Thursday, 10. December 2009 12:28
Oh this is a goodie today. Not sure if it will be a long one or a short one. But I am excited about todays Thankful Thursday.
First off let me introduce to you, Zebrafinch, our latest guest blogger who will be featured here often on Thankful Thursday. Be sure to read below this post to have the process of becoming Grateful eloquently penned. I am looking forward to each and every one of Zebrafinch’s posts. Not only does it help Zebrafinch find her own sense of gratitude, it also touches me and helps me deepen my own sense of gratefulness.
Thank you Zebrafinch for sharing your thoughts on THE PONY EXPRESSION and for being part of the healing process.
Next Chris a friend from England, commented on one of my posts today. He was saying how I had shared with all of you that I really had an issue with snow and was struggling moving to Colorado much less Silverton, Colorado. He was dead right – I struggled for several years with the idea. However, I have found the snow to be healing. Someone else came to my home one day and said you surround yourself with nurturing things, everything you do seems to be aimed at nurturing yourself. That is exactly what I have set out to do ever since 1997 and having spent that year reading the book I mention on an early Thankful Thursday, Sarah Breathnaucht’s “Simple Abundance”. I suggest you check it out again, and come to think of it I will join you. Refreshing that process can only be…
…well…
…nurturing.
It has shocked me just how nurturing the cold, icy, wet, sticky, colorless stuff they call snow can be. Having been an advocate of color and having the eye of an artist, color has always effected me in curious ways. Thus, I have avoided the color white most of my life. It was cold, barren, lifeless to me. Instead I surrounded myself with deep earth tones and rich spiritual colors. Now finding myself surrounded by white I am feeling regenerated, cleansed and reborn into a new way of life. Its exhilarating. White, icy, cold= exhilarating… yes I get it! Hello!! I have found a new appreciation for SNOW. Will I remain in it for the rest of my life? Probably not, or… maybe I will. That will depend on the next chapters of my life. But for now I am embracing it with a sense of adventure and appreciation for the healing effects it has had on my soul.
I was talking with one of my clients yesterday when he suggested that my move to Silverton maybe was a product of intervention guiding me to a place where I would naturally regain my fitness. Well Creator if that is so. THANK YOU, THANK YOU and THANK YOU!! I will never be able to show my gratitude strongly or purely enough. I believe it to be true, and I WILL be mindful of the gift. AHO …I was given a vision years ago of what I might be called to do. Help others find their own brand of nurturing to empower themselves. I saw myself in a high desert boulder ridden remote location. People coming to sit with me. Just a sharing experience. Heck I don’t know if it was my imagination running away with me or truly a calling. I don’t really care. I know that some times people do come for help. Other times I feel the urge to offer an open ended something to someone. Some jump to fill the void and others walk away. I am thankful that whatever I have to share is useful to some, and still feel that someday I’ll be sitting on a porch of some simple abode in the high desert. In the meantime I am still walking down a path of preparation in mind, spirit and body. For this path I am thankful.
Today I am thankful for:
1) the sweet hiss of steam coming from the boiler in my room.
2) the claw foot tub where I take my nightly soaks in a mixture of lavender, frankincense, tea tree, and lemon oils to candlelight dancing upon the walls around me.
3) my chest freezer full of good foods for the winter
4) all the green plants…

and Dragon…

and Connor the betta fish who surround me with livingness.

5) the wonderful people who have surrounded me with friendship since moving to Silverton. They include but are not limited to. Pam, Maryanne, Patty, Karen, Cindy, Matt, Alan, Tim, the Gillan boys, and of course my daughter and son-in-law, Heather and Malcolm and their entire family. For all of you mentioned and not, I am so very thankful. Love you!
6) the glorious sun reflecting itself off the snow-bright mountains into my room from outside my window. The glow as it travels through the leaves of my plants is heavenly.
Happy Thankful Thursday everyone. Don’t forget to keep reading below for more thankfulness from guest blogger, ZEBRAFINCH.
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