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I’m Back!!!

This is my very first post in about 2 years! I certainly feel rusty and it may take a few posts before I hit my groove again. You’ll learn a lot about me and my journey by reading previous posts. I happily was able to change the name of the blog but also, happily, I was able to keep all my previous posts that go back many years. If interested, you can go back and read some of those to get a feel about who I am.

Oh ~ and by the way ~ I go by Lulu now :-) 

Much about this blog will be about gratitude and how I discovered gratitude to be the impetus, the energy that propels my spiritual walk. Today, just this very day, I was brought to the realization that as I honor each and every area of my life, that honor allows me to feel deep gratitude. During my morning ritual of prayer, readings, meditation and journaling ~ but please, I’m not claiming that I do all of that everyday ~ it depends on when I get my lazy bones up and how much time I have ~ but this morning it arrived in my consciousness that I have been dishonoring, and therefore have not been grateful, for many areas of my life. I found this realization to create a HUGE paradigm shift within me.

Here is how it happened: I have been puzzling over my food addictions for most of my life. In fact, there are earlier posts about juice fasting, water fasting and other food “tricks” I was trying to participate in to achieve some sense of control. I had spent some time in prayer the previous couple of days planning on another water fast or intermittent fast or…or…or! Yesterday I decided to be as extremely awake, aware and conscious of when and what I should eat. I checked in every hour so my Divine Wisdom could inform me. I discovered that my productivity is affected by my mind’s attachment to food! This blew my mind! And when my mind is obsessed with food or the NOT eating of food, there is no way for me to be deeply and genuinely grateful…for anything. So checking in with God (like seriously setting my phone’s timer for every hour to remind me) allowed me to gain the guidance, strength and clarity that I seek. 

Then I examined areas of my life for which I had not been deeply grateful. Yes, I appeared grateful on a superficial level but I was missing the honor piece of gratitude and without that honor, the honor that also honors God, my gratitude only went so deep.  So I began a checklist of areas that needed my attention. I began with my car that desperately need a good cleaning inside and out. Now, I have been without a car a few years of my life and this particular car is new to me so you might think that I would be grateful every minute. And I was ~ for awhile.  I’ve had it about a year and at the beginning I was excellent at keeping it shiny and clean, but, well, I guess you know how it goes. I pretty soon started taking that car for granted, much like many of us just take God and God’s goodness for granted. So that ended today. I cleaned that baby until she glowed!!! And gratitude flowed.

So this is what I think – every single place in our lives deserves honor. Be it our family, friends, main relationship, job, pets, home, etc. We cannot truly be grateful without that honor. And  ~ by the way ~ our temple, our body is at the very tippity-top of that list. How can we be grateful for something that we do not honor. And honoring it means taking supremely good care of it. And this brings me back full circle to my issues with food and my body and wanting to take really good care of it ~ especially since I just had another birthday. Listening to my inner wisdom requires slowing down and making that a habit rather than just plowing forward and deciding to do this food plan or that. Honoring this temple and bringing it to my Higher Power for guidance ~ EVERYDAY and every hour ~ remember that old hymn, I Need You, Lord, every hour I need You. Yes, it's an old timey hymn but the message is still timely ~ at least it is for me!

This first post is just the jumping off point for our talks on gratitude. We'll talk about other stuff as well but, for me, gratitude is the underlying foundation of everything. I hope you'll join me as I uncover and share this glorious life we CAN live. 

I invite you to comment or if you’d like to dialogue with me one on one, here is my email: revlululogan@gmail.com

Also, if you need a special speaker, a retreat or workshop, spiritual coaching, wedding or a memorial service and you are within a reasonable distance, please contact me for that as well. I am here only to be truly helpful (ACIM).