Comments on: Do You Really Have To? https://gratefulscribe.com/do-you-really-have-to/ The Grateful Scribe Fri, 13 May 2016 15:20:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 By: Mary DeRosa https://gratefulscribe.com/do-you-really-have-to/#comment-61 Fri, 13 May 2016 15:20:33 +0000 http://maryderosahughes.com/?p=195#comment-61 In reply to Marly Moore Kendall.

Marly, I’m so sorry to hear that your family has lost two wonderful men to this horrible disease. It just isn’t right, period. You are all in my heart, and I pray for peace and healing for everyone who knew and loved your brothers.

]]> By: Marly Moore Kendall https://gratefulscribe.com/do-you-really-have-to/#comment-60 Thu, 12 May 2016 20:45:27 +0000 http://maryderosahughes.com/?p=195#comment-60 Thank you, Mary. John was my younger brother. Our family has lost both sons, (brothers) to cancer.

]]> By: Mary DeRosa https://gratefulscribe.com/do-you-really-have-to/#comment-59 Mon, 09 May 2016 14:22:15 +0000 http://maryderosahughes.com/?p=195#comment-59 In reply to Janice Ortloff Myers.

Hi Janice! So glad you liked the post…and I can’t believe you still have this photo! 🙂

]]> By: Janice Ortloff Myers https://gratefulscribe.com/do-you-really-have-to/#comment-58 Sun, 08 May 2016 23:58:16 +0000 http://maryderosahughes.com/?p=195#comment-58 Very well stated. And by the way I have that wonderful pic of you and John.

]]> By: Mary DeRosa https://gratefulscribe.com/do-you-really-have-to/#comment-57 Fri, 06 May 2016 15:29:35 +0000 http://maryderosahughes.com/?p=195#comment-57 In reply to Zara Quentin.

Zara, I love your perspective! “I ‘choose to’ because it’s the life I want.” As a person with a busy existence, it’s easy to say you don’t have time to write your novel. But as an artist, you know that the only “choice” is to do what’s in your heart…and that is to share your story with the world. 🙂

]]> By: Zara Quentin https://gratefulscribe.com/do-you-really-have-to/#comment-56 Thu, 05 May 2016 21:52:48 +0000 http://maryderosahughes.com/?p=195#comment-56 Such a tragedy! But great post and I think it is so true. I do have a tendency to start with the ‘should do’s’ and ‘have to’s’ especially when life gets busy. But the truth is that I don’t ‘have to’ (most of the time!). I ‘choose to’ because it’s the life I want. I don’t have to write my novel, I choose to. Nobody else is pushing me to do it- I’m pushing myself. So reframing it is a great idea. And being grateful that I have the opportunity to choose to do something I love to do!

]]> By: Mary DeRosa https://gratefulscribe.com/do-you-really-have-to/#comment-55 Thu, 05 May 2016 17:52:49 +0000 http://maryderosahughes.com/?p=195#comment-55 In reply to David Villalva.

David, when I wrote this, I wondered if I was just talking to myself or if anyone else needed to hear it. I truly appreciate you taking the time to let me know that it touched you in some way. 🙂

]]> By: David Villalva https://gratefulscribe.com/do-you-really-have-to/#comment-54 Thu, 05 May 2016 17:01:25 +0000 http://maryderosahughes.com/?p=195#comment-54 Mary, I’m thankful you shared this. Love it on many levels.

]]> By: Mary DeRosa https://gratefulscribe.com/do-you-really-have-to/#comment-53 Thu, 05 May 2016 14:13:09 +0000 http://maryderosahughes.com/?p=195#comment-53 In reply to Susan Krause.

I don’t know about my pulling off the Jiffy Pop look with class…even for the 80s, it was pretty bad! Lol! But I agree…it is always a tragedy when we lose someone who is such a gift to this world. John was definitely one of those people.

]]> By: Mary DeRosa https://gratefulscribe.com/do-you-really-have-to/#comment-52 Thu, 05 May 2016 14:09:36 +0000 http://maryderosahughes.com/?p=195#comment-52 In reply to Jennifer Blanchard.

Thanks so much for the kind words, Jen…so happy this one resonated with you! 🙂

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