Warning: This is a long one.
Well the past few months have been so much of a transition and I wasn't quite sure how so many things were going to play out. And David and I definitely have some hurdles to jump until things are "stable" but I am sitting in such a place of calm and trust right now. You know when people make a comment and it hits a chord in your soul? That happened recently. I live now just moments away from our nation's capital and so many other things of interest. Places that millions of people travel hundreds, even thousands, of miles to see and experience. I don't want to miss the treasure in my own "backyard."
I have also recently been challenged to see the blessings and to live a life of gratitude, which in turn is how you honestly live this life to the fullest. So here I am going to exercise classes and enjoying it. Going on day trips to places of interest. Stopping by obscure historical places in the town I just moved. And spending my free time at the park watching the birds, the people, and the water. Enjoying the day in ways that I am often "too busy" to enjoy.
Why is it that we get so focused on going after things that we don't stop to enjoy them? I went this week to Mount Vernon, the home of George Washington, and I had a truly moving experience. I stood at his tomb and cried as a veteran in the crowd helped lay a wreath by his tomb and another veteran read a prayer from Washington. Wow! I am standing on the grounds of our first president's home. Walking through the house where strategies of war were conducted and family meals took place. It was such an overwhelming moment of realization of past, present and future generations standing and experiencing.
I don't want to take things for granted. To experience things only on the surface. I want to dive deep into life. I want to stop and enjoy. I want to make each day, each moment count. So here's to being inspired. To stopping to make the phone call or write the letter or tour the mansion or sit by the water. Here's to living and being grateful!
Well the past few months have been so much of a transition and I wasn't quite sure how so many things were going to play out. And David and I definitely have some hurdles to jump until things are "stable" but I am sitting in such a place of calm and trust right now. You know when people make a comment and it hits a chord in your soul? That happened recently. I live now just moments away from our nation's capital and so many other things of interest. Places that millions of people travel hundreds, even thousands, of miles to see and experience. I don't want to miss the treasure in my own "backyard."
I have also recently been challenged to see the blessings and to live a life of gratitude, which in turn is how you honestly live this life to the fullest. So here I am going to exercise classes and enjoying it. Going on day trips to places of interest. Stopping by obscure historical places in the town I just moved. And spending my free time at the park watching the birds, the people, and the water. Enjoying the day in ways that I am often "too busy" to enjoy.
Why is it that we get so focused on going after things that we don't stop to enjoy them? I went this week to Mount Vernon, the home of George Washington, and I had a truly moving experience. I stood at his tomb and cried as a veteran in the crowd helped lay a wreath by his tomb and another veteran read a prayer from Washington. Wow! I am standing on the grounds of our first president's home. Walking through the house where strategies of war were conducted and family meals took place. It was such an overwhelming moment of realization of past, present and future generations standing and experiencing.
I don't want to take things for granted. To experience things only on the surface. I want to dive deep into life. I want to stop and enjoy. I want to make each day, each moment count. So here's to being inspired. To stopping to make the phone call or write the letter or tour the mansion or sit by the water. Here's to living and being grateful!
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