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Abundant Days
By Cornelia Powell | August 11, 2009
Driving through the Blue Ridge mountains the other day with friends, scattered amongst the late summer Black-eyed Susans, I got my first glimpse of goldenrod. A sign of autumn approaching, the spiky goldenrod blooms became a reminder of going back to school — accompanied by a knot in my stomach — and I shared the childhood memories with my companions.
How often does something in the present take me back to the past — good, bad or ugly? It was a little wake-up call for me to stay aware and not allow my thoughts to “have their way with me!” I can stay present even while telling a story of a memory — I just don’t have to “become the past” or have a thought take me off track, or down a road of regret or worry, or — well, you get the picture!
I can always declare — no matter what triggers a memory or where the memory takes me — that in this moment, “today is a divine, blessed, infinitely abundant day!”
Topics: Inspiration, Remembrances, Women's Notes |