THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

What are you nurturing in your life?

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May we nurture those around us so we can stop the abuse in the world, especially for our children

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What are you doing to nurture the youth in our world?

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Who are you painting?

MY DO FOR ME LIST

Dear Sharon,

Yeah I am writing this one to you. Gurl, all month long you have been writing about nurturing, but seriously what have you done to nurture yourself this month. Not enough. So slow down and let’s take some time to smell the roses. Here are a list of things you love doing and have not done for a while. So even though we are moving to a new spiritual practice in October, let’s work on being open to being more nurturing of your own self so you can continue to be nurturing to others.

©      Buy yourself a bunch of fresh flowers and display them where you'll see them often. Allow yourself to stop and admire them. Do not look at the price, you are worthy.

©      Sit in the warm sunshine and read a good book or magazine.

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Song of the Week

This song by N Sync reminds me how God's love nurtures me and what it would be like if I did not know that the Divine is there to comfort me in every moment of my life.

https://youtu.be/e3pzIzlcCMs?list=PLyYJor04rQkI3axLWFOHydOIvHJT79de1

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What are you doing to make your environment nurturing for yourself and others?

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How big is your heart?

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If you are nurturing yourself, then you are not abusing yourself.

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What are you doing today to nourish your gifts?

SONG OF THE WEEK

Love yourself for who youare! Your worth is not measured by the external, but by the way you nurture and live your life.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=Mq86e4Fhja0

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NURTURING ROMANCE

This month we have been looking at various ways of nurturing ourselves and others.  Recently, I began thinking about the importance of nurturing my relationship with my wife. It is so easy for life to take over and displace the deeper purpose of the relationships. There is always something to do around the house. There is always something that needs to be managed, bills to pay, chores to be done, etc. All of that is important. At the same time, it is important that we nurture the loving nature of the relationship we have with our spouse to keep it alive and growing. How do we keep the romance alive?

Romance is more than just dinner by candle light, soft music and flowers. It is about the attention and feeling we create in the relationship and bring to each other. It is about what we do to affirm our love and gratitude for the person who has come to share our life with us. Romance is about the intentional time we take away from all the things we have to do in life, to just spend quality time with the one we love. It is a time where we get to focus on each other without all the interruptions of daily life, the computer beeping, the phone ringing, etc

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Take today to unplug from technology and plug into direct contact with others.

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What do your actions say about you?

NURTURING SPACES

Where do you go that nurtures you?

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If you nurtured someone, then you live on in them.

NURTURING ME

I would like to be able to come to you and say that I treat myself amazingly well.  However, I try to be more honest with you then I am with anyone else, including myself. I am awesome at saying I am going to do something, but I break promises with myself all the time. Like tonight I said I was going to take some time to be a shlump and I did not. I did not walk as much as I should have today. I ate fairly healthy today which is a good thing, but probably mostly because I have been intentional about keeping the junk food out of the house. I did get enough sleep and I have paid myself compliments, but I am not taking as good care of my body as I need to. I am working on treating myself as well as I treat others.  As Iyanla Vanzant reminded me recently, at present I am allowing others to be thieves in my life and they do not even know that I am allowing them to do that. Well maybe they will if they read this. LOL

I am trying to think of myself as a little girl and remembering to nurture myself the way I would nurture my child. So there are some things I am really good at. I am good at telling myself that I love myself and how amazing I am. I am good at remembering that I am never alone and I am surrounded by your love, your strength and the supporters you have bought into my life to bring me through the times when I feel like I am struggling.

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What do you carry with you that reminds you of the presence of the Divine?

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May we all work on listening more intently to the messages from our body.

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

What are you doing in your life to facilitate your birthing process today?

SONG OF THE WEEK

We are the ones who have the power to make us OK each day and to remind us that each day we are OK https://youtu.be/vpMI8Qu5fsc

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Are you aware of how the Divine is nurturing you each day?

SHED A FEW TEARS

The other day I became a part of a conversation about whether or not it was healthy to shed a few tears. What was interesting about this conversation was not that most of the people who responded said that it was healthy, but that the idea that shedding a few tears is not healthy.  

For centuries, we have been socializing males to think it is not healthy to openly express their feelings and increasingly I am seeing women and girls of all ages question whether it is okay to express their feelings. It is interesting because there is actually a medical diagnosis called alexithymia. It is the inability to express or talk about our feelings. When we disconnect our heart from our head, then we not only lose the ability to express our feelings, we lose the ability to nurture ourselves or others.

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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Every time you do something to nurture your mind, body, or soul you give yourself a gift of love that says I care about me.

NURTURING MUSIC

What music nurtures your soul?

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How did you learn to care and nourish?

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Spend time today nourishing your mind, body, and soul.

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

What you internalize is what nurtures you. So be mindful of what you take into your mind, body, and soul.

SONG OF THE WEEK

May there always be sunshine in our lives. What are you doing to bring sunshine into your life and into the lives of others? https://youtu.be/jPNICCcx2IM

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When we take care of ourselves we take care of others. when we take care of others we take care of ourselves.

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Just because others do not nurture you, does not mean you stop nurturing yourself.

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Do you realize that by nurturing yourself you can contribute to the nurturing of others?

SELF-NURTURING

What is one thing you do to nurture yourself?

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Water yourself and keep yourself green.

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One way to nurture yourself is to forgive and heal. Holding on to the pain is not nurturing

CUDDLE TIME

Thank you for waking me up this morning. My friends were kind of surprised to see me up and moving so early this morning. I try to get up by 8 am every morning so I have a routine and stick to it, but sometimes I give myself a sleep in morning as a way of nurturing my body, mind, and soul. I take this as quiet time to just rest, cuddle with my wife, and allow you to speak to me in my dreams.

There is something about cuddling that is so nurturing for me. When I was younger I used to cuddle with my stuffed animals or with my dog Puggy. As I grew up I found that I enjoyed cuddling with my partner of the time. There is nothing like cuddling and being held.

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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Nurture yourself so you can nurture others.

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May we not only thing about how the Divine nurtures us, but also about how we can nurture the Divine

SONG OF THE WEEK

When I was a little girl, there was nothing more nurturing then when my mother would sing me a lullaby at night. I hope this song will leave you feeling nurtured as you listen to it. https://youtu.be/HeDMAM6l2i8

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Take time each day to water your garden, weed it, fertilize it, and admire the beauty that lies withing you and radiates from you.