Fourteen hundred days ago (but who’s counting?), I wrote another blog post titled “Messages.” During my first year of blogging, I wrote three posts about messages: Day 317: Challenging Negative Messages, Day 178: Feeling discouraged, what helps, and voicemail messages, and Day 144: “Emergency” messages.
My messages for today include the following:
- Some messages bear repeating,
- Sometimes people don’t want to hear messages,
- Messages can be direct, implied, or unexpressed,
- The medium is the message,
- I enjoy exchanging messages with my son through the medium of our phones,
- People talked about messages in a Coping and Healing group recently,
- Mixed messages are everywhere,
- Some messages are hard to read,
- Clarity is important for getting your messages through,
- Many of us have internalized harsh, critical messages from the past,
- This week, two people shared the message that attending my groups has been “life changing,”
- Some people prefer messages in words and other people prefer messages in pictures.
Which one of those visual messages pops for you?
Here’s “Message in a Bottle” by the Police:
If you want the messages of those lyrics more clearly, here‘s this video:
Please accept my messages of gratitude at the end of every post.
and some messages get lost in the ‘mail.’ they are there, waiting to be found. p.s. one of my all-time favorite songs and bands.
p.s. one of my all-time favorite bloggers. thanks, beth!
❤️
I’m always happy that you choose to deliver your messages with words and photos, Ann. They carry equal weight with me.
Thank you for another weighty comment, Mark.
Have a good weekend, Ann.
I get the message, Ruth, and I wish you the same!
Thanks Ann.
The orange cat is just the message I need. Thanks, Ann
I need your messages, Maureen.
Love,
Ann
That the medium is the message means there’s a messsage in all things, which is a very positive message.
Thank you for another very positive message, Chris.
The message is that Oscar sent a selfie, and that it doesn’t surprise me.
It doesn’t surprise me, Maria, that you get the message.
Happy Mother’s Day! Ann.
Thanks for sending that beautiful message!
Oh for the days when messages took time to arrive
Thanks for taking your time to get here, Derrick.
I appreciate and take to heart your very positive messages, Ann. “Hope is not a plan” really jumped out at me!
I appreciate and take to heart everything you share, Debra.