The greatest gift that you can give to the world is to work hard to reach your full potential, so your spirit can illuminate for all to see. The worse thing that you can do, is to sell your self short. Reach high, and you will be amazed at how bright your spirit can shine. The Divine gift is in the seed, and your efforts become the energy that will fuel your gift so it can grow in strength and beauty. There is no room for laziness and blame in the world of the Divine.

Namaste

I absolutely love this painting. The artist is one of the most beautiful people I know, my dear friend Sofia Goswin.

I love this blog, www.theredneckmommy.com. Tannis Miller has a great sense of humour and her writing is very approachable. She can write about the everyday and make it totally hilarious, but she also writes with alot of heart. Here is the description of her blog on her site.

“Attack of the Redneck Mommy ™ was created Feb 2006, four months after the sudden death of Tanis Miller’s youngest son, Shale. After googling the words mom and grief, Tanis stumbled onto the online world of blogging and it wasn’t long before she decided to make the big leap from lurker to author.

Her blog is a humorous and insightful look at the joys of parenting, the delights of marriage and the heartbreak of losing a child. Her blog has been featured on CNN, The Globe and Mail and in a variety of Canadian daily newspapers. Attack of the Redneck Mommy™ won the Best Canadian Blog award in the 2010 and 2008 Bloggies.”

Check it out, I think that you might like it.

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When I feel sad, I try to remember those people in this world who are truly alone. I am not truly alone. I am loved. There are many people who are alone, forgotten and unloved. I try to picture the despair that they must feel, unprotected and vulnerable. By thinking of others in this way, it reminds me to be the two things that I want to represent in this world; grateful and active in helping others who are struggling.

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If I want to become better, I must do in action that which pulls me forward and speaks to my soul, and I must do it over and over again. It is this type of dedication that becomes the energy that will fuel the seedling of my passion, encouraging it to grow in to a mature talent.

Many give in and give up, just as the seedling is about to break through the earth and find its way towards the sun. Every gift requires time, patience and dedication, for it to reach its Divine potential. And when this potential is reached, the spirit has the ability to fully and completely shine in a world hungry for spirits to shine.

Are you spending time on your gift, so the destiny of your spirit can become fully fulfilled?

Namaste

Deep within your soul there are layers of light; blue, green, yellow, red. Every colour that the mind could imagine and then so much more. This illumination of your soul’s light is so brilliant that the limitations of your mind could not comprehend its deep spiritual beauty. We have never been taught how to see such beauty but deep within, we intuitively know that it exists. 

Each one of us has “manmade”  layers of darkness, shadowing this glorious light. The first step is to recognize the possibility that you are so much more than you ever could have imagined. Then you have to learn how to remove the darkness, one layer at a time, so eventually sharing your soul’s brilliance becomes effortless. This is your gift to the world.

Namaste

I love this video. Click on Danny & Annie below and enjoy a video describing the enduring love between two people.

 Danny & Annie from StoryCorps on Vimeo.

Do you ever feel like you are running after perfection and just like a hamster on a wheel, you feel like you are running around in a circle not really getting anywhere. I feel like this often. I keep trying to catch the elusive moment when everything on the outside is in its proper place, so I can relax on the inside. I have come to realize that this will never happen until I am a little old lady, alone in my personal care home apartment reminiscing about the best years of my life when I had a young family. This is when it will be quiet, too quiet, and everything will be in its place but I think I just might be too lonely to appreciate the irony of what I have wished for and it finally coming true.

Is this the moment I am rushing around like a chicken with my head cut off to achieve, when I finally can sit down in peace and quiet in a job well done but only to have myself to celebrate the moment with? I think that this moment would be called my last breath because it is only when life has ended is the job completed. Maybe the key to happiness is learning to enjoy the process of living while you are actually living. Is this really a possibility?

I always imagine myself as that little old lady, rocking in her rocking chair, giving the younger me sound advice on the life she has lived. I imagine this would include what she might regret and what she wishes she did more of. Or what she might wish she would have been easier on herself for. I sometimes feel her wisdom coming through time as she prays that I will learn the lesson of slowing down sooner in life than she did. When I close me eyes at night after a hard day, I sometimes think I can hear her whisper, “Job well done. Now take a breath and go enjoy your family”.

Namaste

The above print is by the artist Ezshwan Finding.

Many times we are told that we need to have faith in the Divine, and in turn trust the course our life is navigating. As my faith in the Divine has increased, I have come to the conclusion that it is not my faith that gives me increased confidence in life, but it is the Divine’s faith in me that gives me the courage to let go and to fly.

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I love being alone. Time alone allows me to hear my thoughts and it allows me to get to know myself at a much deeper level. I think the state of aloneness is necessary in order to feel balanced in life. I use to listen to music for hours, when my life allowed such a luxury. Now I appreciate even fifteen minutes in silence, so I can feel connected to my spirit.   

I love this video on “How to be alone”. I hope you enjoy it too.

Namaste

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.