This article speaks to the delightful surprises & mysteries of everyday life.

Mystery and Delight Sweet and swaying moments of bliss are not to be a daily breakfast food but the cherry in the chocolate – the childish pleasure that brings a star into our adventure. Expressing our delight in being alive and spreading our arms to the sunrise is opening all channels to the delicious and aliveness. We express our thankfulness for this human experience. Bliss is fleeting, yet, real. It is an outpouring of awe – recognition of the beauty and mystery that we stand within. It is essential to hold our beingness, release any temptation to analyze. Once you do it, you know why. Our experience does not need words. It needs a jaw –dropping aliveness, a spontaneous kiss from nature. It is to stop thinking and absorb the moment. Surprise and delight requires nothing to be done, except to stand within presence and sit inside stillness and the grand design of the whole as One. We might fear being made small but never insignificant and always safe and protected with great Love. The mystery can be experienced as a warm mist of rose petals, a blanket around your shoulders. The presence you experience is expansive and comforting. There is a beautiful wildness that tucks you in at night and walks you home. There is a rhythm in the seen and the seeing; there is a dance of color; all things breathe and speak in silent tones and cadence. You are there and we move together. You know this moment. You taste the sun and fly nowhere because something, somewhere, whispers that everything out there is also within. It is here now, in every breath, falling from the stars. You are within a single raindrop that dances on the rooftop, on the seed that rises from the ground, the movement of cycles, the drooling infant. You are the beginner and the finisher. Your life is your work. How do you say hello? Are you there in essence or have you left it under the bed or hiding in a closet? Where are You? In the heart is the seed of aliveness, of delight and delicious. Heart seeds are meant to be carried with us and scattered everywhere. When we all open our hearts, we can flood the world with love. There is never too much. We each have the capacity to save a moment, create a smile and open a new day for someone. And, just as easily, we can darken it if we are not awake and aware of our own heartbeat. It is awareness and being awake in every moment that carries a simple delight into bliss. Wakefulness is the surprise that brings us fully alive. It is available and a choice we make again and again. We can choose wakefulness or slumber. We hope that you: Choose kindness, a smile Choose to listen, to care, to lend a hand Choose love and softness, choose tenderness. We give what we hope for ourselves: Choose dignity for all of humanity Choose love and preservation of what sustains us Choose memory and not forgetfulness. It is natural to love: Choose touch, truth and beingness. Create a legacy of support and standing for goodness and peace. Stand in light.