On this morning's grateful walk,
I found gratitude
for the wind
giving necessary resistance
for the birds to fly.
I thanked the wind for reminding me that
sometimes I need resistance in my life
to fly to new heights
and also providing me
with a supportive push forward
when I am in the flow.
May today find you
flying to new heights
providing new yet deeper perspective
to the beauty of life.
-Jenny and Bella
On my grateful walk with Bella, I noticed two hearts looking a little bruised and worn. I thought about how my heart has felt the same way and then looked at Bella to discover she had been digging for treasure again. Bella reminded me that:
Dirt on the outside has no effect on the beauty on the inside
May today you remember that the
polluting expectations
grimy behaviors
and
cruddy words
of others
cannot change
the beauty of your soul.
Wash off the muddy energy
and allow
the beauty of you
to shine through again.
Wishing you a day connecting to your true beauty and may gratitude overflow your heart.
-Jenny and Bella
When I turned around from taking this picture of the sunrise on our morning grateful walk, I noticed several police cars surrounding around twenty men near the picnic bench where Bella hunts for iguanas. As everyone was peaceful, I wondered if there had been an accident but it turned out that these men had just arrived in a tiny, homemade boat from Cuba. A man shared that as they came ashore they yelled out in celebration and someone called the police. As I stood in awe of the courage, faith and hope these men shared together as they risked their lives through 90 miles of the recent stormy seas to find a way out of oppression, a man in his...
On our grateful walk at the Sugarloaf bridge,I offered gratitude for the courage to leave the well worn pathways of my mindto plunge intothe unexplored beauty of my heart.I’ve discovered my mind had become an unhealthy servant tofollowing belief pathways that I was taught and not that I had created.Built from fear,these pathways built outside of the heartwere taught to me to keep me “safe” from the darkness of this worldnot to teach me to free me from it.The irony of it is leaving the heartis what causes the darkness of the worldand in me following alongon fearful pathwaysI was led into my own shadows.In an effort to find a way out of my darkness,I followed artificial lightsthat offer ways...
On our grateful walk,as we encountered lizards, cats, crabs, birds, and beesthat are often on our path,I became overcome by the thoughtof how little I know about the world.I had no idea what the name ofthe tiny, white crab smaller than a dime was,why Bella was unafraid of the land crab bearing his claws,why the egret was fluffing his feathers and wingsor who had walked before me on the paththat Bella was free to runand joyfully explore.The wisdom of this humblenessled me back into a world of wonderwhere I experience life as it isbefore judging it.I realized I had unintentionally cut off the world of wonderas walls were created around my heartby the weight of the stories of the pastand...
