Last Daily April Prescription

"Lovely gentle breeze this morning..."

April Prescriptions 24,25,26,27,28,29

"Here's a short story you will enjoy - I'll read it to you."

"Lovely car we are able to drive!"

"I love to live at this time when we have so much to make our lives and living as convenient as possible. What do you especially enjoy?"

"I love polar fleece in the winter. How is your polar fleece jacket? What do you especially enjoy in winter?"

"Enjoy the lightening sky with the interesting clouds as you drive to work."

"Enjoy your computer today."

April Prescriptions 22 and 23

"Look at that man's big shoes. I think buying shoes must be difficult for him."

"Enjoy the last of the grapes with your lunch."

April Prescription 21

Last night we drove over the hill down to Ruimsig to help someone. Today's prescription was last night's moments of shared presence and awareness.

"The lights all over in the valleys are so beautiful! The air is so clear. Seeing the lights reminds me of flying into New York just after sunset. It also reminds me of sitting on the slopes of Table Mountain and watching the lights at dusk until after sunset."

Daily Prescriptions 19 and 20

"Enjoy your nap."

"Look up at the last of the moon and two last stars with the tracery of leaves against the dawning sky - isn't it beautiful?"

Daily Prescription 18

"Have you ever thought what sort of a person you want to be when you are older?"

April Prescriptions 16 and 17

"The air feels so crisp and cool in the early mornings. I am glad for a coat to slip on."

"Enjoy the Brownies and Marshmallow Pudding with your colleagues."
(It was G's birthday and I sent them along for celebration sharing)

April Prescription 15

"Look at the morning star! Isn't it lovely? and there is the waning part of the moon..."

April Prescription 14

"Listen to the stunning sound of the wind in the trees across the road!"

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I trust that this will bring some hope to your soul.

April Prescriptions 12 and 13

"I made this macoroni cheese just the way you like it - enjoy!"

"Enjoy the feel of the (golf course) green under your feet, the breeze against your cheek, the colour of the grass and the trees..."

April Prescriptions 10 and 11

"Enjoy your golf today!"

"Come and catch up on our Daughters' Blogs..."

April Prescription 9

"Enjoy the lightening dawn as you drive to work."

April Prescription 8

"The fountain in the forecourt where you work is beautiful. Did you organise the waterworks?"
"Yes. The original fountain and this variation as well. Mike is fitting lights to it now."
"I think it sounds lovely, and the white marble is beautiful too. Do go outside today and appreciate its peacefulness."

April Prescriptions 6 and 7

"Look at this bright yellow butterfly!" I said as my husband arrived home from work yesterday. We watched it flutter around and settle, then flutter again and settle in the front garden.

""Doesn't this early autumn morning smell lovely?" I said as we walked out into the early dawn this morning when I was seeing Glenn off to work. We breathed in the dewy, earthy fragrances... reminds me of being on holiday.

April Prescription 5

"The Virginia Creeper in the front garden is gorgeous - come with me and look at it..."

This is the creeper a week ago...

And this morning...

April Daily Prescription 4

"Come and feel the breeze..."

April Daily Prescription 3

"Play Golf Today!"

April Daily Prescriptions 1 and 2

Yesterday I asked my husband how he was when we woke in the morning. He said "...tired". I felt a huge outpouring of compassion for him. He has been "tired" for a long time.

Before he left for work I gently said "I have a prescription for you today. If you do it you will feel a LITTLE lifting of your spirits. Go to the gardens next door (to where he works). Find a bench to sit on and eat your lunch there. Listen to the water."

This morning in our early morning cuddle-time I said "I have another prescription for today... take your camera and take some photographs sometime today."

He said "I have to go to Sandton to the Visa office..." "Take your camera with you... take some photographs sometime today."

April is our birthday month. As I walked in from seeing him off to work, I decided I will try and have a "daily prescription" for him for this month as an added birthday present. I will record them here. Maybe they will be of some use to some one else as well.

Just For Today

1 Just for Today I will try to live through this day only, and not tackle all my problems at once. I can do something for twelve hours that would appall me if I felt that I had to keep it up for a lifetime.

2 Just For Today I will be happy. This assumes to be true what Abraham Lincoln said, that "Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be."

3 Just for Today I will adjust myself to what is, and not try to adjust everything to my own desires. I will take my "luck" as it comes, and fit myself to it.

4 Just for Today I will try to strengthen my mind. I will study. I will learn something useful. I will not be a mental loafer. I will read something that requires effort, thought and concentration.

5 Just for Today I will exercize my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn, and not get found out; if somebody knows of it, it will not count. I will do at least two things I don't want to - just for exercize. I will not show anyone that my feelings are hurt; they may be hurt, but today I will not show it.

6 Just for today I will be agreeable. I will look as well as I can, dress becomingly, keep my voice low, be courteous, criticise not one bit. I won't find fault with anything, nor try to improve or regulate anybody but myself.

7 Just for Today I will have a programme. I will not follow it exactly, but I will have it. I will save myself from two pests: hurry and indecision.

8 Just for Today I will have a quiet half hour just by myself, and relax. During this half hour, sometime, I will try to get a better perspective on my life.

9 Just for Today I will be unafraid. Especially I will not be afraid to enjoy what is beautiful, and to believe that as I give to the world, so the world will give to me.


Lord make me an instrument of Thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
And where there is sadness, joy.

O, Divine Master,
Grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled, as to console;
To be understood, as to understand;
To be loved, as to love;
For it is in giving that we receive,
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
And it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

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