Comments on: On Breaking the 22 Minute Mile, and Stumbling on Happiness https://anitamathias.com/2015/09/29/on-breaking-the-22-minute-mile-and-stumbling-on-happiness/ Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art Wed, 21 Oct 2015 18:24:56 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Anita Mathias https://anitamathias.com/2015/09/29/on-breaking-the-22-minute-mile-and-stumbling-on-happiness/#comment-63417 Wed, 21 Oct 2015 18:24:56 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/?p=64927#comment-63417 In reply to Freda.

Freda!! How lovely to be in contact again. And good to see your Mitzi and your motorhome again. We have a motorhome now, and love it so much!

]]> By: Freda https://anitamathias.com/2015/09/29/on-breaking-the-22-minute-mile-and-stumbling-on-happiness/#comment-63411 Sat, 17 Oct 2015 17:04:25 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/?p=64927#comment-63411 Thank you for this post, Anita, you have helped me to feel very glad to be one of the Oldies. I have found my way back after a summer away from cyberspace and have enjoyed clicking through your site. You have a very special gift. Every Blessing from Dalamory.

]]> By: Anita Mathias https://anitamathias.com/2015/09/29/on-breaking-the-22-minute-mile-and-stumbling-on-happiness/#comment-63380 Tue, 06 Oct 2015 07:41:10 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/?p=64927#comment-63380 In reply to Gail Daniels.

Yes indeed, Gail! It’s going to be tough to adjust to aiming for lower goals, and how precious learning to be content will be.

]]> By: Gail Daniels https://anitamathias.com/2015/09/29/on-breaking-the-22-minute-mile-and-stumbling-on-happiness/#comment-63376 Mon, 05 Oct 2015 15:39:26 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/?p=64927#comment-63376 Thanks for this, good thoughts as we get older and have to adjust our sights accordingly. Reminds me of Paul and his being ‘content’
“I’ve learned by now to be quite content whatever my circumstances. I’m just as happy with little as with much, with much as with little. I’ve found the recipe for being happy whether full or hungry, hands full or hands empty. Whatever I have, wherever I am, I can make it through anything in the One who makes me who I am.”
Phil:4:12-13ish Message

]]> By: Anita Mathias https://anitamathias.com/2015/09/29/on-breaking-the-22-minute-mile-and-stumbling-on-happiness/#comment-63339 Wed, 30 Sep 2015 08:30:49 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/?p=64927#comment-63339 In reply to Lynda Alsford.

Thanks, Lynda. I too need to remind myself daily to practise gratitude!

]]> By: Lynda Alsford https://anitamathias.com/2015/09/29/on-breaking-the-22-minute-mile-and-stumbling-on-happiness/#comment-63338 Wed, 30 Sep 2015 06:12:55 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/?p=64927#comment-63338 Great post, Anita. I have been learning about gratitude this summer. A lot of the time I have been writing down my gratitude. I find it helps to focus my mind on all the wonderful things I have in my life. I am also learning to follow my dreams where I can. God gives us dreams but we need to work with him to see their fulfillment. I am taking small, regular, planned steps to achieve my goals. If they don’t happen they were not of God.

]]> By: Anita Mathias https://anitamathias.com/2015/09/29/on-breaking-the-22-minute-mile-and-stumbling-on-happiness/#comment-63337 Tue, 29 Sep 2015 21:36:55 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/?p=64927#comment-63337 “I wrote down several of your quotes” Wow, thanks much, Janet.
Thank you so much for reading!

]]> By: Janet https://anitamathias.com/2015/09/29/on-breaking-the-22-minute-mile-and-stumbling-on-happiness/#comment-63336 Tue, 29 Sep 2015 19:10:46 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/?p=64927#comment-63336 Anita,
I am grateful for what you write, as well. This is a particularly beautiful post. I wrote down several of your quotes, but now that I’ve finished reading all of it, I will save the whole thing. I’ve been working on “happy” and you have given me some pointers. Reading always makes me happy and when I do get out and do something, it’s easier for me to be happy then, too.
Another thing to keep in mind, the work in a garden is never finished. I’ve learned that from experience!
Enjoy your week.

Janet

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