Heart-Felt Wishes
What will this year bring for you?
Good things I hope.
My deepest heart-felt wishes for you:
💓For you to discover a renewed love of the simple pleasures in life.
💓For you to find a way to ignite the flames of hope and love in your soul
to yank you out of this long, dark winter we've all been in.
But how do you do that?
How to Rebuild Your World with Hope
To refill our lives with all the good stuff, we must think about others,
not just about ourselves.
The path to reestablishing a life filled with hope and love
for ourselves is paved with doing concrete acts of love for others.
What goes around, comes around--and we're all in this together.
We can create a world of hope and love
by 'doing unto others what we would have done unto us'.
Wishing You "Laughfter", Hearts, and Good Will
As I thought about what this meant to me, I thought
about how important good health, support, connection and love
have been to me in the last year.
I pondered 'what concrete acts of love have been 'done unto me'
that I'm grateful for, and how I can I now turn that around to 'do unto others'?'
Here is a short list of big and little concrete acts of love
that were done unto me that I am most grateful for:
💓Healthcare workers and volunteers providing me with covid-19 vaccinations
💓 People going for daily walks with me and my dog, Hannah
💓 People wearing masks in public
💓 Others checking in with with me during my family health crisis
💓 Connection with others to laugh and share tender moments
💓 Receiving support from my community during the tough times.
I have already reaped the benefits of returning the kindnesses
done to me by reaching out to others.
It felt good to volunteer for a vaccination clinic to
help my community achieve herd immunity.
Like me, recipients of the vaccine are so grateful.
It felt good to support other community members
in crisis through concrete acts of love, providing
food and clothing, and financial and emotional support.
It feels good to reach out to others in need of
connection with another human being
during this time of nesting in place.
If you want to feel good about life and living,
there is nothing like doing good for others
to make the world feel like a good place to live.
There is nothing more empowering than
giving back to others with goodwill.
So do yourself a favor on your way to building hope:
Get out there and find ways to contribute to
the good of others and your community.
How are you reaching out to others with tenderness, kindness, and compassion?
How are you offering up to others what you want offered up to you?
How are you helping reestablish a kinder, gentler world through your actions?
How are you making the world a better place for others?
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