Hello & Goodbye!
A happy “Hello” and sad “Goodbye” to WA and the Community,
Yes! It is that time for me to take my leave from WA and its loved community. However, although this was a hard decision for me to make, it was a practical one. As it is, my ever-demanding caregiving lifestyle, along with other pressing personal challenges, consume more than the 24 hours that I am afforded in a day.
Therefore, June 18, 2015, will be my last day with all of you here at WA. Emotionally, this was not an easy decision, but a practical one that had to be made. The way I look at it… “What good is a family member who is unable to make regular heartfelt visits to his/her hospitable family?”
I very much look forward to returning to WA in the near future, since I am not giving up on the WA family! I am grateful to Kyle, Carson and Jay N. for opening my eyes to the online marketing world and teaching me how to compete with the best veteran marketers out there. I am also indebted to all the WA members for their individual help and support to make this a smooth and joyful journey for me, one I will never forget!
Finally, I extend my deepest gratitude to my sincere and loyal personal friends and followers who have shown their unmatched care and support to me during my difficult and challenging times. I want you to know that I am genuinely moved and humbled by your comforting comments, PMs, prayers and selfless actions. Thank you! Please rest assured that I am not disappearing from the face of the earth and that I can be reached through omwithjay@gmail.com.
I shall be missing all of you, but I am looking forward to the day that I can come back to WA and announce my return by posting it on my new WA Profile. Thank you everyone for all you have done to make me feel at home here at WA. You are a beautiful bunch of caring people striving to accomplish your individual set goals, despite your own challenges, while giving all you can to help each other along the way. How uniquely fantastic! Thank you WA and the WA community!
With a heavy heart and good wishes to everyone,
Jay Barnelli
P.S.
For those of you who may be wondering, my joyofcaregiving.com site will remain intact and you are quite welcome to check it out.
Also, please forgive me if you don’t see any reply from me to your comments here after June 18, 2015, since I would no longer be able to access this WA platform. I am sorry, but you do have my email address above.
Thanks!
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Wishing you lots of strength for your continued caregiving and hope you keep your wonderful website going or at least back it up so that you can carry on with it when you return.
Wishing you all the best and sending lots of positive thoughts your way.
Good day, Isabella,
It was good to hear fro you and I hope you are not working too hard.
One thing that I am thankful for is that God is keeping me in a fairly healthy. I have a simple, but full, caregiving lifestyle now, since I have trimmed many unnecessary and harmful things, and people, from my life!
As for my joyofcaregiving.com site, it is alive and well, and will continue to be published. Take a look to make sure for yourself. I will, at a later date, when I am ready to return to WA, have a brand new website, which will be only devoted to online marketing. I realized that my joyofcaregiving.com should be exclisively dedicated to that topic and that topic only!
Thanks again for your well wishes and I hope that you too, along with your family, will enjoy good health and that you will continue your WA success.
Sincere good wishes,
Jay Barnelli
Thank you so much for your reply. I have made a note of your website name and will stop by occasionally.
Take care,
Isabella
Thank you Isabella, I appreciate you and all you do. So long for now and looking forward to come back.
Don't work too hard,
Jay barnelli
My heart will be with you and your family Jay. God is good all the time. Take care and keep faith alive. If that is your decision, I respect that. I Appreciate You.
Bishop
Bishop, my dear friend,
I appreciate your earnest comment and prayers. I really do!
I have been blessed to have so many friends here at WA who have been praying for me, my friend and my family. It really does make a great positive difference when it comes to God! Thank you so much!
I know full well that NOBODY can claim that he/she can make it alone through the troubled waters of life without His help and blessings.
I hope that you and your family stay safe and well with His full protection.
So long for now, my friend...
Jay Barnelli
Take care Jay - we'll be waiting!
... I know how challenging caregiving can be. I care for my 100 yr. old Dad. I wish you the very best!
Good day, Joanne
Thank you for your comment and sharing with me the fact that you are also a caregiver for your Dad.
I am sure you know full well the immense responsibility on the shoulders of a caring home caregiver, all of which is made worthwhile when your Dad gives you that occasional innocent smile!
We all have to move forward in the best possible way we know how for the betterment of the lives of everyone involved. So, please take care and I sincerely wish you lots good health, strength and patience... so that you can take care of your Dad and YOU!
I look forward to see everyone here soon.
With my heartfelt prayers for your family's happiness,
Jay Barnelli
Thank you Jenna,
I promise you that I shall return as soon as I can. I also wish you the best of health and great success in your WA efforts.
Hang in there and don't go anywhere near negatives vibes and thoughts!
Goos wishes,
Jay Barnelli
Dear Jay, I completely understand your position at this moment in time, and with that, the decision that you will leave this community. At least for now.
I wish you good luck and success with your challenges and I will be sending you positive energy from time to time.
All the best!
Ron.
P.S.
Thank you for letting us know your e-mail address.
Dear Ron,
I appreciate your letting me know that you understand my reason for leaving WA at this time. I am sure that we all have our share of challenges - some more than others. We must set certain priorities based on their importance in our lives, which brings me to devoting my time and attention to my caregiving and personal issues.
What we have to realize is that certain challenges cannot be ignored and tackled at a later date - they have to be dealt with immediately. Therefore, I will be able to return to WA at a later date and pick up where I left off. I also hope that this return would accompany a little more wisdom as well.
So you see, Ron, the ability of making the right decisions is very important. However, the timing of implementing such decisions, in my humble opinion, is of the essence!
Thank you so much, Ron, for sending me your best and your prayers, for which I am grateful. I, too, wish you the best for you and your family, and your business success.
Take care,
Jay Barnelli
Hi Shawn,
I definitely do need your well wishes. Thank you and my best to you too.
Jay Barnelli
I wish you all the best with your family We all have times in our lives when we have to put our family first
Thank you Hilary for your well wishes. I wish you and your family the same, as well as great professional success.
Have a wonderful life,
Jay Barnelli
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You know what's really strange (and even scary) in our modern world with all the tech advances? It's meeting people ... on a machine ... that you will never meet in person. Yet somehow, there are a few we meet online who do or say something, albeit unintentionally, and the result is a lasting, positive impact.
You've been someone for me to look up to; I admire your integrity and your care and compassion. It shows in everything you've done here at WA and it shows in your personal, care giving environment.
So my hat off to you, Jay, and know that I wish you a fond farewell. I believe you when you say this was a practical decision and one day, I will be happy to see you once again here at WA.
May God bless and keep you and yours!
Dearest Cathy,
Thank you ever so much for such a beautiful comment. I feel terribly humbled and moved by your unique manner in which you communicated your inner thoughts to me. I am truly speechless since I share your fellings on this topic as well, Cathy.
I have met a handful of people here within the WA community that have touched my heart deeply, especially a couple of them with whom I have established a life-long close friendship. I would have never imagined that this wuuld be possible but, as you said it so elequently, it can happen without even having met that person or persons.
You have been so generous in your comments, Cathy, and I don't deserve such gracious kindness from you. I am just being me, naturally, just as you are, and have been, in your personal and business life, helping and giving of yourself to others freely and impacting their lives in a positive way. Does it call for any special praise or medals? No! It is just who you are, and always will be, my dear friend!
I am proud and honored to have met and get to know you, even though it is only online. We can feel the physical presence of people through their active words, words that don't need to be spoken, because they have a life of their own. An active life force that can easily capture your delight and gently pierce right through your heart and mind.
If I may, I like to share something with you, Cathy. I was fortunate enough to know an old learned wise and gentle man. While visiting him once in his home, he took me to his library. His library was a huge room that was covered from wall to wall with bookshelves filled with books and then more books. He even had books stacked all over the floor.
I was in awe to see so many books, so I asked him if he has read all all of them. He gave me a look with a soft smile. Then he gave me an answer that, to this day, I remember vividly. He told me: "I don't have to read them, my young friend. All I do is open the books and just listen to the sound of the words! Sometimes, I don't even have to open the books! I just sit down in my chair and listen in ultimate joy!"
Now, that is incredible! I had been meditating for decades, striving to learn what my old friend was able to do so freely and effortlessly. I can honestly tell you that I have just begun to scratch the surface!
So you see, we should never ignore or underestimate the power of the written words, especially when being dispensed from a wise and yet very humble source. Unfortunately, and way too often, we humans seem to readily deprive and cheat ourselves out of such valuable gifts in life.
Well, my dear, Cathy, I seem to be writing a book here, and ask your forgiveness for being so wordy. I would like to tell you that it has been a pleasure to chat with you and hope that you honor me for not letting it be the last.
I pray that God will continue to bless and protect you, your family, and all your loved ones. Please take care and good wishes,
Your friend,
Jay barnelli