I have enough.

All my needs, wants, desires will be taken care of by the Divine.

Do I want more?  Heck yeah.  Am I patient?  No way.

Deep in my heart, I understand that I have enough . . . I just forget.  I get distracted.  I compare.  I look at what everyone else has.  

In stillness, I can look around and see that I have more than enough stuff, I am loved wholeheartedly, indeed I am right where I belong.

Hope, the first candle lit.  The wisdom scriptures all tell us to be aware, watchful, awake . . . 

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.  Tom Bodett

I love, probably too much.  I thrive to fulfill my life's purpose each day.  I hold onto hope by doing what the Divine sets before me in every moment.  

 We are all walking the path back home and people join us along the way. Some people stay longer than others but each of us assists one another in a purposefully way.

When I worked the graveyard shift in the nursing home, LeEtta a dementia patient, worked my shift with me.  She stayed up all night telling me jokes.  LeEtta and I journeyed together for over a year. 

The day I came to work and her room was empty, I cried.  It was the longest night of work.  I never said goodbye to my funny friend.  But you know what?  The goodbye doesn't matter nearly as much as our first Hello.

The first Hello equals the first step on our journey together.  There really aren't any goodbyes because her spirit continues to walk with me.  

I enter every moment with love.

I see the light in everyone I meet.

I have purity, inner wisdom and subtle strength.

On Septemeber 22, 2016, I took this vow.  It is represented by three rings that I wear as a reminder to live up to my own expectations.  To serve others when it may not be exactly what I want to do, I do it anyway and try my best to be joyful--rarely is being joyful a problem. Why?

I fully understand that I am co-creating this life with the Divine.  I haven't always had such a deep knowing.  My thinking was that I would just live life to the fullest and sometimes it would work out and sometimes it wouldn't.  Random.  

My friend Oprah always says, "when you know better, you do better." now, I can honestly say, I'm doing better.  

My experience is that I'm only called to do one of these at a time.  That makes it so much more doable.  

Back to the journey . . . 

Sharing words of wisdom by Michael Pollan.

When stirring the pot, just stir the pot. I get it now. It seems that one of the great luxuries of life at this point is to be able to do one thing at a time, one thing to which you give yourself wholeheartedly. Unitasking.

Or,

When you are cutting the rhubarb you have lovingly grown and will now make rhubarb pudding cake (a bake sale recipe rattled off to me by ​an old Polish woman) . . . just cut the rhubarb.​​