We celebrated this guy’s birthday just under a month ago. He desperately wanted a skateboard. He is rolling!! 
His love of his board has inspired us all. We have definitely not been bored this summer!
We are having the time of our lives watching our boys do what they love.
Food used to take up a plethora of mental space.
My mind felt like a ferris wheel running around and around about food.
What should I eat?
When?
How much?
Did I eat too much?
Now, I feel completely free.
I have found food that brings me freedom.
Complete meals including protein, carbohydrates, fats, and minerals.
I have returned after two weeks of renting out our home to vacationers.
The house was empty except for our furniture, every cupboard, dresser, even the refrigerator were empty.
I have not rushed to the grocery store to stock my fridge full so that I don’t feel empty inside because I AM FULL!
My mind is free to think of other things other than food.
My mind lives in abundance, it dreams and it knows that I will eat exactly what I need each day.
I know that my boys have enough food.
I have found freedom in my fridge!
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After two days, we are going to add a few things to the refrigerator, but just enough.
Knowing we have enough
Living with enough.
Being enough.
(This post was inspired by my friend AM and her mom C! It is great so share your fridge epiphanies with people.)
Two years ago, almost to the day. I started on a journey where I needed to learn to ride in the waves.
No choice.
Just had to do it.
The waves were metaphors, but overpowering.
My breathe was taken out of me many times, but I choose to not allow it to not overcome me.
The diagnosis of my best friend and mom having cancer.
The death of my beloved mom on Christmas 2013.
My grief was like living in a boat.
Some days the journey would be surreal, warm and comforting.
But without a moment’s notice the waves would start to pummel me, push me under and make me gasp for air.
I didn’t know what to do.
I couldn’t “do” anything.
I need to just “be” in the waves.
Feeling what I was feeling.
Allowing the grief, sorrow, pain to come.
Allowing myself to learn and let go.
Two years later, I am starting to learn to ride on the water with my four boys surrounding me.
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The waves are infrequent. The water is calmer. I can truly say that I have learned to ride in the waves and am now enjoying a time of being on the water, in the water of life.
Yes, the waves still do come.
Yes, I honour those waves for what they have taught me and how they have helped me become who I am.
And I am full of overflowing gratitude.
For all that I can do.
For who I am.
I am grateful for my boys.
I am grateful for the people that God has surrounded me with.
I am full of gratitude for my mom, her life and her death.
Created by the Creator.
To dream.
Ponder.
Live abundantly.
Love deeply.
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Our world tell us that we were create to consume.
Buy more.
Have more.
Do more.
And more.
And more.
Make a choice to create.
Write.
Paint.
Garden.
Move.
Speak.
We are truly meant to be creators.
My heart overflows as I write each day.
Peace pours over me as I watch my children build paper cities.
I love exploring what it means to be a creator created by our Creator of life!
In Mr. Voigt’s Chemistry 11 course, I sat in the middle of the science lab room on the right hand side.
I was a mid-pack kind of kid that was really trying to hide. Numbers and science weren’t my forte. I couldn’t feel anything from numbers and the subject of science, well, that was a whole bunch of really long, confusing words. BUT the quotes on the right side of Mr. Voigt’s wall were a hook for me. In his class, I started writing down quotes. In my sixteen year old mind, I read over and drank up these quotes every day. These quotes were more nourishing to me than any book or writing assignment that Ms. Birdsall did in English class. (Yes, these were actually my teacher’s names. Quite fitting aren’t they?) These quotes help me survive and even thrive in Chemistry 11.
My favourite quote was: “Minds are like parachutes, they only function when open.”
Today, I thought of Mr. Voigt and I must confess that for the first time in my life I was pondering something science-y.
Newton’s Third Law
Every action will cause an equal and opposite reaction. (Did I get that right?)
A good example for me right now would be when I think about swimming in our pool. I amazingly have strength to push the water backwards and miraculously the water pushes me forward. Viola, Newton’s Third Law.
The crazy thing is not only have I been pondering this in the physical realm around us, but I have taken it a step further and am pondering it in the mental realm we create in our minds.
Do our thoughts create equal and opposition reactions?
Could thoughts be considered actions?
The reason that I have been thinking this is that over the last three months I have infused my mind with a potpourri of positive podcasts, the discourse of thoughtful, serving people and videos that are encouraging and motivating.
Could these actions pouring into and nourishing my mind be creating a new mental picture for my life?
Newton’s Third Law for changing your mind.
Your dreams.
Your life.
Stay tuned.
This is only the beginning of this scientific experiment!
"Be" ENOUGH 