Each day we have is a gift, and an opportunity to feel and spread love. But it’s really hard to do that if there’s something weighing on your mind or your heart (those usually go together). There are some things in life that are just brutal, or deeply uncomfortable, or presently without a solution. If you’re in the midst of that scenario, my heart goes out to you. It’s very hard to open to the idea of spreading love when your heart is broken. Nonetheless, you want to open to at least some love and some light today, if at all possible. And that’s a lot more likely to happen if you can acknowledge your pain, or your confusion, frustration, loneliness, rage, despair, or hopelessness. If you can simply be with what is. Because the “logjam” is really caused by the pushing away of the painful reality. The more we push it back, the less the river flows.

You have a gorgeous heart that is capable of incredible expansion. It can hold loss and grief and joy and wonder all at once. It’s not all one way or another in life. You have the potential to discover your gifts if you haven’t already, and to give them away freely. That’s the joy in life, the connection. But that’s nearly impossible to do if you’re spending most of your energy fighting what’s true for you. And maybe things are beautiful right now. I hope they are, because that’s a set of circumstances when it’s fairly easy to open to life, to splash around in reality as it is, and to feel enormous gratitude. In the state of gratitude, you naturally want to share your love and your happiness and all your gifts. But if you’re in beaver mode, stacking logs against a torrent of emotion because you fear you’ll get swept under, then listen up, beaver. Unless you want to spend the rest of your life gnawing on wood with your giant teeth every night, it’s time to start pulling that dam apart. (In reality, beavers use dams to provide still, deep water to protect against predators, but for the human beavers I’m talking to, the predators are living in your mind, and you need to swim with them so you can see they’re not going to do you in or pull you under!!).

I don’t know how many days you have, or I have, but I know they are not meant to be spent gnawing on wood! Sending you LOVE!!! Ally