Today we went shopping...and let me tell you, it was hard to see the beauty. I was shopping for a swimsuit. The beauty, however, was in the fact that I was shopping for our Spring break trip to the beach and that I have the opportunity to go and to take my children. You see, at their age I had been out of the state three times: to Tulsa to visit a friend of my mom's, to Waco, TX on a Greyhound bus, and to Yakima, Washington....also on a Greyhound bus (both trips were to visit family). I stepped in the ocean for the first time after I had my second child. So the beauty in today is that I can offer my children so many experiences and I get to go along on the ride.
We finished the night watching Coach Carter. The following quote is one of my favorites:
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love
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