Time for a new beginning?

Divine discontent happens when something new beckons, and we are hesitating. It’s when we’re trying to find satisfaction in a world that’s too small for us, yet we want to stay there because it’s familiar even though it no longer serves us.

It’s like a chick in the egg. First it is comforting and then, as the chick grows, it feels cramped and prays for a bigger egg.

However, it is the universe’s intention for the egg to crack open and for the chick to find a new, expansive world outside.

Spring is a reminder that transformation is normal and natural. This cycle of nature brings changes in the weather, extended hours of sunlight and the birth and rebirth of animals and plants.

That tree outside the window that looked dead in winter is now full of buds exploding with color as they feel the warmth of the sun.

• We are like that tree. Sometimes we can’t see our growth until all of a sudden there it is!
• We’ve been growing, our seeds have been germinating beneath the soil all winter long and now we are ready for the blossoming of our new experiences, opportunities, ideas.
• We realize it when someone makes a critical remark and we don’t take it personally, or a new friendship enters our lives, or we find ourselves feeling grateful just to be alive.

It is much like water nurtures the seed, providing a means for transformation as the seed becomes the plant that’s contained within the seed.

We can choose to water the seed of our potential with faith and joyful expectancy. We can blossom into a suprising expansion of life.

And…we get to choose what we will water!

It is spring, and it is the perfect opportunity to ask ourselves:

• What is trying to be reborn in me today?
• What choices for growth and peace will I make?
• What choices for love and wisdom will I make?

Let’s choose consciously and thoughtfully!

Eastertime musings…

In our current circumstances, this might be a very expensive Easter bonnet! But it is a safe bet that if we see any Easter bonnets today they’ll adorn the head of someone under 8 years or over 80. (I think they went the way of white gloves and black patent leather shoes!) But candy? Chocolate […]

Let’s spring into action!

We can come out of our hibernation. We can grow anywhere when we take the opportunies presented to us. We can bloom where we are planted! Let’s take advantage of spring! As the days go by, seeds move to buds and with the proper warmth and moisture, they unfold little by little, revealing their new […]

Not there…yet?

The next time insecurity rears its ugly head, instead of being paralyzed by it, we can use that very feeling as the trigger to tack on the word yet. This word will make all the difference. Yet takes things from the world of “forever and always” to the world of “temporary and transient.” After all, […]

Aging or..?

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Stories have lessons…

Stories are everywhere and can be fun to discover. And there’s so much we can learn from them…kind of like “a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down”! Whether it’s Harry Potter or Aesop’s Fables or even the Bible…they’re all gifts to us. Here are some favorite lessons of mine, gleaned from the story […]

On empty?

Does your fuel tank ever run empty? Is your life, like mine, filled with things to do, places to go, people to see, goals to achieve? Do we cram our schedule, our home, our head and our belly until they are too full? Are we chronically over scheduling ourselves? If everything seems too full, we […]

How many ideas do we need?

There’s a Greek poem in which a cunning fox tries (and continually fails) to catch the seemingly vulnerable hedgehog. The fox keeps plotting the perfect attack. He keeps coming up with new ideas on how to be able to catch the hedgehog. The rather simplistic hedgehog goes about its business unaware. When the fox ambushes, […]

we didn’t miss it…

Though Random Acts of Kindness was last week, we haven’t missed our chance! We can use this next week. Are you up to the challenge? For the next seven days, we can pick one thing from these seven ideas (or from your own list!) They won’t take long and we will be amazed at how […]

Am I a Tigger?

Does today’s world seem like a never-ending battle between the Tiggers and the Eeyores of “Winnie the Pooh” fame? Did Eeyore get a bad rap? And am I seen as a Pollyanna and annoying to be around by the more pessimistic folks? I know I have taken pride in being upbeat and rather Tigger-like in […]