What are the most extraordinary moments of your life?

Day 75: A walk in nature

How many times do we miss the miracle of the moment looking for something else? Yesterday I enjoyed sitting in on a conversation with Cheryl Richardson at the I can do it weekend in Seattle. How many times do we look outsides ourselves for joy, the ah ha moments only to find that when we experience them they are not as monumental as we had hoped.

What are the most extraordinary moments of your life? Last night I sat with my beloved remembering the moment I stood before my beloved on our wedding day. It was a day that I had dreamed of most of my life, and had created this dream wedding in my head with great pomp and circumstance. Yet, here I stood years later wearing my kilt standing next to this amazing human being with whom I could see forever in his eyes. The pageantry that I had planned all those years ago didn't matter. The only thing I wanted or needed at that moment was standing here looking into my eyes. As we boldly took that first step or our case a leap as we jumped the broom was greater to me that the first step on the moon. At that moment, everything else faded away as we stood there declaring our love for one another. That moment in time was the greatest moment of my life.

Why then do I seek this external form of validation from outside sources to make life somehow better?

As I shared in today reading my beloved creates and plans an amazing birthday adventure each year. As I stand there in the middle of each one of them thinking how is it possible for him to create anything better than this? Yet, somehow he finds a way to create magic year after year. The reason this works is my ability to be fully present in the moment, free of expectations. What that does is it free's me up to be present wherever I am. There is something extraordinary about having someone who loves you plan a day of adventure for you. It amazing seeing the love, planning, and details that has gone into the creation so that I could have a day filled with love and celebration. What if I lived each day like that? Knowing that there is a creative force that is working each day to create a day like that for me. What if I created such a relationship with myself and the creative source of all things? What if I spend each day with the same trust and love that I have for my beloved living in the present moment looking for all the magic that I could find?

We often wait for some celebrity or famous person to mark the moment as the best day of my life. What if I made this moment the best moment of my day, and now, and now, oh and now. I am often asked how do I create the loving relationship that I have with my beloved? I response I started with loving myself. When I finally realized the connection of loving myself to the fulfillment of loving others my whole world shifted. I become more present with the people in my life and the way I loved them. Each day I wake up with the knowingness that I have breakfast to make and lunches to put together. I wake with the intent to make this the best breakfast and lunch my honey could possibly have. We share our daily devotion, give thanks for the food, and for the amazing life we have. I pack up his lunch write a love note and send my honey off to work. I treasure those moments we spend together more and more each day. It is those everyday moments that create the life that is filled with the miracle and love. It is my intent to wake up and be fully present with another being that creates these moments that are filled with possibility.

Many of my clients tell me "that is way too much work". I respond. What work? It is all love.

What moments will you create today that take your breath away. Holding the hand of my beloved as we walk through the forest, walk on the beach, or sit at the base of a 1000 years old tree. Those are the moments that take my breath away. Do more of those things that set your soul on fire and create the life that you want to live rather than the life that someone told you that you should have. Live life boldly!

Thank you,

I love you,

Rev Allen