Practice makes perfect

Everyone should at least know that phrase.  How often did we hear it growing up?  Not all of us are "super talented" where we can pick things up in a couple of minutes and then look like we've always known how to do it.

I remember during my college years when studying to become a teacher, they used to video our presentations.  This ways we could see ourselves in all our glory (or not).  When it comes to public speaking, I would say practice does definitely help.  I've been "presenting" now for over 15 years.  I will never say it's "easy" to just get up in front of people, but usually for me when I start going over the basics, I relax and it becomes easier. (I'm a trainer by occupation now).

So, my daughter had a project to do for school.  A diorama.  Not only that, they're going to have to present their information in front of the class.  Bad Mom, we've had over a month to work on the diorama -- we just finished it last night.  We've had their "content" to be delivering for a couple of weeks now -- I'm just now working with her.  It's due this Friday.

I do feel bad that we didn't get it all done when we should have - but there's been sickness in the family and my back being out, along with trying to get the house in shape for my parents visit, there just isn't enough time in the day to get it all done.

So, working with my daughter on presenting has been challenging.  She is a bundle of energy.  The last time she did a presentation, they all marked she needed to stand still.  Which of course I still laugh about - as I don't think she's ever truly still except maybe when sleeping.

What I didn't expect was tears and "I can't do this."  You sit and ask her questions about the topic she can tell you, but to put it in a "report" she blocks herself.  So I've been trying to help her with this.  One of the things I did first was have her hold her hands together in front of her.  Hopefully this will help keep the twitching down.  I have a feeling without this, she's going to be dancing throughout her presentation.  I seriously thought about maybe doing this presentation in song, but I'm not sure the teacher would appreciate that.

Still more tears.  So I sat down and basically told her she had to go through all the points before I'd let her sit down.  You know what?  She did it.  Was it great?  No, it was stilted, but she at least got through it.  Then what was great was we were watching a little TV last night and when the commercials came on at one point, I had her do it again.  It was much better and little drama to go with it. 

I figure if I can continue this process the rest of this week, she may actually have a decent presentation.  So for her, practice may not make it "perfect", but it is definitely helping....

What in your life do you need to practice to help make it perfect? 

Card of the Week: Music

Did you know that music can transform moods?  It's also an important tool in manifesting.  Think of a good song that gets your emotions in an upbeat almost even joyful mood.  Then combine that with something you really want and it will help the manifestation process even more.

Personally, I use music daily.  I use music to help clear my chakras, help me to meditate, help me to sleep, help me to keep awake at work, among other things :)

There are wide varieties of music out there and some may touch you and some may not.  This card this week wants you to pull out that music that you like and move to it.. and use it to help you with whatever you need this week!

You have more friends than you know..

I was driving in this morning and decided to listen to the new Glee show, called Sweet Dreams.  I love this show.  Being the outcast I am, it gives hope to those of us that we too can find friends.  Well, one of the songs had me bawling..

"You have more friends than you know"

It is a song in simplicity.  Some of the words are so poignant..

Be who you are, Learn to forgive
It's not about who you love, but how you live

Those who love you the most, (may need more time to grow)


How point on are these.  Be true to who you are -- regardless of what people think.   Learn to forgive -- as holding on to the anger only hurts you.  It's not about who you love, but how you live -- you have to love yourself before you can really love anyone else and showing yourself love will help you to live LOVE and thus bring to others.    Those who love you the most, may need more time to grow -- we never stop growing in love, in learning, in becoming more of who we should be.




People tell me all the time how Brave and inspirational I am -- I really hope that is the case.  I want people to know they can do it.. sometimes it takes digging deep into yourself to come up with that strength.  For those who need friends -- who don't think they have any -- you need to look around more closely.  It's not the number you have, it's the ones that are there always for you--- good or bad times.  Funny and Sad.  The ones you can talk to about anything.  That don't judge.

I hope for all -- they get a chance to listen to this song.  Really listen.  Then see how you can become more of yourself and become that kind of friend you want to have to another.

Busy Weekend...

Been trying to get my house (at least the main floor) in shape for my parent's visit.  I was all about hiring someone to do the deep clean needed -- but hubby (who stays home) was like "no, I can do it."

So for the past month -- he's scheduled out time on Saturdays to work on the house.  One room at a time.  Difference between him and me -- I would have been done in 2 weekends.  He still isn't done.  I've been having to fill in here and there to get things really clean.  I'll do one final cleaning on Friday when home and hopefully it will be enough.  I still have other areas in the house that need major help.  But they can wait.

Personally I can't wait until I can have a fully clean house and then spend my weekends enjoying life rather than doing everything I can fit in and being in a perpetual state of tiredness.

So Saturday, I had the kids.  I also managed 2 loads of laundry through the day.  We went out to see if we could buy sandals.  We then went to the library.  Then out for lunch.  Then home for naps.  I then had another massage scheduled, my back still isn't completely "right".  After that, I ran to different stores to get different things we needed along with picking up pizza for dinner.  After dinner and cleaning up, I took 2 of the 3 kids outside and let them play.  Then was in for baths.  By the time that was all done, I was ready for bed.

Sunday, wasn't much better.  Breakfast got started late, because hubby didn't clean up everything -- so I had to do some.  Then let my eldest help with breakfast.  Then to find out hubby wasn't feeling well.  Similar to what happened on my bday.  So I got the twins down.. breakfast on.. cleaned up.. kids changed.. hubby to ER.. kids to church... back from church.. lunch.. clean up from lunch.. down for naps.. and cleaned up more of the house... hubby finally got back and so I was able to go pick up dinner.

Not once, did I get on the computer.  I did check my mail on my phone.  But other than that. Either too busy or tired.

Now -- what cleaning my hubby did, was cleaning that didn't need to be done :D  He cleaned the upstairs bathroom but not the one my parents are going to use.  I have 3 big black bags of trash that are sitting in various places still.  I took out the recycling.  I created space on the counter -- getting rid of the old stuff that didn't need to be there.  I cleaned out the cabinet of things that we didn't need or was dated.   He even left mop water out where the son could get into it.  <sigh>

Well, less than 1 week to go before they'll be here...

The plan was for him to clean up the basement -- but after the ER visit yesterday, that might not happen. <sigh>

True to Yourself

How many of you are uncertain of who you are and why you are here -- how many are just going with the flow?

I have never fit in anywhere.  Growing up -- my brother was more like my parents, so he was preferred.  I had a cousin who had Cystic Fibrosis and we were the same age - so because of her condition -- she got the attention.  School that I went to, wasn't about the money, it was about the lineage -- did your family go there?  Even though I went there from Kindergarten to my Senior year -- and was involved in EVERYTHING -- I still never fit in.  College wasn't any better, I tried joining a sorority and I never felt like I belonged.

So is it any wonder why I feel like I still don't belong?  I have a few friends.  I wish they lived closer.  But I don't have many around where I live.  I don't even really fit in at work.  I have over time gotten some good acquaintances but not "friends" per se.

 As far as my gifts -- very few know about them in my "real" life.  There are times I doubt them, I feel that's because I don't always have time for them.  I take my kids to church and I help out where I can and sometimes the things that come out of others mouth, I cringe.  Because it's not what I truly believe.  I hate when people downplay other religions and beliefs.   I truly believe that faith is what you believe in.  You should never bash anyone else's thoughts.  For me.. it should be all about love.

So, I in most aspects of my life feel like an outcast.  I perceive what I do as helping but for some maybe it's interference -- I don't know.  All I know is that now I have to be True to Myself.  I am no longer going to hide who or what I am.  I tried for so long to "fit in" and never did.  So now, even if it's a lonely path -- I'm going to be whom I am without apologizing.

I am a very loving person.  I have insights that can't be explained.  I CAN heal people when it's allowed.  I am a GREAT Mom.  I am a GREAT Teacher.  I have been through many loves and many losses and various experiences that help me relate to people.

What can you do to be true to yourself?  Myself and some friends have opened up our own website.  A website/forum where people can come and learn about different spiritual things as well as develop their own gifts.  We offer free readings and guidance to others, as we know not everyone can always pay.  If you'd like to come and check us out, we'd love to have you:  http://divinepathways.com

Love and Joy

Not sure what's going on with me lately, but I just feel "blah".  I used to find all sorts of joy in my life and have so much love for my friends and family and now nothing.  I get brief glimpses of it here and there -- especially listening to music.  But it doesn't stay with me.

I'm beginning to wonder if it's just because I've been so focused on getting things done around the house that I haven't had time for "fun" or even time to myself.  Of course as I'm writing this, my guides/angels are saying "YES" -- this from those that have been so silent lately.

Last night was busy.  I stayed at work 15 minutes later than I normally do, trying to troubleshoot a problem.  I then had to drive home -- luckily it was only an hour.  Come home, change diapers on kids and get stuff together for them and load them into the car to head to church.  I did this so hubby could take care of some stuff at home with an empty house.

Try and keep 3 kids together.  One of them is easy - she's not mobile on her own (besides crawling) yet.  My eldest had sat down with some church members and while I was getting the other 2 settled, I looked over where she had been and saw that she wasn't there.  I then started looking around and got worried when I didn't see her.  Turns out she went to the bathroom.  Of course during this time, she didn't tell people to hold her seat so someone else was sitting there.  Which when I told her about it, she started crying.  So she sat with me and the twins.  Had a nice conversation with 2 nice boys at the table along with their father.  Had prepared a sandwich for the boy, since he's so picky with stuff and I didn't want to deal with tantrums at the table.

I made the decision to finally move my youngest who will be 3 in 2 weeks, to the 2-3's room.  She had been in the nursery because she wasn't walking or crawling.  But now with the braces and with some help -- she does alright.  It's a little work for the ones having to help her, but the look on her face was priceless.  I knew at that point it was a great decision to have her with her peers (even though developmentally she's not there).  While my kids were doing devotions with other groups -- I was helping out in the 3rd-6th grade room.  We have some great kids in there -- but some so desperate for attention that it gets unruly fast.  I'm asking for guidance to help these kids be able to be more respectful -- not only to the teachers -- but to each other.  I look at these kids and thinking back to when I was young and there is such a difference in behaviors.  We might have done a little of that - but overall, when the teacher raised her voice, you stopped.

Then soon enough devotions were over and it was trying to get everyone and everything together in mass chaos.  Then home to where the hubby wasn't completely finished with the cleaning he wanted to do -- so he asked that I get the kids ready for bed. 

So a very busy night.  I barely had time to decompress before I had to go to bed.  Of course taking the time decompressing -- well -- that meant staying up little later than I would have normally.  Which makes for me being that much tired the next day.

But I march on..

Now hopefully can finish getting the house ready for company this weekend and be able to finally relax a bit.  Some much needed "me" time should be scheduled soon.  What that will entail -- I have no idea :D

So what's your go to thing to do when you need to create JOY in your life?

Heavy Heart

I'm sitting here shaking my head almost at a loss for words.  The Boston bombing, the shootings, 9/11 -- not to mention other things in other countries that probably no one even knows about.  What is this world coming to?

As much as I like the stories of people helping others in these times of need -- these are usually the same people that are helping others in their daily life anyway.  We can learn a lot from them and if we can get a few people to affect a few more.. then maybe our world has a chance.

I look back to when I was growing up and how much freedom we had to do things and because of the media and other things -- how I worry when sending my kids out in my own back yard.  When I was a kid -- and lived in the country -- we would be gone most of the day.  We didn't have cell phones so parents could keep tabs on us.  We didn't have cable.  We didn't have computers/internet.  Heck Atari was the up and coming thing.  We never really worried about strangers or bad things happening in the world -- or as a kid I was completely oblivious about it.

So as a parent in today's time, I worry about my kids. There are so many restrictions on them and they have a wide at your hands technology that gives them so much more access.  When the shooting happened in Connecticut, I didn't want my girl who's 6 to be so terrorized about going to school that I didn't say anything to her.  I was prepared for her to talk to me about things if she heard it from other kids, what I wasn't prepared were other adults talking to her about it. 

I worry that my kids are going to grow up too fast -- not get to keep the innocence around them due to all the media available to them.  So we limit things.

But as things keep escalating around the world, I just wonder what future my kids and their kids will have if the world keeps at this pace.  This makes my heart very heavy.

So I ask that all of you, once a day, send LOVE out into the world.  Think it, believe it, feel it, pray it -- doesn't matter how.  Let's try and raise the vibration from the evil things to the positive and good things and hopefully if we do this bit by bit, maybe we'll have a chance for our kids.

Focus

Ever see in your life, when you step back, what you "focus" on in your life -- usually appears?  For most of us.. we focus on the bills we have to pay or being in debt.  So what are we manifesting?  More of it.  Why?  Because all of our energy is focused on these things.

So of course when I heard that part from the movie "The Secret" -- I really tried stopping thinking (or in my case worrying) about them.  I just really tried to keep a positive attitude that money would be there to pay.

How often do we sit and go on about our relationships?  Or our health (or lack there of)? 

Even as spiritual as I am, I get caught up in those things -- I'm human, so of course it happens.  But usually in the middle of my rant, I realize what I'm doing and try to stop.  Notice I say "try".  Sometimes I am so angry about something going on, that I can't quite turn it off until that anger is gone.  I know when I'm angry - it's usually a good thing if I'm home, because then I can turn that anger into something good - like cleaning.  Don't ask me why, but when I'm angry I clean better :D
Probably, because I'm not sitting there thinking of how much I still need to do.. I just do.

Focus is important in most everything we do.  What can you focus on today to make it better?

Bittersweet...

Yesterday, I was driving in and listening to an Unlimited Abundance session and I think had a breakthrough with something I was holding on to.  It's good when you yawn or even cry when listening to sessions.

It was so busy at work yesterday.  I didn't even get a chance to work on something I've been meaning to get to -- so hopefully today.  I went home and our PT person came to work with our youngest.  I can not tell you how much I love this person.  She has always taken very good care of Sammy and given us items to help us so we didn't have to purchase one -- like a walker.  She also listens and responds to my hubby -- who can be a bit oblivious at times.  We <3 her!  We're also getting down to the last few sessions with her, before Sammy turns 3.  It's a bittersweet moment, even more to me because she's such a lovely light positive energy when she comes. 

She helped me last night (so my prayers were answered) about the situation with my son and getting speech therapy and both getting the hearing tests.  Hubby being who he is, basically told her that they accept everyone.  She told him no they don't.  She has seen over her many years with the organization people she thought for sure would qualify for assistance that they said no too.  Then to top it off, she basically told him (and me) that she thinks it was a good move to get the hearing tested -- especially son with his dropping middle consonants.  She even told us that she talked to one of the PT people that will be taking over when she turns 3 -- telling her she was getting one of "her most favorite kids".  That made me feel really good that she would do that.  I will definitely miss her presence in our lives... however, I have her email and phone -- so I will definitely stay in touch :)

I am moving on with my life.  I will do everything I can to help my children become the best they can be.  I have been known to be a bit critical of things at times ( hubby calls it column A and B -- and you don't want to be on "B") -- but I do that because I only except the best for my kids.  I do a lot of research and try to go to the medical appointments because I want to at least once meet the doctor(s) that will be working on them.  I have a pretty good internal guidance system that allows me to see (most of the time) how people really are -- so if I sense you're not good for us as a family or my kid(s) especially -- I have no qualms in finding someone that is.

Now to find some shoes to go over Sammy's braces so we can get this girl walking :)

Prayers needed

My husband and I have been married for 9 years today (together for 10) and I'm asking for prayers.  My eldest has health issues that she had to have services when little and then this year I started PT with her again within the school and he fought me all the way with it.  We had our youngest daughter evaluated and she's going to need services, and he's still kind of fighting me on her.  But when I suggested to get our boy (middle child) evaluated for speech, he fought me again.  Well today was that evaluation and sure enough, he needs help.  Both he and his twin they couldn't get reads on the ear machine, so want them checked by an audiologist - which I set up today for next Monday.  Is he happy?  Oh heck no.  To him, he doesn't see a need for them to be tested.

You would think after everything we've been through already and how often I'm right versus wrong, that he'd just listen and do what's best for the kids.

So I'm asking for all prayers to make this process go smoothly for us.

Card for the Week - Love & Relating

The card Love and Relating is about our connections to everything and everyone – with a focus on partnership.

Relating is the connecting we do, and relationships, whether we call them friends, acquaintances or partners, is our vision, creation and words that we use to describe a union or interaction that is based on our values, needs, desires, beliefs and conditioning. With true love and relating, we relate without demands, expectations or conditions.

What we call love encompasses many aspects of relating.

Some aspects are:

The need for attachment, companionship, and to have a sense of belonging.

The need to care for others and receive care.

The need to share thoughts, feelings, desires and experiences.

The need for trust, respect, sex, affection and compassion.

In partnership, the ‘falling in love’, the attraction, and the desire for others is the basic, beginning and elementary form of love, relating and relationship. As love and relating matures, one may begin to experience the love that exists beyond the basics to honor the unique individuality of another. We begin to see others as separate from us, knowing that they are writing their own life story of their needs and desires.

With mature relating, there is no urgency to connect, and there is no neediness or desire to change the other into something that will meet our needs and desires. Mature love is not trying to solve our neediness by depending on others or making others dependent on us. Mature love is based on freedom without conditions or expectations. It is to develop our own inner richness, love, compassion and maturity, so that we give from our fullness - which naturally draws others towards us.

Mature love and relating brings freedom from pain, drama and the movie/fantasy romance. This is a higher love that has come into blossom, and it is truly unconditional. Its fragrance spreads across a world, lifting us higher and higher - connecting us with the oneness of universal love!

True care and love in relationships brings the opportunity to learn from one another, and helps us grow and mature. As we naturally and gradually mature, the elements of neediness, expectations, conditions and demands will fall away, leaving us to truly experience genuine love and relating, and fulfilling relationships.

A note on false unconditional love:

This is where we perform the role of ‘unconditional lover’ all the time because we think it is right to do. If our true need is to be loved in return, and we repress and sacrifice this need, we stop loving ourselves.

A note on the ending of traditional unions:

People relate and love others as long as it has meaning for them.

If it is a marriage or relationship that you wish to move away from - leave with gratitude for all that the other has brought to your life - All the joys, challenges, lessons, pleasures and beautiful moments that have been shared together.

When we really have matured, we will come to realize that we never need to say good-bye ‘forever’ to anyone. Even if we labelled a relationship as abusive, we will come to see the role that we played in it, and realize that it wasn’t really abusive or unhealthy - it was simply that our relating and our understanding of love, wasn’t mature yet. It was immature, fragile and easily damaged. Calling a relationship abusive is a harsh suggestion that there is one ‘bad person’ involved, that there is someone to blame, someone should feel shame, and someone is a victim. All this can cover up the opportunity to learn and grow from the experience. If we look at ourselves with compassion and gentleness, we will see that in reality, we are simply on the journey to maturity and wholeness – perhaps going about it in different (and difficult) ways.

A relationship may need to change though if only one person starts to grow. You may want to connect differently. For instance instead of being companions or lovers, you get together the odd time for tea to discuss world matters, or play a game of tennis together.

If you are called to end a relationship, journey away from each other without blame or resentment - simply separate. Often it is one person that wants to leave, and will initiate the separation. If needed, the initiator (if he/she is mature and caring enough) will take the time and consideration to help the other reach peace and understanding, and help the other person to let go too - so they can move forward as well.

Getting Healthy

in Body, Mind and Spirit.  You would think that would be pretty easy..right?  WRONG :D

At least for me.  I have always been a picky eater.  However, I was always on the move, plus I took dance from 4-14.  As I've gotten older, I've slowed down, due to work being sedentary, and life in general.  Did I change my eating habits?  NO.  So, because of this, my weight crept up on me.  By the time I realized, I ended up going through a divorce and remarriage.  Then on top of that my first pregnancy - which of course had complications.  So from 36-41, I have been pregnant 3 times and had 4 kids.  That's a lot on the body.  Anyone who knows how hard parenting is normally, try adding other stress on top of that (Baby hospitalized, Baby dying, Twins!). 

Now, I've done Medifast and Weight Watchers.  They both worked to an extent.  But I'd always plateau or not have the money to keep up with buying of their food.

My husband has been on me to become more vegan among other suggestions of reading different books.  Considering I'm very picky, it's hard.  So I thought I was doing good by buying sweetners, low/no fat, and "diet" things.  Well I found this site called Beyond Diet.  The lady explains that we've over processed foods to the point that our body doesn't know what to do with them.  She gives alternatives that aren't complete sugar or processed wheat.  Thankfully I'm in an era where a lot of people are becoming gluten-free do to allergies.  So there are a lot more options.  For once I'm excited about how I can make this work, not only for me, but for my kids.

I have found as I have become more spiritually aware, my body is not liking the things I used to do.  Like drink Diet Coke.  I had to teach myself to drink "Diet" because I grew up drinking regular Coke.  Now I can't stand the taste of the regular sodas -- which are actually better for you (other than calories).  Other foods hurt my stomach are doing weird things to my face.  So when I ran across that website and heard all she had to say, I was like.. wow, I can do this.

As much as I would love a "quick fix", it wasn't quickly I put on the weight, it's been over years.  So how can I expect this to quickly fix things for me.  Plus, I need to get out of the mind set of "dieting" and just changing things slowly and surely.  The trick to this lifestyle is to listen to your body, to get it in a fat burning state by using natural products.  Ever hear of the Caveman diet?  My old boss and good friend was on that for awhile and back then I laughed.  But think about it, the caveman had to gather fruits, vegetables and meat.  Now, because I'm such a bread fiend, I can't give that up.  So I'm looking at alternatives.  No processed flour - using flour alternatives.  Making my own bread, crackers, pizza crust (which I was doing anyway) -- so I'm not losing what I like to eat, but changing it a bit to make it healthier.  Now that doesn't mean completely munching away like it won't matter -- calories still play a part.  It's getting away from the emotional eating (I'm bored or stressed).

Now, I haven't started this, I'm still doing research.  Things I need to get in place so that when I have everything to start -- I'll be ready, willing and ABLE - why, because instead of jumping in, I'll have the knowledge I need to do the things I need to make this work. 

Because some of my kids have health issues, I need to do this.  If I lose weight, great, the point is for all of us to become healthier.  It may be a cost up front, but think of all the money we spend eating out, eating the bad foods, that make us then have to buy new clothes because the old ones don't fit.  Besides, sitting down for dinners is a good thing.  Gives you a chance to be with your loved ones and give yourself a break.

I figure once I get my body on track - -which includes my mind, my spirit stuff will come along and probably faster because I'm no longer poisoning my body. :)

So how will you get "healthy" in body, mind or spirit?

Card of the Week - Appreciation

As you can see by the title of this blog post, the card for the week is appreciation.  Speaking from experience, it's often hard to refocus the negative thoughts and emotions into a positive one like appreciation.

This weekend didn't start out so well.  I had to run Friday and pick up things for the kid's Easter basket.  Then put it together at work.  Well, I left work, got 30 minutes away to remember I left it at work.  So I took a road to go back to work and ended up going really really out of the way -- soon brought out the navigator so I could get myself situated back to where I needed to go.  But this meant getting home late.

Then Saturday, my husband wanted to clean the downstairs, so I normally would have taken them up to the top floor to get them out of the way.  I decided to get them out of the house. So we went out for breakfast, then to the library, then to Target and then grabbed lunch before heading home.  My youngest apparently caught a cold during that time.  Well, she doesn't walk yet, so there was a lot of lifting and carrying and "helping" her walk.  By the time I got home, I was beat.

Sunday morning comes and I'm in the process of trying to make breakfast, when my back goes out.  So no church for anyone.  Of course, it just gets worse and worse.  I take Monday and Tuesday off.  Still having to watch the kids a bit here and there and to make matters worse, the other 2 kids and myself have now caught the cold.

So how do I appreciate what's happened?  Well, I had the money to take them out for some Mom & kids time.  We got to go to the library and do something other than watch TV or play video games.  It was a beautiful day on Saturday and for the most part, they were pretty good.  That I have the leave to be able to take off.  Today, I'm at work and I'm grateful my back allowed me to do that.  I have a long commute with a manual transmission.  With my heating pad, I was able to make it.  That I have a job that's understanding when things like this happen.

So the card reading states:

Appreciation and gratitude are important components to spiritual development. There is beauty in those who find the value in everyone and everything, and it is also important to see our own efforts, and to acknowledge our own contributions and progress.

Love blossoms with appreciation, and intimacy grows deeper when we know we are seen and valued. Our hearts never tire of receiving appreciation. Appreciation has the ability to turn sour situations around, to uplift us, to empower us, and to inspire us into positive action.

Appreciation can be expressed in many different ways - a hug, a special gift, verbal acknowledgement, saying thank you…etc. Appreciation is greatly enhanced when we give others specific reasons for our gratitude. It is nice to hear, “thank you for being my friend”, but hearing the specific reason like, “I really felt cared about when you took the time today to listen to my problem”, can add richness to the other person’s life, and give them an understanding of what their unique contributions are. Open your eyes to see one another in a fresh light, and notice the abundance and contributions around you.

The card Appreciation reminds you of the importance of making statements of appreciation and to share your appreciation in some visible way. Each small act or words of gratitude, re-ignites the warmth in our hearts and in the hearts of others. People who show appreciation enhance their relationships and create a world that is continually rewarding!

So, how can you find appreciation in your life this week?