Mairs "Life as we make it": May 2009

Prepare yourself, this gets deep!

Well it has been a few weeks since any posts. I have been busy holding down the fort while Rob works literally from 7 am until 9pm-midnight everyday, trying to get our flip done. I can't wait to post pictures of the final product. It is literally a brand new house! Picking paint colors took me about a week but after many him-ha's and I don't knows, I finally got the interior squared away and the exterior picked! Now I can relax. Except that I have done this enough times that driving up to a house that I picked paint colors for, is now done with my eyes closed. It is like the big reveal of: did I choose palatable, eye pleasing colors or is it hideousness beyond repair. I think I did alright this time...I hope. I will post pics as soon as it is finished.

I am also 3 weeks away from my RET certification. It is strange how life aligns itself in the proper timing because as I have been learning about the gift of healing, and the power we have as individuals to make our lives what we "think," I have been actually experiencing the words as I read them and attach their meanings to my life. There have been those "ah ha" moments where I just stop and think "WOW" and it just all makes sense. Then...in the process of learning and curiosity, I progress with new questions and start searching for more explanations to this blessing of life we have been given.

For instance, here are a few general paragraphs that could apply to everyone, that jumped off the page at me:

"Energy can change form but never be destroyed. Every relationship and experience in this world is divinely orchestrated with our spirits approval for our Earth School. Our job is to notice, learn and quickly move to a new perspective changing our perception about an event." Now, I don't know if this is as profound to you as it was to me, but it simply places the responsibility in every individual's hand. We choose to be where we are with the people and experiences that we have, in order to learn what we need to in order to be ready for the next lesson that awaits us. And...if we don't get the lesson that is meant for us to progress, then the same experience will continue to happen or repeat somewhere else until we finally understand the lesson that is meant for us to know. Pretty interesting eh???

This is what followed the paragraph I just listed... "Embrace the silence, listen to your higher self. Totally give up your past or personal history. By bonding to your past, you prevent your healing." This made me think a bit.

Another neat thought to ponder...
" We are always experiencing abundance. To have abundance in our lives requires a willingness to recognize that it is always available and we need only open ourselves to receive it. Regardless of our underlying beliefs, we are experiencing those beliefs abundantly in the manifestation of them." It went on to talk about that we always have abundance, even if it is a lack of. Meaning we have an abundance of the lack of abundance, if that is what we are thinking. "Abundance is merely the universe's response to our thoughts and emotions."

And one more that stood out...
"So long as we seek anything outside ourselves, we will never have complete peace. Life is constantly presenting to you a mirror of what you are feeling and
experiencing within yourself. All your answers, therefore, must come from within yourself." This makes so much sense. There are so many vices out there that people use to avoid or feel something other than what they are feeling that they forget to look within for the answer. Until we look within, complete peace will not be found.

Wow...that got deep. But I felt the need to share. This was just a spec of what I am learning and I absolutely love it!!!!! Know that there are no coincidences and that life is what we make it! :)

2 weeks ago today my brother in law Ryan
and his fiance Krista had their sweet baby
girl Layla.

She was 7 lbs, 1 oz and a little peanut.
She was so tiny, that I forgot how small
these little creatures are when they are first born.

Brooklan absolutely loves Layla and is always
trying to give her sweet little kisses.
Koen is such a sweet boy with her too.
They live just down the street so we
get to see her at a moments notice!

We took advantage of one of the rain free days
a few weeks ago. The kiddos love being
outside.

Gabie, Brookie and Koen on the tramp

Koen would just bounce them as they tried
to get up. Brooklan loved it and
wanted more, but Gabie
wanted down! As my dad says,
Brooklan will be our outdoorsy
partner for Rob to take hunting
among other manly things.
He thinks she will jump out from a tree
and slash the neck of an elk or something.
Come on dad, she is the only girl of 4 boy
cousins and 1 brother
but I will never allow that to happen!
She is pretty tough though, I must admit.