Gifts for Holidays

A while ago I spent months in anguish over writing a book.  I took it to the Universe, God - Angels, anyone who was listening at 4 o'clock in the morning that day.  I told the silence I had to quit this crazy quest of writing a book of inspiration for anyone, or even single mothers.


Whether or not you believe in miracles doesn't matter, really.
I do.  When a child has a friend you can't see, hear or touch it doesn't make the possibility any less real.  Healthy people envy children their connection with all that there is.


That morning I heard a voice tell me to go upstairs to my room, turn on my computer and type whatever I heard.  If I didn't like what came, then I was free to quit the exciting quest to write a book.
It was a fair deal to me, I was exhausted and knew either way the answer would be clear by sunrise.


The words that came to me flowed, they flowered, really.  A clear, simple message for mothers all over the world.  In one sitting everything I'd been struggling to say came together in easy sentences with more meaning than I could have put in them on my own.  I spent the next few hours reading them again and again, and crying.  I had written what I needed to hear, and the message all single mothers would want to hear - from God himself.


Christmas is a time of miracles.  Children and infants, miracles and mothers - a birth destined to change everything.  One by one each woman brings the miracle to Earth each year.  It's in her soul to love so deeply, even when the world my show her she isn't a miracle to them, she is anyway.  Opinions can't change the truth, they simply try to blur it.  Some people can't allow the beauty of truth because it scares them.
You can, and you do: it's the light inside of you, trust it.


IamthatIam has traveled around the world, slowly, since that morning.  Terri Irwin in Australia after Steve passed, sent a note of thanks for the copy I sent.  It's journeyed internationally and in the U.S.-traveling more than I have these past years.  The thanks isn't the gift I receive that surprises me the most.  It's the miracle of strength, renewed faith in themselves and a knowing that is beyond anything I could have dreamed that day.


This Christmas Season I am honored to be featured on Mary's blog, Lilbitofus, in a give away.  We met through a submission to be part of a pitch.  She, too has been through "everything" like me, and lives closer than you would imagine.  Miracle or chance - it doesn't really matter.  What is amazing is the dream to reach and help other mothers going through things like we have keeps growing and expanding all over the world.  Life isn't always exactly how you pictured it, quite often it's a lot richer and fuller of dreams you didn't know you had - and friends you didn't know you were excited to meet.  Mary has given me more than a give away - she gave me a renewed sense of purpose to keep moving on to the next step and the next step and savor every minute of life unfolding for us all.


Christmas is a good time to enjoy and love the giving, it's an incredible time to stretch just a little and give yourself more Bliss, too.  Do it for you - you deserve every bit of the love you have for you, it's yours to savor and have it spill over and all around you.


To read Mary's review, and enter the give away if you'd like to, visit it here: Lilbitofus.

Early Christmas?  I don't think so, I think any day is a good enough excuse to share the flow of love and light around the world.  Thank you for sharing yours, and basking in mine when you can.