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Often Asked...

7/27/2022

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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

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

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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 


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

Often Asked...

Thank You Dear Friend


For
Heart Sharing This Journey


Hugs,
Donyale



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

Fulfills this Heart beyond the "Words to Share"
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"Making Gratitude Contagious"
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Infecting as Many Hearts as Possible 
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Every Day is "not" Great...

7/20/2022

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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" 
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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





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Dear Friend,
Thank You for Heart Sharing this Journey

Hugs,
Donyale


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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
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What Can We Take with Us?!

7/19/2022

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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 

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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

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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


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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



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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 


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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


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Added Sweetness...

7/14/2022

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Added Sweetness...
When you exercise in Gratitude
There are moments that find you. 

The simplest things can bring a "little sweetness" to start the day.

The sweetener packets even have a little sweetness to add to the day. 

This heart "loves it".  



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 

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Exercising Gratitude...No One Said Easy

7/11/2022

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Thank you for Heart Sharing the Journey


We are Planting Seeds of Gratitude
Exercising daily
Focused on what really matters.

Hugs,
Donyale


From a Heart that Knows Firsthand
"Gratitude Robs Regret"
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Is the Door Unlocked?!

7/10/2022

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Is the door unlocked?!

My reflection is in this zone…

When you’re life travels through tragic waters…

Especially in the “freshness” of something happening, that is unimaginable, that takes your breath away, that throws you into a Fog without warning
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That for some functioning because of…
 While living in the numbness, crawling, working through the pain and tears

Is the door unlocked?!
​

This is being shared for the hearts in the midst of the Freshness
And 
Including the hearts who are seeing the light out of a dark room

This is being shared for the hearts who are on the other side of healing
But walking with tattooed hearts on the road forward…

Is the door unlocked?!

This is shared for the Hearts of Faith
As a woman of Faith, I’ve been taught that it rains on the Just and the Unjust

No one has an “exemption” from challenging places
And 
This heart understands and knows that to be a truth

This heart knows firsthand about Mountains and Valleys

But…

Is the door unlocked?!


When a tragic moment happens…
It comes in with an agenda?

My reflection considers 
That when something tragic, unimaginable, or challenging happens or is happening, it comes with the toolbox of “Is the door Unlocked?!”


When this or that happens
It brings the thoughts of being vulnerable
It is designed in this heart’s opinion
To rob the living heart of Peace
Of Possibility
Of constantly checking doors that surround your life

Is the door unlocked?!
​

Can this happen to those who surround your life
Is this possible
Why this or Why That



This Heart is sharing that as a woman of Faith
The surrender of life’s journey is that we don’t possess the Key
We don’t determine the path
We don’t decide the roadmap
We can’t control the when and why

For Hearts of Faith
We Trust God or we don’t
We share our pain with the one who Created Us
We ask, we have the hard conversations for the one who knows the Heart
Who knows the road behind
Who holds the route for the path ahead

Is the door unlocked?!

In the midst of not knowing Why
From a Heart that is filling up with tattoos 
Allow me to share
I decided that my Rest is in my Creator
And
While I walk doing the best I can in the decisions made daily
This heart no longer checks doors that I have no keys to


What does this Heart Have
This Heart 
Has being Grateful and doing all the special offered to this heart
On this New Day Gifted to this Heart

Is the door unlocked?!

Until Next Time
From my Heart to Yours
The invitation is to not worry about all the weeds that may surround us
The work is to continue to plant the Gratitude Seeds that we can
Allow the work of planting seeds that have the potential to Grow
To overtake the weeds that always will be there


Choosing the View
Trusting in the God that this Heart has walked a few miles with now
Choosing to Live, to Love to fill the room with Laughter
Every chance this heart afforded

Is the door unlocked?!
Thank you for listening
Thank you for being here

Thank you for Heart Traveling this Journey with this Heart
Living Heart Inspired Moments

Hugs,
Donyale

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Want More...

Love Conversations filled with
Images and Words
from the Share of this Heart


"Thank You"



​​This Heart's Book allows 

Conversation for "Kindred Hearts"
To Continue the work forward


"Live Heart Inspired" by Yvette "Donyale
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The Sun is Rising...Can you see it?!

7/9/2022

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The Sun is Rising
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Can you see it?!

This heart awakened to the thought this day about how tragic moments, challenging moments, the journey of those hearts who are currently walking through concerns or circumstances that bear weight on the hopeful road ahead, that robs joy for the present-day gifted. That offers the agenda of anxiety or thoughts of defeat, all of which are out to Rob the gift called this day. 

The Sun is Rising
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Can you see it?!

I don’t know if you’ve had the opportunity to see a Sun Rise, the Sunset, or maybe both…It is such a beautiful experience.  For this Heart, it embodies that Beautiful is a Language; from just this alone, it speaks volumes of what a New Day offers as it begins and as it comes to a close.

The Sun is Rising
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Can you see it?!

In considering the road heart traveled to the present day…

The tearful moments, tragic moments, and disappointing or challenging seasons in many ways allowed this heart to see the Sun Rising, to appreciate the Sunsetting, and recognize all that encompasses a new day. 

All that is offered as an opportunity to love on those who surround this heart’s life and the privilege to offer a smile to the hearts of strangers by sharing the heart, sharing images, words, audio, video, by just a passing smile along the road traveled in the marketplace, offering peaceful moments. Being mindful, where patience is needed, offering no judgment zones, for this heart, is fulfilling for reasons of my own and is a gift to the heart who receives it as a potential Gratitude seed that offers an opportunity to grow within, an opportunity for the heart who receives and then chooses to pass it forward.


This is Making Gratitude Contagious, this exercise offers personal fulfillment, this work allows potential seeds to grow and to share. Thank you to the hearts who have traveled a distance now with this heart, who together we live daily “infecting” as many hearts with Gratitude as possible. 

The Sun is Rising
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Can you see it?!

Reflecting that maybe the smile to a stranger offers more than the heart that gives it away will ever know.  Grateful to be Grateful offers gifts to the hearts of others. 


This heart sees…
The faces of other hearts, some that have joyful smiles, embody laughter and joy.


This heart sees…
The troubled faces, the concerns and worries that show up on the face, and or are shared by the words spoken allowing the heart to vocalize with other hearts, releasing the stress of what is trying to remain hidden within. 



The Sun is Rising
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Can you see it?!

This share is why living Grateful, and exercising Gratitude daily is vital, for this heart embraces allowing the heart to reflect on the road behind, to consider the hopeful road ahead and that includes the priceless treasure of being alert, being aware of this New Day gifted and being alert to what that means.  


This Gratitude Awareness is not just pretty words being shared.   

This heart knows “firsthand” that Gratitude Robs Regret and living and exercising in that allowed after the healing from painful places not to be left with Regret. 

The Sun is Rising
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Can you see it?!

Exercising Gratitude
Allows every moment that is offered, a heart opportunity that allows a choice, a decision, to operate from love, from a peaceful place.  


Gratitude is empowering 



This heart is not sharing Easy 
And
Chooses not to focus on being hard



This heart has found fulfillment in bringing awareness
In reminding Your Heart that nothing remains the same


No matter where you reside, the season, the mountaintop, it is not a moment you can lock down, that you can possess, that you can repeat.



No one promised Us that tomorrow
will look the same as Today




Words that for this Heart Matters


Consider,
When we string moments daily of living Grateful

It changes our conversation
It allows laughter to flow throughout
It welcomes Gratitude as the salutation
Hugs become the norm


"Love You"
become warm words as a departure in any given moment
The Sun is Rising
Can you see it?!
Dear friend,

The door is always opened
The welcome mat of Love is always out
You’re welcome to travel this Heart Journey
Living Heart Inspired Moments with this Heart


Hugs,
​
Donyale

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Want More...

Love Conversations filled with
Images and Words
from the Share of this Heart


"Thank You"



​​This Heart's Book allows 

Conversation for "Kindred Hearts"
To Continue the work forward




"Live Heart Inspired" by Yvette "Donyale
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Not Just About...

7/8/2022

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Beautiful is when you recognize
the priceless Treasure
of the road behind Traveled 



Beautiful is recognizing
that it can be a blessing
for the road ahead
for the "hearts" alongside the journey

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There are days

Moments

When the Focus 

Goes beyond 
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Just YOU and YOURS
~HS


Thank you for Traveling this Heart Journey
Thank you
For Living Heart Inspired Moments with this Heart

Hugs,
Donyale

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Want More...

Love Conversations filled with
Images and Words
from the Share of this Heart


"Thank You"


​​This Heart's Book allows 

Conversation for "Kindred Hearts"
To Continue


"Live Heart Inspired" by Yvette "Donyale
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