Getting into my nice warm shower on a cold morning, I recognized it to be a friend.
I am grateful and honored to have this water, running water at my fingertips. Hot, cold, warm, snuggly to the bone warming warm water.

I take it for granted. I think about all the millions of people who have never even experienced a shower. They have never had a shower to wake up to in the morning in their own home. I can see many of them are grateful for but a cup of clean water to drink. I am showering in wonderful clean water. What a blessing.

I think back on all my outstanding shower go to meetin times, and see why this is such a welcome place for me.

There were those four times after childbirth getting into the shower was like heaven, such a sweet reward for the work I had just accomplished.

There were the times of getting into the shower for quiet time, away from babies and children, only to be disturbed, “Mom! So and so is doing something to me and make him stop”!

There were the showers with the babies holding them, and watching their eyes grow big at the surprise of it. Their smooth skin against mine, singing to them, and laughing with them.

Singing in the shower, anyone can sing in the shower and sound great. I wonder if that is where all the rejects from American Idol practice?

I have been to the depths of despair in the shower. Not knowing which way to turn. These showers where I poured my heart out to God, and begging for help and grace.

The steamy hot showers with a lover. Then there were the long showers of hiding in the shower after a lover had dumped me, hiding the sobs and pain.

Now here I am happy and content in my life. I am grateful and thankful. The shower is a time of great ideas, and hoping the idea will last until I can get out and write it down.

It is a time of singing thanksgiving, and being grateful for every single inch of me.

Who knows what will be revealed at the next meetin time………….I can’t wait.

A few weeks ago after meditation and prayer, these words came to me.
I have been thinking much about what I attract. I have been thinking about my past, and what I have attracted. God spoke to me about what I might attract now.
Remembering my place in Gods heart:
“Oh my child”! as he takes my face in his hands. “What are you doing, why do you stand back and just look in? Come forward, you are the daughter of the King, you should not fear. You should not look on at the others possessing abundance, you have this already. All you have to do is come and open the door and walk in. All the abundance of the Universe is yours. There is nothing that I have that you can’t have. You see I have it laying here on the table just for you. You can have the wealth, wisdom, love, strength, healing, peace, and joy that I have….and that is overflowing.
Come child, come, don’t stand back in the dark corner any longer. Step forward and walk in the Royalty and receive”.

WOW I said, and say! What a different look on life that brings.

Long on the verge of a being a boring day at work, looking in the desk for a treat……been snacking on things all day.

Decide to walk to the little gas station next door to buy something……….something special, something inspiring, something great.

I see that when I am bored, and eating this unhealthy food all day long,I am just eating it filling up my time with it. Entertaining my mouth with it all day long. I am not hungry; there is no purpose in it.

Here is an exert from the “Secret” on “Your Body”, Rhonda Bryne, and Wallace Wattles share eating tips. When you eat, make sure you are entirely focused on the experience, the sensation of eating food, and do not allow your mind to drift to other things. Be present in your body and enjoy all the sensations of chewing the food in your mouth and swallowing it. When you let your mind drift, the flavor virtually disappears. Rhonda Byrne says she is convinced that if we can eat our food in the present, entirely focused on the pleasurable experience of eating, the food is assimilated into our bodies perfectly, and the result in our bodies must be perfection.

I have been practicing this, and it not only brings much satisfaction in your meal, but it also helps you know when you are full. It is hard to do this completely when you are eating with others. They kind of wonder about you when you are setting there with you eyes closed chewing very slowly, and quietly with a smile on your face. The whole time I do this I am telling myself how healthy this is, and what wonderful fuel it is for my body. It will be used for so much energy. I am also in a state of thankfulness and gratitude for the food I am eating.
Happy Chewing :)