like can’t is replaced with can. Trying with am. Don’t with will. When you start to do this. You become free, even whilst in isolation I felt some moments of freedom.  I am determined to be a better man today than I was yesterday.

You can be, you will be, I have a can do attitude. People are drawn to positive people. How many times have you been asked “Hi how are you” ? And thought, if I tell you you won’t be interested. It’s sad how as humans given 2 ears we don’t listen twice as much as we speak.  Trust me, it’s something I am doing these days listening more than I speak. 

  
Will you try or adopt this attitude. It’s your choice to make. 

Make it happen. 

Mark