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Finding Hidden Miracles

“Do not fight our illnesses but lovingly submit to the lessons to be learned from the temporary condition. Hating or being angry about the situation just makes us weaker. Being loving and treating ourselves with tenderness makes us stronger.”

Laura Lane from ‘I Touch the Heavens’

As Steph Catudal points out in her book Everything All at Once, our innocent belief that “Heavenly Father heals the sick if you ask just right” is far from a simple truth.

Sickness in our life or the lives of our loved one is far from simple. While Heavenly Father has the ability to heal everything – broken bones and backs, leprosy, cancer, and broken hearts both figuratively and literally, it’s not about whether we ask in the right way or if we are deserving enough. 

As I think of those I know who have been afflicted with illness and bodies that are far from perfect, friends with cancer, mental illness, who have been rendered quadriplegic, lost their hearing or sight, have been born with developmental disabilities, brain injuries, auto-immune diseases, or developed dementia, strokes and diabetes, all these have given each individual an opportunity to show their true character strengths and resilience as well the opportunity for those around them to as well.

Sickness is not a punishment or nor an enemy with one way to defeat it – a miracle from God. It can be simply a challenge placed in our path to teach us resourcefulness, strength, resiliency, patience, humility, kindness, empathy and a myriad of other positive traits. 

I have seen miracles: miracles of complete healing, miracles of strength given, lives lengthened, reprieve given and miracles of help provided at just the right moment and the miracle of being released from pain and suffering.  Each one of these miracles is beautiful. 

We need to be mindful that while we may ask for one type of miracle, the Lord may have another type of miracle in mind for us or our loved ones. Healing may in fact bring transformation not just of physical cells but hearts and minds and souls. 

Can we look at the benefits of illness as whose heart was brought closer to God, who became more compassionate, who learned courage through vulnerability, who learned to receive help from others and who learned how much they were loved by others by the lengths people went to serve them on a daily basis, who learned to put others needs before themselves, who went out of their way to be there for someone in need, who comforted the weary and afraid, who learned trust and forgiveness and divine perspective?  

God counts all those as miracles. 

I don’t think I will ever know the number of miracles that happened in the two short years that my daughter had cancer or in the years since she passed away. A decade later, I still have people come up to me and say how they were impacted by Celeste and her cancer journey. 

The ripple effect has been huge.  I am so fortunate to have been near the epicenter. Blessed to have had a daughter who was willing to face such immense difficulty in this life, to face it with such faith, courage and strength. I have been blessed to see a divine perspective and received healing for my grieving heart. Those are just a few of the miracles and healing I have witnessed in retrospect.

What have you learned as you or a loved one have faced illness? What miracles have you witnessed as a result? How has it transformed you and your loved one? 

“Celeste’s cancer diagnosis has put everything in life in sharp perspective. Now my biggest priority, after looking after her, is to discover what faith really means and how faith creates miracles.”

Laura Lane from ‘I Touch the Heavens’

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Becoming Someone Special!

“Love brings everyone home.”

Laura Lane from ‘I Touch the Heavens’

Tracy Chapman in her 1988 hit song Fast Car sang “I had a feeling I could be someone.” When I listened to that song on the radio today, I thought about how that desire to ‘be someone’ is such a relatable human desire. 

Only in today’s world, over 35 years later, ‘being someone’ is more than just being a politician, leader, an athlete, a superstar, or having 15 minutes of fame or infamy in the news. Today, the world wants to have 10 million followers on Tiktok, Youtube or have a video go viral with 100 million views.

But what should we really be doing to ‘be someone’? Whose attention should we really be going after?

Jesus told a parable about a shepherd who has 100 sheep and one little sheep goes missing. He leaves the 99 sheep to go searching high and low for the one lost sheep.  Many times the parable is directed at our efforts to search for those who are lost to the gospel, to remind us when we are lost that Jesus searches after us. 

But what if we applied that sentiment in the parable to our search to ‘be someone’ in the world. What if instead of seeking the attention of 100 million people we simply sought to make the difference in one person’s life?

Who is the one person in your life who needs you right now? What do they need from you that would make their day? What would save them from dangerous paths and thorny grounds? What would lift their spirits and bring them a little comfort and joy?

What if that became the focus of our day, each day, to find one person to lift up and make their life brighter, easier, happier?

If you found a new person to help each day for 70 years that would be over 25,000 people. 

And if you dedicated your life to helping, watching over and keeping safe just one or two special people in your life that would still make you a very good shepherd as well. You would have become someone very special indeed to them. 

I hope that when you reflect on your life so far you will see that you have already become someone, someone very important, to those you love and care for. 

“What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it?”

Luke 15:4 KJV

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What’s your New Year’s Resolution?

“The Sabbath is a day of reflection, gratitude and thanksgiving. Reflect on the past week. Give thanks for the perfection of each day, of the good deeds done, the miracles seen and experienced, for the love I’ve felt and all I’ve accomplished because of God’s grace.”

Laura Lane from ‘I Touch the Heavens’

This week I watched a podcast  interview with Dr Daniel G. Amen., psychiatrist and brain disorder specialist New York Times Bestselling author of Change Your Brain, Change Your Life. In this interview he was talking about the importance of setting intentions for the day. 

He said, “Whenever you wake up in the morning, say ‘Today is going to be a great day. You have to nudge your brain. We have a conscious mind. We have an unconscious mind. We have a self image. Your subconscious mind is paying attention to the words that the conscious mind is saying. 

So if you’re like ‘Oh, I don’t want to get out of bed, today is going to be a bad day.’ You’re going to have a bad day because you just programmed your subconscious mind to do that. 

Everyday  when my feet hit the floor, today is going to be a great day. And then my favourite of all of them is when you go to bed at night. And bed is so important because, if you want to have a good day, it starts the night before, is what went well today? 

So when I go to bed, I say a prayer and then I go ‘What went well?’ And I go on a treasure hunt because I’m purposefully looking for what are the right things that happened. And I look for the micro moments, like what’s the smallest thing? I just focus on them. And I’ve been doing this for years , and it’s so helpful”

I think this is an amazing process that can be used in so many ways. Daily, yes I definitely want to incorporate this into my morning and evening prayers. 

But what if we did the same thing every Sunday? We can review the week and notice everything that has gone right, the little things that we count as special blessings, little miracles. Then pray about what our intentions are for the week.  It could be done while sitting in church or this is something we could do as couples or as a family over Sunday dinner together. 

We could do the same thing every month and at the end of every year. As we do it over longer periods of time we see the accumulated effect of our blessings. 

Last month, my business coach had me list everything I accomplished over the last year. It really was an amazing year. I feel so much more grateful after that review. Before she made me do it I was focussed on how tired I was and how little I had accomplished that particular week when I was sick. 

The end of the year is always a good time to reflect on the year and of course everyone talks about “What’s your new year’s resolution?” and then promptly complain that each year they never make it past a couple of days or weeks with this new ‘resolution’. 

What if our focus was instead to resolve? Resolution comes from the English word ‘resolve’ which as a noun means determination. But if we focus on resolve the verb,  it comes from the  Latin resolvere “to loosen, loose, unyoke, undo; explain; relax; set free; make void, dispel.”

What could you let go of in the new year? What negativity has been holding you back? In what ways could you relax more? What stress do you need to be free from? What darkness is enveloping you that you need dispelled? 

What if your resolution wasn’t to lose 20 lbs, drink less, or work out more but instead focus on the good and beautiful things in your life and look for more moments of beauty and kindness and tiny miracles instead?

I would invite you to review your day, your week, month and year with the goal to find all the goodness in your life, to see the miracles, to embrace beautiful moments and set the intention that you are going to have a great day, a great week ahead, a great month and a great year!

“When I come to the Sabbath, I can acknowledge the week and pronounce it as good, then rededicate the next week’s work to the Lord and ask Him for His love and grace (His help) to accomplish all that He and I desire. ”

Laura Lane from ‘I Touch the Heavens’

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Slow down, Look up, and find Gratitude

 “Sometimes it is good to stop, look up and remember everything we can be grateful for”

uk.ChurchofJesusChrist.org

This morning I came across a video. It was the reminder of what I actually needed right now. It’s such a busy time. I have so many things that I keep telling myself that need to get done. 

Client work,  statements to complete and review, emails to send out, invites to my upcoming programs, sponsors to find for my planners, unpacking from my trip last week, laundry, cleaning the house and finally decorating the tree and putting up the lights. 

It’s so easy to get caught up in it all. 

It can also be an emotional time of year. Missing those who I want to be with who have passed on or are just not available emotionally or physically or just live too far away to make time together possible. 

It can become easy to get stuck in overwhelm or retreat into myself or hide in work or fall down the social media rabbit hole as an escape. 

So that’s why this video I watched was just what I needed today. It was a reminder to focus on what is most important. That gratitude and happiness come from looking up. 

Look up and connect

Look up and serve

Look up and be present

Look up and find hope

Look up and choose to be grateful

Yesterday I had to cut my work day short to fulfill a promise to our son. It was so tempting to say I just can’t go, you’ll have to go without me. I have too much work to do. 

For the first 30 minutes or more I struggled with focusing on everything that still needed to be done and when would I be able to do it and feeling guilty that I hadn’t replied to clients and the links and payment processing weren’t working and I hadn’t finished my newsletter. On and on and on. I was stuck in the loop. 

But as I became more present to my son, his friend and my husband and the time we were spending together, slowly I began to decompress. 

I was able to enjoy sharing food together, shopping for gifts, a walk in the park to see the christmas lights and warm hot chocolate. 

I was looking up, feeling grateful and creating happy memories that have sustained me into the next day, have given me hope and reminded me of what is most important, who I love and that I am loved. 

I hope that you can also slow down, look up from all you do and find the things that make you happy, grateful and hopeful during this time of year. 

And if you need a reminder or know someone who else who does, you can watch the video here.

“Today I started my day by looking up to my Heavenly Father and bathing in the light of His love and allowing His peace to wash over me.”

Laura Lane from ‘I Touch the Heavens’

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The Deep Gifts of the Holiday Season

“Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works,
and glorify your Father which is in heaven.”

Matthew 5:16

This week I’ve been thinking about the upcoming holiday season. It is Christmas time for Christians, the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah is this week,  the African American Kwanzaa festival of lights is at the end of the month, the winter solstice traditions of pagan, Wiccan and Druid faiths will be celebrated on Dec 21st and December 8th was Bodhi day, the Buddhist holiday to remember the enlightenment of Siddhartha Gautama or Buddha.

I noticed there is a common ground that ties all these holidays together and that is light and goodness that is shared in the expression of faith of millions of believers. 

Last month I had the opportunity to be interviewed by my friend Michael Clogs on his Faith Hope Trust Podcast and the conversation turned to faith. I would like to share my thoughts from that interview with you. 

“Michael, I know we’ve discussed this before but I’d like to share my definition of faith again. Many times we use the words faith, hope and belief and we throw them around and use them like they are the exact same words but they’re three completely different words.

Hope is when we have a beautiful vision of something and a positive emotion to go along with it.

God gives us a vision of how life can be. But I can be shown a picture of something and if it doesn’t move me to feel something, or to do something, then it is just a pretty picture.

The next step is do you believe the promises of what life should be about or what life can be about, the purpose of life and why we’re here and where we’re going? If you do then look at it closely and go “I really like that, that touches my heart”. Then that’s HOPE.

If I’ve fallen in love with a vision of who God is and what He wants for me and what the blessings are that He has in store for me on the other end of this, then that’s BELIEF.

And I can still say I love that idea but if it doesn’t move me to action, then it’s not faith.

So the moment that I start to participate in that vision, once I start to participate and do the things I have been taught, then that’s FAITH.

I can hear that Jesus says you should love your neighbor and think that’s a great idea. But if I’m not actually capable or if I don’t actually do any actions to loving my neighbor then I’m not actually having faith. 

The moment that I listen and I internalize that Jesus says that I should be nice to my neighbour, or my sister, or my parents, or my kids, or the principal at the school, or the lady I sit next to at church. 

Once I start to then go “well what do I need to do to show them that I love them?” How tolerant, like Buddha says, how tolerant am I of them and their struggles? And when they get mad and frustrated, how tolerant am I?  Am I kind and thoughtful to them? Am I thinking about what they are going through? Are they hurting at the moment? Do they need something? Is there some way that I can help them? That’s moving my faith into action.”

Faith is falling in love with an idea, a vision so much that it moves us into action. Do we trust that nspired wisdom enough that it moves our hearts and our hands into doing something that gets us closer to that vision?

So how does that relate to the holiday season? 

When I look at the various faiths/religions/traditions around this holiday season, I see the commonality of two things: light and goodness.  Each of these faiths focus on bringing light into the world through lights on trees, candles, yule fires. They also encourage us to remember not only our shared histories that tie us to our forefathers and ancient traditions,  but they all focus on doing good and being kind to one another. 

The real gifts of holiday seasons are not the gifts wrapped in paper but the gift of humanity and kindness, and remembering the teachings of Jesus, Buddha, Moses, Mohammed. Embracing those teachings to make us better people and move us into action to love and accept each other. 

I hope you can find a way to embrace the love and kindness of the holiday season and share that love with all those around you. I hope that each time you see the holiday lights it can remind you that you can become a light in the world. A light that shines in the darkness that guides people home. 

“Therefore, hold up your light that it may shine unto the world. Behold I am the light which ye shall hold up—that which ye have seen me do.” 

Jesus talking to the Nephites, 3 Nephi 18:24

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The Art of Genshai – Creating Love in our interactions with Others

“As I view others the way God sees them, with all their frailties and weaknesses as well as their strengths, I can learn to treat them tenderly, view them from God’s perspective: lovingly, tenderly and patiently with love and respect.”

Laura Lane from ‘I Touch the Heavens’

This morning I was reading my mentor Jennifer Hough’s newsletter post about words that moved her like Namaste, Aloha, Pura Vida and Ubuntu. All beautiful powerful words. It reminded me of the conversations, instruction and mentoring I have received from author Kevin Hall. 

In his book Aspire! Discovering Your Purpose Through the Power of Words, Kevin shares words like Sapere Vedere – knowing how to see and  Ollin – to move and act with all your heart but the word he teaches the most about is Genshai – an Indian word meaning never treat another person in a manner that would make them feel small. 

Kevin learned about Genshai from an extraordinary man named Pravin Cherkoori whom he happened to meet in a fabric shop in Vienna,  Austria. Pravin explained to Kevin how his mother taught him about Genshai. 

He shared, “As children, we were taught to never look at, touch, or address another person in a way that would make them feel small. If I were to walk by a beggar in the street and casually toss him a coin, I would not be practicing Genshai. But if I knelt down on my hands and knees and looked him in the eye when I placed that coin in his hand, that coin became love. Then and only then, after I had exhibited pure, unconditional brotherly love, would I become a true practitioner of Genshai.” 

Reading this story and hearing Kevin share it many times at his Genshai Life Mastery retreats has had a profound effect on my life. 

Thinking about it now, at first I wanted to proclaim I always treat people that way but on deeper reflection I realize that there have been a number of times I have fallen short. 

In my frustration about situations, when things didn’t go as planned or how I had envisioned, when I have spoken ill of others, pointed out their flaws to others as I complained, I realize now that that is not practicing Genshai. 

I now have a few people I need to make amends to. 

There is also a second part to Genshai – never treat another person in a manner that would make them feel small including yourself!

So during this time of reflection I am also being gentle on myself, learning from my mistakes, yes, but also forgiving myself and committing to do better for others’ sakes, but also my own. 

In what ways can you embrace becoming a practitioner of Genshai. In what instances can you treat others and yourself in a more unconditional  loving way?

“As I pray each morning, I set my intention for the day, to receive and share God’s love, to be filled with love and life and light, to be healed, to become a beacon of light and hope.”

Laura Lane from ‘I Touch the Heavens’

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Expanding our Circle of Love

“Love and connectedness should be the focus of my meditation each day. Then I can go out into the world ready to be a conduit, receiving and giving love, abundance and guidance.”

Laura Lane from ‘I Touch the Heavens’

Every single night for the last 3 years now I have been ending my day by practicing Qigong. It has become not only a moving meditation but also my time to pray. 

As I move through each posture I focus on a different intention as part of prayer.

I begin by focusing on gratitude for the day then next I send love to those who are most important to me. As I change postures again I focus on feeling Jesus’s love and compassion, Heavenly Father’s strength and support, Heavenly Mother’s beauty and creativity and finally radiating out all that goodness out into the world. 

Just recently I started adding another component to my prayer for others. I began thinking more closely about those I love and not just wishing them well but considering who and what is most important to them. 

I started praying for the people that they love even if those people aren’t as important to me. I pray for their family members, loved ones and friends, sending them love. Loving them because my loved one loves them. 

It has helped me love those I didn’t really want to or had never thought about praying for before.  It has helped me expand my circle of love and see others in a better light. I can send love to Jason because I love Diane and she loves him.  I love my family so much that I can love their friends and extended family as well.  

I am learning to love others while not having to love or condone their behaviour. I can simply love them even though they may have no idea I am sending them love and kindness. 

It has helped me to better appreciate my loved ones and consider all that is important to them and what they in turn are experiencing right now. 

I don’t just pray for my bishop but pray for his family and pray he has the strength he needs to manage all his responsibilities. 

It’s like taking a circle and expanding it just a little more each time. 

What it in turn has done for me, is it has helped me when I then set my focus on Jesus’ love and compassion for me, I can better see how he can love so much. I can also feel his approval that I am on the right track. Now that I am learning to love more fully I can feel his love more fully.

My invitation to you is to think about someone you love, someone you pray for and then consider who is important to them that you could pray for as well. 

I would love to hear your thoughts and experiences after trying this for a day or a week. 

If you would like to learn more about my daily Qigong practice please feel free to reach out to me at any time, or join me for one of my upcoming half day or full day Soul Chocolate Meditation Retreats in the new year. 

“I can see that as I pray for others, it helps me to develop more compassion and charity.” 

Laura Lane from ‘I Touch the Heavens’

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Think Celestial!

“Think Celestial”

President Russell M. Nelson

Last week I asked, “Where do you put your focus during difficult times?” I talked about looking for the good after tragedy has occurred and how to focus on the incredible things people do to help each other, to focus on the goodness in people.

But sometimes when we are still in the middle of things, when the harm is directed towards us personally, when we are in the thick of it, how and why should we focus on the positive instead of the negative?

During the 2016 Democratic National Convention Michelle Obama uttered her famous line “When they go low, we go high!” Later she explained what she meant by that. She reported to Time Magazine “‘Going high’ doesn’t mean you don’t feel the hurt, or you’re not entitled to an emotion….It means that your response has to reflect the solution. It shouldn’t come from a place of anger or vengefulness.“

Many times in society we can be influenced by the lowest common denominator which is what most media content is directed towards these days. 

The question becomes can we focus our responses to the craziness in the world, our daily thoughts and emotions on a higher, more celestial, vibration.

When we are in the middle of difficult times, we can choose to think and act from a higher ground, or a larger perspective, an eternal perspective. 

President Russel M. Nelson last month said “When you are confronted with a dilemma, think celestial! When tested by temptation, think celestial! When life or loved ones let you down, think celestial! When someone dies prematurely, think celestial. When someone lingers with a devastating illness, think celestial. When the pressures of life crowd in upon you, think celestial! As you recover from an accident or injury, … think celestial!”

What does that mean to think celestial? It means to be more loving, compassionate, understanding, patient, kind, thoughtful, forgiving, grateful, vulnerable, or diligent in our responses. It means to look at things from a Divine Perspective. 

The dilemma requires a thoughtful, prayerful, meditative response rather than making quick judgements and rushing into things. 

Temptation to do something negative because we feel trapped by life’s circumstances, or fall back on our addictions to cope with a situation, requires vulnerability in asking for support and recognizing that we are not alone nor are we required to do all things on our own. People are there to help if we just ask. 

When life or a loved one lets you down, that is time to look at what frailties and difficulties they are struggling with that hinders them from stepping up right now. It requires understanding, love, patience, forgiveness and the ability to not take it personally.

When a loved one dies, know that God loves you as much as the person who has passed. We will all need to pass on to the next life and we each have our own timing. He’s not punishing us or them. It’s okay to grieve their absence until we will be reunited with them again later. 

Dealing with a devastating illness, yours or someone else’s illness,  requires patience, love, compassion, understanding, thoughtfulness, and gratitude for those around you who are helping.

When the pressures of life crowd in on you, that is the time for perspective on what is most important, a divine perspective that God loves you no matter what, that you don’t have to do it alone,  diligence in doing what needs to be done and gratitude for those who are there to help.

If your tendency in the past has been to go low, it may take a bit to change your trajectory, it won’t happen overnight, but going high a bit more everyday will eventually help you get closer to thinking and feeling celestial in your responses.

My invitation to you is to take stock of how you have responded to circumstances in the past and start looking for new more celestial ways to respond in the future. 

What types of circumstances would you like to respond better to in the future?

“As I view others the way God sees them, with all their frailties and weaknesses as well as their strengths, I can learn to treat them tenderly, view them from God’s perspective: lovingly, tenderly and patiently with love and respect.”

Laura Lane from ‘I Touch the Heavens’

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Find Kindness in the Chaos

“My ability to see good in the world creates more good.”

Laura Lane from ‘I Touch the Heavens’

Where do you put your focus during difficult days and troubling times?

When catastrophe hits in the form of a hurricane, tornado or earthquake, when bombs rain down in anger and hate each day, when a loved one dies, there will always be devastation.  But the moment the earth stops shaking and the dust settles, that is where we see real moments of humanity, kindness and compassion. 

There is so much goodness in the world. For every evil act, for every harm done there are a multitude of thoughtful kind people out there fixing the wrongs as fast as they can. 

Some are well organized and flock to disaster with food, clothing, tents, power generators, hugs and kind words. These are the amazing organizations like Red Cross, Doctors Without Borders, Helping Hands, and other humanitarian aid organizations. 

Others happen spontaneously. 

When neighbours hug each other, share the food that they have, stop everything to dig through the rubble and cheer when a child, a mother, a grandfather is found, those are the moments we should be focusing on. 

What I notice is that when I pay more attention to the kindness and goodness in the world, I begin to see more of it. 

It’s like if you think about buying a new Jeep, you will begin to see all the Jeeps on the road. Your mind starts to look for them. They were always there before but now you are beginning to see them. 

We can train our brains to see the good in the world. And unlike looking for Jeeps, when we look for and see goodness, kindness and compassion we feel good and are more likely to do good, be kind and compassionate to others as well.

Simon Sinek in his book “Leaders Eat Last” explains that Oyxtocin, the feel good chemical in the brain, is the chemical that rewards us for not only doing good but also noticing the goodness around us.

“Not only does the person performing even the tiniest act of courtesy get a shot of oxytocin, not only does the person on the receiving end of an act of also get a shot, but someone who witnesses the act of generosity also gets some chemical feel good. Simply seeing or hearing about acts of human generosity actually inspires us to want to do the same. “

Why does nature want us to feel good when we see others do nice things? Because we are literally wired to want and need goodness, kindness and love in our lives. It is nature’s way of perpetuating goodness and kindness in the world.  If we see goodness  we are more likely to do something good as well. 

Let’s go back to what I said about when I pay more attention to the kindness and goodness in the world, I begin to see more of it. Not only do I see more of it but I am motivated to be kinder, gentler, more compassionate, more generous, more loving. 

I would invite you to focus on the incredible acts of kindness that are happening around the world right now, as people step up to the challenges the world is throwing at them and see how those acts of kindness make a difference in your own life and how you then react and treat others. I would love to hear about it as well. Please tell me what good things you did as a result. I’d like to be inspired as well.

“My ability to see love in the world creates more love in the world.”  

Laura Lane from ‘I Touch the Heavens’

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You’re Amazing!

“The sun cannot see its own brightness, only its light reflected back at it, see its brightness shining and touching others, see it light up others’ faces.” 

Laura Lane from ‘I Touch the Heavens’

Has anyone told you today how amazing you are? Well let me be the first. 

You are amazing!

Really you are! I’d like you to think about all the things you have overcome this last year, the last few years especially with covid. I’m sure it wasn’t easy no matter what your circumstances. But you are amazing because you made it through. 

You are an amazing human being. You don’t have to be perfect to be amazing and you don’t have to have it all figured out. Life can be messy and confusing and sad sometimes but it doesn’t make you any less amazing. 

You’ve done nice things for other people. It’s awesome that you’ve been there when your family or friends have needed you and even more amazing when you have done things, even little things like a smile, for complete strangers. 

You are an amazing addition to this world. You have unique gifts, strengths and a unique combination of weaknesses and foibles that you deal with and overcome on a daily basis and that makes you amazing as well. 

You are amazing because your lungs breathe in oxygen and breathe out carbon monoxide that the plants and trees need to turn back into oxygen for you.  

You are amazing for a million different reasons that just have to do with how your body works and maintains its presence on the planet. 

You are amazing for working hard and for simply remembering to take care of yourself every day and very possibly for keeping another living being alive at the same time. 

You are amazing for being loving, kind, and thoughtful. 

You are amazing for knowing stuff and doing neat things with what you know. 

You are amazing for having a wonderful imagination and daydreaming about making life even better than it is already.

Do you see my point now? Are you starting to get a glimpse of how amazing you are? I hope so. I want you to know that I see your amazingness and hope you do too!

If you ever forget and need a reminder, reach out to me anytime and if it’s the middle of the night and you think “I can’t call anyone now”then I have a video recording for you right here if you need it.

“Having a divine perspective and hope helps me to know I am not alone.”

Laura Lane from ‘I Touch the Heavens’

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