Gratitude Lounge

Lovely friends

It is a gift to be here with you this morning. We have had quite the snow storm here in our NJ farmland. I’m grateful for the cozy fire next to me and the warmth of our quirky little farmhouse on such a blustery cold day. I am grateful to be grateful for the respite from our labors. I am so tempted to be frustrated that we cannot make any progress right now. We have miles to go before we sleep. But our 65+ year old bodies are aching all over and I’m learning once again to let go and let God….this is a constant lesson in my life as I recognize and repent of my control-freak ways!
“We have our plans and God laughs” is one of my favorite sayings.😊 It has been true all my life and I am learning to laugh too!

Dearest Ursula….grateful for the gift of our friendship across the miles which now endures among the stars.
~Have a blessed day my dear friends ♥

Good morning lovely friends. It is a grace to be here with you this Tuesday morning. As always, my thoughts turn to our dear Ursula and her family.

I visit here daily and it occurs to me that our community is changing and growing with new members who provide us with their own unique gifts they so generously share. And having been around awhile, I am reflecting on some of my “old” friends as well….I won’t mention names because my brain is overloaded these days and I’m afraid I’ll forget someone. But you know who you are! 🥰

I wonder how our friends from the “old days” who have come and gone are doing on their journeys? Manda, Debbie, Aine, Henry, Michelle, Nancy….many more. You are missed. Thank you for the gifts you brought to this sacred community.

Change can be hard and scary sometimes. But can also be filled with wonder, joy, and everyday miracles. So many big life changes going on in my life right now. My heart’s desire is to live through these changes with faith, trust, and hope. I am exhausted physically and emotionally but I seek each day to do “small things with great love” as Mother Teresa as said.
In that spirit, I share this poem with all of you…may it be a blessing.
~With grateful love ♥

“Already my gaze is upon the hill, the sunny one,
at the end of the path which I’ve only just begun.
So we are grasped, by that which we could not grasp,
at such great distance, so fully manifest—

and it changes us, even when we do not reach it,
into something that, hardly sensing it, we already are;
a sign appears, echoing our own sign . . .
But what we sense is the wind against us.”
Rainer Maria Rilke

Good morning lovely friends:
So grateful to be here with you this Tuesday morning.

It made me smile to see the Earth Altars that were shared here. I forwarded the article from this site to my brother because together we are trying the navigate the grief of our older sister’s end of life journey. She has been very ill for a very long time and has just this week been put on hospice care. He and I are both far away from her and her family and with the current Covid crisis are not able to be there with her as her journey is coming to an end. How to honor her and have our own ceremony that will give us comfort and help us to say goodbye from afar? And then the gift of Earth Altars appeared and my heart just filled with gratitude.

My brother and I are both nature lovers and I often shared with our sister over the years how connecting to the earth has been such a blessing in my life. I suggested to my brother that as a healing ritual and in honor of our sister that we each make our own Earth Altar and send each other a picture. A miracle of sorts, and as often happens on this sacred website, was offered at just the right time

I am eternally grateful to have “found” this site (more accurately it found me!) and all the ways it has blessed me over the years. And most especially….I am grateful for all of you in this sacred community.

~Have a blessed day my friends and thank you for your generosity of heart in sharing. ♥