A Celebration of Life

This week my darling wife, Jenni, has gifted me a rare break from writing our regular Life Coaching Insights Blog post.

Truth is, she’s probably feeling sorry for me given my advanced years (she’s given the game away below!)

Anyway, I’m sure you’ll find reading what she has to say a breath of fresh air.

Do enjoy it!

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A Celebration of Life (By Jenni Burridge)

 

I love life! I love everything about life!

Of the millions of things I hold close to my heart, I love the many roles that I play in this endless dance with humanity.

My roles as mother, wife, friend, daughter, auntie, confidant, sister and Life Coach! To be able to share ideas and perspectives with my clients, is truly a wondrous experience … But, the little “golden nuggets” of AHA moments I receive from them, is the real blessing!

To be able to share a bond and a deep connection with another human being, is sheer bliss. It confirms the knowing that we are all One. Interconnected in the web of life, being guided and protected at all times by Universal Love.

Piglet once asked Pooh: “How do you spell love?” To which Pooh replied. “You don’t spell it … You FEEL it!”

For a bear with “very little brain”, Pooh certainly has an enormous amount of wisdom!

I digress … It was in one of the many heartfelt conversations with a client that the topic of celebration came up. Here is (more or less) what we pondered.

So, why is it that we tend to lovingly celebrate only when we think we have some “thing” to celebrate? Why do we unearth the silverware and the beautiful crockery only when visitors are coming for dinner? Why do we keep candles unlit and fragrant soaps wrapped up, waiting for THE special occasion? Why do us women spend so much time getting ‘glammed up’ for a night on the town?

Can we not wear our bright red lipstick and stilettos while we wash the dishes too?

Why don’t we just celebrate LIFE … every moment of it, in all it’s loving splendour? Why don’t we make each moment a special occasion? What are we waiting for?

You see, Ego says we have to have a reason to be joyful, otherwise we are not worthy of love. But Heart says “I AM joy, I AM love!”

The greatest journey we will ever take, is the journey we take within.

The greatest shift we will ever make, is the shift from head to heart.

I guess we need to love ourselves as much as we love others. We need to recognise our unique magnificence and celebrate the integral part we each play in the turning of life’s wheels.

What if we stopped thinking so much and rather allowed ourselves to BE the love that is our true essence? What a continuous celebration of Life! What fun! What joy!

August 9th this year marks sixty years of Bill’s life celebration! Millions of moments strung together like prayer flags, each, on the winds of life, releasing Blessings into the ether.

So, with much love and joie de vivre, I wish him a very happy Birth-Day and a truly Blessed life!

And for the rest of us, in the words of Pooh …

“Happy un-birth-day!” Happy life!

 

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