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This memoir written by a woman author tells a compelling, impactful true life story about hope and love, and how she found her destiny. A very good book for women.
The most difficult people in our lives end up being our greatest teachers. The hurdles they place before us and the challenges they present to us are only lessons that we must learn for our greater good. Think of the oyster…without the irritating grain of sand there would be no pearl. ~ Randi G. Fine
We all experience times of joy and times of suffering as we move through our lives. Life is a breeze during the happy times; we get to sit back, relax, and enjoy the ride. But we must ask ourselves how good joy would feel if we had no adversity to contrast it? The phrase, “nobody said life was easy,” was coined with good reason. The truth is, life is hard work…but the beauty of life is that it has many facets. We are constantly challenged to learn and grow. And as we rise to those challenges we become stronger, wiser and better human beings. The universe holds all the answers we will ever need. It’s all there for the taking if we watch, listen, and trust our intuition. I invite you to follow me on my journey as I explore the many paths to happiness, and the many avenues that will lead us to living life to the fullest. I wish you serenity and joy in your life. ~ Randi
By Rabbi Abby Jacobson, Emanuel Synagogue, Oklahoma City, OK
Lord our God, we stood before You just a week ago to receive the Ten Statements of Your Torah. We stood, as though with our ancestors, and listened to the Torah reader chant descriptions of the smoking mountain, the thunderous rumbling, and the long-awaited voice of God.
This afternoon, the people of central Oklahoma did not stand to hear the voice of God. We sat, we paced, and we huddled. We listened to the voice of the meteorologists and watched as dark clouds swirled together over a cone of destruction. The rain fell upward, not down, and the thunderous roar of the swirling winds carried, and we saw the awesome power of God. This was not Shavuot—the Feast of Weeks that marked our days of freedom. This was minutes that seemed like years and trapped us into watching the same images of destruction.
Merciful God, a great and powerful windstorm has passed, and it has torn apart the buildings and shattered the rocks before You. You told Elijah, the prophet, that You were not in the windstorm. Please, then, be in the still, small voices of the children crying out to be found. Be in the voices of the rescuers calling out for survivors. Be in the cries of those who are lost and of those who have lost.
May it be Your will that those who are missing be found alive and be cared for well, and may the people of central Oklahoma find strength in You and in one another as we rebuild what we can.
The number one reason why people give up so fast is because they tend to look at how far they still have to go, instead of how far they have gotten. ~ Vaibhav Shah
That is a truthful, relatable quote for many of us, but why? Why do so many of us tend to minimize our successes and accomplishments, and emphasize those we have yet to realize.
There are many intangibilities in life. For instance, faith is the belief in something we cannot see, though those who are solidly rooted in their faith know that what they believe exists. Love is another intangibility that we cannot always see but can feel.
Our personal accomplishments and personal growth, on the other hand, are evident. Though we may choose to deny the importance of prior successes we are aware of what we have done. So why wouldn’t we tend to focus more on what we have accomplished, what is evident, than what we have not? Why don’t we give our track record of accomplishments due respect?
We are natural-born seekers. Whether consciously or subconsciously each of us know that our mission in life is personal growth. We also know that personal growth is not easily attained. Whether we choose to acknowledge our life’s mission or strive to fulfill it, the awareness that we can continually do better and be better is undeniable. Perhaps that is why, when it comes to personal progress, our tendency is to look to the future, toward what we have yet to accomplish, instead of valuing our prior achievements and successes.
Then why do we not always put forth our best effort toward achievement and growth?
The decision to give up before reaching our goals or not to try at all is one that is based on insecurity, feelings of inadequacy, and fear of failure. Giving up too early or making no effort at all is the easy way out. But choosing the easy way out is a self-defeating decision. There is no reward or personal growth attached to it. Personal growth is attained from our efforts to push against the tide. Whether we succeed or fail in our endeavor it is the experience of trying that we grow from.
Our prior successes are integral to our future successes, stepping stones to the successes that await us. These achievements were hard earned and are to be highly valued, not denied or minimized. They do not pale in comparison to future endeavors but rather become the foundation for them.
Every forward step we take in life adds to our personal growth. Value the past, excel in the moment, and strive for greatness in the future.
Michele Marlene Randi
I am the youngest of three sisters. All three of us have had complicated lives and family problems that began in childhood. Through the years we’ve enjoyed times of unity and endured times of painful isolation. Our lives have physically taken us in different directions. We each live in different states, many miles apart. But none of that matters…we have a sisterly bond that cannot be broken.
Our individual struggles have divided us at times; we have found ourselves at different levels of healing at different times. That has caused conflicts in the past. It’s hard to be a good sister, friend, spouse, or anything when one is deeply focused on their own survival and struggling to meet their own needs. Still the sisterly love and bond was never broken.
Because of the years between us our experiences have been slightly different, though our issues were rooted in the same family soil. Without the support of each other throughout the years , the sisterly love we share, and the indestructable bond between all three sisters, we would have probably gone insane.
We are loving, caring, compassionate women who strive to make the world a better place. We are spiritual women who never stop progressing in our life’s journey. We are strong women who let nothing stand in the way of our goals. We are successful women who are happy with our choices in life. And we are grateful women who never take the gifts of life for granted.
Our sisterly love and impervious bond are stronger than they have ever been before. We are resolute in our determination as women, sisters, and family to never be divided in spirit again. We have three different personalities, but we celebrate each other’s unique qualities. Our arms remain outstretched to each other regardless of the miles between us. And we’ll never stop cheering each other on.
A parent’s unconditional love is the foundation on which children build their lives. The stronger the foundation the higher and sturdier the children can build. ~Randi G. Fine~
You have probably noticed that lately I have been writing, posting, and speaking on my radio show a great deal about abuse from toxic parents, toxic mothers, and those with narcissistic personality disorder. That is because as confused and abused adult daughters of a toxic mother and enabling father my two sisters and I have been doing a great deal of research on these topics. To our great relief we have found that there are many other adults who can relate to what we go through. There are so many adult children of toxic parents who are hurting, looking for answers, and need support .
My sister, Michele, sent this wonderful list of affirmations, written by author Rayne Wolfe, to me this morning. I believe it offers valuable, healing support and it speaks so well to the unique emotions and fears specific to daughters with toxic mothers. I will now pass it along to you. ~Randi~
Rayne has been collecting women’s stories for a long time. Each one is a story of survival and strength. And really, it’s the very last family taboo, isn’t it? With a birth mother (alley-cat), adoptive mother (glamor girl/cheater) and step-mother that she actually adores, honey, she’s got the material but no one willing to hold a gun to her head every day and make her type. From time to time you will find Rayne sharing her dream wisdom here at 8 Women Dream.
The mystery of life is that we don’t know how our story ends, but we can plant seeds today for the future we desire and we can find comfort in our hopes for tomorrow. ~Randi G. Fine~
Everyone’s destiny holds adversity and challenge. How we cope with the trials that lie ahead depends on how well we learn from past experiences and our level of awareness as we walk through life. ~Randi G Fine~
Love transcends the physical experience…you don’t have to see love, hear love, or touch love, to feel love. ~Randi G. Fine~
What is Your Destiny, by Randi G. Fine
All of us want to look forward to the prospect of a life that’s new and exciting. When we’re hurting, we want to know when there will be a brighter day. We all want to believe in a future that is better than our past or current life, as if that would make us happier and more content.
But aren’t we far better off focusing on the present moment where our choices exist, rather than worrying about our destiny? The only moment we have control over is this moment. What we do today determines what our life holds tomorrow. We can’t change the future or the past because they are intangible, but we can impact the present.
Only from today’s vantage point can we even remotely see what our life will be from this moment forward, and that projection is based on never making another decision or change that will alter the course of our life. We never know what lies ahead.
Our lives in this world have been strategically designed so that we will not know what our future holds. We are here to reach goals that we can only achieve by interacting in a fallible world. Everyone’s destiny holds adversity and challenge. How we cope with the challenges that lie ahead depends on how well we learn from our past experiences and our level of awareness as we walk through life.
The miracle of life is that we do not know how our story ends, what our destiny is. But we CAN plant seeds today for the future we desire and we CAN find comfort in our hopes for tomorrow.
We live in the midst of constant overstimulation; it’s hard to hear ourselves think. And so often we push against life, believing that we must constantly calculate and plan in order to control our lives. The truth is that we are always in control of our lives whether we force it or not; experience teaches us that. It is our innermost thoughts that drive us. If we take time to sit quiet and listen, really pay attention to our thoughts, our answers will come to us. We must learn to trust our inner voices and let them guide us. ~Randi G Fine~
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