Long Time No Blog

Wow, I don't know how people do it.  I guess they apply themselves to blog every day.  I almost forgot I had a blog.

As I sit here this moment listening to Rev. Dr. Michael Beckwith streaming live I am so filled with joy.  Today has actually been a joyful and somewhat sad day for me.

I had to go sign some legal papers with my cousins, Joan and Pat.  Joan is in ill health and I have such wonderful memories of she and her sister Pat.

Joan, for example was making spaghetti at my home when I was a little girl and she was using the pressure cooker.  Who knew you could or should make spaghetti in a pressure cooker.  Well, needless to say, she had never used one before and it exploded and there was spaghetti all over the kitchen, especially on the ceiling.

She had it cleaned up before my mother came home but it remains a funny memory of her.

Pat was taking care of me once on a visit and we were going out and she dressed me in my little white dress and Mary Janes and instead of keeping me in the house, she sent me out to play.  I promptly went to a neighbor's house and got in a mud puddle.  That was the first time I had a bath in Tide.

Joan and her husband Max took me to the Museum of Modern Art in New York for the first time.  I had on my little white gloves and as we went down the subway steps, naturally I held on to the railing.  The gloves didn't past the "white glove test" at all.  She was none too happy with me but, hey a girl has to hang on so she doesn't fall.

She also took me to have lunch at the United Nations where we lunched in the delegates commissary because she "knew" someone.

I have such wonderful and warm memories of those times I spent with my older cousins.

I know that people go away but when, not if, something happens to Joan I will be very sad.

Life has been interesting, had a visit from my first cousin, Karen from Tulsa.  That was a blast.  It's interesting that you grow up with people and never really know anything about them.  During our visit we shared things about ourselves that neither of us ever knew.

We laughed and she had a chance to meet our friends out here in California.

It seems the summer season has created lots of things on our calendar.  A party last Sunday for some very dear friends, a graduation this Saturday, Father's Day, next Saturday, Sacred Service Saturday with Agape.  I haven't done this in a long time and wanted to be out in the fresh air and near water.  I signed up to help clean the beach.

I love my life, even if it doesn't look perfect right now.  Gratitude for what we already have makes it grow into so much more.

I know everything happens for a reason and I know that those little irritations aren't that at all, they are opportunities for me to look and see the hand of Spirit in my life.

I promise those of you who are following me to do my best to blog every day.

I do love writing and this is a wonderful creative outlet for me.

Thanks to my one follower; I hope to get more and know that I will.

Just remember,

To Laugh on the Spiritual Path, it's actually one big party if you let it be that for you.

Much love and light.