I had one of the greatest days. One of those days where you are outside-looking-in, but in motion with everything going on around you... one of those really in-tune days, I think it blossomed out of the intent I started the day with:

"I am going to take in love and life in any way I can today, and whatever comes to me as poison I am going to trust in the divine design of my body and the Spirit to protect my soul and discard it."

Another personal attitude I am trying to incorporate into this idea (the idea of being able to discard poison, especially any sort of anguish, bitterness, or pettiness that festers into infectious sores) is this:

"May I love greater than I can humanly love today, extend my heart into the world as a hope offering... and, should the world trample it, stomp it, kick it, spit on it... may I choose to pick it up, revive and refresh it through further acceptance of the blessing that has already come... and my I choose to remain vulnerable and love once more."

It seems this helped my attitude from food to conversation to worries... I am still perfecting the wording, and such...but so far I have found that it helps me to not stay in the mind-set that I am obviously flawed, and basically a jacked up excuse of a human...just because of the fallen nature of man. It occurred to me recently, if I continue to choose to focus on the 'badness' of my self and humankind, and not be in the 'now' of consciously choosing each and every day to accept more of the blessing that Jesus is...then I am rejecting His concept of cleaning up this world...one soul at a time.

So, that is my new goal...in this life, in this process of being aware of my expectations, choosing to be awake in my choices (from breakfast to curriculum to parenting to relationships...), and not only awake but responsible for what I have chosen... to be vulnerable, in the healthiest sense. To trust in the full and eternal blessing that occurred upon Golgotha, to accept more Jesus and to let the Divine design work the poison out.

May you find love in unexpected places today.

Love, Kelly