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Saturday, August 07, 2010

Looking Back, Looking Forward

Every life passes milestones that causes one to look back and reflect. This year has been full of such milestones for this writer. Every event has sparked an round of soul searching and self-examination along with the customary trip down memory lane.

My journey through this life has been filled with wonderful blessings and for each one I am grateful. They have all culminated in to making me the person I am today. In keeping with a new found purpose I will be changing the format and tone of this blog and taking a different approach.

To dedicate these changes I want to once again share with the readers one of my favorite prayers.

Thank you, Earth, for your abundant bounty.
I gratefully receive your blessings.
For the air I breathe, I thank the plants and trees.
The air, the fire, the water, and the earth.
Thank you for sustaining my life and nourishing me.
For the blessings of loved ones who help me along life’s path, I am thankful.
My life is full to overflowing with gifts of ancestors.
Courageous souls who survived, and made my life possible.
Thank you great spirits of the cosmos, for the lessons I sometimes try to avoid, but which I need.
And for the joys and pains which open my spirit and expand my heart.
I am grateful for health, abundance, and challenges, each unique.
Thank you all who have touched my life’s journey.
Each new day is a gift, to which I pledge the best of myself.
For the blessings of life’s great circle continue in me.
From the cave to the stars, I have always been and will always be.
I am rich in the things that matter.
With my deepest gratitude, I offer my blessings to all on this day.

~ from Llewellyn's "Witches' Spell-A-Day Almanac,"

In the spirit of thankfulness and blessing I want to extend the same to all the wonderful people in my life now and those that I will meet in the future.

Blessed Be