Living this life is astounding!  Until now, I don’t think I ever realized how we really ‘do it as we feel it’ all of the time.  Everything is new, moment to moment.  It requires me to be so alert, and at 87, this is BIG!  Actually, it takes an awful lot of MINDFULNESS to navigate every action and feeling.

I put myself under the microscope.  This doesn’t have a thing to do with ego, it has to do with WHAT’S GOING ON WITH ME? There was a time when days came and went without much notice, other than whether or not I liked what was happening.  But, those days are gone.  Now, I’m aware I have thoughts that I can quell or retain.  I notice where they go and what they cause inside me.

It’s important to realize that I AM THE BEGINNING AND THE END OF ME! I am the epitome of my joy and happiness.  I am responsible for being the best I can be at all times.

Here, at 87, it comes into focus that so many things are different.  Not from the visual standpoint, but from the internalized physical changes.  I’ve noticed that I have begun to define them and I’ve come to the conclusion that this is a BIG MISTAKE!  lIFE IS WHAT IT IS, and all I really have to do is accommodate it. This really isn’t any different than when I learned to walk, or ride a bike or take on a new job.

So, as of today, I am releasing all thoughts about how many years I have walked this earth, and instead, I am capitalizing on how fabulously I have traversed it until this very moment.  Faith looms consciously. I haven’t let myself down yet and I have no intension to do so either.LIFE IS GOOD.  GOD IS GOOD. I AM GOOD.

I am blessed with a body and mind that choose to keep on keeping on, and I intend to do my best to continue to look around the next corner.  This takes recollection of how wonderful I feel when I finisih something I’ve begun, or make a meal I just love to eat.  It takes my love of me to always remember that when I make my bed each morning the reason I do it is because I love to see the final result.I am the housemaid of my home, I am the the gardener and landscaper outside, I am the planter of the seeds in my mind and I am also the grateful one for all of these identities I take on at any given time. I AM SO MUCH MORE NOW THAN BEFORE BECAUSE I AM  AWARE OF MY POWER THROUGH  MY OWN INSTRUCTION.

Blessed Be.  To All Be Blessed.

You hear, you feel, you internalize and you grow.  ~Gaya