I don’t like to see the people I love injured. It conjures the ancient mother that lives deep inside me. It makes the nurturing part of me come alive. It’s such a strong feeling. It’s even stronger when it’s one of those people who are never injured. I’m already a mamabear. It’s like 20x more intense when someone I love shows me they are not at their 100%. What is this called?

It brings me joy to bring me joy. I don’t wanna have to hate my life. I want to add to my life in ways that make me want to be alive. I want to love my self and my life entirely. Like any relationship, it takes work. What I had to learn though, was that the little things that make me happy, don’t have to be things that bring other people joy. I want everyone to like dancing but not everyone likes dancing. So the trick is to find to people who love dancing. Now that I’ve learned that, it becomes my own little place of happiness that’s for me. Like a bubble of joy.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

Golda Meir

Life can be unpredictable and hard to navigate but with faith, hope, and love the seas can be a tad bit more bearable. We don’t always have to know what’s coming or how to react. We just have to do our best to keep our eyes on the beacon. Even when we don’t want the light. Even when we’re just not ready. It doesn’t have to be instantly or even tomorrow but the best part is you only have to keep your focus as best you can.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I like to be loved. Some people go great lengths to not be loved. There was a time I thought I didn’t deserve love but then over time I realized I deserved love just as much as anyone else did. I’m not ashamed to admit I want to be adored and appreciated. It doesn’t have to be by everyone. Heck, a strong three or four people would be plenty. It’s weird to write it, but I just wanted to humbly admit it. Don’t we all want to be adored and loved?

I can be a lot to ask others especially when they haven’t learned to love themselves yet. So instead of placing the responsibility of being loved on those around me, I do it for myself. I try my best to intentionally love myself daily especially the little things like meal planning, journaling, writing. I also designate Sundays for my self love day. It’s not always easy but I do know everything works out much better when I set time aside to intentionally love me. I know for a fact I’d choose me because I’ve worked my ass off to become someone I want to be around.

I liked to be loved, so that’s what I do.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao Tzu

• Reality resonates
• Feeling excited about the future
• It feels like everything you did led to this exact moment and none of it has been a waste
• Peace in knowing things are working out
• Joy overflowing into the space you fill
• Ability to connect with those around you in a positive way

Those are just a few things. I love feeling like this. Also while I was writing these I began to see a strong connection between my list and the fruits of the spirit. When we have a strong connection to our creator, we see that in our fruit. There’s a verse that says plainly you will know by their fruit, bad trees produce bad fruit and good trees produce good fruit. Here’s the verse

Matthew 7:17-23 New Living Translation (NLT)

A good tree produces good fruit, and a bad tree produces bad fruit. A good tree can’t produce bad fruit, and a bad tree can’t produce good fruit. So every tree that does not produce good fruit is chopped down and thrown into the fire. Yes, just as you can identify a tree by its fruit, so you can identify people by their actions. “Not everyone who calls out to me, ‘Lord! Lord!’ will enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Only those who actually do the will of my Father in heaven will enter. On judgment day many will say to me, ‘Lord! Lord! We prophesied in your name and cast out demons in your name and performed many miracles in your name.’ But I will reply, ‘I never knew you. Get away from me, you who break God’s laws.’

If the one thing I must do to produce good fruit is to maintain a strong relationship with my creator, than that must be my priority. Once I place my connection at the top of my list, everything else will fall in line. Sounds easy but all relationships take hard work and sacrifice.

Revel in your strong connection so that you can swim in the abundance that comes from it.

Someone who takes the time to understand their relationship with source, who actively seeks alignment with their broader perspective, who deliberately seeks and finds alignment with who-they-really-are, is more charismatic, more attractive, more effective, and more powerful than a group of millions who have not achieved this alignment.

Esther Hicks