Gifting

The 1^st day of the last month of this year.

31 days to close out 2023.

From a heart perspective, 3 million heartbeats to get us to 2024.

For some, the best part of the year. For others, the hardest time of the year.

 

What is it that you need at this moment?

If you were to gift yourself with something for your own wellness, what would it be?

Quiet time each morning?

Reading for pleasure each evening?

Rekindling a friendship?

Reinvigorated spiritual practice?

Reintegration with community?

Journaling?

Movement?

 

Commercials will do their best to get us to listen to them as they tell us what we need and what we should buy for everyone in our lives. 

They feed into the pressures of the holiday season to buy things to show how much we care about the people in our lives. 

The implication is that with this new thing they want us to buy for $199.99, we will find contentment and joy. Ditto for the people we gift.

 

Brothers and sisters,

Turn off that noise.

Close your eyes.

Listen to stillness.

Listen to silence.

Listen to life.

Listen 

            to the soft rhythm of your own breath.

Listen 

            to the beautiful beat of the heart in your chest.

Keep listening.

You will see that what you need in these last 31 days of 2023 cannot be bought.

Start there and give freely and unconditionally to yourself.

Let that self-care ground your gifting to others.