Finding the Miracles in Everyday Life: Gratitude, Healing, and Happiness

You know, I get caught up in the mundane, the everyday, and I sometimes forget—not all the time—that this is a miracle. This whole life.

My best friend was at my house for a visit this morning.  I hadn’t seen her in awhile.  She’s my childhood bestie.  Such a miracle that we have these connections, that we’re all connected all the time,  even if we don’t live near each other anymore. Even if we don’t skip classes in high school and go four-wheeling in somebody’s borrowed truck anymore!

 I’m finding that I can get out of my funk. I’ve been really tired lately. I don’t know if it was the summer solstice, the sun doing its thing, changes in our cosmos, or what. It doesn’t really matter

Looking at all the miracles around me as I record this after my friend had left—the barbecue that doesn’t work, the geranium that I just took out of the house after babying it for three years and am finally letting it have some real sunshine and fresh air, the weeds I’ve been pulling, my pretty pink petunias. Miracles everywhere.

It’s just so nice to be here, in this time-space material world, even though it’s hard. The hard stuff gets my attention. It gets my attention more than the good stuff, so I’m flipping it. Pivoting, as they say in coaching.

I’m going to pivot from fatigue and sore muscles, things that are weighing heavy on my heart. I am going to find the gratitude and the miracles in those things too, damn it. And don’t think I won’t. I will.

It’s my practice. It’s my commitment to myself.

I realized the other day, too, that making myself happy is paramount. It’s my intention because when I’m happy, everyone else is happier. My friend used to say, “When Mama Bear isn’t  happy, nobody’s happy.”

Agreed.

If I’m not happy, how can you be happy? My healing is your healing. My happiness is your happiness. We’re all in this together.

Feel the gratitude coming from your heart. All of life supporting you and loving you more than you can imagine.

So that’s it for today.

From me to you, from my higher-power to yours, many gratitudes, many miracles.

Love is all there is.

As life moves through us. 

Audrey