Today, on this Mother’s Day, I am grateful for moms.  I am grateful that I am a mother, I am grateful for my mother, I am grateful for the mothers that came before me, I am grateful for the mothers around me, I am grateful for the mothers to come, and I am grateful for mothers in the non-traditional sense.  Motherhood is such a special gift, and it doesn’t solely apply to those who birth children.  This day is about celebrating those people who have guided us in this life and those who have guided us back to our intuition and knowing.  This is for those who offer love and advice unconditionally to those who need it.  Without moms of all kinds we wouldn’t be anywhere in this world.  Being a mom isn’t about the responsibility for another person, it’s about guiding and nurturing people on their way.  I am so privileged to have my son in my life, and I am grateful for all that comes with being a mom.

*I swear as I’m typing this a mother duck and her ducklings just walked through the yard!!  What a gift!

Today I am grateful for reopening doors to friendships.  One of my faults is losing touch with people.  Legitimately, it is NEVER intentional, I just tend to get distracted really easily, I get excited really easily, and then I want to do all the things with all the people and I either forget and get distracted AGAIN, or I feel overwhelmed and can’t make a decision so I do nothing.  Yesterday I was blessed to bring in old friends again, people I haven’t seen for a couple of years.  I mean, life genuinely does happen and we all have things we need to do, but we could have found more time.  Last week, I decided to reach out and have them come over.  It turned out to be a beautiful day filled with reconnecting and catching up and lots of love.  Sometimes the doors to friendships just close over, they aren’t closed, and we need to push them open a little wider.

Today I am grateful for feeling life.  Sometimes the simplest things in life are genuinely what matters.  In getting ready for our friends to be over yesterday, I cleaned up and had the windows open.  The absolute joy of cleansing and organizing space, and feeling the breeze flow through the house felt nearly indescribable.  Sometimes it’s amazing how stagnant things really become—and sometimes we don’t know it’s stagnant until we feel life moving through it again.  Clearing out the house was honestly a spiritual experience.  It just so happened that while I was clearing out I was listening to a speech on allowing life and it happened to mention the feeling of the breeze on our face.  I felt an immediate warmth in my heart as I felt the swirl of life around me.  It was amazing.

Today I am grateful to see life happening around me.  I’ve struggled with time and the fear of losing out on doing things for a long time.  But feeling life move as I did yesterday, seeing how beautiful time can be made me feel better about it.  Time passing didn’t feel like a loss while I was watching my son play.  It felt like a gift.  Sometimes we try to hold onto moments for the sake of preserving them, sometimes we hold onto moments because we are afraid of losing them, sometimes we hold onto moments because we are afraid of never feeling like that again.  But life is meant to be experienced in flow.  Life is meant to move and we are a part of it.  The fact that we move forward isn’t a sad thing, it’s a beautiful thing, and it’s a natural thing.  The fact that we are given the gift to be in those moments is the gift.  Lean toward what makes us happy and life will continue to flow.  Live a life of love.

 Today I am grateful for options.  I’ve felt the weight of the future on me for some time now.  Truly, it was too heavy and it made me crazy.  I’ve been trying to plan for every possible scenario in a situation that I can’t possibly know the outcome because it’s contingent on so many different factors.  I ended up carrying each of those possible worlds with me.  I had to look at my power in a different way.  It wasn’t about knowing the outcome, it was about being ok with the outcome no matter what.  My strength came in putting down the weight of things I no longer wanted to carry, things I couldn’t carry.  The expectations of others isn’t my responsibility and they are going to make their choices no matter what.  It’s ok to appreciate that there are options, and it’s ok to choose the option that works for me. 

Wishing everyone a wonderful week ahead.