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Toxicity is Infectious

Toxicity Dances Around You

But

Only You Can Decide
How Close
To Allow
The Flame
~HS

Are You Listening?!

When Life Changes

There is a reason for Gratitude which is not a small word for this Heart.

Whenever I hear about an “Instant Tragedy” my heart travels to that room of those grieving hearts, a room filled with shock and hearts who will come to know that
life will never be the same.

Gratitude Matters
When my husband was murdered, and including many loved ones who have transitioned, for this heart it is another reminder, a refresher on the priceless treasure of life with an opportunity to love, to express gratitude, to be a presence of peace,
and so many other words that can be shared.

This Heart Knows the Value of Gratitude
Who purposely is engaged in any room taking in the Love
We all start a New Day
But how it starts is not a Guarantee of How it Ends
With That Gratitude becomes to this Heart a Priceless Commodity

The daily exercise of being Thankful for What It is, can be an Impactful Exercise and one of the Greatest Gifts is when you live and exercise with your words and actions within that space, you’re “intentionally” robbing Regret.

Robbing Regret, so when Life Changes, “not if” but when it does change in whatever form, it will have its own experience and with Grief that is unique to every one of us. This is not being shared as a guideline to walk through the emotions
attached to change.

For this Heart, I’ve learned and continue to press on a Living God that I knew before being married, before children and including not always getting it right, I still don’t
but the Love of a Creator who loves this creation beyond Measure.

Unmeasurable Love that means I don’t have to get it right
I don’t have to understand it all, but continuing to Trust in a Relationship with GOD, that I've come to know, and one that is much Bigger than this Heart.

My Journey
allows observation of all the opportunities, to love, to laugh to just listen to those who surround my life in various moments along my journey
with an open heart, not judgment.

Be Intentional to be in the room, to share a space, to listen, to express Love with Words, and Hugs. Be secure to say “I’m Sorry” or to express the part you played that made another feel weighted.

Take a pause to listen to that person who is trying to get your attention and or share what is important to them. That is Important because the Chance May
Never Come Again.

Dear Friend
Dear Villager

No One Said Tomorrow Will Look the Same as Today
When You Live in that Space and Life Changes
Not If Life Changes but When
Timely or Untimely
Expected or Unexpected
There will be Grieving
And
That is between You and God to Walk Through

Changes
From A Heart Who Understands First Hand
Who Sees
Who Has Experienced
And Will Again
Many Times
Until this Heart’s End

But
Living with Gratitude
Expressing Love Means
That
When Life Changes
This Heart is Left with Many Things

However
Regret
Regret
Regret will not be one of Them
And
From One Who Knows
That is a Beautiful Thing

Hugs,

Yvette "Donyale"

A Chain in Progress

12/2/2024

A Chain in Progress

A Chain In Progress

What is Progress?

Progress defined as a (noun), is forward or onward movement toward a destination.

Consider the words “progress” and how it fits into our daily life. In our lives, “we all” are going forward, and onward, and for this heart, experiencing “destinations” A good analogy for this share is a chain or necklace.

The image used in this share represents what I envision, **Including a Visual description
An Image of a table with tools and numerous trinkets to create, to put something together.

I see all the pieces on the image as moments and decisions throughout our day, and how each piece intertwines with another. The finished piece represents a destination, a temporary platform, or a season because this heart does not believe that we land somewhere and remain. After all, things are always, always changing.

Consider, that Planet Earth continues to rotate as we go about our lives, reflect for a moment just on that thought. Wow, something to consider.

Whatever we are trying to improve in, do better with, or adjust or revise to, in many ways our intent can be that every decision we make, every moment, is Progress, moving us into a new season, offering us a new day.

About creating a chain or a necklace, the intent is to create something beautiful, or an outward expression of what our heart envisions, moving onward, and if that is our focus, that allows us to recognize how valuable a moment, a decision is, not a small thing. Again, it is not a small thing.

When we can weigh out, consider, and set our intent for the day before us, for this heart that includes time with God focused on His day, seeking out His Wisdom, being still to listen and to be alert to His steps *repeat, His Steps, forward for my life, when in that zone, that can guide my direction and allow awareness on the path for my journey. In knowing a Loving God, I miss turns, I may show up late or maybe early, but the God I know is a Loving God and God has steps and reroutes to allow this heart to arrive at destination “points”

Destination Points like a finished piece, allow us a better view of when the work on that piece is completed and to consider all the “trinkets” decisions that are a part of that finished piece.

The Power of Engagement can be attached to Awareness of what we are thinking, doing, and engaged in with others, whether are we intent, alert, and aware, and what the pieces “trinkets” are, the decisions that are making in the moment.

Time is continuous and engagement is when we take hold of the time that is in Progress.

As we navigate forward, be aware, be alert to the “trinkets” the decisions in the moments, and how they potentially intertwine.

What Pieces are we intertwining and what will our next finished piece become?!

Wherever this Finds You
Whatever Season
We are a Chain in Progress and daily, we are adding Trinkets

Toxicity is Infectious

Toxicity is Infectious

When Life Changes

When Life Changes

Hugs, Yvette "Donyale"

A Chain in Progress

A Chain in Progress

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Hugs,

Yvette "Donyale"