Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. -- Marcel Proust
Marcel Proust has been strumming my heart strings lately. Whenever I think of a quote that captures what I'm feeling or thinking, Proust captures it in one short and pithy sentence.
I was on the phone a little while ago with my dearest best friend and soul sistah Medi Tate who challenged me to do my gratitude list before I called it a night. It's 1:41 AM now and I'm not ready to call it a night yet. My heart is welling up with emotions of thankfulness for the pure and simple grace that envelopes my everyday existence.
This simple grace is unquantifiable, unidentifiable, untouchable, and yet I have that distinct sensation of shimmering god-dust sprinkling down on me, filling me with positive expectation of new and blessed beginnings. Maybe it's the coming of spring, the budding of new leaves on deciduous trees, the raucousness of birds, or the lengthening days. Whatever it is, it makes my heart swell. No... I know exactly what it is - it's a feeling of overflowing thankfulness.
Today was a day of emerging and forging friendships, friendships real and virtual. Friends are the god proxies who show up in our lives and make visible to us the Truth of that Invisible Loving Presence. Call it what you will - God, Buddha, Christ, Allah, Lakshmi, Krishna, karma, energy, universe. Call it "Something." That "Something" that creates magic and miracles is made manifest to me through friends. Kindnesses, humor, beauty, art, poetry, epiphanies are shown to me through friends. Yes, they are the charming gardeners of my blossoming soul.
So I end this day with joyous thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
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It is so beautiful and heartwarming to receive, blessings of love such as yours. It reminds me of looking into the heart of a blossomed rose that allows us to experience it's brilliant essence (;-)).
I'm glad you're mine.
Jay
Thanks for the reminder & the wisdom. Maya, I get the impression you would be a terrific friend to have. :+)
10 4 u
You told us a lot about about "You" in this article.
It is beautiful, and I always want to be one of your friends ... in the Sistahood!
People need people and friends need friends,
And we all need love for a full life depends
Not on vast riches or great acclaim,
Not on success or on worldly fame,
But just in knowing that someone cares
And holds us close in their thoughts and prayers -
For only the knowledge that we're understood
Makes everyday living feel wonderfully good.
And we rob ourselves of life's greatest need
When we "lock up our hearts" and fail to heed
The outstreched hand reaching to find
A kindred spirit whose heart and mind
Are lonely and longing to somehow share
Our joys and sorrows and to make us aware
That life's completeness and richness depends
On the things we share with our loved ones and friends.
Helen Steiner Rice
Thanks Maya
You've said it well here . . . "Friends are the god proxies who show up in our lives and make visible to us the Truth of that Invisible Loving Presence."
Maya ~ let this be the beginning of am enhanced literary flow from your soul.
BE BLESSED in your BOLDNESS to march forward sharing your talents and your gifts; thereby illuminating the path for others to follow.
Encouraged and inspired by your willingness to share Maya ~ GREAT GRATITUDE. . .
Your Friend,
René
Snow drops blooming here.