I hope you’re having a beautiful day. ♡
Here’s another light-filled ¤ Gem ¤

One of the things I learned some time ago was an acronym for the word “fear.”

F – Face
E – Everything
A – And
R – Recover

Until you face something and work your way through it (regardless of your fear), it is virtually impossible to grow beyond your fear.  It will control you forever.  And yes, I have faced a lot of fear over the past few years.  Amazingly, what I discovered for myself was not that death itself scared me. 

My fears tended to revolve around the idea of being more and more “useless” over time as I got sicker and sicker and fatter and fatter, as well as becoming a burden to others.  After examining my fears closely enough to discover what really scared me, I could start formulating specific actions to face those fears head on and do something about them…

I decided to start doing whatever I could to get better, stronger, healthier, more capable.  One of the first tasks was to reframe the way I talked to myself.  

W. Clifford Dean, Every Moment Gratitude

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I’m hosting a new 21-Day challenge on Kindspring in loving memory of Cliff: Every Moment Gratitude 2026. It begins the first week of January. (Right now it’s set for New Year’s Eve since that’s as far as the mechanic for the challenges allows at the moment. I’ll update it soon.) All welcome.