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All that surrounds your life "right now", the beautiful even in the Midst Of. Some Hearts know you don't control most things, but you have the freedom to determine the view ~ HS Beautiful has a language and imagine if hours were spent throughout life's travels intentionally observing the View, listening to the Conversation, observing the faces that you encounter and those you love who surround you. Consider, living with the awareness of that. Beautiful Has a Language. |
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
Thank you for planting seeds with this Heart
The Book
"Live Heart Inspired" by Donyale
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 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.
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.
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.
This Heart does not provide answers
This Heart shares a perspective
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.
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.
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.
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.
September Hugs,
Donyale
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.
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.
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.
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
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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...
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
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?!
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?!
Thank You for Being Here
Thank You for Heart Sharing this Journey
Hugs,
Donyale
When the Road Changes...
As we travel through life's journey, it is easy to take life for granted. It is almost as if we are sleep walking, living life as if it remains the same, living as if nothing changes.
When Life When the Road Changes We are left with the road traveled, we will be left with the decisions, the choices that we've made and will make. |
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...
Sharing is Caring
Sharing is Loving Forward
Sharing is Planting Seeds of Gratitude
Hugs,
Donyale
Get In Where Your Heart Fits
Planting Gratitude
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
What does a New Day Mean to Your Heart?
Hugs,
Donyale
Sharing is Caring
Sharing is Loving Forward
Sharing is Planting Seeds of Gratitude
Hugs,
Donyale
Get In Where Your Heart Fits
Planting Gratitude
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
Sharing is Caring
Sharing is Loving Forward
Sharing is Planting Seeds of Gratitude
Hugs,
Donyale
Get In Where Your Heart Fits
Planting Gratitude
BUT
"We Can Carry"
The Lessons Learned
To
Make the Best Decisions for "This Day"
DECISIONS
That will EFFECT
Our Hopeful Road Ahead
~ HS
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 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
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
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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