Living with INTENTION

My favorite Christmas CD is John Denver and the Muppets.  Our copy of it was stuck in the CD player of my car last year and was destroyed.  I had forgotten that when I started looking through my CD's for it.  I was moaning about not being able to listen to it for Christmas... well... my dear, sweet hubby surprised me a couple days ago with a brand new copy!!!  I was SO happy!   Here are a few lines from one of the songs on the CD which really spoke to me... isn't it funny how you can listen to a song a zillion times, and then one day, you hear it in a totally different light.  Here goes:
       
"It's in everyone of us to be wise
find your heart
open up both your eyes
We can all know everything
without ever knowing why
It's in everyone of us
By and by"

I have a new calendar for 2013... Living with Intention.  Some wisdom from Mary Anne Radmacher:

Embrace joy
Inspire hope
Cultivate love
Build intimacy
Celebrate life
Mindful living, mindful days

Live with Intention
Walk to the edge
Listen hard
Play with abandon
Practice wellness
Laugh
Risk love
Fail with enthusiasm
Continue to learn
Appreciate your friends
Choose with no regret
Stand by your family
Celebrate the holidays that make sense
Lead, or follow a leader
Live as if this is all there is


In closing, from "Alfie, the Christmas Tree" 

So in your Christmas prayers this year, Alfie asked me to ask you...
Say a prayer for the wind and the water and the wood,
and those who live there, too.