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Daily Affirmations: Build a Dam

February 16, 2012

When the heart and soul are weary with worries and cares, we think often to wall our selves in and in truth we sometimes build a dam around our selves. But that dam we build to shut out the world and worries that have dragged us down, also shuts out the light.

Today, I re-mind myself that in the light I am healed.

Today, I re-mind myself that no walls, no dam can hold me in or keep me down.

(Photo: Beaver Dam at Hellcat Swamp, Parker River Wildlife Refuge ~~ c. Pamela J. Leavey 2012)

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Daily Affirmations: Over and Over Again

February 15, 2012

“In the course of time, we all repeat the same mistakes over and over again. Today, I ask for the strength to learn and grow from my mistakes, and not to succumb to the vicious cycle of repeating them.” ~~ Pamela J. Leavey

(Photo: Geese in Flight ~ c. Pamela J. Leavey 2012)

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Love Be Not of Reason

February 14, 2012

There’s no better day than Valentine’s Day to share a love poem. I have long been a great fan of romance poets, including Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Edna St. Vincent Millay.

Love Be Not of Reason is from my own journals…

Love Be Not of Reason

Love be not of reason,

No right nor wrong,

Love be of the season

For which there is no song.

No sense be made of desires

That once can cripple

But, the strongest tree

And, bring mere mortal man

Down to his knee.

Who sayeth that love must be so,

Who speak the words

Of Love and Woe

For truly as the sun doth shine

Your touch upon my lips

Be pleasure that is,

But, yours and mine.

Who knows what aching

Upon thy breast

Does bring your soul to lay and rest;

Weary in the arms of love,

That heal the questions

For which there be no answer.

Love be the stars that shine,

In darkest night

Bright in your eyes;

Love be the sun that rises

To seek a new day

Of pleasure in your arms.

Love be the song of ecstasy

When in its throws

We merge as one.

Love be not of reason

No right nor wrong,

Love be of the season

For which there is no song,

But that only of two hearts

That beat as one

In it’s sweet pleasing.

c. Pamela J. Leavey

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Daily Affirmations: Valentine’s Day

Today, I am so grateful for all the love in my life. Love is the reason on every day, in every season, that we all celebrate life. Blessed Be ~~ Pamela J. Leavey

(Photo: January Bouquet ~ c. Pamela J. Leavey 2012)

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Reflections: When The Tree Shakes

February 13, 2012

Sometimes in life you step out of your comfort zone and take a chance… Stepping out on a limb, you trust the universe to keep you safe.

But then, the tree shakes because maybe it’s not strong enough to bear your weight and you plummet to the ground.

So you ask the tree, why did you let me down, but the tree doesn’t respond, it just looks at you and shakes, leaving you filled with uncertainty and pain.

There is heartbreak in losing trust. There is grief in what you may think of as your own failure to recognize, that the tree wasn’t as strong and powerful as it appeared.

Illusions can get shattered like the glass in a mirror. In time with reflection you move past the heartbreak and grief and find your bearings once again. Healing takes time.