Weaving Love

A few months ago I stepped out on my patio and noticed around one of the hanging chimes the beginning of the making of a nest. So tiny, I could not believe it. Each day I watched as my resident humming bird earnestly, twig by twig, created and built a nest.

In a week or so it was done and then she began sitting in it, day by day until a few weeks later, she lay two eggs. Would you believe they weren’t any bigger than the size of my fingernail? Daily I would sit out on the deck watching this scenario and I feel this is when she began to trust me more, I would talk with her and I shared how I appreciated that I was privy to share in this sacred time. Within three weeks she hatched two baby humming birds.

I continued to watch the progress as day by day for the next three weeks she would leave the nest fly away for five minutes and then return feeding them. She would let me get right near them, I found myself talking to her as I would to any woman that has had a baby. When she left the nest I would sit out there to be sure they were safe until she retuned. I was privy to watching them turn from two little balls of fur and become full grown. I would talk to them whenever I stepped out on the deck. What a marvel and a privilege to be part of nature’s unfolding story. Read more

Love is Light

This inspirational poem on peace came across my Facebook News Feed and I had no choice but to contact the author and ask if I could post it. I am greatful Satish offered to share it.~Rick Beneteau

Love is Light

What is His dress code?
I do not know
What is His language?
I do not know
What is His colour?
I do not know
How does He look?
I do not know

My search ended
when I met Him
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Life and Laundry

Everything you need to know about renewing your life and reviving your spirit you can learn from your laundry.

First, laundry does not do itself. If you try to kick it under the bed or hide it in your closet, all you get is a smelly room. If you try to avoid your problems, they start to smell, too.

Second, remember that hot water makes things shrink and fade. Warm or cool water keeps them fresh. This is true when your spouse is angry at you, too.

Many stains don’t come out the first time. Sometimes they never do. So choose: wear them anyway, make up a great story about how you got the stains, or cut up the clothes and use them as rags to wash your car. This is also true with your life. When people or situations get stained, things may have to be transformed or seen in a new light if you don’t want to discard them. Read more

I offer you peace…

Here is an inspirational poem on peace by Mahatma Gandhi:

I offer you peace.
I offer you love.
I offer you friendship.
I see your beauty.
I hear your need.
I feel your feelings.

My wisdom flows
from the Highest Source.
I salute that source in you.
Let us work together for unity and love.

—Mahatma Gandhi

The Ungiven Gift

He was pencil thin and walked with a limp. A thirteen year-old boy with huge yearning eyes who was always an unlucky patient on the children’s floor of the hospital where my youngest daughter was all too often incarcerated.

Curtis had sickle cell anemia, an incurable, painful and terminal disease that plagues young people of African descent.

I would meander into his room to spend a little time with the rebellious loner and would often end up refereeing a screaming match between him and one of the nurses. The street-wise Curtis would usually win.

Over the course of a few years (the hospital was always my home-away-from-home), I eventually learned of the horror of his upbringing, the sad reality of his current life and the apparent dimness of his future. Read more

An Attitude of Gratitude

“Hold on to the center
and make up your mind to rejoice
in this paradise called life.”
― Lao-tzu

I believe that Wayne Dyer may have been the first to coin the phrase, “An attitude of gratitude,” and so it is with great admiration and respect for him that I, too, honor this wonderful saying.

Gratitude is so much more than just the words “thank you.” It is the very core of a soul affirming its connection to the greatest and highest power in the Universe; and it is my belief that the power of this connection is what miracles are made of.

So many of us “ask” and then “wait” and then “thank.” What gratitude really is, however, is a constant state of appreciation; a constant affirmation that what is already before us is the gift. As Albert Einstein said, “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” Read more

What Love Means

This came to us as one of those popular email forwards we all receive. It’s worth taking a few minutes to read the true wisdom of our children.

A group of professional people posed this question to a group of 4 to 8 year-olds, “What does love mean?” These are some of the answers they received.

‘When my grandmother got arthritis, she couldn’t bend over and paint her toenails anymore. So my grandfather does it for her all the time, even when his hands got arthritis too. That’s love.’

Girl - age 8 Read more

On Work - Kahlil Gibran

Then a ploughman said, “Speak to us of Work.” And the Master answered, saying:

You work that you may keep pace with the earth and the soul of the earth. For to be idle is to become a stranger unto the seasons, and to step out of life’s procession, that marches in majesty and proud submission towards the infinite. When you work, you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music.

Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison? Always you have been told that work is a curse and labor a misfortune. But I say to you that when you work you fulfill a part of earth’s furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born. And in keeping yourself with labor you are in truth loving life, and to love life through labor is to be intimate with life’s inmost secret. But if you in your pain call birth an affliction and the support of the flesh a curse written upon your brow, then I answer that naught but the sweat of your brow shall wash away that which is written. Read more

When Grief Turns into Joy

A beautiful, inspirational story from 10 Million Clicks For Peace contributor, Corry Roach…

Life sometimes throws us a curve ball. We think things are unhappy or without hope, when in actual fact, they are anything but that. It’s all about perception, I think.

I sometimes find it fascinating to watch the goings on in my world from a place outside myself. It seems that I am able to find a different perspective on what is happening, and it is quite different from what my cerebral self would have me believe. I have been known to get stuck in my cerebral self from time to time, even when I know the answer cannot be found there!

This incident occurred about fifteen years ago, when I had to accept the fact that my next mode of transportation would be a wheelchair, as I could no longer rely on the stability of my legs to hold me up without fail. Read more

The Ice Cream ‘Comb’ Story

She was three. Just released from a far-away hospital after life threatening brain surgery, ready to take on the world again. I was happy just to have her back. My little “Mr. Clean” (shaved head and hoop earrings) and me driving along to our local mall. Hanging out with dad day. I recall her words as if it were yesterday.

“Daddy, can I get a treat?”

As she was understandably spoiled (if there is such a thing), I replied, “OK honey, but just ONE.”

Her eyes beamed like the Fourth of July in anticipation of that something only she knew at the time.
We drove around to the new end of the mall on the normal seek-and-destroy mission of capturing a parking place. After all, it was Saturday. We landed a fair distance from our destination, and began walking hand-in-hand towards the entrance, her pace gaining momentum with each tiny step. A few feet from the doors she broke loose and ran hands-first into the thick wall of glass, trying with everything she had to swing the big doors open. No luck. With a little assistance, she ‘did it’ and tried the very same thing at the second set of doors. Read more

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