Love Letter for a Friday - Coming to the 'Sunset' of our Lives.

What a beautiful way to describe the end of our lives.

I have been reading this beautiful book by Bronnie Ware, “The Top Five Regrets of the Dying”.

She mentions a lot of helpful and insightful things, but her words, coming to ‘The Sunset of our Life’ very much resonated with me.

Maybe we need to treat the end of each day with the respect, beauty, and forgiveness that a sunset holds. Hopefully, we have the time to change things that aren't working for us. More than ever we need to hold each moment like we would a small child. We will never get this moment back. There are parts of ourselves that we may not be proud of, that we find hard to forgive or that we feel guilty about. What if we held those parts of ourselves like we would a child that needs some nurturing. If we nursed those parts of ourselves back to health, back to a more nurtured version.

The thing is, we all mess up! But it’s what we do with the ‘mess’ that makes the difference. We can leave the ‘mess’ scattered like a residue over each moment or situation or we can clean the ‘mess’ and start again with the awareness of the lessons we have been taught.

I feel I am being taught many lessons at the moment in my private and professional worlds. I am trying to be really clear about how I wish to live my life and the impact I am having on others, negatively and positively. I want to be as open, giving and forgiving as I can be. I want to live each day knowing I have been blest with another Sunrise and Sunset, that I have given the best I can to myself and others.

My siblings and I are blest with the guidance, reassurance, and life lessons given to us by our first teachers, our parents. Through this guidance, I have developed an understanding and ability to feel and notice others. It’s innate and works by osmosis by leading by example from dear Da and Lona.

One of my daily thoughts this week was about how I like to start my day, and I feel that this prepares me for sometimes the intensity of each moment or each day.

Thoughts for our Wednesday......

Each morning, I wake to the blessing of another day.

The mornings are sacred to me.

I like to step in to them very gently and quietly, with the utmost respect.

Three deep breaths before I leave our bed, gentle voices, the softness of laying my feet on the earth......this makes a difference to my wellbeing and the well-being of others.

All my love,

Love Steph xxxxx

I will end with these beautiful words from 'A Gentle Reminder', Bianca Sparacino.

“Because at the end of the day - I want to leave this world with a heart that is worn out, and tender all over, a heart that aches from loving, and feeling, and caring in the best way possible. I want to leave this world knowing that I poured love into everything I did, that I crashed my soul into each and every single day, that I tried for something while I was here. At the end of the day, I just want to be proud of the person I have become. I just want to be proud of the way I connected”.

As today is our dear Da’s birthday, this photo is a tribute to him and our fires on the hill watching the Sun Dance at the end of another day.

All my love today,

Love Steph xx