It’s time to set the table and prepare for the feast…a feast not of food or of Black Friday specials, but of the hugs, smiles, and laughter that accompany a table set with love and joy.
Category Archives: Love
Forget and forgive
Forgive and forget, so they say…but can you forget and forgive?
What if you forgot to send out an email that hundreds of folks were counting on for inspiration? That marked the beginning of your new week? That added a little lightness to someone’s day or made a difference in some little way?
Could you forgive yourself enough to send that message a day late, still filled with love and inspiration? Could you love yourself enough to honor the hectic pace that got away from you without judging too harshly your set of priorities? Could you simply say, “This message will still matter and will serve its purpose, even in this different time dimension.”
I hope so…
Love in action
Compassion is love in action.
When you are compassionate with others, you accept them in a space of humble kindness. You are not excusing action or inaction on their part, rather you are fully acknowledging that the action or inaction is theirs and they are trying to do their best to be their best.
When you are compassionate with yourself, you invite the richest form of healing and growth imaginable within your deepest Self, knowing you are doing your best to be at your best.
Feel the love…unconditionally.
Feel compassion.
Twinkle on
Twinkling lights are so magical. The anticipation of how they will brighten a path, shape a tree, light the way as night falls. There’s a feeling that they were placed there just for me. Sending a secret message of love and happiness. Like a friendly smile, a generous hug, a simple wave, a knowing glance. Twinkling lights make everything more special.
Twinkle on.
Stay on the Path of Love
Worrying is about putting your thoughts, feelings, and planning into something you don’t want. Why waste that energy? Can you just focus on what you do want instead?
Close your eyes…take a deep breath in and out…envision your heart’s deepest desire. Now, frame that desire in a positive statement, like it’s already happening. Repeat that positive statement three times…and let it fill you.
Carry that statement with you and when your mind starts to wander down that path of worry, just bring it back here. Let your thoughts, feelings, and planning go into whatever brings you joy, peace, love.
Inspired by Yogi Baghan
It’s About Time
Choose wisely when you give your time as that is where you put your love.
When you give your time, be fully present. Give of it unconditionally.
It may serve to determine a shift in how you spend your time in the future. But for now you have chosen, directly or indirectly, to give that time.
You have invested yourself, you have brought your love, so give it fully to this experience, to this moment, and it cannot help but make the experience richer, the time more valuable, and the next investment clearer.
Time is love.
Flowers Amongst the Weeds
My stepmother, an avid gardener, once said, as I asked how she figures out which plants to pull from her garden, which ones are weeds:
The only difference, my dear, between the flowers and the weeds, is which side of the fence they grow on.
Could it be the same with our thoughts and feelings? That we are working too hard to label them, to decide what side of the fence they reside on, to determine whether they are good or bad?
Can you allow your thoughts and feelings to just be a part of who you are? All coming and going, not divided by fences, simply there in that moment. All existing as beautiful pieces of who you are, precisely planted where they should be, part of the garden that is you.
Perhaps it’s time to tear down the fence along the garden’s edge and to allow the garden to shine in the beauty and richness of all that grows there.
Whatever happens…
Whatever happened yesterday does not decide today. Whatever happens today will not determine tomorrow.
So, at the end of the day, no matter what has happened, know that you can wake up to a whole new tomorrow.
Apologies for this not getting to you on Monday — tried an “enhanced feature” on word press to set the delivery time and it appears it didn’t work! Happy Thursday!
Remembrance
Love is fleeting. Beauty is passing. Joy is scattered and momentary. Or is it?
Just because the petals of the rose fall from the stem does it mean the rose was never beautiful?
Remembrance is the power to retain the love, the beauty, the joy long after those precious moments have passed.
Hold the memories of those moments, those special people and experiences, in your mind, and close to your heart this Memorial Day…a day of remembrance.
Love a little more
Settle your shoulders away from your ears, slide your shoulder blades down your back, squeeze them together a little, opening your heart space. Take a deep breath in and feel a little more love.
BREATHE! BREATHE deeply! Feel your chest rise, your ribs expand…FREE your heart. Shed the coat of armor, soften and expand the space surrounding your heart. Invite deeper and more fulfilling breath into the body, and begin to heal, soften, and strengthen your heart space.
Opening the heart allows you to forgive, let go of resentment, release fear…experience more freedom, more love, more joy.
Breathe. FREE your heart.
Keep BREATHing…love a little more.
Monday Mindfulness 