Oh goodie....a double whammy fairy.

Whose presence can I appreciate today?

When we hold a piece of crystal to the light, it paints rainbows on the wall. When we tap it lightly with a spoon, it sings like a bell.
But when we drop it, it shatters in colorless, silent pieces on the floor.

Human beings are as multi-faceted as that piece of crystal.
And it's especially easy to forget what makes people we live with or have known for a long time shine or sing.
We can take for granted the very qualities that made them special to us in the first place.

When we forget how to see and hear the people we love, how to appreciate them, we grow careless.
Too often, from sheer neglect, the relationship between us grows dull and silent, then slips, falls, and shatters.

Whose presence can I appreciate today?


Not to be outdone by:

Many of us have been trying to keep the whole world in orbit with sheer and forceful application of mental energy.

What happens if we let go, if we stop trying to keep the world orbiting and just let it whirl?

It'll keep right on whirling.
It'll stay right on track with no help from us.
And we'll be free and relaxed enough to enjoy our place on it.

Control is an illusion, especially the kind of control we've been known to try to exert.
In fact, controlling gives other people, events..... control over us.
Whatever we try to control does have control over our life and us.

I have given this control to many things and people in my life.
I have never gotten the results I wanted from controlling or trying to control people.

What I received for my efforts was an unmanageable life, whether that unmanageability was inside me or in external events.