The Kicking the Bucket List

by Cathy Hopkins

Grief is like standing on the edge of the ocean. Some days, the water laps around your feet; you know it’s there, it’s manageable. Other days, from nowhere, it blasts in like a tsunami and knocks you right over. They say it takes two years to even feel normal again.’

‘For even as love crowns you, so he shall crucify you, Even as he is for your growth so he is for your pruning.’

‘In seeking happiness, if you seek the pleasure of life too intently, you lose the meaning. If you seek the meaning too intently, you lose the pleasure. You need to find a balance.’

‘Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you,’ Matthew 7:7.

Make a circle and divide it into pie-size slices that relate to how much time you give each of the following: spirit, exercise, play, work, friends, romance, adventure.