The way I see it, we all have several tanks within us. Emotional, spiritual, physical, and creative to name a few.
Sometimes our tanks run on empty. Like a car, when there is an empty tank of gas we all know what happens next… Nothing! Life stands still until you get more gas and fill up your tank!

We as humans, are the same as cars…
Some maybe a traditional car which will only run on gas, while others a Hybrid, which has several options to adapt to moving forward…

I’m realizing several of my life tanks are on empty… I have my creativity tank which is filled with passion for writing and yet it feels empty. My spiritual tank sits waiting to be refilled. My emotional tank has run dry along with my physical tank! So now what? Have you ever entered a season in life when the season seemed just too long?

Many of us are patiently waiting for spring. The winter season has dragged its cold, chilly self for too many months…
Like my empty tanks, I wait patiently for the new growth from within, a spring-like renewal to fill my tanks with new life…

Will I ever finish my book? Or will my life tanks be too empty to fulfill my dreams?

In wonder this morning…

Lately, I have been lost for words. A writers block perhaps? Or maybe just an overwhelmed feeling from life…
Life’s reality of spinning faster than I can keep up with. Watching time fly by…

As a child time moved at a pace that seemed perfect. The time between seasons was just right. Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays seemed like months away… Today, everything blends into one moment.
Days fly by, the seasons pass through time faster than my mind can wrap itself around. And then there’s the holiday time again!

I’m tired! What has caused time to fly by so quickly? Technology? Aging? The reality of my own mortality? Lost for words, lost for understanding the reality of time.

As I continue to embrace my aging parents and all the emotions that carry with it… I am reminded daily of how time flies and those precious moments that pass us by…

Lost for words… I find myself… Lost for words…

In wonder of it all…

I came face to face with a women who wasn’t very nice… As I walked away slightly in shock of her ugliness, all I could think of was the words Beauty and the beast! Although in my eyes there was little physical beauty. I wasn’t going to judge until she opened her mouth and then I saw it… The beast from her true lack of beauty from within.

I had heard many sad stories about this women. Not wanting to judge another human being, I thought it only fair to give her the “benefit of the doubt…” A simple smile and hello was all it took to see her lack of inner beauty, the beast… As I walked away, I knew I had given her a chance to prove many others wrong… She single handily proved me wrong! She was as miserable as everyone had said…
Not giving her a second thought, only the sadness for her and the beast which lives inside…

I suppose there is a beauty and a beast in all of us.
Which do you choose to show the world around you?
And although I wasn’t a huge fan of girl scouts (Not even for the cookies)
I do remember this…
“Do unto others as you would want them to do unto you!”

The Beauty and The Beast
Who will you be today?
You choose…

In awe of Love
In wonder of the Beast…

Everyday someone dies
But not everyday someone lives.
Choices are made,
In Control
No control.
Death Unexpected
Anticipating death, expected…
Life celebrated,
A tribute…
Life,
Lacking celebration
The difference?
Unknown
Life Embraced
Life taken for granted…
Life… worth living!
3.7.14
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