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What is in your genes?

This picture was taken of my Grandpa in 1896 when he was 40 years of age. He lived golden moments to make life a golden season.

What is in YOUR genes?

Lifes golden season should be golden right? To say it’s golden means it’s very desirable or marked by peace, prosperity, and often creativeness.

Let me be clear, the words season and golden have nothing to do with your age. It has everything to do with the lenses through which you see your life as it unfolds. If each moment is considered golden, we inevitably create a golden season.

A very good friend inspired today’s blog. It was her relentless bubbly attitude that made the path to her recently perfect planned outside wedding on a beautiful hillside that overlooks our city. We ended the evening listening to the band play while using the God-painted sunset as a canvas for their background. It was truly a golden moment for all involved. She unselfishly created that moment to share herself and her golden moment with the rest of us. It touches my soul deeply when someone wholly shares such a sacred time of their journey.

My friend is that rare person who always sees the glass half full. However, I’ve known her long enough to know that some of her life events could have easily emptied that glass if she had let it.

I sat on the deck this morning enjoying the sunrise and listening to the birds as they beckoned each other to WAKE UP! With my favorite cup of coffee in hand, I pondered the following thoughts about us humans.

..Why do some see the glass half full?

..Why do some see the glass half empty?

..Why do some not even consider a glass at all?

..Why do some of us live so fast we bypass the golden moments?

..Why do others live ONLY for the golden moments?

We all have the same hours in the day, the same options available to us, and the same world to contend with. Yet life can quickly get messy and difficult. We all have hard situations to overcome that hopefully refine us and make us stronger. Life is going to happen no matter what right?

BUT what if there is something in our genes we haven’t considered? What if we just haven’t accessed the very thing that will catapult us to the new endeavor our soul is seeking? The endeavor that wakes up creativity, purpose, and wholeness.

I began to think about my own Grandpa. Born in Ireland in 1856, he came to the United States at 15 years of age.

Grandpa in the final years. Approximately 90 years of age.

He died at 93 with a legacy of written poetry, articles, and speeches. He was a known speaker on the religious circuit for his time and became a writer for several printed tabloids. It doesn’t take long to hear the depth of his thoughts in his archives. Penning his thoughts brought him to his predestined purpose. He was recorded by a local radio station in 1943 at the age of 87 preaching to his small church congregation in Arkansas. My only connection with him is that audio. It was the sound of his voice that threw a flame on something deep inside of my spirit that I couldn’t explain. I simply knew something deep within me had been awakened.

No doubt life wasn’t always golden for my grandpa. However, he scripted some exquisite golden moments during his 93 years on this earth. Even though I never met my Grandpa , I would have to assume his glass was half full most of the time.

Was it predetermined before the beginning of time that I would “inherit’ the desire for writing? Could I have possibly tapped into the waiting well of his influential legacy much earlier in life?

I certainly do not know the answer to those questions but I do know this…just the simple awareness that came from a look back at the family genes has encouraged me to journey on and see where it leads. Many times our influence has a greater impact after we leave this earth. Either way, a legacy of golden moments is more important than actual gold.

The world is influenced by both joy or heartache, peace or violence. We have the choice of which way we will be used.

During my friend’s wedding reception, I saw a group of folks gathered around her mother and aunt. They were both sitting in wheelchairs entertaining the guests with their contagious joy and laughter. It was easy to see WHY my friend always sees the glass half full. The living proof was right there in front of us!

I leave you with this encouragement. Ask yourself those above questions and decide how you see the glass. Decide how you detect the golden moments. Maybe a change is in order after you determine the answers. Either way, take a quick look back at the genes you received through no fault of your own and inspect how they may have influenced your journey so far. And by all means

Enjoy the Journey-VB

P.S. I would be honored for you to read my first book Escape from Darkness. It makes me happy to think of the possibility of my life influencing another as stated in the review below.

I was so awed and inspired by this book. The author, Victoria Bragg, created a special book to truly help us pull out of the darkness and look @’the light and seek wholeness on a Godly plane. I felt as if Victoria was holding my hand and telling me it is okay to go seek real life!
I look forward to more of her pages. It deeply helped my soul.

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Create Your Haven

There is simply not a better time of the day than early morning. Every woman should have their “haven”. That place in the home you can call their own. The place where you can lock the rest of the world out before it even wakes up. I was once advised by a holistic doctor to wake up and experience the sunrise was one of the healthiest things you could do for your well-being. The morning light entering your body through the eyes sets the pace for the whole day. That was not hard advice for me to follow. I can be found in my office most mornings before the sun makes its appearance. A cup of hot tea by my side and soft jazz music filling the air. It is my creative space and I’ve made it my haven. The above picture is what I see out of the window.

I remember well my Mother’s 50th birthday. I teased her about being a half-century old! And now here I am- well over the half century mark myself! For me, it took an unexpected life event to change the course of my entire perspective on life. I sincerely hope that is not the case for my readers. On the other hand, my mother had an incredible way of making every season of life seem golden. She modeled a series of moment to moment positive decisions on how to spend each day. She blended the sunrise, hard work, and laughter into memorable moments for the whole family. Even her death was a golden moment. She left some big foot steps to fill but most of all she blazed a trail of influence lit with beams of sunshine.

I believe the half-century mark opens up an entire new opportunity to embrace. We would do ourselves a terrible injustice to not take advantage of this particular golden season. It certainly offers a time of reflection and reprioritizing. I encourage each person in my path to do the same because the rewards are large. You get more out of yourself and everyone around gets more of you.

One thing I did was write a book. I’ve always heard that your own life testimony is good material for your first book. My book, “Escape from Darkness” (mentioned on About Me ) , was more about the journey to freedom FROM that testimony. I learned some things. Your story is what defines your perspectives and behaviors. We are victims of our environments from the very day we enter the world. The beauty is that while we cannot change the past, we can certainly use it as a tool to define the trajectory of how to make the rest of our years on earth the best they can possibly be. There is always room for improving and adjusting even if you’re already living the best life. Each day has golden nuggets that we run past simply because we aren’t looking.

I will leave you with this encouragement. Plan to enjoy the sunrise. Slow down and find one golden nugget in your day that has been waiting for you all along. Take a moment and remember “THIS IS YOUR SEASON“. Create your haven and by all means

Enjoy the journey…VB