little blessings

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.  

~William Arthur Ward

For if we truly come to understand gratitude and blessings...

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. 

It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. 

It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. 

Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

 – Innerspace

Especially, now during this holiday season, what are we truly grateful for?  Today I am grateful to be alive, to have the family and friends all near and far, good health, happiness each and every day, love, and the many wonderful people in the world.  Also, for the wonderfully kind, thoughtful, woman who took the time, energy, and effort to bring my packages to my home when they were delivered to her house in error by the postal person.  

This lovely woman chose to take the time, energy, and effort to figure out where I lived and then the time to drive to my house and personally deliver the items.  This was a wonderful act of kindness, and generosity, she chose to do this selfless act, while she could have just done the easy thing and put the items back out and said wrong address.  In turn taking the items longer to arrive- if at all.  As a result, of her actions, I to have a choice to take time get annoyed, frustrated and get the postal person in trouble by going to the post office and expressing my annoyance.  What good does this do for me, except cause my energy, soul, and very being to be out of balance.  Life is precious, why waste time being angry, especially when the result may or may not be to ones satisfaction.

Life is all about choices, we freely choose the feelings, thoughts, beliefs, actions, and behaviors we have and do everyday.  The more positive we allow into our life the more happy, healthy, and positive we are in life.  So, this holiday season, and from this moment forward, I am choosing to allow more happiness into my life.  Choosing, just the same, to change perspectives about life's situations and experiences.  I encourage everyone to take this step for a more positive, health life!  

Remember we choose and face each event in life, as either a positive or negative challenge.  What will your choice be?

The being we are

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind.  To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again.  To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.     ~Henry David Thoreau

So profoundly complex yet so simple.  Thoreau truly understood what life is all about.  To be grand in this life we truly need to be, assess, contemplate, and exercise our mind-body-spirit.  All simple things, left challenging with the ease of technology.  However, we need to remember nothing can replace the processes of the mind.  The mind is the core, of our thoughts- created through seeing, hearing, tasting, touching, smelling, and once again being.   Being...