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A Cheerful Heart: Life Is Not a Bowl of Cherries, So Stay Out of the Pits
By: Diana HolteBook Publisher: AuthorSolutions
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Life presents us with a series of events. These events are not always what we would like; but if we face reality, we realize that they are what we are given. In A Cheerful Heart , Diana Holt shares what she has learned from a lifetime of accepting the events that she has been given.
Many illnesses, some more devastating than others, affected her family. Alcoholism, dementia, cancer, haemolytic uremic syndrome, and depression caused her family much pain and destruction, while other diseases left emptiness, sadness, and loneliness.
As challenging situations arosesituations she did not know how to faceshe reached out for help and found it, in the form of counseling and support groups, through her church, and in numerous other places. Sharing how she reached out for help and found it, searching for solutions, taught her about utilizing the abilities God gave her.
Now, she shares the story of her life in order to encourage others to search for the help they need and the solutions to their own challenging situationshelp is there, if you only look.
When your life is full of sorrow,
And theres no hope for tomorrow.
When your soul is aching,
And your heart is breaking
If I can ease your pain,
Then I will not have lived in vain.
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| Title of eBook: A Cheerful Heart: Life Is Not a Bowl of Cherries, So Stay Out of the Pits | |
| Release Date: 11-10-2010 | |
| Publisher: iUniverse.com |
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A Cheerful Heart: Life Is Not a Bowl of Cherries, So Stay Out of the Pits
Chapter One
Fear
Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed!! (Found in the Kidney Foundation Newsletter)
When life gets to the stage where there is no faith, 'Fear' is the dominant feeling. This was how I spent part of my life till I re-learned some of my coping skills.
I gave 'Fear' the opportunity to take over my life.
Up to my fourteenth year, Dad, Mom, my brother and I lived on a 160acre farm in Alberta. My brother, David, was five years younger than I was. We did not have electricity, and we carried water to the house from a well. To us 'logging on' meant putting another log in the stove or heater, and 'monitor' was keeping an eye on the flame. The school David and I went to was a two-room school with grades from one to ten. Since our neighbours lived a mile and a half away across the field, the animals were our friends.
After grade ten, I had to live in a dormitory to attend school about eleven miles from home. In September I moved into the dormitory. It was at this time that my parents decided we should all go to Vancouver, so that we could be together. Dad felt there were more opportunities for us there.
In December 1949 we had an auction selling our farm equipment, cattle, horses, chickens, ducks, geese and turkeys. All our household items were either given away or sold. The most heartbreaking of all was leaving our beloved pets that went to our neighbours. Our dogs, Maxie, a border collie cross, and Brownie, a shorthaired brown mongrel, were our best friends and soul mates. Leaving them behind was devastating for
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