I’m a working mother of three beautiful children, Jane 20, Michelle 18, and Jacob 7. I’ve been married to Joe, a scientist and thinker, for 25 years in addition to a six-year courtship. So yes, I’ve known this man almost all my life. Amazingly, a quarter of century later, we can still make each other laugh, and our love has transformed from a hot and fierce flame to unquenchable deep burning coals.
My passion for life is family and writing. I decided to pen my memoir LET GO two years ago and haven’t been able to stop writing ever since. I am currently working on my second book on the topic of happiness from a scientific point of view. Writing has brought healing to my past sufferings, as well as refined new directions and meanings to my life.
I used to rush through life to get to the next thing. Now I am learning to stay in and savor the present while holding a positive outlook towards the future. It is definitely a much more enjoyable and relaxed way of living.
I wasn’t born with a sunny temperament. I was your average negative person who worried about losing what I had while ached for what I hadn’t attained. But I’ve always been intrigued by the subject of happiness and drawn to happy people. I’ve come to the realization over the last five years that happiness can be learned like you learn how to play a violin. I’ve read many books, research findings and applied the theories and discoveries to how I think internally and how I behave externally. With the daily exercise of the mind, today I am able to remain positive, cheerful and optimistic under almost all circumstances.
My desire is to use the platform of this blog to share my journey of self-understanding and self-empowerment by unleashing the hidden power and energy from within to live, laugh and love as my authentic self. Familial relationship is another subject I feel passionate about and therefore write often.
Want to share with you what the philosopher says about the Law of Cause and Effect:
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“abusive mom, wonderful husband, beautiful children” – I would have agreed about this statement years ago, but now, I wish to put in a word for all the “abusive” moms out there – Someone once said about them – “They did the best they knew how; had they known better, they would have done better.”
May God give us the power to be able to truly forgive those who have hurt us as we ourselves have hurt our loved ones intentionally or unintentionally as well. I am sure you did forgive her now.
Admire your courage to be honest about your past, about your relationships, and about who you are – though this is an ongoing journey. Keep searching, keep asking questions, keep finding new insights. One day, we all will be in that destination – “the land of abundance” when we can say – this is all part of His plan for me. Thank you. Thank you. What a beautiful journey.
October 2, 2012 @ 2:16 am
|Thank you for walking this journey with me and offering insight, understanding and support at a time when I lost touch with myself and the rest of the world I was familiar with. And yes, I have forgiven my mother from the bottom of my heart!
October 2, 2012 @ 2:30 am
|“…We are learning to accept the differences as a gift as well as being compassionate about each other’s weaknesses. We choose to be happy rather than right. ” Well said…
I remember vividly that 9 years ago at our church’s second vow-renewal ceremony when you being the interpretor, we, “Huangpu the first graduates”, witnessed the mighty blessings we enjoyed, with statements as follows:
We are still two, but now with God among us, Who makes each of us a unique melody. And in concert together, these two melodies become one harmonious piece in His grand song. I believe this sweet harmony will be kept moving as long as we keep in tune with Him.
There is a musical term, counterpoint – the combination of two or more independent melodies into a single harmonic texture in which each retains its linear character. Melodies can be different, distinctive, sometimes even against each other, but put together by a composer they will form a single piece of beautiful harmony… The composer is not ourselves…
September 28, 2012 @ 11:18 pm
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