It wasn’t till about five years ago that I actually came to understand that if you want more abundance in your life you have to keep your arms and hands wide open in order to receive it. My dear friend Rev. Carolyn used to say, “stand ready, even expectant, for good and more good”. Many nights I have stood outside and found the Big Dipper and asked my Sweet Creator to just “pour all the goodness all over me”.

On my birthday the goodness and abundance showed up all around me. I did get a prayer walk with Reddogg beside me and a soft, misty rain falling on my face and hair. Then later that morning my niece asked me to walk her Golden Doodle puppy, Daisy. Who doesn’t like to spend time with a puppy? She is a reddish blonde color with button brown eyes and a wonderful personality. She greets me like I am the best person she has ever met and is so full of joy I really cannot stop smiling when I am with her.

Then the sun came out in the afternoon and everything dried up enough that I was able to have that small bonfire. On the spur of the moment three of the Foxy Hags came over, Chickie, Robin, and Doris, and helped me build that fire and we sat around and talked for about three hours. And we laughed! Oh how we laughed till I had tears in my eyes! And I had two cupcakes my dear friend Kara gave me when I went to her house for lunch. So I divided them up and they sang me Happy Birthday! We all took turns on lighting a candle and making a wish! It’s true you know, good friends are priceless.

Because of all the rain soaking into the trees and fields out here in the country a dense fog started to creep in around nine in the evening. When Wednesday morning rolled around I took off on another prayer walk surrounded by that incredible fog. I could see approximately thirty yards in front and back of me. The trees and tall grasses were all dripping with large drops of moisture. Some drops were so big and fat if you looked closely you could see yourself in them! Then one of the half feral barn cats, Sammy, decided to grace us with his royal presence and walked with Reddogg and me, touring all around some of the farm with us. What a gift to me, that sweet boy.

You know, I can still get so emotional at times. As it has been almost two years since my surgery I can no longer really blame my tears on that time of my life. But as I was walking yesterday I started to cry. Happy tears because there is so much good in my life. New friends, old friends, family, Reddogg, puppy time and cats, walking in the rain, feeling the fog all around me, sitting by a fire with dear friends. So yesterday when I started to cry I asked Spirit, “How does one contain it all, all the goodness”? I felt like the waterfall in the picture above, all the good pouring into my life, over me and into me, and spilling out all around me.

I bent down and patted Reddogg’s broad head with one hand and stroked Sammy’s soft, black fur with my other hand. It was then I heard it, the answer to my question, a quiet yet firm whisper in my ear.

“You send all the Goodness back out, give it all away.”

c   Love, Joan