This heart often references the season when my life changed "In An Instant" because from my present 20/20 view and reflection on that season, I see the lessons that I carry forward with me.  I share now based on that foundation for those who may not "live aware" of the precious gift called Time, or not recognizing that Moments will become Memories. Not maybe, they will become...



This share is to bring awareness to that fact, to allow your Heart to Consider, the gift that is "not owed to us" the Gift of awakening to a New Day. 


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Whenever this heart is sharing in this area, I'm very aware that some may find themselves, feeling weighted, especially if the heart is being challenged with Regret.  As a woman of Faith, my leaning board, has always been and continues to be my relationship with God, not ritualistic, a relationship.  I know by experience a "living God".


A relationship, that I had prior to that moment that changed my home, that changed my plans, that ripped a part my blueprint.  The moment of  "In an Instant", in between "breaths, my life changed.  As a adult, I know life changes, but in that instant, young hearts looked in my direction wondering, what now?! What did this all mean?!



Living in My Truth tells the story for the Hearts who are not aware and desire to want to know more.  



My Intent, is that "you" are not loss in a season of sadness, heart challenged by a dark room that is trying to keep you locked inside. 


*Whenever I share in these areas, I always recommend to watch the video:  "You are Never Walking Alone", it offers resources and if you need assistance, someone to talk with, this a great place to start.  My heart's intent is that you stay well, that you have peace within, and that you know that if you are here, someone, somewhere needs you and that is not a small thing. 


This Heart is Not just sharing words,  and please know that wherever life finds you or the place you're being challenged in present day, that you know there are those of us who truly care, my name is on that list first and it is the very reason, the why my heart is fulfilled in doing what I do. I'm not obligated, it fulfills me, it makes what I've walked through matter.


This heart is praying that you find your way through and again please know, "You Are Never Walking Alone". Many Hearts are grieving and don't realize you are not alone and you can do something that brings purpose from places that have no answers to Why, painful places, but moments that have purpose and allow something to grow forward for the life, for heart of someone else.  For this Heart, that truly matters. 


---- My reminder is that I don't share Answers, I share a Perspective from my own walk. This village offers a Heart Buffet and you can sample what you like and choose to connect to the area, to the parts that is best for you.  You can freely take only that which is as an asset to travel forward. 



Exercising in any area builds within, this village, exercises Gratitude.  As villagers, we are tending a garden of "Making Gratitude Contagious" infecting as many Hearts as Possible. 
Exercising allows us to build a reflex, it is that reflex that shows up, especially when life unexpectedly turns upside down, words from a Heart that knows. Confronted with a choice, with options of what that means and what can "grow out of that"


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For the Hearts Who May Not Know, who may have never considered....


You may have a list of things to complete and a phone call comes in, take time to speak with that person, whatever you were working on, you can pick back up where you left off.


You said something you should have not said, or did something that your heart knows was not the right response.  Make a point to say "I'm Sorry". Don't allow the trap of allowing something to linger or not acknowledge the part that you may have played a part in.  Even if you say "I'm Sorry" and it is not received or embraced, you did something that released your heart and allows you to continue forward.


Make a point to laugh, to be silly in your own way, to celebrate life, it can be a gathering, a walk, journaling, whatever it is, enjoy the life that God has given us.  It matters, we have now, we have this day. 



Make a point that wherever you show up, you're packed with Peace Within, in fact, consider not visiting others or speaking or even texting someone if you're not in a good space.  Do your personal work first, get your focus back on what really heart matters and then show up with Peace, even Peaceful Silence can in a room, can be a gift.



Don't just have good thoughts about someone, share your thoughts, share it.. Don't just think about it, say the words, share your thoughts.  Love, Kindness means celebrating those we have in our life "this day" and the intent to consider is to not take that for granted. 



For those of you who have younger children, which may include busy lives and schedules and those projects that have to be completed.  Consider, when a child needs your attention, a moment within your day, asking a question, making a comment, sharing a story.  Intentionally, drop everything and "take time to pause" and give complete attention to that moment, eye to eye, listening intently, making that child or children to feel that they are the most important moment within your day.  

It is so easy to live life,  as if nothing ever changes, but from a heart that knows, it does and it will continue to include changes.  

This Heart lived and lives with awareness in this way daily.  

Loss of any kind, has a grieving period and I can't share what that should mean for anyone but I do know from a Heart who grieved many times and in various ways. My relationship, my Faith in God walked me out of many dark rooms, and after the Healing for this Heart, the road continues forward, without Regret.

Not looking for accolades, looking to share, that you have the same opportunity afforded to you every single day, every moment and please don't allow life to rob you of that. Be aware.  
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Remember, if you are feeling burdened, or challenged with regret.  There are resources of Hearts who care.

Video:  "You're Never Walking Alone"


Until Next Time.

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Hugs,
Donyale ​

​When my husband was murdered
There were emotions that were all over the place




When that moment happened
"The Battlefield of Thoughts flooded with"
Where is Your Faith Now?!




As a Woman of Faith
My belief is that life's journey has Mountains and Valleys
I've had my share of challenges




It rains on us all 
My heart could have never imagined that my
Husband of 19 years
A Dad "invested" in our two sons
Would be snatched from our lives 
​"In An Instant"


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For those Hearts who want more on that story
It is located under
"Living in My Truth"
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Respectfully,



We all grieve differently
We all have our walk through life to take
And
Our own decisions to make



Our Lives
Are surrounded by Many
But
We are always accountable to One
Accountable
to 
Our Words
and
Our Actions
Not Them or They
But 
You and I
Are accountable to our decisions
 



This Heart Share is that Life will offer
All of Us Challenges
Not all being the same




My Share 
As a Woman of Faith




When life changed in an Instant
I was in a Fog
With two young hearts 
Looking to find what all this meant
To our home and the Road Before Us




God's Grace and Protection
No way to share the Measure in words
that covered our lives
and 
Continues to do so




This Heart Knows a Living, Loving God
More than words written can ever express
A relationship that was before that day

And
Continues 
To Carry This Heart Forward




The Road is not always easy
God remains with us
Still providing His Grace
 His Love
and
Wisdom in any area
When and if we ask
​What to be done any given day

We all have an Opening Chapter
We are in the midst of a New Page
Every New Day




Most Hearts choose to Ignore
That One Day
We all have a Closing Chapter




This Heart Share is questions...
That
Only Your Heart can answer
What will that look like for you?!
What does it mean
When your Book has a Closing Chapter?!




Questions
That I believe every Heart should consider
And
Decide what that means for you




And





For those of Faith
Who are stuck in "Why"
or
Disbelief


We should run to the one Who Created Us
The one we've come to know
If not known now as a Relationship
To shift our Focus to know more
Why assume
Why not ask for more

​

and 



Not be deceived in difficult places 
Choosing To Be Angry
Choosing to Run Away
In many ways that is 
​Defined as Deception

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What is on the Next Page?!



Dear Villager,

Thank you for Heart Sharing this Journey

I began this day "Grateful"

And

I hope that you did to

~ A Quote that Warms My Heart ~


You have no idea what tomorrow holds,
You have been afforded a New Day
And
That is what matters. 



You have an Opportunity 
To
Thank God
for the day that has been afforded to you. 


Begin
and
End
Each Day 
"Thankful"



Continue to see
What can really be served to others
What can be shared
What can be given away
into the Lives of Others that Surround You


"Included"
Full Awareness

Of 
This New Day  Gifted to You.

​~ HS

There will always be more to do...
What you're pursuing
What needs to be revised

Do what you Do

But

Don't lose sight of What Matters
In this Day gifted 
To you, to me, and To Us 

​

Hugs,
Donyale
​

​#MakingGratitudeContagious

Thank You!
 

Dear Friend, Villager
Thank you for,
Working this Heart's Garden
along with Me



This Book is continued Inspiration
"Live Heart Inspired by Donyale"

216 pages of Images and Words



Planting Seeds of Gratitude
For the Hearts

And

The Hands that Work the Garden

​

​Please Know
That Every Seed Planted Always 
Has the Potential to Grow
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Not Answers, a Perspective

This Heart Shares what I'm Led To...

Take what can be an asset and Continue Forward


Hugs,
Donyale 

THIS BOOK is Inspiration Continued
​"Live Heart Inspired by Donyale"

This Story reminded me
of this Video Share...

"In An Instant"

Life is...

and for "any heart" we gravitate to those stories that are familiar. 

This story, having a common theme.

This will be a short and to the point share



You can choose to this Heart's Conversation
To Celebrate Life with those that You Love
Exercising Gratitude Daily


When Life "not if" but When Life Changes






The Image Shared 
Is David A. Arnold's Netflix Special
That you can choose to watch or not



What Intrigued his Heart
Was
The Flow of a Genuine Heart doing what he appeared to love
sharing what mattered to him
delivered in a Story categorized as Comedy



The End of the Special
Was Very Intriguing


The 20/20 Rearview Reflection of this Special 
Allowed this man's Heart 
Without realizing his heart knowing   
Became an Exit Tour
An Exit Visit with Loved Ones that he honored on this special


An Exit Tour of Love
Before
This Heart, David A. Arnold would Transition



Moments Matter
They Become Priceless Memories

And


These Words Serve Best "only" for the Hearts 




Who can Hear This
Who Understand and Comprehends
That Time is a Priceless Commodity



and 


​
The View
The Words Spoken
The Actions Taken

A Perspective of a Life that Lives
​with Awareness Of 
​What really Matters "every single day"

This Book

Is 

Continued Inspiration



Hugs,

Yvette "Donyale" 



​
This Book (available Soft Cover or E-Book)

"Live Heart Inspired" by Donyale
​

Thank You for Heart Sharing this Journey

Beautiful for this Heart
Is
Intentional Living
Exercising Gratitude Daily

From a Heart that Knows
Living this Way
Allows the Heart to Rob Regret
When "not if" When Life Changes


Hugs,
​Donyale 

Making Gratitude Contagious is Always the Intent

Thank you for planting seeds with this Heart

The Book
"Live Heart Inspired" by Donyale 

September Awareness Is Heart Intentional

September Awareness Is Heart Intentional


Welcome to Helping Build Bridges Across. 


If this is your first time, Welcome.
When you return or if this is your second visit, you are no longer a visitor but now a Villager. 


Villagers welcome back and Thank you for Heart Sharing this Journey with this Heart doing the work, tending the Garden, Connecting in Making Gratitude Contagious, and infecting as many hearts as possible.

September Awareness Is Heart Intentional


​September Awareness is a month of Heart Reflection, Awareness for this Heart, it is intentional and it’s time spent on where am I, reflecting on the memories, the lessons on the road behind, the plans for Today, and the Hope of tomorrow which includes the road before me. 


One of the things that came to mind and are a part of September’s Reflection, was my Husband Todd’s Funeral, which for me meant “transition” as a family we were celebrating his life intentionally on the day of the service, sharing stories of his time here with us. It allowed our hearts to share in memories and laughter at times while stories were shared.


My position was grief was traveling alongside me from the moment the news was delivered that Todd would no longer travel the road with me, the day of his Funeral would be shedding tears in the celebration. Grief arrived with me at the service and I recognized would travel many years on the road with me.


​The day of his Transition was planned and was Intentional to have the spirit of celebrating Todd’s presence and time here on earth with us and not to focus on the given that he would no longer spend another day with any heart in that room here on earth with us.  Death is separation from our loved ones temporarily, my Faith is beyond a grave. 

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Again, This month of September is always intense and each year it seems to represent something different. My reflection for this share is centered on Todd’s Funeral, but for some, we called it a Celebration of Life, we celebrated the stories of him and times shared with him, it was laughter and of course tears but it was centered on his life, it was centered on him being here. He was here and for this heart that deserved celebration of who he was and the conversations and laughter and love shared with him.  


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My faith is that death is our spirit returning to our Creator, returning to God who gave us life, and in death, in transition, our spirit is separated from the Body, which I would describe as the Body Suit that allows us to reside on this earth. For this heart, I believe our spirit continues to live and we just separate from our loved ones here on this earth, but they, my loved ones, my dear friends, their spirits are still very much alive which is my belief, it is my Faith. 

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September Awareness Is Heart Intentional


This is not a share of how you should grieve when losing a loved one, nor how it should be for you or those who surround your life. This is not telling you to celebrate life at a Funeral service. This is not telling you what your belief should be regarding death, this share is my heart’s experience, it is my faith, it is not shared as a debate, it is shared for those who want to hear about the experience, whose hearts may share the vibe of that and have a kindred heart. If nothing else, you're welcome to just listening, just reading respectfully of another heart’s experience.  



We each have our own life’s journey to travel, to walk, to live out. We, you, me, all of us are accountable for our own decisions which include what we say and the actions we take. 



This is shared and many shares are presented as a Heart Buffet. Allowing You to decide what to do with it, what is an asset for your heart, and what is inspiring, and or encouraging to choose to take with you from this or any share. 

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This Heart does not provide answers
This Heart shares a perspective 

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September Awareness Is Heart Intentional


​My thought is when you’re in a room like that and I recognize many hearts may have experienced Todd’s Funeral, in a very different way, I noticed in reflection especially while speaking, a room filled with a unique glare, a staring of the eyes while listening to the stories being shared, I conclude without the need to receive validation, those were eyes filled with thoughts of moments of celebrating a life individually loved, attending the death of someone that we know, that we loved, whose presence will be missed, and in the midst of all that was also reminding us all that it is a part of this Life’s Journey, and our Beliefs, our Philosophy, our loved ones, our dear friends, our possessions, will not and does not circumvent or eliminate our participation in being the honoree, of our own life-ending. A chapter from a book of life written that will close out from this earth.



For this heart it helps to be transparent with those thoughts, to share out loud what we know but most choose not to talk about it for their own reasons. 


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This train of thought for this heart allows the Gravitation to What Matters Daily, this allows a Focus to Exercise Gratitude Daily. It allows this Heart to travel with Knowing What Really Matters, It is this type of thought that allowed This Heart to Rob Regret by Living with Gratitude. Some say a Woman Sets The Tone for Her Home, I lived that when Todd was with us, we had numerous days of Love, Laughter and when not if, but when irritated or angry about something it simply meant allowing space for each other to gather our own thoughts until we could have a conversation about it. To Take a Pause of Silence and separate shared space. 

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September Awareness Is Heart Intentional


This was not perfected, this was a discipline, and it helped that we shared an understanding of the numerous years together and the experiences in that, changing the bar on nonsense, considering the possibilities of what our marriage was transitioning into, including our sons who were becoming older and independently finding their own ways of doing, which at the time meant our lives, our marriage would look different as they became older and what would that mean, understanding that we had to invest in the chapters of life looking different and our way of every day doing what needed to be done.



This is an exercise, this is intentional living,  this is a chosen exercise every single day, this is choosing peaceful silence especially when you don’t know what to say or how to respond, it is allowing the Heart to settle, Thoughts to be reigned in,  to find Peace within, to listen to the options before the heart before just saying or just doing. This is personal work, it is looking for your own wholeness that is not completed by the role of someone else in your life, it is your own work to do. 

​

September Awareness Is Heart Intentional



​This is September Awareness 2022, the Ask is 3 things to choose from this year, all of which are on the September Awareness Page, the Intent of what is asked allows this Village to have a Further Reach, to go deeper, to go wider and it is not asked of just one, but asked of many to just choose an action for This September.




My Heart appreciates you, Heart Traveling this Journey with me. Many of you since 2014 when this Village arrived online as a way to just share with each other, you can even read what was written in April 2014 on the About Page when it started online.




September is a bookmark, it is an annual event for the Village,  it allows a direction for This Heart and for This Village for Today and For the Hopeful tomorrow. 

Thank you for choosing an Action for

“September 2022 Awareness Month”



If this Village has been and is of Value that is a Blessing,
that is building upon why the Work has been elevated,
and why Seeds of Gratitude are Planted in numerous ways.



Thank you for Hearing The Ask and for Choosing the Action You Will Take. 

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​
September Hugs,
​Donyale

Where does worry get us?!

This heart understands that life offers us all real issues, challenges, and stresses, like you I’m traveling life’s journey with a hopeful heart for the road before me, an intentional focus on exercising to get the most out of this new day gifted to me. 

Where does worry get us?!

This share is dedicated to the hearts who live “daily” overwhelmed, first, allow me to start with this is not associated with those with a medical condition or something that requires more than an inspirational post, this is the heart that relatively does not suffer in this area or has not been diagnosed with a form of anxiety issues.  

This is for the hearts that operate from just being worried, never enjoying what life offers in the small or big ways. Never locating the glass half full, always empty, and telling others about it. 

Where does worry get us?!
My exercise is to build upon Peace Within, this is not just a cute phrase, but truly building within.  There is power in exercising peace, it changes the view, it offers a perspective of possibilities and the calmness that is attached to this exercise allows the heart “no matter the issue” to see options to consider next steps.

Exercising Peace within is a  treasure it allows you to have a vision of what matters, which includes those we love and surround our life. This one line alone is not a small thing. 

Not often spoken “out loud” but not one of us will live forever, not one, and that should mean that we have a level bar, a heart measuring stick that allows us to consider in any given moment what matters.  If we could operate in that realm it would change how we make decisions, and how we choose to respond.

Where does worry get us?!
Worry is a time robber. My theory is this, if worry can’t change “whatever” the issue may be, then consider using that same space, the time available to operate differently, exercising peace, gratitude, and even a peaceful “intentional” silence of just reflecting on what is good in your life.  Same issue, a different approach, that for this heart matters, it means that “time is not robbed” or used up with stress levels that are attached to worry.  It means not being locked in disruptive behavior or making bad decisions, or saying things that can be forgiven but not forgotten so easily.  

Where does worry get us?!
This heart doesn’t share answers, sharing a perspective. Sharing what I choose to exercise daily. This is not about being easy, this is about “intentional focus” on what matters. Taking the reigns on the out-of-control emotions that knock on the heart, or whisper to engage in drama or play a part in confusion. 

Where does worry get us?!
We all have our own choice to make, but time waits on no one and that should allow a pause on what to do with the time we are gifted. 

What is fulfilling in your life?
What does bring you joy?
What is your intent? 

Are you engaged in the day or most days drifting?

Take the reigns on your emotions and decide whether it will be a day of worry or intentionally focused on what Heart Matters.

Thank you for Heart Sharing this Journey

Hugs,
Donyale


​
If your heart finds value in what is shared by images and Words
Be sure to Preview the book:  Live Heart Inspired
An Inspirational Journal available in Soft Cover or E-book

Thank You for Listening
​

One Day...One Date

Can Change Your Life
​
September 7th...Changed Mine

You're Invited to celebrate this gift called Life
Not a small thing


Traveling this Heart Journey
Living Exercising Gratitude Daily
Is a Focus
Is a Choice 
Reflecting and Living Heart Inspired
Is an Intent 


This Heart Recognizes 
That some days
some moments
some seasons are not
So Great


​
But
Consider
All the Places in the World
That are filled with that Conversation
That Focus
There are numerous places to find more negativity
To accept more hopeless headlines
To be defeated before a New Day Begins


This is An Invitation
To Celebrate 
The Gift of Life
The Joy of Priceless Memories
A Heart filled with Hope for the Road Before Us



"There will Always be a Season For..."




This scripture that follows
​can share it much better than
This Heart Knows How To...

There will always be a season
This Heart chooses to celebrate Life
To Be Grateful and to Rejoice This Day 
That the Lord Has Made



To Rest In God is a Priceless Treasure
To Surrender our Cares and Worries
Is a Breath of Fresh Air
Above what this Heart Feels
Beyond the Circumstances this Heart is Challenged With



There Is
And 
Always Will Be a Season

​
You're Invited to Join This Heart 
Celebrating This Gift called Life

Hugs,
Donyale

Thank You for Heart Sharing This Journey
Thank you for Planting Seeds of Gratitude

Who Are You Racing?!

Who Are You Racing?!

We share life's journey with many
But
We will always be accountable to one
Life's Journey is like a Great Book
It Has a Beginning
With Many Hearts who forget so easily 
​By the choices that are made 
Has an End

​
​Who are You Racing?!

What a Beautiful Image
A View from the Top of a Mountain
It reminds this Heart that "in reflection" we all have experienced moments
Moments that are the same as the "Top"
Of a Mountain View
A Chapter
A Season 
That offered a beautiful view
Filled with Love and Laughter
And
We also have Gone Through
Maybe even Crawled Through Valleys
Weighted Challenging
Places along our Journey





Who Are You Racing?!

We can exercise Gratitude Daily
Never mastered, an exercise
An Exercise that becomes a Reflex 
When we choose to exercise in it daily





Who are you Racing?!
If for nothing more than the Breath of Life we have
An opportunity afforded in a New Day
No matter the Chapter, no matter the Page, no matter the Moment or Season
We Can choose to Love on Others 
We Can Live Aware of what really Heart Matters 
"No One Promised Us Tomorrow Will Look the Same as Today"

And

For This Heart and Many Others
Our decisions are made with that Awareness 
Every Single Day
We are accountable to the choices that we will make




​Who are you racing?! 

The choices that we make
"Hopefully"
From Our Own Heart
From Our Own Decisions
And
"Are Not Made or Decided"

From the Voices that Surround Us
From Voices that have the intent to Control
Our Way of Thinking
To Speak Through Us
For 
There Own Agenda



Consider that Type of Power
From others 
Who can't even see a glimpse of our heart

or 

Have any clue of the road that we've
Walked Through 




Who are You Racing?!

On Top of the Mountain
And
Even in the lowest of the Valley


We always have a choice
We have a chapter
We have a page offered to us each day
A Page with a Pen that our Heart will Write


By Every Word Spoken
By Every Action We choose to Take
We Always Have a Choice
To decide to write the page
We Always Have a Choice
On what will be written on that Page




Who are You Racing?!


How does one write a page?
It is written even by the drifters of Heart
Who choose nothing, even that is written
By every word
By every action
By every choice that is made or not
It is written 






Who are You Racing?!



Heart Reflecting on Conversations
And
Considering those Moments of Hearts who Seem to share from a Mountain Top View

The Mountain View Hearts 
Sharing words with Authority
That seem to represent
"Having life all figured out"

So Much So...

Hearts that share direction
That share answers
​


Authorities that share
5 ways of How To
and
10 ways To Do

Sharing direction based on a moment
Based on a page
A Chapter
A Season of sitting on 
"Top of the mountain" 






Who Are You Racing?!
 
Do They 
Do You
Have it all Figured Out?!
Top of Mountain Dwellers
Have They...

Found a way to 
Possess a  Life that Never Changes 
Which includes or allows being
"An Authority"
To share with other hearts
Directing hearts
They no nothing about
Nothing about the Road Traveled





Who are You Racing?!

Considering...
What is Life's Journey All About?!

Not Sharing Answers 
Sharing A Perspective
Taking a Pause 
To
Share
To
Be Still and Reflect  






Who Are You Racing?!

A Mountain Top Moment 
From a view that can never be Possessed
Cannot be locked down
But

Yet so much energy into a Moment
That will surely pass
And
For some Hearts who make Decisions


AS IF
The Mountain Top Will
Always remain the same?!

Who Are You Racing?!

Hugs,
Donyale


Planting Seeds of Gratitude
Every Seed Planted
​Has the Potential to Grow

When the Road Changes...

​When the Road Changes...

One of the greatest gifts along this heart's journey, is what was learned at a young age that life can change, that change can separate us from those we assumed would always be there traveling the journey with us, traveling this road ahead. 



Again a view from a young heart.
As we continue on the road before us, we learn the value, at least for some, the value of those who surround our life, who are a blessing even in the the midst of the "messes, the mistakes, the things that can't be unspoken or can't be undone"  




It is so easy to sit back and critique the mistakes of others
To decide what someone else should have done



That part that amazes this heart is because in most cases,  it includes those who can't see their part, who can't see that we all need room for forgiveness.  That amazes me, those who seem to "think" they have it all figured out and sit in the seat of sharing there wisdom, there answers, they really believe that they are  experts on living life's journey.




That amazes me...
These same hearts of great wisdom are the ones who when things changes have the most challenging times of "Why didn't I or the actions that should have happen, or could have, left now with the weeping tears of if only I had done"



When "this day" offers that You Can Do
But still chooses to sit in their "wisdom"
In spite of...




When the Road Changes...




This amazes me



To the Hearts Who Know
and 
For the First Time Visitors
This Heart doesn't share Answers
The share comes from this heart's experiences, the environment, the road traveled to this day of sharing with your heart
Take what can be an asset and just simply leave the rest behind




If your hearts is led to
Join in the work with this Heart 
With the Villagers who are working together
Planting Gratitude




This Heart is empowered by What I Can Do
Not 
Trapped by what I can't change
No One Promised Me that Tomorrow Will Look the Same as Today
And
That Dear Friend is Priceless to this Heart 
It allows You
It allows Me
It allows Us
To Live in that
It allows Us an Opportunity to Be Aware, to Be Alert 
To What Really Matters "every single day"
An Exercise
Never mastered
But 
An An Exercise
Until
It becomes a Reflex




It allows us to make the best decisions that we Can This Day
Even Peaceful Silence
Can be a Gift
It is the Place, the Space that allows us to Take a Pause
To Just Sit with What Really Matters 
Before We Speak 
Before We Respond
Before we choose an option
Before we make a decision  
Every Single Moment and Every Single Day
It is Measuring the Cost Before





Until Next Time
Thank you Dear Heart for Connecting, for Being Here
For Getting In where you Fit In
Planting Gratitude with this Heart
The Seeds are Sprouting...Can You See it?!





When the Road Changes...

​Thank you for "Heart Sharing" this Journey




Sharing is Caring
Sharing is Loving Forward
Sharing is Planting Seeds of Gratitude




Hugs,
​
Donyale




Get In Where Your Heart Fits

Planting Gratitude

This Month


I celebrated a birthday and it was a great time
with Family and Dear Friends





A Birthday
That allowed reflection and the opportunity
To Celebrate




With my own theme which
Included the words




The way that

“This Heart Wanted To”





Beautiful is that this heart, did just that, enjoying, doing, and celebrating
what brings my heart joy. 





Thanking God for Life, life is a gift, and you know that I believe in exercising gratitude, again these priceless commodities that are shared from this heart




“Not Mastered”
but instead a choice
A Daily Exercise.




A choice that decides to, every single day, some days much easier than others to Exercise In
But Again


A discipline that decides to do so
“Including in the midst of..."

Those complicated, complex and challenging places
and Seasons
Always a Choice





My joy, my fulfillment is found
Located
“beyond me and mine”




I’m grateful to my Creator for an Opportunity
to share with other hearts,
It is a Precious
Privilege to “Just Share”
NOT ANSWERS
A HEART PERSPECTIVE



Allowing the “Heart”
who Hears
who Sees
or
who Reads


To Decide

What is an Asset for their Own Journey





Hearts that know they are a part of this Village

"Helping Build Bridges Across"




My favorite reference is a Village

Which for this Heart Means
We are Never Walking Alone



Together we are Planting Seeds of Gratitude


With the Intent of 

"Making Gratitude Contagious"






Daily devotion is time with God
which includes reflection on the Day Before Us
and
With Intent 
For the Hopeful Road Ahead



It Is a Discipline that allows this Heart to
“Sit Still”
Intentionally



REFLECTING





For this Heart…
that includes just being “Grateful”
For this Time Now
For this Moment,
For this Current Day





What is Your Daily Reflection?
What Really Matters to Your Heart?




Dear Friend,

When you KNOW YOUR WHY
Your Journey
Your Road Ahead
Will look very different


KNOWING
Will Decide
Every Word Spoken
Every Action Taken
It Will be Framed By...
Measuring the Cost Before



IT WILL INCLUDE


"Awareness Of"

~ Moments that will become Priceless Memories ~

Not Maybe
But Will

​

​Thank you for "Heart Sharing" this Journey




Sharing is Caring
Sharing is Loving Forward
Sharing is Planting Seeds of Gratitude




Hugs,
​
Donyale




Get In Where Your Heart Fits

Planting Gratitude

Every Heart Plants a Seeds



Every Single Day



Every Heart Plants Seeds



Hearts Plant Seeds

By the Words Spoken
By the Actions Taken



Daily


Every Seed that is Planted
Has the Potential to Grow



The Question Really Is...



What Seeds is "YOUR HEART" Planting?!
With Your Words
By Your Actions



ONLY YOUR HEART KNOWS 

That Truth





Every Heart PLANTS SEEDS
~HS

Thank you for "Heart Sharing" this Journey




Sharing is Caring
Sharing is Loving Forward
Sharing is Planting Seeds of Gratitude




Hugs,
​
Donyale




Get In Where Your Heart Fits

Planting Gratitude

We Can Carry

We Can't Change Yesterday


BUT


"We Can Carry" 


The Lessons Learned


To 


Make the  Best Decisions for "This Day"



DECISIONS



That will EFFECT



Our Hopeful Road Ahead


​~ HS

Thank You For Heart Sharing

This Journey



Sharing is Caring


Together "our common core" is Gratitude




Thank You for the "Hearts" who Connects Here


Thank You "new heart" for just 
"getting in where you fit in"




Doing


What Fulfills Your Heart





Planting Seeds of Gratitude




Hugs,

Yvette "Donyale"

Share and Then Share Some More

Share the Memories
Share the Moments
Share those Stories of Loved Ones no longer traveling with Us

Share what really matters
Share the photos that have a story
Share the Wisdom Learned and  Found on the Road behind Us


Share the Loving Thoughts you are thinking
Share the Concerns and Circumstances with "trusted" Heart

Thank you for Heart Traveling this Journey


Living Celebrating Moments

Living Focused on What Really Matters


ALL Hearts are welcome to Join In

and 

For Those Hearts who don't Resonate



Love Continues 

And 

Wish you the best as you depart

Traveling "your journey" Forward




Hugs,

Donyale 

​Thank you for being Here


For Listening
For Sharing
Their is not enough words to express this Heart's Gratitude
Sharing the Journey
Infecting as Many Hearts as possible with Gratitude



Thank you to the Hearts asking how they can do more...
Simply
"Get in where your Heart Fits" 



"Never Obligated"

Sharing is Caring in the Way that Fulfills
Your Heart


Planting Seeds of Gratitude

Sing a Song
​

When your thoughts are racing

And 

You're Feeling Stressed it helps to Sing a Song
out loud or within
Our thoughts can be all over the place

But

The Song allows an opportunity to Tune Out the Noise
Bringing your thoughts back into Focus
Deciding where 'you' want them to go


Not sharing Easy
"Choosing" not to Focus on Hard


Exercising Gratitude Daily

Thank you for Heart Sharing the Journey 

Hugs, 
Donyale

Thank you for being Here


For Listening
For Sharing
Their is not enough words to express this Heart's Gratitude
Sharing the Journey
Infecting as Many Hearts as possible with Gratitude



Thank you to the Hearts asking how they can do more...
Simply
"Get in where your Heart Fits" 



"Never Obligated"

Sharing is Caring in the Way that Fulfills
Your Heart


Planting Seeds of Gratitude

FULFILLMENT for This Heart...


Is Sharing what has been located within and allowing the one who comes across this...


​For "the Heart" who finds this
Only you will be left to DECIDE what to do with it.



Please Know...
It is delivered with Love without Obligation
It is Shared and Intended to be An Asset
But
Every Heart who comes across it
Will 
Have to Decide what to do with it. 

Often Asked...

What did you do when Life Shifted?!
When Life Changed "In An Instant"




As a Woman of Faith
It did not remove the Pain
It did not provide any answers of "next steps"
It did not provide "what to do" now

​


Faith
Did not take me over, did not eliminate all of the uncertainty that Flooded In without permission
When Life Changed "In An Instant"

​

Faith
Didn't provide answers
Didn't whisper a warning of what a New Day would now
"Look Like"

Often Asked...

From that Crossroad

Looking Back and Reflecting

This Heart Realizes...


What I learned
What I experienced
Faith filled to that "moment"
A relationship with My Creator
Allowed this Heart...



To Just Let Go
To Just Surrender to the Day Before Me...
To Recognize that "this heart" was not in Control




Trusting God

Surrendering to my Faith
Trusting God

Trusting the Same God that I had known up until to that Present Moment



Trusting God
That met with me at the Crossroad
Of
When Life's Journey
Life's Plans
Had Changed 
In An Instant

Often Asked...

Choosing the Focus

Every Single Day
Every Single Day
Every Single Day



Exercising Gratitude


Choosing to Focus on What Really Matters
Choosing Intent for the Day before "this Heart"


From that Moment and Continuing 
Recognizing that "Change Happens"



Which Now Allows this Heart
To
Exercise Daily Loving On
Celebrating with
Reflecting and Appreciating




When Life Changes
It will be heart confronted
We have No Choice but to confront




But
Whatever it Is
And
As Time allows a Heart to Heal
At Least for This Heart
It will not be a Journey filled with Regret




This Road
This Heart Share is not about being Easy
And 
This Heart Chooses Not to Focus on Being Hard


This Heart is 
Not Providing Answers



This is a
Heart Share
A Heart Journey



One Day
One Step
Starting Each Day with Intent 

​

"Making Gratitude Contagious"
was, is and always will be the Intent

Often Asked...

Thank You Dear Friend


For
Heart Sharing This Journey


Hugs,
Donyale


​
The road ahead is no longer "just about me"
​
​
Which

Fulfills this Heart beyond the "Words to Share"

"Making Gratitude Contagious"
​
Infecting as Many Hearts as Possible 

Every Day is Not Great...





This Heart 
Doesn't Share Answers

This Heart
Shares a Perspective from the "route" traveled




This Heart Agrees
Every Day is Not Great




From This Heart's View
That Means...



This Heart CHOOSES to "Take a Pause"
and
Then Considers
What Really does Matter?!




Taking a Moment
To Share 
That No One Said Easy
"Always a Choice"





Always a Choice

This Heart recognizes
That Life is not Continual

It is and always
Will be
Changing





With That being Known
This Heart then "chooses" 
​
To
Exercise Gratitude Daily
Never Mastered...Exercising





Life Always Offers a Choice Daily


And
Only We Can Decide 




What to Choose
and
How To Respond



Including


What We Do This Day


Consider...
No One Promised Us That Tomorrow
Will Look the Same as Today


For This Heart

That Really Matters

Dear Friend,
Thank You for Heart Sharing this Journey

Hugs,
Donyale

​

Thank you for being here
For Listening
For Sharing
Their is not enough words to express this Heart's Gratitude
Sharing the Journey
Infecting as Many Hearts as possible with Gratitude



Thank you to the Hearts asking how they can do more...
Simply
"Get in where your Heart Fits" 



"Never Obligated"
Sharing is Caring in the Way that Fulfills Your Heart


Planting Seeds of Gratitude

What Can We Take with Us?!


What can we take from the road that we’ve traveled…

What can we carry and what can we utilize for this day
and
Pack for the Hopeful Road ahead



What Can We Take with Us?!

This heart dances with “what is” and that includes
what this heart has no control over
the changes,
the losses,
the seasons of what life delivers without permission
and
leaves this heart only with the choice
of
“how to respond”


The Village of Gratitude allows this heart to Share
these reflections
this Heart's Perspective
To Remind our hearts to Focus
Daily
On 
What Really Matters

and
To Exercise Daily in being Grateful 


Thank You
For the Hearts who are traveling this Journey with this Heart


For the hearts who join in dancing daily 
Being Grateful for a New Day


Even in the Midst
Even in What is Surrounding our life
Even in the Challenges that battle our Thoughts 

​

What Can We Take with Us?!

This Heart believes that when we allow our hearts to travel Grateful
It allows us
To 
Choose our Words
To Decide our Actions
To deliver Peaceful Silence
Which is not
A small thing

​

What Can We Take with Us?!

It allows us to Celebrate this day gifted to our lives
The celebration of life that comes wrapped in so many different ways
That is delivered into the lives of others in different varieties 


Celebration is dancing, laughter, peaceful silence, and saying out loud
those “beautiful” words that are dancing within our thoughts
without worrying or without concern of how they will be received or not.


The Heart's Fulfillment
discovered 
Taking the road traveled
and 
Sharing
A Heart's Buffet

​

What Can We Take with Us?!

Beautiful is being able to share the words of those we love that has
Transitioned
​before us…



How unique are those words, those moments, those memories to carry into the day
we have and for the hopeful road ahead



For this Heart, my loved ones who have transitioned “was here” and I enjoy when applicable and in the context of moments sharing the words that bring laughter, that offer wisdom to consider, to carry packed for the hopeful road ahead.


They were here… this heart doesn’t lose sight of that, those hearts travel with this heart and will always be tattooed on this heart. 



For this Heart
Choosing what really matters



This Heart filled with Faith has a life beyond a body that is left but has the departure of a spirit that lives on, travels on, and will leave behind, at least for this Heart,
The Power of Love

What can we take with Us?!


Dear Friend,
From this Heart to your Heart…

​
Throwing the ball to your heart
to allow you to decide, to reflect, to consider the words shared




What can we take with Us?!

From 
The Road traveled
From the Experiences
From those who have transitioned forward leaving behind 
Moments filled with Words

This Heart doesn’t share answers
This Heart shares a perspective


​This Heart invites “your heart” to decide what to do 
with this Heart Buffet



Hugs,
Donyale 

​

Thank you for being here, for listening, for sharing, their is not enough words to express this heart's Gratitude.


Thank you for the Hearts asking how they can do more...
Simply, "get in where your heart fits" 


Planting Seeds of Gratitude

Consider,
We all have the option
To approach even those things we've done before
Treating those moments as an experience

As a coffee drinker
Taking time for reflection while drinking
Setting Intent for the day before this Heart
All of which is An Experience