“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.”
~ Melody Beattie, via Rod MacIver, as quoted in Heron Dance Issue 62: A Poet’s Moods
Related Musings:
Making a Life With What You Have
Big Love and Gratitude,
Featured Image Credit: The Fair Face of Woman, by Sophia Gengembre Anderson (1823-1903)
Jamie has long been an inspiration partner and lantern-holder for her fellow transformation leaders, change catalysts, and creative nonconformists who are living, inspiring, and (intentionally or not) leading the way in these chaotic times. When she's not tending and stirring the Sophia's Children cauldron, she's following research trails, and serving as the Director of a Repro-Justice-oriented women's health center in her community, co-creating a safe, in-person compassionate care environment in a world that increasingly seems to lack that. Jamie is a long-time servant of the Muse, a writer and author, an intrepid walker and feline-tender, and is passionate about the healing power and relevance of reclaiming ancestral-wisdom and healing (or at least understanding) ancestral (and other types of) trauma. She has great appreciation for dark chocolate and cooking other nourishing, delicious meals -- often plant-based -- to nourish her partner and her peeps, and otherwise doing the same day to day things we all do. Thanks for visiting! Wishing you well. Learn More: http://sophias-children.com
Subscribe now to keep reading and get access to the full archive.
November 28, 2017 at 10:36 pm
Reblogged this on dreamweaver333.
November 30, 2017 at 11:52 pm
Plentiful gratitude for sharing this post, Violet Gold! 🙂
November 29, 2017 at 8:37 pm
So true, if only we could live in this state more often Jamie.
November 30, 2017 at 11:53 pm
True enough, Andrea. For me it’s practice, practice, practice.
December 3, 2017 at 4:13 pm
Learning to live from this place of Gratitude is most fulfilling. For we then begin to see how life itself flows from the point of gratitude..
Many thanks for this share Jamie.. xxx <3
December 3, 2017 at 4:40 pm
You’re welcome, Sue; it is fulfilling, and as I mentioned to Andrea, practice, practice, practice. 🙂 Blessings to you! Jamie
December 3, 2017 at 5:06 pm
<3 xxx <3
January 18, 2018 at 3:53 am
Thanks for inspiring and teaching me through your writing. 🙂
January 21, 2018 at 4:32 pm
Thanks so much, Sedi! I appreciate that you found your way and stopped by Sophia’s Children. And I’m glad to know that you’ve found some inspiration in this particular well. 🙂 Blessings to you, Jamie
January 22, 2018 at 1:56 am
🙂 <3