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Today I’m grateful for my little flaws and imperfections…

Oh yes…like most people…I have a few…

But when you look around…

you see so many of those imperfections

have their own beauty too.

May we be blessed when it come to life…

to be of this perception:

That there is so much beauty 

to be found in imperfection.

Today I’m grateful for being born into a wonderland

an endless storybook….

Where on every page there is beauty…everywhere I look,

NELLA’S BLESSING

If beauty is in the eye of the beholder…

what a wonderful world this would be…

if everyone was blessed to behold beauty 

in everything and everyone they see.

Every parent thinks their babies are beautiful

as they watch them play during the day 

or sleep throughout the night. 

and with a little encouragement from Mother Nature…

they know that they are right.

Why else would the sun send down a ray of light

all the way from outer space…

a single beam who’s only mission

is to highlight the beauty of their child’s face?

Why else when they walk by a garden with their baby 

do the flowers stand up a little straighter…

The sunflower, the daffodil…the rose….

and why else would a lady bug rest upon their child’s shoulder

or a butterfly land upon their nose?

Why else would rabbits who normally when they see people coming

run away like crooks…

stop and stand on their hind legs…just to have a look.

Why else would the trees offer their children shade…

if they did not detect…

there is beauty in this child it is their duty to protect.

And why else while in their beds asleep…

In the darkness of the night…

would the moon shine through their windows

offering them a natural night light?

Yes, I know each parent will say…

“My babies are beautiful and will always be beautiful to me”

But isn’t also nice to know that the sun, the moon, the rabbits

the ladybugs and the butterflies agree.

 Sometimes when I look into a mirror…the image surprises me.

On the one hand I’m sure the image I am looking at is me…

But if I look a little closer I also see a hologram

a visual representation of everything I am…

I am the Earth, the sky, the oceans…the mountain and the trees

I am every animal that ever existed…I am butterflies and bees.

I am all the colors of the rainbow…sometimes I am black or white…

the more I look the more I realize…I’m quite a pretty sight.

I am a man and I am a woman…I’m also L G B T and Q….

And if you stopped to take a closer look you’d realize…

so are you.

The next time you’re near a mirror…look closely at your image and you’ll see

how you are but one part of everything around you…of one Earth family.

When you do…you begin to see yourself in a different…diverse light…

and the more you look the more you realize…you’re quiet a pretty sight.

You begin to see you’re not just you…but together you’re so much more…

and how…in this light you are even more beautiful 

than you thought you were before.

When we meet another person…

may we be blessed to be advised…

not only to see their outward beauty

but…the beauty behind their eyes.

If we look for indigenous wisdom

we will find it everywhere we go…

Today I’m grateful I’ve found it

in the wisdom of the Navajo

With beauty before me 

I walk

With beauty behind me

I walk

With beauty beneath

I walk

With beauty above me

I walk

With beauty all around me

I walk