When I learned I was pregnant with my first daughter, I was told I had to go to bed for the first three months.
Oh no! Whatever will you do? friends asked. This is awful.
I had to make a choice. Think of this enforced bed rest as awful, or choose to see it as a gift of life.
I chose gift of life.
Every day, I wrote in my journal about what a gift it was to have such splendid solitude alone, getting to know and love on “Baby Balthazar”, as we called her in utero. I filled each moment with loving thoughts of my unborn child so that she would know deep within her soul how wanted, loved and special she was.
These exceptional days of Covid are also such a ‘splended solitude’, if you choose to see it as such. You can use words that speak of your frustration and angst. Or words that speak of possibility, gratitude, hope.
The frustration and angst may still be there, but they wane in the light of words that illuminate your path with joy and love.
My eldest daughter turns 34 in June. She is expecting my second grandchild, a daughter.
No matter the circumstances of Covid, the words I use to describe her imminent birth are filled with all the love and hope I hold for her arrival and her life.
I wouldn’t want her to know anything else.
Life can be hard. To handle the hard times, she will need to believe in magic, wonder, awe, so that she will have the words entwined deep within her psyche that draw out her courage and love so that she can see and speak of the beauty in her life, no matter the times.
Choose your words wisely. Make them lift you up. Fill you up. Enlighten you. With joy. Laughter. Gratitude. Abundance. Possibility.
Make your words be the expression of all the wonder, awe and beauty you see in the world around you.
Let your words shine bright so that the darkness has no hope of dampening your light and holding your spirit down.
Namaste.
Dare Boldly 
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Beautiful.
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Thank you. ❤
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I felt to say more was overkill 😉
xo
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That one word landed lightly and lovingly in my heart. ❤
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All I can ask.
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Louise, your wonderful and positive attitude makes me smile and feel
your harmony. It is a gift to be able to turn a possible dark to light,
to cherish and create instead of becoming the victim of depression.
I am sure your daughter was born with a sunny spirit. 💕.
Miriam
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Thank you Miriam. I’m pretty blessed to have found myself in this place.
And yes, she was a very wise soul from birth. ❤
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So lovely
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So grateful for your light Joanne. ❤
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If I am selfish,
I have forgotten
And dish out
the rotten
and the crude
i do i really do
need to watch
which
words
wander
within
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Oh Nance. This! Your spirit of creativity, the wild in you and how it all mixes together to create such wonder and awe…. ah yes. This!
Thank you my friend. ❤
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another awesome post Louise……..you are so right, life is hard at times, and to believe in the unseen is absolutely necessary! 🙂 thank you for the gentle reminder….
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Thank you Wendi! The unseen holds such mystery and wonder! I always find it fascinating how it brings me peace and grace, simply because I believe in it. Perhaps it’s that belief that gives my heart and mind space to feel safe in all of life’s unknown. Thank you for your lovely observation — it shimmers with delight, and mystery! ❤
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the willingness to believe in the unseen is a joy in and of itself! 🙂 thank you so much for sharing Louise.
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This is a great mantra.
Choose your words wisely. Make them lift you up. Fill you up. Enlighten you. With joy. Laughter. Gratitude. Abundance. Possibility.
Thank you for shining your light brightly.
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Thank you Ali! I love how our words connect us in such rich and life-envigorating ways! Hugs
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