Author: clfuu

Being human is sometimes hard work. It is sometimes toil to grow, to create justice, to cultivate goodwill and kindness.

What is the work you have to do today? Can it be a spiritual practice?

Feel that?
Each breath, every inhale, exhale
We are living, breathing, connected.
We are the whole, complete, beautiful selves
that we were born to be.
Feel that?
In your bones, in your muscles
In your heart and your blood
That is the extraordinary you.
The you who was born
for this time, this place, this moment.
Feel that?
The struggle, the worry,
The pain, the loss, the grief,
It is still you.
You are still whole, complete, beautiful, extraordinary
Feel that.
-Gwen Matthews

How can you be kind to your pain today?

“No storm can shake my inmost calm while to that rock I’m clinging. It sounds an echo in my soul–how can I keep from singing?” -Robert W. Lowry

What are the ways you bring calm to your body and/or your spirit? Take time to practice them today.

“Let us give thanks for the interdependent web that brought food to our tables, for the spirits that gave of themselves so that we might eat, for the bended backs that labored in the hot sun and all the carriers that reached their destinations. In this rich well of appreciation, let us stretch our hand across the table of abundance, pressing lifeline against lifeline, giving thanks that we can do so, and gently holding in our hearts those who cannot, and could not from the beginning.” -Marta I. Valentin

Express gratitude today for something or someone that feeds you, for some bit of abundance in your life.

All power and energy and life force on Earth comes from the Sun. The summer solstice is the peak of that life-giving force. Summer brings abundance, harvest, and heat.

Live vibrantly today as if you were radiating the power of the Sun.