I wake up and
THE SUN IS SHINING!
I’M ALIVE!
What a gift this day is.
Birds are singing,
breeze is blowing
and I pray to God giving thanks
for this beautiful day.
I give thanks for Divine Guidance,
leading me to create
what I am asked to create,
steering me toward what is
good, and true and sacred.
And on a day like this,
what isn’t good, true and sacred?
Tag Archives: joy
I Will Enjoy This Life
If I can’t enjoy the little moments
tucked inside my hours,
how will I enjoy my days?
If I can’t enjoy my days,
how I will enjoy my weeks?
If I can’t enjoy my weeks,
how will I enjoy my months?
My years?
My decades?
How will I enjoy my life?
Lorien of the future,
Lorien on your death bed,
I vow to you—
I will enjoy this life now.
I will enjoy my moments,
my hours and days and weeks
and months and years.
I will enjoy my decades.
I will enjoy this life.
Beautiful Present
Ahhhhh….awake early, before six.
A quiet meditation, prayer and song.
A gorgeous walk along the canal,
the river lower than I’ve ever seen it,
revealing water-carved stones,
jagged edges smoothed
by the relentless flow of life.
Breakfast, reheated leftovers
from last night’s dinner—delicious.
Then energy work.
Then a second breakfast…
Perfectly easy to peel hard-boiled eggs,
tea, berries.
Then drum circle,
and I was moved nearly to tears
to sit with these beloveds
and share a moment together,
Connecting through rhythm
and the space between the pulses
of our drum beats, our heart beats.
Then lunch, ahh…nourishment.
When I taught my yoga classes
it felt like such a privilege,
so sacred to witness these beings
finding center, finding stillness, breathing…
And then a beautiful snack with tea
in the afternoon sun,
and I think my heart might burst
at the light kissing all the leaves golden,
and the crispness of the air
and the blueness of the sky
and the openness of my mind
finally coming home,
finally coming home
to rest in this beautiful present moment.
Born For More
I really don’t care
about the brand of clothes you wear…
I want to know what makes your heart ache
and which actions you take
to honor your own healing.
The specific work you do
doesn’t interest me as much
as the mindset you bring to what you’re doing.
Can you work with joy and gratitude?
Can you do what needs to be done
to show up as the best version of yourself,
can you still get up,
even if you feel like giving up?
I don’t care how much you can bench press—
what do you do
when life puts the pressure on you?
Can you breathe and expand into the challenge,
knowing that adversity makes you strong?
I want to see your true strength,
how you respond to the inevitable challenges
that life offers you
to wake you up to your ultimate truth:
You were born for more, much, much more.
Right Here in the Present
It occurred to me
that if I want more joy in my life
I need to choose to enjoy each moment.
Life is made up
of everyday, simple moments,
repetitive tasks, things that need to get done.
If I’m rolling my eyes and groaning
every time I need to tidy up,
go grocery shopping,
do the laundry,
pick up after my kids,
I’d be constantly miserable.
But if I could cultivate a mindset
of gratitude and joy
for each of these simple moments,
day by day and breath by breath,
they would all add up to a joyful life.
I don’t need to defer my happiness
for someday, for one day,
for whenever this or that comes to pass.
Happiness is now,
where it always was,
where it always will be—
right here in the present moment.
Glad To Be Alive
Humbled, grateful,
totally exhausted,
I finish my day
with the satisfaction of knowing
that I worked and lived and loved
just as much as I possibly could.
I envision an extraordinary life,
which is lived day by
extraordinary day.
I look back and realize
that every moment was guided,
every moment was a gift.
I look forward and savor
the possibility
that the best is yet to come.
And I breathe into this now moment,
relaxing into open awareness
belly soft
heart open
simply glad to be alive.
You Are Spring Too
I’m ready.
Ready for life now.
Like the spring,
jumping up now,
opening now,
blossoming now,
fragrant now.
Wind rustling,
petals scattering,
trees that were pink
two days ago
are now green.
Everything is changing,
and I am part of that change.
my petals will scatter,
my leaves will be green too,
stirred in the breeze
giving music to all the trees.
Now just breathe,
just breathe,
just breathe.
You are spring too.
The Most Potent Medicine
All of a sudden,
I gave myself permission
to be happy,
to heal.
I decided
to learn how to tolerate
feeling good,
to raise my threshold
for success.
I chose
to stop holding myself back,
making excuses.
I had given myself
the most potent medicine there is:
S E L F L O V E
How Do You Sing the Spring?
Flowers open in one great pink cloud
hovering in the cherry tree.
Streams flow from the thaw.
Fresh green life emerges
from the tips of saplings.
Dappled sunlight everywhere;
nature’s song echoing
in and around every living being.
Spring is here.
How do YOU sing it?
Remember the Lesson
When I was born
my teacher taught me how to breathe.
I have spent my whole life
trying to remember that lesson.