Gift

Followers, I left off with a fun Top Gun ride recap. Now for the Gift on my stoop.

After a wonderful brunch Sunday morning, I got a call from a friend to join him for a lunch.  I accepted and we met up and had a heartfelt talk. Again, it is one for the ol pen and paper, however, I left with a smile on my face and hope in my heart.  It reminds me of a quote that I found rather poignant when I watched this particular episode of Medium years ago. “Hope, like dread, it often comes unannounced and then thankfully intoxicates us and inoculates our feelings with an irrational sense of joy and optimism.  Hope is the high.  Dread is the low.  I guess life is the stuff in-between.” (© Medium, NBC part of GE, Air date 4/4/07) I include the reference in case someone makes a movie of my blog then I hopefully wont be sued…. LOL  Also, no dread this day, that was just in line with the quote.  But isn’t it funny, how hope can fill our soul to the brim.  And I was inoculated.

I took off for home, met Manny for shoulders (good grief, this man is changing my life. I have muscles!!), then dinner with some new ALC friends.  On my way home I got a message on my phone; there is a Gift for you on your door stoop.  Oh yeah, what is it.  I was told what it was.  Yeah right, really? OK. I will go get it. I couldn’t believe it for a second.  And just like a child on Christmas day, I started to realize that the Gift really was going to be under the tree. Santa never disappointed. I drove home and passed my stoop. Sure enough, my Gift was right there.  I parked and started to walk to my door. One step. Two steps. Then my feet started to advance ahead of my head. They knew where they were going. I trotted towards my stoop. And like that my head joined in and said “get there, get to your door. The Gift is waiting.” Full jog, now my heart was involved. I knew what the Gift was and by George, I was drunk with anticipation of getting to unwrap it.  I arrive at my door, and there followers, was the most special Gift I have had, waiting for me. I stopped two steps shy of it.  I was inoculated with joy and hope, and the universe delivered.  I will say that at times, the most welcome things come into your universes life path, and it is when least expected that the universe presents her/him/it self and exposes its inner beauty. At that moment, when the universe aligns with what is out there, you can freely fall and know that you will be caught in the energy that is life.  Followers, that is what happened.  I gingerly approached my Gift, and unwrapped it so delicately, so passionately, that one would say I fell in love with it. And life stopped, all for a brief moment, the world was quiet.  There was nothing else there but my Gift and I.  It was a beautiful moment that I will remember and cherish forever.  

Well followers, I teared up that night. This Gift was meant to be in my life. . I can see that now, clearly. I was enveloped in the love of this Gift and could feel the emotion and intent of the Gift. I am not a big believer in a supreme being, but how can one not when life works out the way it does.  What is this gift you ask, one that brought me to such a high emotional state, and full of hope. A special Gift, one which I hope that all of you will have or do have in your life.

Take a leap and don’t be afraid to fall on your face.  Trust me I do it everyday.