Brownbutterfly

I have spent the last one year trying to be still and find my purpose. I have gone for long walks, had coffee with good friends, locked it in, let it out, prayed, read and cried loudly when I am alone.  In the last few months, I started coming to the realization that my purpose is here and now. It is not any one thing or job. It is what I do with today and how I choose to close each day I am blessed with. It is in reviewing each day and building on it the next because a day that we lose is lost forever. So I started learning to ask myself, did I make the best use of the gift of the last 24 hours? have I made a difference to anyone? have I loved my neighbour...But even before that, have I loved myself? After all, the commandment is to love your neighbour as yourself...   It all begins with loving yourself, because it is how you will learn to love others. I am 18 years married and almost 17 years a mum. Somehow, I managed to bury my true self in the process of creating and maint...

Have you ever felt like you knew a soul you've never met? It's that feeling you get when you read something a total stranger wrote and you connect with it like you could have been the one saying or thinking that! I feel like that sometimes when I hear a song or read a book or article written by a familiar soul. The soul that takes your thoughts and puts it into eloquent words. The soul that writes and you connect with what was written. That soul may be in a body you've never met. It may be a different color, race and ethnic origin from you but it is definitely a soul you know. I believe I am lucky because while I have come across familiar souls in music and literature that I have had no physical contact with, I am also experiencing the blessings of friendship with a few familiar souls. She is that friend who patiently waits and holds no malice when your spirit requires space and solitude. The one who focuses on your strength and points out a difference of opinion without ...