A Yes to Life

Aligning with your ‘yes!’ is about feeling nourished on every level – feeling deeply alive. I’m not talking about the shallow, quick-fix kinds of comfort that make us feel good only temporarily. The kind of feeling good that I’m talking about, which comes from aligning with your ‘yes!,’ is about listening for the deeper truth underneath all of that. It’s that knowledge that ‘I’m in the right place, at the right time, doing what I’m here to do.’ You feel grounded and at home in yourself. Your life becomes rooted in a deep ‘yes!’ You feel alive and grateful to be in direct contact with life. You are in touch with how exquisite it is to feel and be with the raw truth of all that is moving through you. This kind of alignment includes difficult emotions, pain, and tension. It can include illness and struggle. It is about being in direct, authentic contact with the wholeness of life. Nothing is denied. It is your truth and you are awake to it.

Deborah Zucker, The Vitality Map

Opening reflection chosen and read by Nancy L.

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Photos by Sue J.

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Saying yes to all of life… The walk started under a gentle rain and thick gray clouds… this was a drizzly day that I would not generally walk on the beach… but what a gift to walk in this healing mist with rolling seas. And not long into the walk the rain stopped… such a feeling of peace.

I noticed the young shoots of beach grass coming up on the dunes… hopefully they will soon protect the dunes from further serious erosion — at least for a while.  Nature’s way… Destruction from Matthew, regrowth and renewal… the cycles go on… somehow I must try to say yes to all of it! It all belongs.

And as I ending my walk the rain kissed leaves shouted “joy” and renewal… Yes!