We are all sweetly made of stars ✩✩✩!

Good morning sweet people.  EDIT: Just a quick mention that my link list is being redone.  If you aren't on there it's because I haven't added you back on yet.  I'm so challenged with this stuff.  I tried reorganizing it and lost most of the list.  I've had to go "fishing". LOL! Thanks xo)

 I was just thinking...there is a sweetness in prayer.  The same sweetness resides in celebration, meditation, attention, and love.  This morning is a call to gratitude.  I've spent a weekend in the sun, with loved ones, preparing meals (a prayer in itself), and examining my heart (it's nice to get to know oneself). 

So as I ponder the weeks agenda, I remind myself of this.  That every action is rippling outward to touch the lives of others, and so (with this thoughtfully in mind) I take cautious steps (prioritizing).  Everything I do will be a meditation in sweetness.

As the star factories churn out new and brilliant stars, as 800 billion suns circulate in a galaxy (the Sombrero Galaxy) so large it takes 50 million light years for light to cross it...I will simply exist sweetly. We are all made of stars after all, always have been, always will be.  Hafiz had it right! (My sugar withdrawals are coming through in this post.  Every other word is sweetness or sweetly. LOL!)

Also...I will keep my father (newly retired, yay!!!) in mind (will you, too?), as he enters the operating theater again this week, as his (oh so funny and kind) warrior spirit seeks to battle it out with the invading enemy cancer.  All thoughts and sweetness will be greatly appreciated. xo

One last thing (a little stat for your inner geek), but my husband-to-be explained something to me about the difference between a million, and a billion.  A million seconds is 12 days.  A billion seconds is 32 years.  (800 billion suns, now does that give you some scope to work with regarding that Sombrero Galaxy I mentioned?)

xo Happiest of Mondays to you...and Happy Birthday to Queen Victoria!

Comments

[debi]

This is the reason I came to blogging - to writing & reading them. What a wonderful, wonderful post. A meditation in sweetness. Wonderful. I will send out such thoughts for your dear father. And you. Take care.

[Tara Bradford]

Oh, what a SWEET post! Ha ha! Love it, really. And you! Your dad and your family will be in my thoughts and prayers this week. Hoping all goes well and his sense of humor carries him through the tough parts. And what an absolutely perfect photo you've brought us - merci, merci, merci! xoxox

[MiddleAgedWomanBlogging]

Yes, I agree, the energy of our prayers reaches out and touches all. I will add your father and your family to my prayers this week. Beautiful post..

[marilyn]

warm and sweet thoughts and prayers are sent to your father this week.

[Rochambeau]

Hi Gillian,
Will keep your father in my thoughts and prayers.
I do believe in prayer.
And I believe in his good attitude.
This is a beautiful photograph you have captured of the dandelion.
Hugs to you
xox
Constance

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Mmmm, yes, sweetness in the little things for sure. Lovely thoughts, thank you. And here are some warm thoughts headed back your way, for you and your dad.
Warmly,
Amy

[gemma]

I need to redo my link list too
You are still Blue Spa Girl
but more than that
you are:
layers
cells
constellations

[Gillian daSilva]

Aw Gem! You are so sweet. :-)

You are those things and more my desert friend. xo

[Gillian daSilva]

I can still be Blue Spa girl!!! Kind of a throw back to the early days Gemma xo

[Stephanie]

Thank you for the opportunity to exist sweetly in this moment with you.

beautiful post...

x..x
steph

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Loving the sweetness.

[darlene]

warm thoughts to your dad ...

this was such a sweet post, full of beauty and light, that photo is gorgeous!! xo

[Stephanie]

Much light and love going to your dad.

What a great explanation of the difference between million and billion. Now I understand...

Hope you had a lovely holiday.

[Scarlet]

My sweetest thoughts and prayers and good wishes are with your dad, my friend. (I know how us girls feel about our daddies.)

The photo you posted is beautiful and calms the spirit. Thanks for sharing it and the lovely thoughts that accompany it. I like the way you put it..."meditation in sweetness." ¡Que bueno! Let me join you in that! :)

[simon]

hope your dad fairs well!

[Fireblossom32]

Hi Sugar,

Oh, oops, I'm making it all worse, aren't I? Hehe! Listen, best of success for your father in his fight. I will be thinking of you both. And i wanted to say I loved what you said about preparing a meal being a prayer in itself. It really is!

[soeurs du jour]

good wishes for your dad.

[Jeaux]

I believe celebration, meditation, attention, and love are a kind of prayer, n'est pas. Sometimes I think 'what isn't prayer...?'

[Gillian daSilva]

Me too!

Especially if the right attention is given to everything.

Sigh.

It’s best to live in truth, n’est pas?

xoxo

[Graciel @ Evenstar Art]

Your Dad has been in my prayers since we met last fall. The mantra continues in earnest this week.

much love xo

[Gillian daSilva]

Thanks Graciel. I don’t deserve you.

xo

[pam aries]

Dear Blue, Star woman of much Wealth, my thoughts and prayers are with your father...you and Sheila. I see that he is home now which is great news. You have a loving family, very dear and genuine. Peace , love and riches !

[A Fanciful Twist]

Oh, your sweet dad is i my thoughts & prayers.

I am still trying to grasp into my brain all these numbers :) stars and magic moooons!! xoxo

[rhayne]

Now those are some crazy numbers! Still can't wrap my brain around something that immense.

Healing thoughts go out to your father today.
xo

[Relyn]

OH! I really love that explanation of the difference between a million and a billion. That might finally help my students understand those enormous numbers.

[Gillian daSilva]

Hi Relyn :-)

I know! What a visual. Both sound so similar too….million, billion, Gillian….:)