11. Day 7: 10 Things I Love About Me
One of the benefits of writing a daily blog is that I don’t need to put so much pressure on myself over the content/value/importance of each and every post. This is eerily mimicking daily life. If I notice my life as a whole, any single day is just a part of something whole and beautiful and powerful. When I look at the blog as a whole, it (and by association the writer, um, that’s me) is already a huge success. (Is this what I was really afraid of? Finding out I am already a success???). I showed up every day. Even the two or three days that I double posted or made one post...
Read More10 Day 13: 100 Reasons Why Debt Is My Friend
Just the word debt makes me shrink and tighten. I get internally what a teenage friend of my girls’ once called “sphincter face”. You know, the face you make when you see one of those terrible accidents unfolding on a You Tube video or when you take a big bite out of a lemon. This is the epitome of tighten, resist and STOP the flow (of thought, or feeling, of life). As this blog and my year of Twelvemonth of Self Love is all about extending love to my thoughts I was shown yesterday that I have a whopping area that I allow Love’s Presence to be blocked and that is...
Read More9. Day 29: What I Have Learned From Taking 7 Weeks Off
What have I learned from taking seven weeks off from our normal daily life? 1. There is no such thing as taking off from daily life. (life and the dailiness continues, just differently) 2. Life continues too, abundantly 3. The trip really began when we allowed ourselves to think it was possible (this began in intention over a year ago, in reality over six months ago) 4. It all started with this thought: We’d love to return to England. 5. We can only take off from our businesses because we have an incredible, trustworthy, capable team taking care of day to day business 6. I miss...
Read More9. Day 27: 34 Years Of Living Joy
I never knew that one of my biggest “accomplishments” would be to have been married for a long time. I had an inkling this would be so at 10 years when we celebrated our anniversary in Quetta, Pakistan with Army friends from around the world. 10 years of marriage is quite the milestone, especially in the military. Then at 20 years we celebrated having only recently arrived in USA. At 30 years new friends gasp at our longevity as partners and perfect strangers offer congratulations and ask “How’d you do it?” It seems I have become an expert at something I...
Read More9. Day 25: The Joy Of Christmas Presence
This holiday to England has been all about presence. Presence with our own hearts, presence with each one we were privileged to spend time with and presence with what gifts life brought to us each and every day. Christmas Presence is that time when we all join together in that beautiful presence of love that is always within us. We have met numerous people who celebrate Christmas and the deeper meaning of “God-With-Us” in Emmanuel’s birth without knowing very much about the original Christmas story. The Bible tells us “You will know them by their love.”...
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