With the holiday season I am acutely aware of how grateful I am for life. Shopping for the perfect gift, wrapping presents in glittery paper and buying out the grocery store seem like traditions that have faded into the background of my life this season. I am in California watching the sun set on the ocean and the sun rise in my daughter Sasha’s life who is recovering after a health crisis that opened our hearts to life and death issues and to one another in deeper ways.
I have shopped little and sat more in the company of both my girls as we laugh our way toward Christmas day, go to church together for the first time in our lives, make cards out of buttons and bows and cook healthy food. I am in Nirvana after one of the hardest years of my life.
Our deteriorating economy and the state of the world is no longer the backdrop to daily life but is becoming our lives, requiring each of us to shift and change and open to new possibilities. The gift this Christmas for all of us is the grace and power that each of us possess to take any circumstance, any negative feeling, all fear, anxiety and uncertainty into joy, happiness and opportunity to grow in consciousness and love.
So, I send everyone in my life boat-loads of love, oodles of hugs and deep gratitude for your presence in my life.
Blessings in this the Mayan 6th day,
Maya
With all the talk and wonder i am truly proud that you can rest your head and heart from worry, even if it is just a brief moment in time that you can breath. For each moment adds to the previous and to the next, expanding them in length and forever binding them together for eternity. I love you mom