February 2022
Happy February y’all!
February is often celebrated as a month designated for us to cherish our loved ones, and while it is overly commercialized, any opportunity to reflect on love is a lovely opportunity to bring more awareness of love into every aspect of how we live.
Personally, I am still coming down from a giant love-cloud after recently being part of a best friend’s wedding that was steeped in culture, family and tradition. It was a reminder of a deep love that not only comes from the joining of two people and their families but also the deep respect for tradition, culture and the roots of what union truly means. Love truly means being fully present in love, relationship and life through all of the cycles and experiences. It means being true to yourself and your values and holding them up to all that you believe in, cherish and hold dear in your family, community and partnerships. And holding that love will come through in different forms; compassion, sacrifice, humility and grace among many, many more ways.
As I move through my experience of being, I am reminded of this in the everyday challenges, risks and sacrifices I make while navigating life’s obstacles and raising a new life amid being a business owner, partner, and friend.
This brings me to what I have been sitting with as my mantra this month: Love in all its forms. Yes, love in the very visible form like witnessing a wedding, but also in the form of sacrifice like staying home from work to watch my child. Love in the form of watching people sharing their passions and talents with others through teachings, as well as seeing love in the acts of being patient with the self when things aren't going the way they were planned.
This life, this experience of being, continues to offer up opportunities to see love in every form. The challenge is to open ourselves fully to what we see; to recognize that love can be present in every action, in every challenge, as a lesson and an opportunity to bring us further into awareness.
So this month I encourage you to take pause in the small moments as well as the large, in the joys as well as the mundane and see where the love is. Is it in the meal you made yourself? In the yoga class you made time for? Is it in the bill you just paid or the task you completed? And I promise you, if you are patient and humble enough, you will see it. You will feel it. You will know it. It may not always be the fireworks and moonbeams we have been conditioned to look for, but it will be the tiny fires that stoke our existence.
Thank you for all the gifts of love you continue to give yourself. Thank you for all the forms of love you continue to share.
Loving you,