Sundays and Big Surprises!

I might go to the Centre for Spiritual Awareness this morning. I like going to the Center. Even if I hardly know any people and even if I don’t talk to anyone, it’s still a place where I feel connected to others who are on the same path. The Centre is a very appropriate name. For me it is a place I can go to that does just that. The welcoming smiles and faces, the music, the songs, the meditations, the talk, the sense of community – all of it centers me in my heart space, nurtures my soul and gives me food for thought for the week ahead.
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Some Sunday mornings I like to lounge around and write instead. Writing offer me another form of connection and soul nurturing. When writing I let go. I reach inside to where the truth of who I am resides and I bring this truth to a state of being on the outside. When I write in my journal I don’t concern myself with what form my writing takes, I just write. I just allow words to drop down from my conscious and sub-conscious mind and flow through to my pen and it’s in this process that something magical happens - the same magic that happens when I attend the Centre for Spiritual Awareness - I connect to the heart of who I am, I connect to Source and feel nurtured.
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Writing at my computer is a whole lot more pleasant for the past couple of days. I got my new keyboard, dropped it in my laptop and voila! I feel like I’ve been given a new lease on life. I am free of the big cumbersome exterior keyboard I had to use since dropping that can of Pepsi on my computer and frying my keyboard. Showed me how dependant I am on this computer for my work, for my business connections and for outer connections with friends too.
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I was rather disappointed when I went to Weight Watchers this week and found out I had only lost ½ a pound. I was hoping for more than that but it didn’t happen. The good side is I’ve still loss some even if it wasn’t much. This week is another week to step forward with this and see where it takes me.
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Okay, I’ve babbled on long enough here without getting to what I really want to share, trying to save the best for the last. Drum roll please.............!!! Dum, da, de, dum! My third grandchild is in the making. Jody and Ryan are going to be parents and I am once more going to be a grandma! How exciting is that!

My phone rang the other night and Jody said, “What are you doing?” “I just got off my computer and I was going to go read,” I said. “Well go back on, I just sent you an email,” she said. So I did.

I opened my mail box and I saw she had sent me some pictures. I scrolled down and it took a minute or so before what I was looking at registered with me. When it did, I heard myself almost scream into the phone: “You’re pregnant?

“Looks pretty real to me,” she said with excitement and a little bit of a nervous edge to her voice. So we talked for a long time about this new turn of events, how happy and at the same time a little apprehensive they are, and how this new arrival would change their lives. Then, just before I hung up, I said to her. “I guess that means you’ll have to pull out the belly ring.” The line went dead for a minute. “I’m going to have to do what!” she said.

Yup, that's my Jody, the one who always said, "I'm never going to do THAT to my body."