Bread Crust Can Bring Joy

What I loved today was noticing we had left over bread crusts. I was taking my boys out anyway and decided last minute to take the crusts with us so we could feed the ducks on the way. Simple things. Simple things like feeding ducks breadcrumbs can bring joy to not only the ducks (who were extremely grateful for the feed) but to my boys who felt delight in doing so.

Life really is simple. We only complicate it. Children do not need fancy toys, games or expensive trips away they only need you and us to show them that life is already exciting and that all they’ll ever need is here <3

Which Half Are You?

I was thinking about the glass half full or empty question earlier today and remember being asked it when I was younger, whether I thought the glass was half empty or full. I always answered that it was half empty and was surprised when I was told that the better answer was to see it as half full rather than half empty. To me it was actually both and I didn’t see how me saying it was half empty was a bad thing. Now as I’m older I understand what this question is all about. How you view life.

 So today randomly, in my own random thoughts, as I noticed a glass half full and half empty on the bench I asked myself the same question again. Is it half empty or half full?

My answer was immediately …. “I see a glass that needs filling!” a mum thing perhaps, but then again I realised this pretty much sums up how I view life these days. 

I see a glass that although is half full still has room for more. We all have ‘empty’ bits, bits that need filling with all the wonderful things in life. Your glass may be half full and that is a great thing, to be positive and focus on the full parts of your life, but we all must remember that parts of us are empty too and it’s those parts that I try to fill each day.

Nothing Seperates. WE Seperate.

I often say that we are all one and nothing separates us. No religion race or colour, we are all human. All here to share, to love and to learn. I was thinking of a great example of this today. If a man has fallen and lay hurting on the ground and reaches to you for help or if a child falls into a body of water unable to swim and is slowing drowning.  What do you do? 

Do you not jump in to save the child? Do you not bend down to help the injured man? 

Or do you keep walking because that child or man is Muslim, Catholic, African, Asian or homosexual?  No.

We are all humans. We all suffer, we all experience pain and we all want love. So why do we separate and box each other into groups?

 Maybe I’m unusual but when I look at another I don’t see their label, I see the soul within. The part of them that is just like me.

Do You Have A Toothache ...?

I read something interesting today and it got me thinking ....

When we have a toothache we long to not have one anymore. To be free of the pain and throbbing and for it all to end so that peace and happiness can return.

How many of us have a toothache right now ..?

I was thinking about this very thing today and realised in every moment there is something I am to be grateful for. Right now its a perfectly functioning body (even if its not the perefect weight, size, shape or height) its mine and it works!

I'm grateful today that I don't have a toothache and that I'm free of pain.

The Best Place To Be

Whilst in the kitchen tonight making dinner my eldest son asked me “Mum where is the best place to be” he told me to guess.

As soon as he asked me I had an idea of what his answer would be however I thought I would be smart and cheeky and answered “right here at home with mum”. He said “no” and that I had two more guesses as I had three. I’ll admit a part of me was a little hurt as secretly I was hoping that that was his answer. That his favourite place to be was at home with me.

So as I was running out of guesses I thought I would just guess it, what I assumed was his answer. So I answered “the best place to be is Disneyland or a place with lots of rides and rollercoaster’s”. He said “no”. I was shocked. I honestly thought that would be it.

So I was down to my last guess and I couldn’t think of the best place to be that my eldest (as an almost 7 year old) would want to be.  So I thought I’d answer it with my answer.

I said “the best place to be is with god”.

My eldest then looks at me as says a big “Yes”.

 I couldn’t believe it. I think I almost fainted. First that I had gotten the answer right but more so that this was his answer. Something so wise and well beyond his 6 and bit years.

I later asked my eldest why he had asked this question as it was such a random thing to come out with. I asked him if had learnt this at school today as I assumed he must have had religion today. He said that no one told him this he just knows.

Isn’t that just beautiful. Whether you believe in god or not there is truth in that. That the best place to be is with that part of ourselves that never dies. That part that knows, that source from which we all come,  and from which we will all return. What a beautiful insight by a 6 year old and what a gift it was to me. Bless that boy and his heart so pure.

Love Will Save Us

 A friend of mine today informed me about an incident that has occurred in London. I haven't watched the video or know anything about it but from what I gather someone was murdered. Brutally.

My friend said he hates living in fear, that this world is crazy and if it continues this way than he no longer wants to be here.

I don't blame him for feeling this way at all and I told him was that YES some seriously bad shit happens in this world but there is just as much love out there also - we just don't hear about it.

The news NEVER reports the love stories only ever the FEAR stories. The world needs love, not us to add to that fear by displaying it, talking about, showing it off etc.

I'm not in anyway saying to 'ignore' what is going on in the world I am just saying it doesn't need us to fuel it. Its time to reclaim our world with love, not fear. To tip the balance.

The world needs solutions, not displays. This world needs us. It needs us to step up and fight back, but not with weapons but with our hearts. To stop this craziness before it kills us all.

So I send love. I send love to all those in fear, all those hurting. I pray for them. I pray for this world but most of all I believe in this world and i believe in us as the human race. We were put on this earth to love, to give, to share, not to fear, take, and keep.

I am so very passionate about this because the world is relying on every single one of us to make that difference, to make a change and to take that step forward. Will you?

Faith Is Jumping From The Roof

After eating lunch today I noticed Ben (our cat) on our neighbours roof. He looked quite concerned which I’m guessing was because he no longer wanted to be on the roof and was unsure how to get off.  I watched as Ben looked down, then up, then to the fence. He looked at the fence and knew it was his only way of getting down. He had to jump from the roof down onto a fence which was an inch thick if that, much narrower than any of his paws.

I looked at Ben who was in a panic and I knew it was crunch time. He was going to jump. I watched on my heart beating as fast as his as he made the leap out into the air and onto the fence. He landed, then slipped and only by gripping the top of the fence with his two front paws was he able to pull himself onto the top of the fence to safety. He did it!

As I watched him do this I realized that there is an example of faith! That is faith. He leaped and jumped in the sheer hope that he would land safely on top of the fence. There were no guarantees, just faith (and probably some serious cat praying) that he would land right where he intended.

Faith is an attribute of all of us. It’s one that we probably don’t use all that often and keep on the sideline for emergencies.  What Ben showed me today is that sometimes we need to take that leap of faith and jump in order to land exactly where are suppose to. Yeah sure we may miss but we will never get anywhere in life clinging to the safety of a roof. 

I think it’s time I jump. I’ve been sitting on a roof for too long. I love safety, I have to know that I won’t fail or fall before I jump.  I need to trust that if I do fall someone (or at least a fence) will be there to catch me. Faith.

The Peacock

How beautiful is the peacock!!

I was thinking about peacocks today. I know peacocks of all things. How random is that!! Anyway I was thinking about how beautiful they are, how colourful, unique and amazing their colours are. Yet you wouldn't know it or realise their beauty until they opened up and revealed it to you.

This had me thinking about how we are all like peacocks and that inside all of us is our own unique combination of beauty. Our problem most the time is that we don't reveal it or even know its there. Perhaps were to afraid to open up and show our true colours and true feelings to others. Or perhaps we think that there is nothing special about us.

The peacock could walk around thinking he is just another plain brown bird but he doesn't. He knows that there is something special about him, something so unique and amazing underneath his feathers. It is with that belief that he spreads and fans his tail to reveal the most magnificent array of colours. The peacock has confidence.

We as people doubt our own colours. I know I do. To often I try to be like others or I hide my own colors to embarrassed by how uniquely different I am. But what I've come to realise is that its my uniqueness, my 'colour combination' that makes me, me. Just as the peacock was made to spread its wings and show off its colours we were made to open up and reveal our own beauty.

You were never born to hide. You were born to be seen ♥

How I Use Facebook

I like most people have a personal facebook account and those that are friends with me on facebook will notice that I never post any negative status updates. You will also never read about me having a bad day. 

This doesn’t mean I don’t have bad days and it doesn’t mean that I am never negative. I am. In truth nowadays I am far more positive than I am negative but that is because I choose to be. I make a choice daily to be.

The reason I post only positive updates and about things I love is because I don’t want to pollute the world with any more negativity. In my opinion it has enough. I know how much I love reading others heartwarming and loving posts so I assume that other people too would much prefer to read something nice over something terrible.

Since starting these posts almost 3 years ago my life has changed dramatically. From the outside it appears as though nothing has changed but on the inside so much has changed. I hardly recognize the person I am these days, but I am loving her. This is also something I never would have admitted, said, and most definitely would never publicly declared before that I love myself.

I love myself because I forgive myself and I have learnt to accept that I am not perfect. Best thing I ever did was accept my own faults and admit that I had them.

I am no different than you, no better and no worse. If I can change then anyone can. You just have to first believe you can. Actually you don’t even need that. Just start with little things and everything else will fall into place. 

Believe me there is something so much more powerful than you can ever imagine that is on your side that wants only the best for you.