Archive for the ‘Gratitude’ Category

The happiness in tiny things

Posted on: February 23rd, 2015 by Lynika Write A Comment

 

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Here’s to you

Posted on: February 5th, 2015 by Lynika Write A Comment

 

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“You are the real warriors and heroes in this world and you deserve immense respect, especially your own. You matter.”  ~ Lynika

 

The ordinary is extraordinary

Posted on: January 5th, 2015 by Lynika Write A Comment

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“So much of the ordinary is extraordinary, we often don’t pause long enough, to see the daily miracles tucked inside our days.” ~ Lynika

 

What to be grateful for

Posted on: December 30th, 2014 by Lynika Write A Comment

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Running water, education, shelter, safety… to name a bare few. It’s good for the soul to notice the blessings we do have. ~ Lynika Cruz

These holidays

Posted on: December 24th, 2014 by Lynika Write A Comment

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“For some folk, holidays and celebrations are the loneliest of times.

A time when the absence of support and care are even more prevalent to the person in isolation.

Be it through age, illness or other reasons, there are lonely people on this planet, some who are suffering great pain…

And your kind word or shoulder squeeze can mean the difference between giving up or holding on.

Never underestimate the power of kindness and don’t wait until it’s too late…

Open your heart to someone in need and help make this world a warmer place for somebody today.”
~ Lynika Cruz

Your life is happening right NOW

Posted on: December 12th, 2014 by Lynika Write A Comment

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Pssst… Look around you…

Life is happening right this second.

This very moment right here, right now, is where you are actually ALIVE and living.

We spend so much time thinking and planning ahead that we sometimes don’t realise we have accidentally abandoned our current life and moved there.

Moved to a place that doesn’t have solid, earthy goodness filling you up and sweet, present, ecstatic joy slapping you in the face with a big, happy kiss.

Planning ahead is important but be careful not to live there.

We lose precious moments on words and half sentences like these:

  • Later…
  • As soon as…
  • Once I’ve/We’ve…
  • After…
  • When the/they/he/she…

Meanwhile those lost moments accumulate and turn into days, then weeks, months, years until one day you realise…

“These moments are my LIFE.”

Go outside for a moment, really. Get up, look out the window if you’re in a blizzard or heatwave, but LOOK out there, look at life, it’s happening right now around you and TO you.

The loose leaf, the sudden dot of a small bird lifting against the sky, the rustle or stillness of this very moment and your own heart beating in your chest, right now. THIS is living.

And it’s happening NOW.

Be happy in it.

Satisfied even…

Take one small moment if you will and just LOVE it.

Turn it over for a brief second and say out loud, in this moment, this very moment I’m alive and I am noticing it and feeling it.

Now breathe and breathe and breathe.

Life is brief…

Live it W I D E and DEEP… you gorgeous, magnificent, amazing miracle!

~ Lynika Cruz

Two things you can be grateful for, every day

Posted on: November 12th, 2014 by Lynika Write A Comment

 

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“If you think you have nothing to be grateful for, here’s two things alone you can count as major blessings every day…

Every week your garbage is collected. Every time you turn on the tap you have water.

Not snazzy enough? Take a minute…

If you couldn’t conveniently dump your trash out front in a convenient, allocated trash can that is picked up and emptied miraculously each week. What would you do with it?

Where would you put it? How often would you have to go to the tip? Would the tip exist? Would you have to pay? Would your neighbours be just as pro-active in ridding themselves of their trash or would it grow and encompass their yard, your yard, the street?

If you had no running water at the flick of a faucet… how would you deal with your thirst, wash clothes, cook, bathe, flush the toilet, clean? Where would you get your daily water? Would it be hygienic? Clear? Safe? Free?

Taking things for granted is not okay, it robs us of knowing how blessed and rich we are, every day.

People this very moment are dying without these two precious things.

We have so much to be grateful for, so very much. ~ Lynika Cruz