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[Guest guest]

Dearest,

 

I trust that you are getting through each and every sunny day with patience

and strength. I hope you stop to take the time to see that beautiful purple

flower growing just for you to see it’s beauty. I hope you look to the sky so

that you see an amazing formation of clouds that looks just like that castle you

dreamed of when you were younger. That tree that’s been growing for years and

years next to where you live, how splendid it looks with all its leaves and in

the fall you know what gorgeous paintbrush nature will use to color it. Do you

ever take time to look out at night when the weather is just right and just sit

on your porch, looking up at the dazzling sky, stars scattered into the night?

It’s humbling. The birds singing their song in the morning to wake you up. In

the fall your windows open to feel the cool breeze blowing ever so gently on

your skin. It gives you a sense of peace and solace with in. Sometimes we need

to just stop and take a look around. Slow

down and take some time for ourselves and feel the peace with in. That quiet

place.

 

A few of my favorite things in nature are when I stumble upon a spectacular

sunrise and it just takes my breath away unexpectedly. It’s the most amazing

thing you ever saw. Like a painting radiant with oranges, yellows and pinks… One

time, in the fall, as I was getting ready to turn up a large hill into a

subdivision where I lived at the time, I saw the most unbelievable setting of

trees, I was speechless, every color invented must have been there in those

trees. No painting could ever compare to what I saw. It was right after the

flood of 93’. Never before had I seen something so incredibly beautiful before

or since that year.

 

One of the most humbling movies I saw for me was March of the Penguins, it was

incredible, they are so unique and majestic. I had never witnessed anything so

special and what seemed to be so intimate. Who knew nature had such graceful

creatures?

 

Sometimes nature can come to us in different ways. Like in the ways of a

child. I hope you have had the chance to have had children in your life. That

overwhelming feeling when you hear their very first cry. When you look at them

with awe and wonder on how you could possibly have created something so

beautiful. That one moment that you realize how vulnerable they are and you

swear on everything you have, that you’ll protect them from everything, because

you’re their mother. I love the moments when I get to look at them and they

don’t even know that I am there. How innocent they look. How precious and rare

their time is. As is life.

 

We make choices every day. Some of our choices affect other people around us.

Sometimes we don’t even know that we did something for someone that was life

altering and changing, just because we may do it all the time. When we do

something, others see this, or are in some way affected by it, it becomes a

ripple and it spreads, hopefully we are sending out good ripples, one never

knows who is watching and who is learning the ripples we have created.

 

Once years and years ago, I was on food stamps and at some point I was going

somewhere to where I didn’t need the next two weeks worth of groceries. So I had

to find someone who could use it so that they wouldn’t go to waste. A friend of

a friend happened to be desperate for groceries at that time, I thought,

perfect! She wasn’t able to do the shopping herself so I told her to make a list

and I would do it for her. (Anybody that knows me, KNOWS I DESPISE grocery

shopping, but I went because there was no other choice) I went to the store and

bought everything on her list, I also bought a card. When I arrived at her

apartment she was working so I had to take them up to her place myself. You know

when you carry in groceries you have to keep going back to the car? I had to do

this because I had SO many groceries, but she lived in an apartment complex and

I had to travel up an elevator a few bags of groceries at a time to get to the

8th floor back down again and repeat again

and again and again, each time locking my car up or the apartment so no one

could take anything. After getting all the groceries up to her apartment in

which she JUST moved into.. I unloaded all the groceries on the counter with

nice layout and the card in front. She had a 3 year old daughter and left her

abusive boyfriend days ago. I never saw her after that. About three years later

my friend had a BBQ and she happened to be there. We were all sitting around

chit chatting and when it was just me, my friend and her. She talks about what I

did for her… she looked me in the face and said: “It’s because of people like

you I believe in God.” My heart dropped to my stomach and I couldn’t speak. I

never forgot those words. Those words often repeat in my head. NOT to make me

feel good, but to remind me that there are people out there… that need people.

 

You ARE an essential piece of the puzzle. Someone’s ripple, someone’s

connection, someone’s lifeline, someone’s rock, someone’s friend. Dare to go

beyond yourself. By that I mean dare to let go of your selfishness and go to

selflessness. You never know when it might be someone’s life altering moment,

that one moment that stays with them forever, that one thought that runs across

there head from time to time, that one action that creates an action with in

them, and the ripple moves on to another…….

 

We have the power to influence bad or good actions, the power to set an

example, the power to be a leader. the power to fly or fall, to react or not, to

get angry or remain calm, the power to be vengeful or to forgive, the power to

show cruelty or the power to show compassion, the power to stand up and fight

for what you believe in or not, the power to CHANGE or not, you have the power

to plant a tree or garden, to reycle, to smile, to tell the truth…………. all in

one tiny moment….. The power is in that moment, the CHOICE you make IN that

moment…. That IS the power. The power of NOW.

 

With each step in life, have patience………. the rest will come easy.

 

 

With love,

Robin

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Thank You Robin

This is wonderful, beautiful !

 

Amma Bless You,

amarnath