Nan’s Angels is a charming picture storybook to be read by an adult to a preschool child. The story is narrated by young Kate, as she helps her Nan to unpack her angel collection for the holidays. Some life wisdom is woven into this little story, one that will engage and uplift the adult reading it, too.
This PDF ebook is available for purchase in my ebookstore, and it can also be gifted to a parent or grandparent who loves to read to their child. Save 25% now through the holidays using coupon code lovenan in the checkout.
Do you honor that which is crying out to be expressed in you? Do you arise to greet the days with excitement? Are you living a life that fulfills your innermost talents and desires, one that gives you joy? Or, do you work at a job that does not challenge you to pay the bills, and fill your leisure time with activities that feel even emptier?
These are very big (and frankly hard) questions, ones that you might be avoiding. If your answer is “I drag myself to my job”, it can be a thorny reality check. But wait! Do you think that your beautiful soul really came here to simply to wither on the vine?
Waking up and honestly addressing what is making you unhappy is the first important step towards changing it. It’s just too easy for us to gloss over what feels overwhelming, or numb the discontent with small superficial pleasures. Big change requires small steps. The good feeling you get from even one initial change grows into desire to do more. What can you change today that would move you a step closer to living a life that makes you feel fulfilled?
Society can make it tough to embrace our possibilities. From a young age and as we assert our individuality, we are told “no” quite a lot. “Learn the rules, accept your limitations, and strive to conform.”
Here is a dream that we can dream together for the world’s future: What if our society and education systems were geared to nurture the unique talents in each of us? That is, the innate creative intelligence with which we are each born, and our desire to express it fully. Just think of the world that we could build!
Love is the force that draws us inexorably together, the glue that will not allow us to give up on each other. It is our greatest challenge and biggest source of miracles. Infinite love already exists in everything that is alive, including you and me. Our love lessons are about removing the obstacles to love. They teach us out how to access, express, and live it. That is, if we choose to learn.
Do you realize? Your love gives you immense personal power to change the world. The mass media news is too often rife with division, hate, and fear. Some people just wait and hope for an external power or institution to cure the big problems of the world, because the events feel too big and out of their control. They will have a very long wait.
Consider that perhaps the high tension in the world right now is a challenge to each of us to work on unlocking our own love. Together we could collectively unleash a world of love that has never been seen before. It begins with each of us, with one random act of kindness, a single word of compassion, a step upward on the stairway of understanding.
It’s one bit of love at a time. It ripples outward and builds. It comes from you and I, and anyone else who chooses to participate instead of just complaining about how bad things are. It’s what the ancient Greeks called “agape”, a selfless love for humanity, and the world sorely needs more of it.
Adopt a global consciousness. Choose to be a living example of love, compassion, and understanding. Work to bridge the divides you encounter. As Gandhi said, “Be the change you want to see in the world.”
Is a genuine smile a form of love we give to someone else? I think so…
Smiles
Smiles have this way, they captivate and illuminate, they raise up our energy and light up the world, the ripple outward and boomerang back to us, they’re a gift we give to others and to ourselves, so just –
Smile.
The Power of Love is an excerpt from my free ebook Becoming Bigger: In a world that wants to keep you small. The premise of this short read book is that when we free ourselves from the limitations that hold us back, we not only create a better life for ourselves, we also create a better world. Please feel free to download a copy here.
We live in a world where there are those who would do anything to make us believe we are small, our potential limited. Nothing could be further from the truth.
You are big. You are part of everything. Your potential is infinite. Or, as Rumi so poetically put it, “You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
“For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
“In the garden, there is a sense of calm and contentment. It’s a place where time stands still.” ~ Chauncey Gardner, from the movie “Being There“
“The garden has taught me that everything has a beginning and an end.” ~ Chauncey Gardner, from the movie “Being There“
I invite you to help yourself today to a free copy of Our Beautiful Earth. (Normally it is a subscriber gift.) Because, well, there’s no time like the present, and nature is of the Light. I hope you have a beautiful Sunday!
Susan L Hart / Author 