The English writer Jeanette Winterson describes our dilemma beautifully: “I have a theory that every time you make an important choice, the part of you left behind continues the other life you could have had.
Cooking is one of best ways for your authentic self to remind your conscious self that you are an artist.
The outward and visible way in which we move through our daily round – the time, creative energy, emotion, attitude, and attention with which we endow our tasks – is how we elevate the mundane to the transcendent. Moments of illumination aren’t just experienced by saints, mystics, and poets.
The way you reach that awareness is through an inner journey that brings about an emotional, psychological, and spiritual transformation. A deep inner shift in your reality occurs, aligning you with the creative energy of the Universe. Such change is possible when you invite Spirit to open up the eyes of your awareness to the abundance that is already yours.
Animals are our spiritual companions, living proof of a simply abundant source of Love.
Our friends are the jewels in our crown of contentment.
Gardening really has no beginning and no end. In particular, pleasures of the sense of smell really know no seasons,” Tovah Martin.
The answers to your questions will come, but only after you know which ones are worth asking. Wait. Live your questions. Then ask. Become open to the changes that the answers will inevitably bring. This may take some time, but time is the New Year’s bountiful blessing: three hundred sixty-five bright mornings and starlit evenings; fifty-two promising weeks; twelve transformative months full of beautiful possibilities; and four splendid seasons. A simply abundant year to be savored.
Out of clutter, find simplicity. – ALBERT EINSTEIN After.
Simplify, simplify, simplify.” This.
Offer grace for the bounty of goodness. Raise the song of harvest home, the glass of good cheer, the heart overflowing with joy. We have so much for which to be thankful. So much about which to smile, so much to share. So much, that in this season of plenty, we can embrace the season of relinquishment. All we have is all we need.
Be always ready for the gifts of God, and always for new ones” because “God is a thousand times more ready to give than you are to receive.
For, as Frances Hodgson Burnett discovered, and we can, too, “When you have a Garden, you have a Future and when you have a Future, you are Alive.
The space in which we live should be for the person we are becoming now, not for the person we were in the past. – Marie Kondo.
Lift up your worries and ask for grace to get through the rest of the day.
But if you have nothing at all to create, then perhaps you create yourself. – CARL JUNG Do.
For the wonderful thing about saints is that they were human,” Phyllis McGinley reassures us in Saint-Watching. “They lost their tempers, got hungry, scolded God, were egotistical, or testy or impatient in their turns, made mistakes and regretted them. Still they went on doggedly blundering toward heaven.
Outside, winter’s darkness closes in. Inside, you have found your own Light.
Cooking is one of the best ways for your Authentic Self to remind your conscious self that you are an artist. Like the union of canvas and pigment, cooking is alchemy, a work of Wholeness-in-progress.
Today, take the negative of your Cosmic Plan and let Love develop it so that you can begin living the life for which you were created. It’s time to move forward.