simple abundance~

on my birthday 18 years ago my friend cin gave me the book

SIMPLE ABUNDANCE  ~ a daybook of comfort and joy

by: sarah ban breathnach

it's a daily guide to find your way back to peace.

it covers so many things (everything from soul searching to cleaning out your closets),

  and i've read and reread it every

few years.

you can start anywhere and trust me- if you see this book at

a yard sale or library sale you should definitely pick it up and read it.

this is some of today's wisdom~

*the revelation that we have everything we need in life to 

make us happy but simply lack the conscious awareness to appreciate it

can be as refreshing as lemonade on a hot afternoon. Or it can be as

startling as cold water being thrown in our face. How many of us

go through our days parched and empty, thirsting for happiness when

we're really standing knee-deep in the river of abundance? Yet make

no mistake about it. The Universe will get our attention one way

or another-with a sip or a splash. Let's choose today to quench our thirst for

"the good life" we think others lead by acknowledging the good that

already exists in our own lives. We can then offer the universe the gift of our

grateful hearts.

the gift of a grateful heart. i love that line.

almost every year these first two weeks of january are tough for me.

i don't know what it is- but i'm often in a funk- wandering around

wondering what to do with myself... not really feeling like

tackling the job of putting away all the Christmas stuff,

and that fake snow and those fresh evergreen branches i 

so gaily flung all over at the beginning of december? they're just

plain annoying now. dusty and not so very attractive.

as i've gotten older i recognize that this funk will pass- it's just a bit of

post holiday melancholy and i just need to pick myself up by the boot straps

and start living with my usual grateful heart.

the words that cindy wrote on this page 18 years ago are just as

sweet today as they were then... and this book? i treasure it.

it's like a big glass of cold water-thrown in my face and reminding me

of all the richness of my life.

i slipped this card from my sweetie in the book that year too-1997,

and every few years when i start rereading simple abundance,

i open the envelope, take the card out and

reread it too.

: )

do you save cards like me?

i like to think i will take them to the nursing home with me and

clutch them in my wrinkled old hands and smile,
 offering up thanks for a life of simple abundance.


bundle up out there---- brrrrrrrrrrrr

xox, beth