Much Love

[FunkyMonkey]

Today the sun seems brighter and warmer upon my back and upon my face. It chases the darkness into hiding.
The air is fresher and each breath feels more invigorating, energizing every cell of my being.
The breeze caresses my skin and strokes my hair. It dances with the grass and the leaves on the trees.
The birds songs are sweeter and flow into my soul, sharing with me the love they have for the day.
The earth beneath my feet is cool and soft and each step feels as though I float. Each step I feel connected to our mother earth and my heart hears her tell me I am loved. She fills me with energy to do the work of the day.
Her gift of life and all the wonders within it fill me with awe.
The stresses and struggles of life seem distant for a while. They flow from my mouth and through my tears and leave me freshened.
Today I am aware and recieve my gifts with thanks.
I hold no expectation for tomorrow, and the regrets of yesterdays seem distant.
I am filled with love for all that surrounds me and I feel that love returning to me with abundance.
I am connected, I am essential.
My life opens up before me like a favorite book I had forgotten about.
I am eager to read the next page but this page, this today, is all I truly need.
I leave the next page for tomorrow. I will embrace it and allow it to penetrate into my being.
I will feel blessed to awaken again into this beautiful world...this wonderful gift we sometimes take for granted. The simple things fill me with awe.
I feel compelled to share my awareness and my love.
May you be aware of the gifts you recieved today and may your hearts be open to the love that surrounds you every moment of every day.
Much love friends.
Much love.



peace.

[hutch b tokin]

thats awesome, thanks for sharing

[MaryJaneScott]

mmmmmmm

i FEEL that.
thank you.

love
is
you.

[Ammie]

thats awesome. It makes ya think about things u take for granted everyday. I think tomorrow I just might stop and smell the flowers, or maybe let the wind blow in my face and not rush my day away :)

ty monkey

[FunkyMonkey]

Each day since that first post has brought more of the same.
Despite the stresses and troubles life holds for me I feel a renewed sense of calm and balance coming over me.
Sometimes I forget the wisdom that my heart and head hold and I struggle.
Sometimes I stumble and fall to my knees and cry out.
But it is through this pain and this suffering that I can learn and evolve and gain the vision to see the beauty surrounding me.
When we allow our suffering to direct us we lose balance and can stray from our path.
But if we embrace our suffering, hard as it may be, we embrace the opportunity to learn and to become wise through our learning.
It is our own suffering that empowers us, makes us stronger, not weaker.
If we seek the path of least resistance we will never evolve.
We will remain as we are today.
If we seek to escape our suffering rather than rise above it we will never find ourselves in a place in our lives where we can look back and acknowledge it as a turning point in our lives.
If we try to free ourselves from our sufferings through escaping them in whatever way we will ALWAYS return to the same reality and sufferings when we come down, or listen to our silences.
But if we seek to free ourselves by knowing our suffering like a friend and learning from what it speaks to us we will rise above it and into a new reality. We evolve.
If we erect monuments to our suffering on our path by wallowing in our suffering and our pains and stresses this is all we will see. We will block our own path.
But if we erect temples in celebration to our evolution beyond these hardships we can always have a place where we can visit our wisdom that we gained through it.
We can erect these temples by taking a stand today and making a conscious decision that today is the day we take the first step towards freeing ourselves fromour own prisons.
The day you face your shadows and your fears and your miseries and all that is holding you back from your joyful expressions in life is the day your temple rises. And when if you need a place to go to gather strength, your temple awaits.
My temple is being built each day. And each day it becomes stronger and more beautiful for me to behold.
My temple is my memory of what pained me yesterday yet strengthens me today. My temple stands upon my path and prevents me from returning to the places before that day.
I can visit them in memory, but not in emotion because my emotions live in today and my dreams lay in tomorrow.

peace and love my friends.
May you find the strength and courage to begin the building.


FM.

[FunkyMonkey]

We must try every day to keep ourselves open to seeing and recieving the gifts that life has placed on our paths. When we are too distracted with shiny things and fancy technology that says "look at me Im what life is all about" or too consumed with our emotions and disappointments and with watching our wounds fester we walk right past these gifts. Or we stumble on them, and curse that damn thing that was in our way without taking notice of what it was.
When we walk around with our heads in the clouds or soend our time looking back on places and times we have already been we fail to notice what is being offered.
Everything we need in our lives will be provided to us in time.
But many things are lost or forgotten about or misunderstood.
If we take the time to involve ourselves in our own lives, to observe the path we walk upon we can see these things for what they are and reap their rewards.
How many times have we passed opportunities by without noticing and found ourselves wishing we had something that we could have had then.
How many times have we failed to see the sign posts on our path only to discover at some later point that we are lost and wandering?

Take the time to look, feel, smell, and to learn. If we dont we are running around in circles with no purpose.
Recognise the rains for what they are. Watch what grows after they cease to fall.
The gifts you seek will never be found on someone elses path or on your own while you stagger on blindly.

Feel...sit and feel the love around you.
Go out and listen to nature, become one with it. Shut out all the noise of society long enough to hear your own voice remind you of your truths and to guide you.
Then when you return you will carry immense wisdom with you. Keep that voice close because it will never lie to you, it will never betray you. It will tell you when the gifts are there for the taking.

Love yourselves friends. There is no greater feeling.


Much love.


FM

[MaryJaneScott]

have i told you you are wonderful yet today?

[FunkyMonkey]

have i told you you are wonderful yet today?

awww shucks, you gone done and made me smile :D

and so are you!

much love.