beautiful wisdom…

a very talented friend of mine dropped this quote on facebook…

“Don’t waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

for some reason in it’s antiquity…it strikes me as the new I need to refresh in my life…

It is so easy…to get down…to feel discouraged…to complain…the list goes on…but to do so and not see the blessings around you…such a foolish way to live…

so I am thankful for this beautiful wisdom…I am thankful to set the goal, again, each day to see the beauty…the good…

it is there…finely and delicately quilted in with the hard and frustrating…

really though…most of us…don’t have to look very hard or far to see it either…

things have been a little callenging lately at home…my girls are incredibly spirited…and have me on my toes at all times..and i have had times where i really have felt lost…wondering if I was doing things right…praying to be the best i can be for them…at times things seemed opaque despite my knowledge that this is the most important and rewarding job i can work at….

so here i am with light…clarity…love shining…pouring out of one little soul…

the beauty here strikes me…

this little girl…this spirited nearly 3 year old valentine…

is just what i need to refresh…

(dying over her posing!)

there is so much joy in our little ones!

and beautiful wisdom to be learned from what they teach us…

to strive for the right goals…

to look hard for the things that really make us happy…

to slow down at the wrong things…and work harder at the right ones..

the giggles…the sweet little bodies dancing in our lives…will grow to hold our hearts in all new ways…

so for now…i am challenging myself again…and again…

to see the magic in these little ones…

 

even in the most deserted, broken down, ugly of places…

beauty can always be found…

(i am so thankful for you mia…)

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thank you for the beauty you bring into my world…

xoxo

Mommy