Freedom to Cherish Shining Moments

Cherish all your happy moments: They make a fine cushion for old age. Booth Tarkington(gratefulness.org)

I had an article published called SHINING MOMENTS - Using Stories from the Past to Heal the Present. The periodical was called SACRED REFLECTIONS (a Shamanic Journal)
Birdwings
Your grief for what you've lost lifts a mirror
up to where you're bravely working.
Expecting the worst, you look, and instead
here's the joyful face you've been wanting to see.
Your hand opens and closes and opens and closes.
If it were always a fist or always stretched open,
you would be paralyzed.
Your deepest presence is in very small contracting and expanding,
the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birdwings.

“Joy is cultivated through the way that you live your life. When a person integrates spirit into everyday life and expresses loving kindness to the self and others—joy naturally follows.”
Selacia, The Council of 12

"The Awakened One has no cause for His joy and therefore nothing affects his joy.
The unawakened one knows only pleasure or pain, dependent on all that is happening." -- Sri Amma Bhagavan