I Am No Fool (& neither are YOU)
It is April Fools Day and I want to declare in front of God and everybody that I am Eva and I am a FOOL for LOVE! (“Hi Eva!!” I hear my AA friends murmuring from the audience). I have not posted here for many months, which of course does not mean I haven’t been writing, extending love to my thoughts, life, schedule, and strengthening my own health. I was reminded via Facebook’s “On This Day” that today marks my third Bloggaversary of Twelvemonth of Self Love. I read my one-year Bloggaversary post and am reminded what a big deal it was for me to embark upon my Twelvemonth of extending love to...
Read MoreLove: Fool’s Errand or Lion Tamer?
Two years ago today I began my adventure of a Twelvemonth of Self Love by extending love to my epic fears (one fear a month for twelve months) and blogging daily about my experience. I purposely began blogging on April Fool’s Day as I wasn’t yet totally sure that I wasn’t sending myself on a fool’s errand to see if Love really was enough to meet fear head on. It feels dramatic to say it changed my life but what it did was totally change my own experience of my life. By this I mean, life unfolded; events (both once-in-a-lifetime and daily) happened, I met new...
Read MoreA Mantra for One
My commitment to daily Twelvemonth postings concluded in April of this year and, not surprisingly, life has continued unabated to the point that I look back in utter wonder at my accomplishment of 365 days of daily blog postings. Here is what I am learning about myself three months out since that mammoth commitment of extending love to my fears, my self and my experience and blogging about this daily: Fears continue (as do occasional overwhelm, crossness & self-forgetting) but it is so much easier to recognize them so I can immediately decide to extend love in whatever color or form is...
Read More12. Day 31: Letter To My (Beloved) Readers
Dear Ones, Thank you so much for going on this Twelvemonth journey with me. It made a difference, a REAL difference to me, to my heart, to my awareness and to my walk with Holy Spirit in this wild and wooly world. I have honestly loved every post, journal entry and quiet time I have devoted to extending love to my epic fears. And do you know what? It wasn’t nearly as fearful as I thought it would be, especially as I had YOU with me. To know that someone was reading, digesting, being inspired by either my words or even just the many titles as they flew by in your inbox whether you...
Read More12. Day 28: Twelve Fears Later…
It is time to talk about my thoughts and feelings of having blogged daily for a whole year (that’s 365 days!). Yes, I officially made my first blog post on March 25, 2014 (in the middle of a trip to my nephew’s wedding in Nashville). Extending love to my epic fears is something I could have done privately without the added work of cataloguing my experience. I could have just felt the difference but, then, would I have remembered the process? What if I needed to do it again? What if you wanted to follow along and do this for yourself? What if we needed to get home and a bird...
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