I’m just about to head out for work this beautiful early summer morning, and I’d like to get my day off to a nice start.  I’m thinking a lot this morning about the power of “yes”, the power of acknowledging those things in my life I want to be, do and have rather than to focus on the things I don’t want to be, do and have.  I feel so much more empowered when I say, “Yes! This is what I want in my life.”  I find myself disempowered when I’m stuck in, “No, no! This isn’t what I want in my life!”  Same life, different perception. 

 

And so…

 

Yes, I love waking up with the love of my life every morning.  I love her breath on my cheek.  I love stroking her silky hair.  Yes, she and I will do what it takes to keep each other healthy, happy, secure and strong.  Yes, I want this unconditional love in my life.

 

Yes, I enjoy this physically fit body.  I love the strength I feel in these muscles, the digestive system running well, the heart good and strong.  I breathe deep and feel life renewed in the form of oxygen to these cells.  Yes, I want health and well-being to flow effortlessly through my body.

 

Yes, that blue sky outside, those green healthy trees are all signs of a well functioning planet.  I love that this planet evolves and renews, that it heals and replenishes itself.  This planet has been changing and evolving and balancing itself for billions of years; the Earth knows what to do.  Yes, to the Earth renewing its balance again and again in every moment, with or without our help.

 

Yes, my wife is my family.  I love my wife; she is my family.  Her family is my family.  And my family is hers.  Yes to balance, acceptance, and yes, perhaps even joy within the family unit.  Yes to stepping back when needing to regain perspective and peace, and yes to ever renewing family ties in the spirit of forgiveness and the acknowledgement of the bond that has a way of renewing and balancing itself either by choice or circumstance.

 

Yes, to forgiveness!  I think what I want to say on forgiveness was said best in A Course in Miracles:

 

“The unforgiving mind is full of fear, and offers love no room to be itself; no place where it can spread its wings in peace and soar above the turmoil of the world.  The unforgiving mind is sad, without the hope of respite and release from pain. It suffers and abides in misery, peering about in darkness, seeing not, yet certain of the danger lurking there…..”

 

“To forgive is merely to remember only the loving thoughts you gave in the past, and those that were given you. All the rest must be forgotten. Forgiveness is a selective remembering, based not on your selection. For the shadow figures you would make immortal are “enemies” of reality.”

 

Yes to remembering the love and forgetting (forgiving) all the rest.

 

Amen Sista!

 

XO,

K