Trusting the Expansiveness of Kindness

Reading a recent post on my friend Sharmon’s blog I responded to her in this way and thought, hmmm, this is important!

“I want to connect with everyone, I am so grateful for every comment...but it is too much to respond to everyone...all of us have other things we must do and limited energy and it is unrealistic to be able to "do it all"...and unwise, and unkind to our hearts and minds to abuse ourselves with guilt for the impossible. We send out our love as much as we can, and hope it touches at least one person...maybe more and we reach out and connect with a few when we can...and trust TRUST...that love and compassion...friendship are more expansive, forgiving (for giving) than the guilt we use to cut ourselves down with...we must stop this, you and me and all of us who are feeling needless guilt and anguish...when the truth is we are doing our very best...we are good and kind and do what we can when we can (to support each other)...and that is a blessing.”

If you are a blogger you may well be feeling overwhelmed and simultaneously guilty by the love and the desire to give back and the impossibility of it all. And if you are not a blogger, but reading this today, perhaps it is a zillion emails or phone calls or who knows what that cause you to feel the very same feelings that Sharmon and I have been feeling. Many of us are just natural "care-takers"  and if we could, would do more than we do...but we do so much as it is each to our best ability. (This is coming from someone who is mostly home bound and can barely prepare a meal or do more than fold a little laundry some days...but somehow still finds ways to fill the hours with writing and reading and connecting with as many folks as I can...and meditating, photographing, mentoring a few clients from time to time, resting and being Mom for consultations on the bed, oh and partner to my very best friend.) 

And so to everyone who lovingly leaves me messages, know that I am sending YOU warmest wishes: May every day be filled with moments of wonder, joy, peace, lovingkindness and ease, not every minute of every day, but in those blessed ones that restore your soul throughout the difficult times.

If I don’t drop by to say thank you each time you stop here, I'm saying it right now, and I mean it for always. I trust in the expansiveness of kindness; it is as vast as the blue sky above. So no more blog guilt, just love. 

"Though our communication wanes at times of absence, I'm aware of a strength that emanates in the background."
-Claudette Renner

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with gratitude to everyone who makes this SkyWatch Friday possible…so that we may gaze upon beautiful skies around the world and connect in this way too; ONE beneath the skies above.

ps. Today I'll be receiving my first of 3 steroid infusions over the next 3 months as the Tysabri leaves my system...so I don't know how I'm gonna feel and just might not be online much today....then again...I might be so hyped up I'm online all night! (kind of hope not...and don't really expect that...you just never know!)  Let's just hope my veins behave and I don't end up with enormous bruises again. Those poor sweet home health nurses really try, but my veins are tricky and I always feel so bad for them, because they feel bad for me. In the end I seem to end up consoling the nurses for blowing my veins. Well, I've been pumping up with fluids for two days, so maybe it won't be an issue. The nurses are always so kind. Have a wonderful weekend everyone!