This blog will track my new journey…hopes, dreams, struggles, challenges, victories… the good, bad, ugly and beautiful. I can’t wait for the day I look back on these posts and celebrate how far I’ve come.
I’m on my way!
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Week 22a–Almost there!
It’s week 22a…can you believe it??? I never would have thought 6 months would go so quickly. Have I grown? Yes. Have I changed? Yes. Am I “there” yet? No…but I am MUCH closer!
Week 22ish–A Tale of Two Friends
Once upon a time there were two friends. They were very different in many ways, but similar in many others. Both had experienced big challenges in their lives, both had overcome much, and both knew they still had a lot of life, learning, and growing to do.
Week 19–Fear
I’m still catching up. I’ve had several thoughts about what I was going to write this week, but I did a poor job of actually sitting down and writing. So once again, I’m behind. Or yet still, I’m behind. But let’s talk fear…it’s a big deal.
Week 18–A Little Late-Back to Basics
Once again, I’ve fallen behind with my blog posting. I’ll try to catch up today. Life is good, somehow busier and yet not the kind of busy that I can go back and list off everything that’s happened. Ever have those kinds of days? Weeks? Continue reading “Week 18–A Little Late-Back to Basics”
Week 17HJ-Thoughts
So it’s week 18, but not really 18…it’s week 17HJ. I have made an observation about this week & I’m going to share it. I am not fond of calling this week 17HJ. It was week 18. But it’s not. Continue reading “Week 17HJ-Thoughts”
Week 16 & 17–Growth, & Permission
I missed last week! Life is CHANGING in HUGE ways and I got caught in the tide and missed blogging last week. So let’s start with week 16–Growth!
I found the Law of Sevens fascinating…most intriguing to me was the “be ready for new cycles of sevens, beginning with the fiftieth year.” I turned 50 the end of 2016 and it was a beginning! I’ve been changing, my life started changing, and I have found growth that I never expected in this new season of my life. Continue reading “Week 16 & 17–Growth, & Permission”
Week 15–Nature’s Greatest Miracle
This week we started reading Scroll IV, and I am digging it. I love the reminder that I get when reading this scroll.
I am a miracle!
I am unique!
I have unlimited potential!
There is NO other like me, and that makes me rare–valuable!
You don’t know my story, but I literally shouldn’t be breathing. I shouldn’t have been born. When I was young, my mother tried to tell me that God had a plan for my life & that I was a miracle. I didn’t hear that in her words. I heard that I wasn’t supposed to be here–that I shouldn’t be alive–that I didn’t belong here. It took me decades to work through my story…decades to begin to believe that I had value, that I was worthy of each breath I took.
Last week I mentioned that I have gone through a lot of emotional healing recently, and learning my own value and to love myself. Because of that, Scroll II was very dear to me–I will greet this day with love in my heart. Now I have started with Scroll IV and I have a feeling that this will also be dear to me. This scroll that reminds me and reinforces the belief that I am a miracle! That I am valuable! There is no one else who thinks like I do (just ask my family or friends…they will vouch for this! HA!), there is no one else with my voice, there is no one else with my exact makeup. I am a truly one of a kind.
How incredible is that?
YOU are one of a kind! There is no one else like you! WE are one of a kind!
I am the amazing handiwork of the Almighty Creator. I am truly a miracle!
Week 14–Reflections & Connections
I’m behind. It’s Sunday, the last day of 2017 and I am just getting to my blog for last week. It’s also a time for reflection. I’ve been thinking about my hopes from the beginning of this year…the dreams I had that I didn’t always believe would come to fruition…the word I chose for 2017 and how well (or not) I lived out that word…the items on my vision board that have manifest in my life, and changes I want to make to that board. Continue reading “Week 14–Reflections & Connections”
Week 13–Miracles and Reminders
It’s almost Christmas and I might be feeling a little overwhelmed. It seems there is so much to be done, and not enough hours of the day. I’ve been saying “Do it now” so often that I’ve got other people saying it as well. And that’s a very good thing…it seems that when I most need the “Do it now” thought & attitude, that’s when I have left it behind. And in those moments when it seems I need a prompt, my boyfriend will say, “Do it now,” and that mental reset is quick to happen.
To me, these reminders from him are a miracle. The first reason is just because he’s here…I’ve been waiting a very long time for someone, and I’ve done a lot of work on myself so that I’d be ready when that someone came along. The second is that he’s not a part of the MKE, but he’s heard me repeating phrases and thoughts and he’s picked up on them. And he gives them back to me when I least expect it and when I need them. Miracles.
Last night we went to see Miracle on 34th Street–my favorite Christmas movie. It was the first time either of us had seen it on a big screen, but I couldn’t even attempt to guess how many times I’ve seen the movie. I don’t think I’d be out of the ballpark if I said 50 or more. But last night, I caught something I had never really paid attention to before. I’ve always liked the scene, but last night, it had more meaning for me.
Susan didn’t play with the other children in the apartment building because they were being “silly” imagining themselves as animals in a zoo. And she was just too practical for that, after all, she was a girl, not an animal. And Kris Kringle goes on to explain about the imagination…she’d heard of other nations, but not the “Imagine Nation.” It takes practice, he told her. And proceeds to teach her how to pretend to be a monkey.
This simple scene carries new weight–I am practicing with my imagination. I am now a citizen of the Imagine Nation. I am constantly creating with my thoughts, but I understand that my thoughts create my reality. Once again, reminders from an unexpected source.
I watched the movie through a new lens last night–a clearer lens. I notice how Doris (Susan’s mother) calls herself realistic, which is a nice way of saying negative for most people. But even Doris couldn’t completely close off her heart…even that very practical, realistic Doris changed some thoughts and believed. And again, reminders from an unexpected source.
Miracles and reminders are all around us…if we take the time to notice. I will be open to the universe reaffirming what I am practicing. I will be open to the miracles around me. I will be open to the reminders offered to me. I will appreciate them all. I will accept them in love.
In this season of miracles, magic, and believing, I wish you and yours an abundance of love, peace, and joy.
Merry Christmas!
Beth
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