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Don’t Let Anyone Rain on Your Parade- and

Don’t Let Anyone Cast Shadows on Your Sunlight!

This is a mantra that I instilled in my daughter from her first day entering preschool!

Even to this day it is something I say to her and we repeat it together when I know she is about to face challenges and obstacles in her day. I have used it with my nephew and nieces. It is a family tradition as I impart these little words of wisdom to the grand children in the family.  When this was given to me by Spirit, it really resonated with me because I could actually visualize what I was saying. I could see myself going about my day full of excitement and joy, and then all of a sudden find myself in a defensive mode because someone of something was trying to take my happiness from me and drag me into their pain. You see I figured out that when people inflict discord and pain on other people it is because they themselves are living in a pain body.  It is important for us to understand it is not really personal!  It is really a “I am miserable and I will feel better if you are miserable too”! You know the old saying that  “Misery loves company”? It is without a doubt true to that part of our human design that is a flaw. 

If we don’t understand what is behind the attack, then we allow them to “rain on our parade of joy, self-worth, and self-love.  We can begin to doubt that we are in fact worthy of appreciation and respect. There has to be a space that we go into to evaluate the situation.! We have to be able to “consider the source” that is trying to draw us in and cause havoc on our peace and contentment. I read this little saying today on Facebook posted by Fearless Soul”- boy that is really aligning the messages- it said “ I am never in control of what happens around me, but I am always in control of what happens within me”.  Our lives are a constant parade of experiences on this journey we call life.

There will be high’s and low’s but there is also the possibility of colorful rainbows that emerge after the rain.  We have to hold on to that “knowing”! We can’t allow anyone to cast shadows on the sunlight that radiates from our soul! We don’t stand in the shadow of someone that might attempt to overcast their shadow being on the light that reflects the power of spirit that lies within each of us. March throughout your life’s parade with grace, joy, confidence, love and gratitude for what you have been bless with and what you have been blessed to share. Be busy being you! Be busy embracing all of life’s experiences, knowing that we are always being prepared for even greater things. There is always more truth and knowledge to experience.  There is always more “Joy in the breaking of a new day, every day! As my sister Patty says- “I am joyful”.

Our cups overflow with all of what life has to offer. We chose what we want to drink from that cup!