HOLD YOUR MIRROR by Julie Jordan Scott
I snuggled beside Emma to say our nightly prayer. It is a
treasured part of the day for both of us, this winding-down
time where we are together heart-to-heart, soul-to-soul
and I hold her sweet little self in my arms.
It's similar and different every night as I sing praises of
Gratitude to God for all of the wonderful details of Emma,
thanking the Creator for her elbows and her eyelashes,
her singing voice and her sense of humor, her forthrightness
and her brown hair.
It wasn't always like this. Emma didn't used to want to pray
at all. We transformed what used to be "I don't want to pray"
to "Hey! Don't forget my prayer!"
We have turned prayer into a time of laughter, a time of
sharing, a time of joy and peace even if the moment before
prayer time is rocky or filled with an emotional outburst, the
prayer of gratitude and its healing, joyful energy fills our
hearts and spirits with songs of laughter before we
separate from one another through sleep.
The last line of the prayer is always the same. "Most of
all, thank you for giving Emma to me to raise - thank you
for giving me my very special little girl."
Last week was exceptionally tiring. It was Tech Week: both
Katherine and Emma appeared in the Bakersfield
Community Theatre Variety Show. It meant more late
nights and more over-tiredness at the end of the
day from each of us.
The grand finale of Emma's grace filled prayer came
on night and I thought to myself, "It sure would be nice
to have some one cuddle with me every night and
express Gratitude to the Creator for my elbows and
my toes and my speaking voice and my laughter."
My slightly disgruntled whiny state was short lived
because the answer I heard was immediate.
"So be it."
Oh, yes - that's true.
I can be the one to thank the Creator, every day and
every night, for all the special-and-yes-the ordinary
parts that make me especially me.
I laugh even now, thinking of the reckless abandon
I can offer giving the final line, "Most of all, God, thank
YOU for making ME - ME!"
My intent with Emma's prayer is for her to see her
wonderfulness in a mirror "held up" by me through
words of thanksgiving night after night after night.
I certainly can choose to do the very same for myself.
I can figuratively and truly hold the mirror up and give
thanksgiving for the handiwork of the Creator.
With that attitude and intention, it makes the prayer
simultaneously so simple and so profound. I can
hold the attention, awareness and concentration
on the Creation: Me.
You can hold the attention, the awareness and
the concentration on the Creation: You.
Did I just hear laughter springing from your belly?
Did I heard a sigh of resignation and a thought
somewhere along the lines of "Grateful for my
elbows? I don't see it." The clouds are still there,
still blocking the knowledge that what you are
being grateful for is the handiwork of the Divine
- that handiwork that is made manifest in you.
Victor Hugo said, "Laughter is the sun that drives
winter from the human face." As silly as it sounds,
it will make a difference to speak gratitude for the
seemingly small, insignificant slices of your
being - your eyebrows, your freckles, the bridge
of your nose - and in time and practice you will
looking forward to that special time of day when
you hold up the mirror to yourself and intone a
delighted list and close with the sacred words:
"Most of all, God, thank YOU for making
ME - ME!"
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Personal Success Coach, Writer and Speaker Julie Jordan Scott
launched 5passions.com in 1999 to assist people to live each moment
with Passion: Creative Energy, Blissful Attraction, Boldness
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