Handwritten Love Letters

 

Handwritten Love letters

When was the last time you got one?

In an age of texts, Instagram, facebook, chat, Snapchat, and email, handwritten love letters may seem like relics of the past.

February is the month of love. Why not write a love letter or poem to a beloved? To be loved and nurtured is a universal need. Being loved creates feelings of acceptance and harmony.

My talented daughter in law has home schooled her children for years. Included in her lessons are Mail Mondays. As a benefit, I often am the recipient of love letters written by hand, usually on stationary the grandchildren have made as an art project. What a joy it is on those days I am met at the mailbox with a treasured surprise!

Love is an emotion that we seem to have little control over. It is either there or it is not. Yet love is perhaps the most profound, wondrous, and complex word in the human language suggesting desire and interconnectedness. Love and compassion are at the heart of the world’s great spiritual traditions. Love is often said to be synonymous with the divine essence of existence and the wellspring of all life.

Happy Valentines Day

Let Love be your highest power!

Life is Great!

 Life is Great!

I like to start my day in appreciation for all things wonderful and free.

Let's play the Great Game!

Isn’t it great that the sun comes up every morning by the grace of a creative Genius and all knowing power many of us call God?

Isn’t it great that this Creator gives us all kinds of growing things to look at once we open our eyes to the great outdoors?

Isn’t it great that we are not in charge of the grass that grows, the trees that stand tall, the birds that perch in the trees, the turkeys and deer that roam the woods?

Isn’t it great that we don’t have the job of putting the planets in order? Isn’t it great that the oceans are filled with fish and mammals that are pushed and pulled lazily by the tides of the moon?

Isn’t it great that we have domestic animals that keep us company on the most primal level? The cats and dogs and horses and cows and the wild ones that roam free like butterflies who cross our paths majestically in the course of an ordinary day?

These are the blessed thoughts I wish to wake up with setting the course for a brand new day. Appreciate every opportunity to find and practice good feelings. 

Outside my window this morning is a Filbert nut tree. A scraggly branch has lost all its leaves in the course of winter except for one.

It's a great day when there is one leaf wagging its tail in the wind like a happy puppy.

Life is great!