Make a What I Cannot Change mini scrapbook album or journal

April 13, 5:30 PMDC Paper Craft ExaminerMichelle Vocke

Previous Next

Comment Print Email RSS Subscribe

Subscribe

Get alerts when there is a new article from the DC Paper Craft Examiner. Read Examiner.com's terms of use.

Email Address   Include other special offers from Examiner.com Terms of Use

AP Photo/Mark J Terrill

This morning, I heard LeAnn Rimes discuss her new book and single and perform the song “What I Cannot Change” on the Today Show. I was deeply moved and thought about how I could use the song lyrics as a backdrop to create a mini scrapbook album or journal about life’s challenges.

Most of the time, we only journal or scrapbook the happy times in our lives, and act as though the difficult ones never happen. Well, they do – look at the financial crisis our country and the world is facing right now and the impact that it’s having on all of our lives.  Or look even deeper, into your own life – you might find some things that it would be freeing to let go of or someone that you need to forgive.

There are many things in our lives that we cannot change, but what we can change is how we respond to those things.

Take a moment and listen to LeAnn Rimes’ song and to the background of how the song came to be. If you’re not feeling up to creating an entire mini scrapbook album using the lyrics or the thoughts that it elicits in you, then cover a journal and entitle it “What I Cannot Change” and write in it during those moments when you most need it.

Remember, capturing your memories and telling your story is not only about the happy times, but also about how you get through the sad and challenging times to emerge into the person that you are today.  Life happens…scrapbook it.