My2ndHeartBeat

Daily Insight ~ Beautiful

2012-02-11T04:39:00.001-08:00

"Because your heart is so beautiful, everything looks beautiful to you." ~ Japanese proverb

2012-02-10T09:32:00.001-08:00

Life is a collection of short and long stories. The end of every story leads to a new beginning.

Daily Insight ~ Fear

2012-02-09T04:50:00.000-08:00

Realize it ... Turn it OFF

“Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our FEARS.”

Daily Insight - Have a Heart

2012-02-08T03:45:00.001-08:00

http://my2ndheartbeat.wordpress.com/2012/02/08/daily-insight-have-a-heart/

Daily Insight ~ Despair & Hope

2012-02-07T04:29:00.001-08:00

All despair is followed by hope; all darkness is followed by sunshine." ~Rumi

Soul

2012-02-06T04:47:00.001-08:00

"The eyes are windows to the soul." (I have looked into my best friends eyes and have seen their souls and amazing inner beauty &strength).

Daily Insight ~ Prayers & Positive Thoughts

2012-02-06T04:09:00.001-08:00

"Prayers and positive thoughts are sent and healing energies are on the way. All will be well, as there is love today."

To Family & Friends

2012-02-05T04:58:00.001-08:00

"No, I can't swear that I'll be here for the rest of your life, But I swear I'll love you for the rest of mine." ~ Trace Adkins

Daily Insight ~ Whispers of the Heart

2012-02-05T04:25:00.001-08:00

"For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my eyes you looked, but into my soul." (Listen to your heart!!)

The Healing Circle

2012-02-04T05:39:00.001-08:00

I ran across this recently and found it to be fascinating. I'm still looking for a video of the "Healing Circle".

"When we offer our individual drumbeat in harmony with the whole,
all of our barriers drop until we are nothing but the one drumbeat.
It is the heartbeat of life itself." ~Native American saying

Daily Insight ~ Gratitude

2012-02-04T05:07:00.001-08:00

"Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow."

Wise Heart

2012-02-03T10:55:00.001-08:00

"It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise."

Daily Insight ~ Full Heart

2012-02-03T05:13:00.001-08:00

"In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing."

Daily Insight ~ The Gift

2012-02-02T00:42:00.001-08:00

"I see now that the circumstances of one's birth is irrelevant. It is what you do with the GIFT of life that determines who you are."

THRI-VIVOR

2012-02-01T04:26:00.001-08:00

I am not a huge sports guy, but occasionally I will see (not hear) a segment on ESPN where it appears the hosts seem to be making fun of the jocks that create their own "words" ...... well, a note to ESPN, bring it on boys as I'm about to make up my own word.

My word is THRI-VIVOR

Here's where my "word" came from .....

Survive -

intransitive verb

1: to remain alive or in existence : live on

2: to continue to function or prosper

transitive verb

1: to remain alive after the death of <he is survived by his wife>

2: to continue to exist or live after <survived the earthquake>

3: to continue to function or prosper despite : withstand <they survived many hardships>

Thrive ~

1: to grow vigorously : flourish

2: to gain in wealth or possessions : prosper

3: to progress toward or realize a goal despite or because of circumstances

As a heart transplant recipient, yes I am a survivor and all of the definitions above apply to me and virtually all of my transplant friends. However, all of us are also THRIVING. OK, maybe not in a "wealth or possessions" point of view, but we have all gained a WEALTH of new friends. Thus, we are THRI-VIVORS!!

I could take you with me to next year's holiday party for heart transplant recipients and their families, and I can guarantee that with 300+ people in attendance, you WON'T be able to tell who has had a transplant and who hasn't. We are THRI-VIVORS!!

Got it, ESPN?

Daily Insight ~ Secret To Life

2012-02-01T03:58:00.001-08:00

"I found out what the secret to life is: friends. BEST FRIENDS!!!

Give the ULTIMATE gift ~ be an organ donor!

February is HEART Month

2012-01-31T06:41:00.001-08:00

February is HEART MONTH ~ http://my2ndheartbeat.wordpress.com/2012/01/31/february-is-american-heart-month/

Daily Insight ~ Angels

2012-01-31T04:30:00.001-08:00

"I believe in angels, the kind that heaven sends. I'm surrounded by angels, and I call them my best friends."

Daily Insight ~ Kindness

2012-01-30T04:34:00.000-08:00

"Kindness is more than deeds. It is an attitude, an expression, a look, a touch. It is anything that lifts another person."

Daily Insight ~ Play, Laughter, Joy

2012-01-29T04:35:00.001-08:00

Daily Insight ~ Play, Laughter, Joy ~ http://my2ndheartbeat.wordpress.com/2012/01/29/daily-insight-play-laughter-joy/

Daily Insight - Health & Money

2012-01-28T04:26:00.000-08:00

"MONEY is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. HEALTH is the most enjoyed, but the least envied." What's more important to you?

Daily Insight ~ Believe

2012-01-27T05:36:00.000-08:00

"The people who influence you are the people who believe in you." (My friends influence me every day in ways they will never know)

Daily Insight ~ Laugh & Cry

2012-01-27T05:15:00.001-08:00

"When we can't LAUGH at the same joke again & again then why do we CRY at same pain again & again?"

Daily Insight ~ Light

2012-01-26T04:37:00.001-08:00

"It's nearly impossible to ignore focused light, unless you choose darkness. Be a beacon!"

Give the ULTIMATE GIFT ~ Give the gift of life ~ Be an organ donor!!

Daily Insight ~ Friends

2012-01-25T04:06:00.001-08:00

"Becareful who you call your friends. I'd rather have 4 quarters than 100 pennies."

(For the record, all of my friends are GOLDEN!!)

My Friends make my HEART wealthy!!

Give the ULTIMATE gift ~ be an organ donor!

Daily Insight ~ Believe

2012-01-24T04:22:00.001-08:00

"People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do."

Give the ULTIMATE gift ~ be an organ donor!

Daily Insight ~ Medicine

2012-01-23T04:23:00.001-08:00

"The worst thing about medicine is that one kind makes another necessary."

(Especially if you are on immunosuppressants)

Give the ULTIMATE gift ~ be an organ donor!

Daily Insight ~ The Search

2012-01-22T04:25:00.001-08:00

"I searched with all my heart to know If God was really there; He graciously revealed Himself, His mercy, love, & care."

Give the ULTIMATE gift ~ be an organ donor!

Hope and Patience

2012-01-21T07:05:00.001-08:00

"Hope is nothing but patience with the lamp lit."

Give the ULTIMATE GIFT ~ Give the gift of life ~ Be an organ donor!!

Daily Insight ~ Change

2012-01-21T04:58:00.001-08:00

"Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself." ~ Rumi

Give the ULTIMATE gift ~ be an organ donor!

Hope

2012-01-20T17:57:00.001-08:00

"Hard times come, hard times go, in between you HOPE and PRAY the scars don't show." - Styx, Why Me?

Give the ULTIMATE gift ~ Be an organ donor!!

Daily Insight ~ Your Life

2012-01-20T01:44:00.001-08:00

"Don't compare your life to others. You have no idea about their sufferings."

Give the ULTIMATE gift ~ be an organ donor!

Daily Insight ~ Faith

2012-01-19T04:05:00.001-08:00

"Sometimes God takes us to a place where we have nothing to rely on but faith ... for a reason." (I've been there)

Give the ULTIMATE gift ~ Be an organ donor!!

Daily Insight - Part of the Plan

2012-01-18T04:07:00.001-08:00

"Love when you can, cry when you have to, be who you must, that's a part of the plan. Await your arrival with simple survival, and one day we'll all understand." – Dan Fogelberg, Part Of The Plan

Life Always Has Other Plans For Us!!

Give the ULTIMATE gift ~ Be an organ donor!!

Daily Insight ~ Dreams & Soul

2012-01-17T04:31:00.001-08:00

"Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you."

Give the ULTIMATE gift ~ Be an organ donor!!

Dail Insight ~ Happy

2012-01-16T04:33:00.001-08:00

"Being happy isn't about the things you have. It's about the things you do and the people you enjoy your life with."

Give the ULTIMATE gift ~ Be an organ donor!!

To Remember Me

2012-01-15T04:59:00.001-08:00

The other day I was reading on an organ transplant site and came across a poem from Robert Noel Test.

Since I was a registered organ donor LONG before I needed a heart transplant, I found this poem to be extremely touching.

I sincerely hope you are a registered organ donor. And if you aren't you can sign up here, (please do it NOW) ~ http://www.organdonor.gov/

To Remember Me
Robert Noel Test (1926-1994)

The day will come when my body will lie upon a white sheet neatly tucked under four corners of a mattress located in a hospital; busily occupied with the living and the dying. At a certain moment a doctor will determine that my brain has ceased to function and that, for all intents and purposes, my life has stopped.

When that happens, do not attempt to instill artificial life into my body by the use of a machine. And don't call this my deathbed. Let it be called the bed of life, and let my body be taken from it to help others lead fuller lives.

Give my sight to the man who has never seen a sunrise, a baby's face or love in the eyes of a woman.

Give my heart to a person whose own heart has caused nothing but endless days of pain.

Give my blood to the teenager who was pulled from the wreckage of his car, so that he might live to see his grandchildren play.

Give my kidneys to the one who depends on a machine to exist from week to week.

Take my bones, every muscle, every fiber and nerve in my body and find a way to make a crippled child walk.

Explore every corner of my brain.

Take my cells, if necessary, and let them grow so that, someday a speechless boy will shout at the crack of a bat and a deaf girl will hear the sound of rain against her window.

Burn what is left of me and scatter the ashes to the winds to help the flowers grow.

If you must bury something, let it be my faults, my weakness and all prejudice against my fellow man….

If, by chance, you wish to remember me, do it with a kind deed or word to someone who needs you.

If you do all I have asked, I will live forever.

Daily Insight - Thankful

2012-01-15T04:33:00.001-08:00

"In every situation there is something to be thankful for. Even when there seems to be nothing else, there's HOPE."

Give the ULTIMATE gift ~ Be an organ donor!!

Donate

2012-01-14T05:55:00.001-08:00

"No one has ever become poor by giving" ~ Anne Frank (The richest people on earth are organ donors!!!)

Give the ULTIMATE gift ~ GIVE THE GIFT OF LIFE!

Words of Wisdom

2012-01-14T05:37:00.001-08:00

"You're braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think." - Winnie the Pooh

Give the ULTIMATE gift ~ Be an organ donor!!

Daily Insight ~ Sad Soul

2012-01-14T04:44:00.001-08:00

Daily Insight - Sad Soul - http://my2ndheartbeat.wordpress.com/2012/01/14/daily-insight-sad-soul/

Give the ULTIMATE gift ~ Be an organ donor!!

Daily Insight ~ Smiles

2012-01-13T04:18:00.001-08:00

"Friendship is not just a smile on the face; It is what is felt deep within a smiling heart."

Daily Insight - Choices

2012-01-12T04:41:00.001-08:00

Daily Insight ~ Choices ~ http://my2ndheartbeat.wordpress.com/2012/01/12/2254/

Give the ULTIMATE gift ~ Be an organ donor!!

Daily Insight - Blessed

2012-01-11T04:04:00.001-08:00

Daily Insight - Blessed ~ http://my2ndheartbeat.wordpress.com/2012/01/11/daily-insight-blessed-2/

Give the ULTIMATE gift ~ Be an organ donor!!

Daily Insight - Smiles

2012-01-10T04:42:00.001-08:00

Daily Insight ~ Smiles ~http://my2ndheartbeat.wordpress.com/2012/01/10/daily-insight-smiles-2/

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Are you a registered organ donor? Help us add 20 MILLION in 2012 !!
Register here, now - http://www.organdonor.gov/

Daily Insight ~ Friends, Hopes and Dreams

2012-01-09T04:37:00.001-08:00

Daily Insight ~ Friends, Hopes and Dreams ~http://my2ndheartbeat.wordpress.com/2012/01/09/daily-insight-friends-hopes-and-dreams/

Crisis - Reborn

2012-01-08T17:08:00.001-08:00

"Out of every crisis comes the chance to be reborn."

Sent from my iPad

Daily Insight - Kindness

2012-01-08T04:43:00.001-08:00

Daily Insight - Kindness - http://my2ndheartbeat.wordpress.com/2012/01/08/daily-insight-kindness/

Lost Friends

2012-01-07T16:43:00.001-08:00

"There aren't any scars that I have that went through the level of pain worse than the scars made by those who once were friends."

Daily Insight ~ Laugh, Love, Live

2012-01-07T04:38:00.001-08:00

Daily Insight ~ Laugh, Love, Live ~ http://my2ndheartbeat.wordpress.com/2012/01/07/daily-insight-laugh-love-live/

Why me?????

2012-01-06T05:17:00.001-08:00

Why me????? ~ http://my2ndheartbeat.wordpress.com/2012/01/06/why-me/

Daily Insight - Shining Light

2012-01-06T04:49:00.001-08:00

Daily Insight ~ Shining Light ~ http://my2ndheartbeat.wordpress.com/2012/01/06/daily-insight-shining-light/

2012-01-05T18:12:00.001-08:00

Each new day is a new life. Seize it!! Live it!!

Daily Insight ~ Rejoice

2012-01-05T04:41:00.001-08:00

Daily Insight - Rejoice ~ http://my2ndheartbeat.wordpress.com/2012/01/05/daily-insight-rejoice/

Daily Insight ~ Love, Past, Present, Future

2012-01-04T04:03:00.001-08:00

Daily Insight ~ Love, Past, Present, Future ~ http://my2ndheartbeat.wordpress.com/2012/01/04/daily-insight-love-past-present-future/

Happy 2012

2012-01-03T06:49:00.001-08:00

Daily Insight ~ Moments

2012-01-03T06:14:00.000-08:00

Daily Insight ~ Moments ~ http://my2ndheartbeat.wordpress.com/2012/01/03/daily-insight-moments/