Day: March 8, 2012

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Spring Cleaning

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It’s time to do some spring cleaning!  I love spring, the time when everything comes to life again.  The trees start budding, the flowers begin to pop up from under the ground, and we get more sunshine as the last few weeks of winter start to fade away.

Every year I would take a week off of work just to stay home and organize, purge junk and clean everything from the floor to the kitchen cabinets.  It was wonderful therapy for me to get rid of stuff and get everything fresh and new!

Well this year I am spring cleaning my life!  I am taking inventory of the habits (good & bad), my relationships, my career,  my health (emotional & physical), and my finances so I can make changes for a better self.  Yeah I know it is easier to just clean the refrigerator out or donate a bag of clothes to the Salvation Army, but self-cleaning is necessary.  I want to live the best life that I can live and if I have stuff that is not doing me any good to reach that “best life”; guess what. . .it has to go!

I am always praying and asking God for divine wisdom and guidance for my life as I desire to be everything that He ordained me to be.  Sometimes the changes are hard, but I realize in the end the reward is greater.

I am going to start a journal of my experience as I blossom into the person that God wants me to be.  Perhaps this will be the making of my second book!

I think that it’s necessary to evaluate the present state of your life in order to reach your full potential.  Asking God the whys of your life and listening for clarity are lessons well learned.  He will give you everything you need to push past hurt, pain, and unforgiveness and give you the desire to walk in your destiny!

This spring will be the best start for my new life!  I pray that you will do the same.  Happy spring cleaning!

The Butterfly Journey ~ Lisa

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Be Thankful!

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I had a wonderful conversation today with my co-workers about “being thankful”.  As we mulled over our complaints about everyday things we began to talk about the disparity that some people face each day of their lives.  These people are not too far removed from us.

I recalled a story that I saw on television about a small poor village in another country that had to survive from the discarded food from local restaurants for food.  One man and his family actually started a business rummaging for the food, cleaning it up, adding seasonings and making a highly popular soup that the locals would buy as their one meal for the day.  They took the little resources that they had to use and not only started a business but provided a way to help others survive.. . literally.

One co-worker told us a story about a place in her native country of El Salvador where the older people whose family didn’t want them or have any means of taking care of them would drop them off and just leave them.  Thankfully, a woman and her young son began to take care of the elderly people left there by feeding them with whatever they had to offer.  My friend’s family visits their native country once a year and always goes shopping for the shelter.  The caregiver is always so overwhelmed with happiness to have chicken to fix the people.  It was like having a feast!

As we all became a little somber of the visual of people struggling to survive the necessity of living we all said that we needed to do  a better job of being thankful for all that we had.  I recalled in my own life that I never had a lot of money, just enough to pay my bills, but yet I have never went to bed hungry, I never had to sleep in the cold and my health (although not the best) is still better than some.  I had to stop for a moment to get myself together after thinking about this.

I need to be more thankful!  We all do.  Just look over your life and take a serious look at your blessings.  It may not be the life that you want right now, but you have a chance to make it better.  God is forever blessing us and we need to be thankful just for the little things that someone, somewhere wish they had.

The Butterfly Journey ~ Lisa