Gratitude, making peace, getting present and welcoming vision

January 2, 2018

I am enough.  I appreciate who I am.

Today was my first day back to work and to “regular life” time after a week off.  Today is a day of gratitude.  Still basking in the transition of the year past and all that awaits, I am grateful, grateful for all of it the good, bad, the ugly, the know the unknown and uncertain.  I was reminded of one of my personal favorite and most inspirational quotes on gratitude written by Melody Beattie:

“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.  It turns what we have into enough, and more.  It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.  Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow.”

Looking on the last year, I let gratitude release any shame, blame or self doubt and realize all that I learned from life challenges.  Today I let gratitude for simply being present to the now moment bring peace to the choice and possibility available to me…now.  I let gratitude release and sooth any doubts, worries or concerns of tomorrow as to how things will come to pass and relish in the vision of possibility that awaits.

Until tomorrow.

Love, Light & Laughter,

Darrell

Day 31 - December Meditations - Vision

Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he. ~Proverbs 29:18, Hebrew Scriptures

Affirmation: Today I keep my highest vision, my highest possibility fresh before me.  I welcome its guidance into possibilities beyond my knowing.

What is your highest vision for 2015?  What must you embrace and release to support it?  Are there any specific actions to take right now?

Explore the answer to these questions in todays meditation.  Download it here!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Keep fresh before me the moments of my high resolve.

Despite the dullness and barrenness of the days that pass, if I search with due diligence, I can always find a deposit left by some former radiance. But I had forgotten. At the time it was full-orbed, glorious, and resplendent. I was sure that I would never forget. In the moment of its fullness, I was sure that it would illumine my path for all the rest of my journey. I had forgotten how easy it is to forget.

There was no intent to betray what seemed so sure at the time. My response was whole, clean, authentic. But little by little, there crept into my life the dust and grit of the journey. Details, lower-level demands, all kinds of cross currents -- nothing momentous, nothing overwhelming, nothing flagrant -- just wear and tear. If there had been some direct challenge --a clear-cut issue -- I would have fought it to the end, and beyond.

In the quietness of this place, surrounded by the all-pervading Presence of God, my heart whispers: Keep fresh before me the moments of my High Resolve, that in fair weather or in foul, in good times or in tempests, in the days when the darkness and the foe are nameless or familiar, I may not forget that to which my life is committed.

Keep fresh before me the moments of my high resolve.
 

For The Inward Journey
by Howard Thurman