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...