I love to see family dogs riding with their heads out of the car window as the proud owner barrels down the highway. Some dogs close smiling eyes to the breeze… ears flapping wildly in the air-with a wiggle in their noses, others violently lick the air as if they are drinking the wind…funny how they never get their fill…The lesson I always learn from these content canines is: they truly seem to enjoy the ride with their masters. It’s better to enjoy what we have than to always want something else because that makes more sense than chasing the wind. …..Life is short … and can seem meaningless to those who work hard to figure it out and it fades away like a shadow. Everything on this earth has it’s own time and it’s own season…. live life and enjoy it while you can.

Definition of breath in The Standard College Dictionary: air inhaled and exhaled in respiration, power or ability to breathe, draw a long breath, the time of a single instant, slight delay, a slight movement an articulate utterance, murmur, whisper……it goes on and on-any brief instant of activity. While working out at the gym-I was listening this morning to an exciting roar from the other side of the gym where a basketball game was underway. So much excitement, so much passion, it was so good to hear the unity of …the breath that only takes an instant…. bringing forth such a mighty roar!! It makes you feel so very alive…to hear passion roaring out of people . We all have a roar within us one that drives us to a destiny…never give up on your dreams… there is.. in every moment the fresh breath…the new chance to continue on to complete your goals, to produce a roar on this earth…a roar that can touch and change history.

Have you ever began doing a project -then midstream in the process a voice in your head starts to chatter,”You can’t do this!!” You are charged with fear that you should abort the mission. Forget it -it’s just too hard. These thoughts come from old tapes from an authority-bound mentality. This mentality stifles any natural creativity that we might have. Prison bars become placed around any “new ideas”.This authority-bound mentality comes from a literal entrapment to the punitive parent with many rules and restrictions on everything. This mentality can keep a 50 year old still doing what their parents say even as a adult.This can be a trap that hinders people from ever finding their own rules and guidelines. To start something new, to create or invent it is important to abandon old traps in the mind that tell you ,”You Can’t do that”. I do believe that anything is possible!!

On this Memorial Day we must remember why we stand free as a nation. There were many soldiers over the years who have risked their lives to stand for the freedom that we now enjoy. Let it never be said that we take for granted those brave ones. I am proud to say that my son served as a marine and defended our nation in Iraq and in Afghanistan. Thanks to God , he returned home safely. For all of you who have fought for the freedom of our fine nation I want to say thank you!!! Those , who I cannot thank personally, my blessings to your families and thanks for the bravery of your beloved soldiers.Thank you all for your great sacrifice.

Tonight the moon was quite a site to embrace! It was as if someone had removed the warty ribs of skin from a ripened cantaloupe and suspended it upon the horizon.
… As we mature and heal from the pain of the past those unpleasant things come to the surface of who we are, we grieve our losses, and we are finally able to allow those warty layers to slough off from our living , refreshed selves……let them go…. and move on. Our lives will then be such a beauty to embrace!!