Begin your day by blessing it with possibility.
Each morning,
We don't know what lies ahead of us.
We don't know what the day will bring.
Whether that will be extraordinary good news.
More of the same,
Or something terrible.
And yet we can set our mind anew and call in hope into our heart.
So,
As you sit this day in this morning,
Speak spells of possibility.
Give thanks to life for the way that the sun slinks in and lights up the sky each day.
Having rested,
Even if only a little bit.
Begin your day with blessing.
Call in what can be.
Decide that it will be good.
There may still be tricky things.
We can orientate our heart towards what works well,
Towards heart,
Towards happiness.
On this particular day,
I want to invite you to dare to be delighted.
For this to be the most delicious and wonderful day of your life.
And then to live that accordingly.
To let your eyes blink open with excitement at the day ahead of you.
Let your heart feel a little whizzy and giddy and wondrous about what blessings might come.
Orientate your mind towards what might work out.
To choose to let it be wonderful,
To let it be sweet.
To let goodness come for you today.
I know,
There are times when we have to walk through impossibly hard things and it seems like things will never shift.
Yet take a big teaspoon of fierce faith today.
Say that it's going to work out great.
Say that it's going to be good.
You can feel it,
Can't you?
When you call in a little bit of optimism.
Of hope into your heart.
Of delight into your day.
Your mood shifts just a little bit.
Just maybe by one or two degrees we feel a little better.
We notice things more.
Perhaps there's a bird outside your window,
Or a feather on your desk.
Or a rock or a plant that's lifting you up.
Take a little moment to go WOW!
I'm alive,
I'm sitting,
I'm listening.
I can choose how I start my day.
I can choose my attitude and my thinking.
I can choose to call hope into my heart,
To have faith in the future of this day,
To dare to be delighted.
Notice that perhaps your energy drops down,
But you can drop into your belly more.
But your shoulders soften,
But your heart softens.
That maybe your thinking mind softens.
It's a daring act of the half.
To let in faith.
To not live with a hard heart.
The fact is we don't know how it's gonna go.
Yet we can summon sweetness.
We can believe in beauty.
We can call up fierce faith.
We can decide that it's going to be good.
Even amidst it all,
Even amidst all you're working and tending with,
Even amidst realities it ravages us.
So bless this morning you sit in.
Let this day love you,
And let yourself love it back.
I know,
It's perfectly imperfect.
Doesn't necessarily look like you thought the most delicious day of your life would.
And yet try it on.
Try on being delighted.
Try on radical receptivity of the gifts that you've got.
Try on really tasting the food,
Seeing the smile.
Try on calling a family member and telling them you care.
Try on telling yourself that you care,
That you matter,
That you're doing great.
Lift your metaphorical gaze up towards good things,
Towards grace coming down on you.
Towards things being easy and working well.
Choose your orientation.
Even amidst all you're working through and walking with.
Dare to be delighted.
Dare to let it be delicious.
For one day there won't be any more days.
This day is a new fresh start.
Set the light in it.
And let it delight you.
And there to be delighted.
That is my throwdown for you.
Take your practice and go and live it,
My love.
Go and let life in.
Go and be wowed by wonder.
Go and breathe deeper.
Soften the sigh and be led up by your life.
Just as it is.
Thank you for your practice.
I wish you a day of utter magic and miracles.
I wish you a day beyond your wildest dreams.
