Here's my best thrift shop find of the winter. Every morning now, I open it and let it fall to the page I need to read for the day. It's words are in alphabetical order-- starting at ACCEPT at page 1 and ending with YES! at page 365. A word a day for a year if you read it cover to cover, I just noticed. It's filled with the wonderful sort of advice an inspired friend, spouse or a wise motherly soul would give you, just when you needed to hear them most. Words to comfort, inspire, nudge, and move you through your life with more authenticity. Words are powerful things, I've been coming to realize over the last couple of months. Words are made of energy too, just like everything else is, and they have the power to literally hurt or heal.
When I opened it today, thinking and asking for just the right page for you, the book fell open to the page LOOK... and... once again, it was just the right page-- for my cyber girl-friends, this time :)
LOOK
Look at yourself, how beautiful you are. Look at the love that pours from your eyes, look at how your wisdom and experience are written all over your face. Look at the beauty of other women. All of them. Look at their lips, full and ripe, thin and dry. Look at their skin, smooth and wrinkled, creamy and coarse, olive and terra-cotta and peach and ebony and freckled and scarred. Look at how women move, See them stride, see them shuffle, see them with eyes on the ground and eyes on the sky. See them inch slowly like the turtle; see them fly like the eagle. Look at the muscles in a woman's body; look at the serenity in a blind woman's face; look at the rugged hands of a laborer. Look at every person you meet with compassion and love. Look for the good in their hearts and you're sure to stumble on the good in your own.
Have a lovely weekend my friends,
xoKelly
