Mood:  vegas lucky

Slow down, you move too fast
You got to make the morning last
Just kicking down the cobblestones
Looking for fun and feeling groovy
Ba da da da da da da, feeling groovy

Hello lamppost, what'cha knowing
I've come to watch your flowers growin'
Ain't cha got no rhymes for me?
Doo-it in doo doo, feeling groovy
Ba da da da da da da, feeling groovy

I got no deeds to do
No promises to keep
I'm dappled and drowsy and ready to sleep
Let the morning time drop all its petals on me
Life I love you,

What a beautiful day today! I'm washing my windows today so I can see outside better. It's gorgeous! I planted a mulberry tree outside the window next to my desk, so there are birds by me all the time. There is a robin right now. (I also have a love bird in this room with me, and she loves to hear other birds! I have a canary in my bedroom, as well, and they chirp back and forth all the time!)

But life is good. I went outside this morning and picked some berries, and now I'm sitting here typing to you, listening to birds singing all around me...outside, in the same room, and upstairs. There's a nice breeze, and all I can think is what a beautiful day that it is!

Do I have stresses? Wowie zowie, I do! Do I have problems? You bet. Some of them are pretty big. But I find that if I take time to enjoy the simplest things that life gives, I find so much to be grateful for, and it helps me to know that it's not the end of the world, no matter how big my problems might seem.

Keep it Simple. There's a good saying. This weekend was the Founder's Day weekend celebration that they have every year for AA. (Alcholics Anonymous was founded in Akron, Ohio.) Well, AA has pretty good slogans...Good addages that anyone could do better to live by. Keep it Simple, is one.

Another is Easy Does It. You know, when we ram our way through life, pushing and pushing so much just trying to make it all work, we actually screw it all up. We need to relax and Let go and Let God. Another one of the sayings they use!

Life is good. Groovy, in fact! And if we learn to just take it One Day at a Time, we find out it's not so bad.

Fake It Until You Make It! There's another good one! If you don't know what to do, just do what you do know, put one foot in front of the other and pray. Pray believing you've already received, and give thanks; it is yours! (Of course faith without works is dead, so you might have to act on those prayers...Easy Does It, But Do It, you know!)

Keep It Simple. Take time to be still and hear the truth whispering within your soul. You are whole and free, created perfect in the eyes of God. Your needs are supplied, if you will just train your eye to recognize the presence of Good in your life. Then just sit back and enjoy, and make good use of what has been given to you!

If we learn to live life with an Attitude of Gratitude, we'll find there's so much in our lives to be grateful for.

So today, what am I doing? I've got sooooo much to do that sometimes I get overwhelmed. Well, I'm just going to do what's in front of me. I'm going to wash the windows and enjoy this beautiful day! Tomorrow I can take care of something else, but today the windows get clean!

I think that's a good way to live. That way I don't get depressed. When I'm depressed, I can't accomplish a thing, and then there's something to get depressed about!

Awwww...I just looked back out my window, and there are two birds in the tree...a male and a female. I don't know what kind they are, but they are so sweet, and he's feeding mulberries to her! I think they must be in love! See how nice life can be? Just look for the simple things to find beauty, and you'll find it's all around!

And you know what? If you make a practice to encorporate these simple words into your life, I think you'll find in not long, that your health will improve in ways you didn't even know that it could! Anything is easier to take with a smile, but the science is there now to prove that happiness heals!

Have a Peaceful, Beautiful Day! (I'm going to make mulberry pie!!!)

Mary Jo Eshelman, ND, CTN, CNHP
allnatureworks@aol.com



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