Looking over 2011, there is much to be grateful for and grateful I AM.
It’s not easy to look backwards and move forward at the same time so I don’t do it much anymore except to review the goodness that has taken place, the lessons learned and to recognize both good choices and how to make improvement. I used to dwell on the past regularly.
For now it serves me better to see what can be instead of what was. Was isn’t “now” and can never be.
Michael Barrett and Sarah Bell
I have a 7th grandchild – Lyla Rose with whom I had the pleasure of meeting and sharing her gentle spirit this Thanksgiving – along with her daddy Jonathan Bell – for the first time. Both are a blessing. Seeing the choice my daughter – Sarah Bell – made for a life mate gives me hope for the future in a way because it says to me that the younger generation is actually thinking for themselves and evaluating possibilities in a powerful way. It says to me that my daughter has good judgment and I need not worry about her life choices any more. What terrific people and what inherent kindness and intelligence and motivation. It pleases me to know this.
Lucky, Sarah and Dad
Spending time with my son – Lucky Barrett – in his environment showed me the quality of friendships he is developing and the type of friend he truly is. He showed me a new and better way to be a friend myself and I am grateful for this knowing. I am glad for him to be so real at such a young age – what a fine, gentle, powerful and authentic man he is becoming. Knowing this fills me with joy, a sense of excellence, and a type of resonance that somehow tells me goodness and quality are alive and thriving in 2011 regardless what the media tells us.
Jonathan Bell, Lyla Bell and Michael Barrett
Spending several days with these beautiful children has taught me so much about myself. There is good rooted in my choices earlier in life. And in a new way, each of them taught me how to love this week. They did this simply by creating a contrast to my conditional love in the past by giving theirs to me unconditionally in the present.
They provided a new way for me to understand what family really means that I never understood as a younger man.
My wife had a similar wonderful experience with her son in Richmond , VA.
Something else came through by watching them be who they are. My daughter and son and granddaughter each displayed – for me - a living expression of a little piece of myself in the world. It is a sense of contributing something valuable to the world that will live on.
It is an expression of the Divine because each is a miracle.
And each child is a Blessing in our lives…
I AM Michael Barrett and I AM a Core Health Facilitator.
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