Serenity, Beauty, Earth Day and Continuation

I know it's been a very long while since I lasted posted and for that I'm very sorry, but that being said serenity is never far from my being.

Today I awoke to an absolutely magnificent day, a day that has blue skies, green grass, flowers blooming and budding, warmer temps and a peacefulness in the air.  How can you not be filled with serenity when that world surrounds you?

In the past few months, joy has abounded for me.  I have traveled to Netherlands and Belgium to celebrate a wedding anniversary, the trip was filled with many new faces, incredible architecture, history that was as horrifying as it was astounding and of course it was filled with millions of blooming tulips, creating fields of color and richness. 

The trip started off with the news that we would soon be grandparents for the 1st time.  I was overjoyed and also filled with concern for my children.  Parenting is hard and babies are a lot of work, but they are also filled with beauty of wonder at each new step.  It will be an amazing time for all of us but especially the soon to be new parents.

But while I can each day find my serenity, it seems that our world has become more and more anger filled, more and more hatred, more and more divided.  We need to stop and just take a look at what we've become and attempt to find some inner peace.  It starts with one individual and then it can spread.  I'm absolutely convinced that this can be done, because it has already happened in small microcosm.  Last week there was a horrific fire in a magnificent cathedral in Paris and for several hours we grieved over the destruction of centuries of beauty, but within hours post fire the world came together to fund raise, plan and renew commitments to rebuild.

This is what we need to do every single day.  Stop, look up, look around, take a deep, deep breath and renew our commitment to having a better, more beautiful, more serene world.  This week was Earth Day, what could be a more fitting testament to our world then filling it with beauty of the soul, beauty of the world free from pollution, beauty of people who have enough to eat, education, happy homes, no violence and freedom to chose joy over hatred.

Each day find joy, find beauty, and that will help you find serenity.