Abundance everywhere you look...

Friday aftn. Thompson, my s.o., and I went for a walk on the beach. Well, that was the idea but I got carried away taking photos. He was so patient with me as I was stopping every 30 seconds it seemed.

The photo on the left is so telling for me, visually showing all the abundance around us. This funny little piece of seaweed and then all the individual grains of sand - millions and millions of them. Each unique and yet they make up a cohesive whole.
These photos show just what a great time of year this is. The abundance of new growth and everyday you can see more and more. The new leaves are such an amazing green and some of the new growth just seems to glow.

The flowers I found along the way were great. So many petals, such great colors and all such a beautiful package, unfolded to share it's brilliance. I like to think of each of us as an unfolding blossom sharing with the world our brilliance.
Some of the most random and mundane things I saw still showed me the abundance all around - so visible if only I would look/see - really see. Not just aimlessly walk by but really be there and see everything. I know this is really saying to just be present in the moment but I've heard that for years and it just never really hit me like this. I'm sure it's all the same but maybe I'm finally waking up just like the plants are waking up after winter.

I think my favorite one above is the diamond plate - I guess that's what you call it. Anyway, not sure if you can see them or not but I love the the grains of sand and the funky random red spot.

And finally to end this post. One of my fav photos from the walk. This reminds me of some sort of lion or something. Just such a great plant and all the new growth on it - so symmetrical and yet so alive.

I wish you an abundantly beautiful day!

InJoy & Love!

This morning as I was waking up I heard the birds outside. So sweet they are.

I could also see part of a tree that is outside. It has so many leaves on it. They are small leaves & I was thinking just how many there were. The abundance of them...ok so not just the leaves on the tree but what about all the feathers on the birds I heard this morning...millions of them.

Then I was thinking ok so I know there is abundance all around...same song in my head...well, the pillow case my head is on has what 200-300 threads per inch - that's a bunch of threads for the whole thing... more abundance.

One of the cats laying next to me - all her fur - millions of tiny hairs that make up her coat...more visible abundance...ok so then what about my hair, all the perfect cells that make up my physical body & with each breath I take the oxygen particles...more abundance...it's everywhere & I'm a part of it all.

To see, to know & honestly feel all the abundance that is - to really embrace it & claim it - to rejoice in it - to love it - to appreciate it - to dream it & create it. That is my biggest observation & task - duty - job - talent - what is the word to describe this? Destiny - too "new age" - calling, maybe that fits. My heart longing to be, to know, to appreciate, to verbalize all that's locked up inside just aching to be heard. damn...getting a bit heavy...scary...no, all good!

InJoy & Love

A few gratitude quotes

Here are a few quotes I ran across the other day that I really like. I have a large collection of quotes but I didn't have these.

As each new day comes to us refreshed and anew, so does my gratitude renew itself daily. The breaking of the sun over the horizon is my grateful heart dawning upon the blessed world. ~ Adabella Radici

God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you"? ~ William A. Ward

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. ~ G.K. Chesterton

Gratitude is the best attitude. ~ Unknown

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. ~ Thornton Wilder


InJoy & Love!

The beginning

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So I work up one morning a week ago with all these thoughts racing through my head. They were about prosperity, a beautiful morning, living in a great city, etc, etc. The next thing I know I'm going down the thank you road & I get the nudge to do this blog. The title comes to me that morning & I can really feel it. So that night I investigate where to put a blog, set it up, etc & then it comes time for the first post. Yikes...where to start, what to write, why am I doing this again? So I close the computer & let it go. The next several days I keep thinking about it. I see things, think things that I want to add but am just not sure.

As a little history I've been on a road similar to lots of people. My journey mainly started when a 4 year boy that lived across the street from me had cancer and then passed on. Loads of lessons & awakenings from him. Then through my own illness, even more learning, discovering. I feel that is when I really began my journey for understanding who I am, spiritual unfoldment, prosperity consciousness and more. The last few years have been the biggest for me as far as understanding myself, learning, ok, actually being shown who & what I am. In most ways finally really getting comfortable in my own skin. There's still loads that I want to improve on &/or learn but I finally feel more confident about me. For once in my life I have a real desire of what I want to be doing in my life. Especially now that my daughter is grown and I'm not the stay at home/work at home mom anymore (the most amazing thing I've ever done!). I've never really had that concrete idea before but now I do. You know some people come out of the womb knowing they are here to be a doctor or whatever – not me.

So here I am back to this first post & all that's been flying through my mind.

I think for me the bottom line is that I am so grateful to have chosen to be here at this time in physical form. I am so grateful to live where I live, meet the people that cross my path, have the experiences that I do & know & celebrate my connection with the Divine. I feel that this blog is a way to get all that's running through my mind out & into some sort of semi physical form. I've tried journals many, many times but to no avail. Maybe this is something that is just that little bit more demanding of me. I see this as a way to share what I see, find & experience of my gr8ful journey through the moments of my life.

InJoy & Love!