everydayinamerica

To live your best life…you must love your life…and appreciate where you are…in it.

Spending your life chasing after “perfection” will leave you lost and alone…

Life is meant to be lived…not imagined or idealized…

Jump in and taste everything and refine your tastes as you journey through this maze of constant twists and turns…exploring…experiencing…appreciating…while allowing everything to come together…and age…as fine wine… Let it roll off your palate in reflection and contentment. To wait, is to stagnate and lose opportunities of real growth and discoveries that will guide you along your path of self and worldly realizations….

I once knew a woman whose dream it was to have a husband and a child… This became her passion and obsession. She was extremely creative and many opportunities came her way to express and realize her wonderful gifts…She could not fully realize the depth of her gifts which would have yielded her a tremendous financial foundation for her heart’s desire…

She had relationships which never led to a husband…she had no idea that life was preparing her…for her…to love her life as it was unfolding and to live her best life in the opportunities that were presenting themselves to her… A moment came when she found herself with child…the moment of a husband had not presented itself with the man who was the father…she did not tell him because his feelings for her were not as strong as she hoped they would be…to him it was casual…to her it was more…so she allowed it to stay casual…until she found out she was pregnant…

She sought me out to help her make a decision of which she already knew the answer…

Life presented her with a part of her heart’s desire…she sought out permission to have it…instead of living it…I had moved away. When she could not find me to give her permission to her heart’s desire…she chose not to fulfill it…because she wanted the husband as well…

Our paths crossed again, many years later. She told me the story. She was childless and had never married…and beyond her child bearing years. She asked me what would I have told her…I smiled and said, “You always wanted a child…I would have told you to have the baby…to follow your heart. You did not need me to tell you that…A child…was what you always wanted.” She agreed, and added, “I wanted to have a husband as well…I wasn’t sure about having a baby without a husband.”

The world we live in doesn’t always deliver everything in one neat little package…heart’s desires are not presented at the same moment in time…the husband would have arrived when he was meant to…or not. It’s all about living the best life…loving your life, always…while going along with the flow of it…

We create the “perfection” of our lives…and in our lives…by first acknowledging the definition of “perfection.” It is the condition, state or quality of being free or as free as possible from all flaws or defects. It is the “or free as possible” that presents “imperfection.”

Life is…imperfection…flawed…blemished…features undesirable…incomplete…faulty…and we take those lemons and make lemonade…or lemon cake! With the impermanence comes I-M-possible!

In the midst of the chaos in our nation and the world…we must not lose sight of the meaning of our lives…who we are…what we can make of our lives despite what’s going on around us…and live for you by living…make the best flow from every moment that presents itself…

With Honesty…Reality…Truth…and…Love.

Live…

Life is too, too short to waste moments…opportunities…or to let it just pass you by…

Don’t ignore your heart’s desires…no matter how they come to you…

Be true to yourself…

You don’t need anyone’s permission to be and to live the best part of yourself…

Don’t give in to the chaos…without…or within…

Give in to life…

Shine your Light…

Thrive in it…

And share it with the world….