March 2025 Week 3

Today is 1 month since my husband and I left RI for our cross country trip - wow, wow, wow. We have seen and experienced so much. We had many, many peaks, laughs and wonders as well as setbacks and challenges but again wow, wow, wow all if it has been incredible and I don’t want to forget or hurry through any moment. This week we also took our first turn east, back home when we left Laguna beach. This is all beyond words and I am beyond grateful for every moment and experience. Lorraine helping me with this month’s intention - Embrace and Enjoy - has been just perfect. Its not about only embracing the joys, but also the challenges and the mundane.

Treasure Your Experiences, Melody Beattie
Gather experiences. Treat them as precious jewels.
The purpose of the journey is not to guard and restrain yourself.
The purpose is to learn. You do not teach and lead your soul. Your soul leads and teaches you. It takes you wading across streams, strolling through meadows, deep into valleys, and high onto mountaintops. It takes you down winding, narrow roads and along fast-moving, four-lane highways. It takes you into tiny cafes, bustling cities, and out-of-the-way hostels where people break bread and tell what they have learned.
Let yourself have all your experiences. Don't limit or judge yourself or the adventures you have had. All were necessary, all were important, all have helped shape and form you. Your heart will lead you, guide you where you are to go. Don't worry about getting lost or off track. Don't worry about being wrong, or in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Gather experiences. Go through them. Select the gems from each. Listen while others tell their stories, their adventures, and show you their jewels, the truths that they have learned. Then, when you break bread and sip soup with others, open your heart and joyfully share what has happened to you along the way.
Having experiences is called living.
Sharing experiences is called loving.
Let yourself enjoy both.
Today is a new day and a new chance at a new beginning.

What do you have in front of you this day? Embrace and enjoy! Maybe email me and let me know how you are doing with this - embracing a joy, a challenge or the mundane?

Thank you for traveling with me.