Gestalt Prayer

"When I was a teenager, my father told me about the Gestalt Prayer.  I am I and you are you.  I was not put on this earth to live up to your expectations and you were not put here to live up to mine.  And if by chance we meet, that is wonderful.  It not, it can't be helped.  If by chance what makes me happy makes others happy, that is wonderful.  If not, it can't be helped."

From the book "If You Have to Wear an Ugly Dress, Learn to Accessorize:  Guidance, Inspiration, and Hope for Women with Lupus, Scleroderma, and Other Autoimmune Illnesses by Linda McNamara and Karen Kemper.

What is is.  If what is isn't the way we want it; perhaps, it can't be helped.

However, changing our thoughts on it can be wonderfully helpful.

If your thought doesn't feel good on you, may you choose to change your thought.