May you awaken from the dream of distraction…
A blessing, a wish, from my heart to yours.
Today’s blessing was inspired by a conversation over dinner a few nights ago. I have a friend who works with physically challenged children. She told us about the kids who have needed to have surgical procedures, after which they can no longer eat by mouth. Instead, they are fed a liquid diet direct to their stomachs. She said sometimes they will dab or smear a little food on their lips so they can experience some flavours. She shared that when they see her eating, they look with great curiosity.
Her sharing reminded me of a story another friend told me, of a young woman, her best friend, who was diagnosed with colon cancer, and the doctors were recommending the removal of most of her stomach and intestine, after which she too would be in the same positions as these kids, no longer be able to eat ‘normally’.
No longer able to do something so many of us don’t think twice about…
Then today, I heard these words from Mickey Singer (chapter 17 The Untethered Soul).
‘It’s not WHAT you’re doing, it’s HOW MUCH OF YOU is doing it.’
It’s pretty crazy how much ‘life’ we miss…
How densely crammed each moment is with STUFF to be noticed, received, experienced, appreciated, savoured — but it needs US to be FULLY PRESENT, otherwise, we so easily MISS THE MAGIC…
It seems tragically easy to take so much MAGIC, so many BLESSINGS, for granted…
Today’s blessing:
Precious soul,
May you awaken from the dream of distraction,
of preoccupation,
of ruminating over past upsets,
of worrying about future events,
of being everywhere and anywhere but in the moment itself.
May you welcome the loving reminders,
The ‘spiritual smelling salts’ in all their glorious forms…
The stories,
The chance encounters,
The songs,
The shared conversations,
The movies,
The images,
The quotes.
The pattern interrupts that wake you up to the unfathomably magical mysterious abundance crammed into every moment, into the ‘simplest mundane’ activities, longing to be noticed, received, savoured, experienced and appreciated by YOU!
Like the ‘simple’ act of eating…
An opportunity to celebrate:
💚 Access to food, and all it required to get it to be on the plate in front of you, the earth, the soil, the rain, the sunlight, the farmers, to pickers, the packers, the drivers, the kitchen appliances, the utensils, the skills, and, and, and…….!
💙 The ability to feed yourself, to experience the sensation of food in your mouth, the flavours and textures, to chew, to easily move the food around your mouth, to lick your lips, to swallow, to feel satiated, to engage so effortless in the act of eating and all it entails! Not to mention all that’s involved in your body processing the meal….!
❤️ Having loved ones to share the food with, conversation with, and so MUCH MORE!
Dearest one, may your WHOLE gorgeous self fully inhabit the moments you are gifted to encounter.
So may it be.
Huge love always!
❤️😘🎁🥳
Blessing backstory: A while ago I decided to find uplifting images and send them together with a blessing, a personal wish, to my immediate family. Over time it’s become a ‘daily-ish’ morning practice via WhatsApp to a slowly growing recipient list. Recently I’ve started to share these blessings and images online, with a prayer that they brighten the world of those who receive them.
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