Wednesday, May 9, 2012

5-9-12 grateful for today

1.  My adorable dog
2.  My car running well
3.  My old computer running very well
4.  Endless possibilities in every moment
5.  My brain
6.  Choices and responsibility
7.  Happy Hour
8.  Abundance
9.  Silence
10.  Unconditional Love

I believe we are born with the Light flowing freely through us.  That's the "aawww" feeling when looking at babies whether they be human or animal.  Somewhere along the way, experiences, or maybe it is the process of life, I have blocked off my Light.  Now I am learning to allow my Light to flow freely through me again.  The Light is the source of all, joy, love, hurt, loss, pain, happiness.  All must flow through me to be free.
Love and Light.

Tuesday, May 8, 2012

5-8-12 grateful for today

1.  My adorable dog
2.  My car running well
3.  Creativity
4.  Music
5.  Paper and pens and pencils
6.  Friends
7.  Mastermind
8.  My Brain
9.  My wonderful job
10.  Unconditional Love

Today is a day.  A whole day for me to make choices and be responsible for my choices.  I choose to be creative, to dive into my creativity and walk through my fear that others won't like my ideas.  I like my ideas.  I like me.  I like my style of creativity.  Every day I'm getting better when I choose to work some more on my ideas.  My best is not the same every day.  Doing things every day is the key.  I choose to walk through this day as truly me and show my Light, which includes my creativity.
Love and Light.

Monday, May 7, 2012

5-7-12 grateful for today

1.  My adorable dog
2.  Writing
3.  Unconditional Love
4.  My wonderful job
5.  My car running well
6.  Friends
7.  Creativity
8.  Talent
9.  Peace and joy
10.  The Light

Sometimes the best way to support a friend is witnessing their struggle.  It's like watching them do rock climbing for the first time.  You can see all the support ropes and harnesses keeping them safe.  And you can see them start up and maybe they get scared and climb back down.  I understand that urge to run up to them, tell them where they need to grab hold, of how they need to do it.  Please resist that urge, wait for them to ask for help.  Watch them as they look at the rock and figure it out, watch as they find the courage and strength within themselves.  Watch as they start up.  From your perspective you may see more clearly where the next best handhold is, don't call out.  Let them feel for it.  Witness their learning, witness their progress up the rock.  Rejoice in their ability, in their perserverance.  Let them climb.
Love and Light.

Friday, May 4, 2012

5-4-12 grateful for today

1.  My adorable dog
2.  My car running well
3.  Music and Chanting
4.  Creativity
5.  My wonderful job
6.  Friday
7.  Holding others in the Light
8.  Being held in the Light
9.  Being of service
10.  Taking risks, choices and responsibility

Life is to be lived, not just survived.  This is a lesson that comes back to me again and again.  Growing up terrified and having terrifying things happen to me over and over, I became very adept at surviving.  I learned as a kid that living life was dangerous.  I learned that preparing myself for the trauma that was coming seemed to be easier than enjoying those times between the traumas.  Falling from joy is much farther fall than a jump from one trauma to another.  Living life and feeling joy became such scary things for me as a kid.  I am no longer in that situation.  I am safe, I am an adult, I keep myself safe, I have tools and the ability now to protect myself.  I am safe to feel joy . . . and it's so new, it's uncomfortable.  I know that trauma may still happen and that fall from joy if trauma happens will be as far and hurt as much as when I was a kid.  What I'm saying is that I'm better able to handle, understand, and see the gift in that fall.  And it's not going to happen as often or as regularly when I was a kid.  I like that song from Cirque Du Soleil "Let Me Fall", there's a line in it that says "let me climb."  Let me climb into joy, like climbing into the lap of God.
Love and Light.

Thursday, May 3, 2012

5-3-12 grateful for today

1.  My adorable dog
2.  My wonderful creative job
3.  Music
4.  The Light
5.  Creativity and talent
6.  Choices and responsibility
7.  My car running well
8.  Abundance
9.  Friends who love and care about me
10.  Safety

Today I am more grounded and at peace.  I feel in the flow of energy.  I am doing things easier.  Things are easy to do today.  There are some processing of emotional wounds that are not so conscious in me, so I don't have the words to express what has happened from yesterday feeling everything as a struggle, to today where I feel like things are easier.  There is a shift that is going on in me, and I feel I'm getting to the part where its not hard . . . maybe that's my acceptance of the shift.
Love and Light.

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

5-2-12 grateful for today

1.  My adorable dog
2.  My Brain
3.  Love and Light
4.  Lunch provided when I forgot to bring mine
5.  My Mac
6.  Endless possibilities in every moment
7.  Choices and responsibility
8.  Abundance
9.  Affirmations
10.  Really feeling

I don't feel like writing anything today.  I know it would be good for me to share.  It's odd when I'm right at a crossroads, a place of big transition, I feel like everything is hard.  Getting up in the morning, taking care of my responsibilities.  Doing things that I know will help and keep me grounded.  It seems hard.  I will share something that happened on Sunday and what I learned about myself.  I was in Quaker meeting and we meet in silence.  We kept the door open to the little room we rent from a church to let the cool air in.  The church people were arriving and meeting each other before their service began and they were rather loud outside the door.  I learned about myself that I will sit and take anything that happens around me or to me without saying anything.  I sit and take it.  And then one of our Quaker members got up from our silent meeting quietly and my first thought was that she was going to shut the door.  If it is too much for me to take, I shut the door.  I shut my heart.  I shut down.  She walked through the door and up to the people gathering and lovingly and gently asked that they respect our worship and to be quiet or move away from the door.  That was something that did not occur to me as a choice.  And the people were sorry for being noisy and were quiet and kept the new people arriving to be quiet.  I was amazed that I never considered asking for what I wanted.  I learned that about myself.  I am now aware that I wasn't even aware when fear was keeping me from asking for my joy in life.
Love and Light.

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

5-1-12 grateful for today

1.  My adorable dog
2.  My car running well
3.  Sleeping
4.  Breathing
5.  Eyes and ears and hands
6.  Paper and pens and pencils and crayons
7.  Creativity
8.  Endless possibilities in every moment
9.  Unconditional Love
10.  The Light

Today is the first of May.  I haven't paid my bills all of April.  I have the money, I haven't made the time to take care of it.  I slept through my alarm and it's amazing that when I sleep through my alarm it feels like better sleep than what I did all night.  I'm groggy at work, getting up just before coming in.  I don't like that.  I like to get up and have some time around my house to do chanting and meditation and some journaling and get my day going slowly.  Not today, today I'm up and at 'em.  And everything is feeling surreal.  Today is the day for creativity and doing amazing things at my work.  Love and Light.