Focus

 When we focus on beauty, we reflect light. When we focus on harmony, we reflect love. When we focus on gratitude, we reflect blessings.   Mary Davis

I have found this nugget to be true. Whether my focus is in closeup or from a faraway perspective, positive begets more positive, and negative begets more negative. Placing my attention on that which feeds my soul blesses my days, weeks, years. 

I have a responsibility to look carefully at those aspects within myself which achieve the opposite of what I want, like when I’m being petty or envious, cantankerous or unwilling—those things which take me out of the Sunlight. It’s my job to see these things as the weeds they are and to get to their roots, so that they are not able to return.

At the same time, I get to notice and acknowledge the loveliness around and within me. To notice is to invite reflection. What is right and good? What fills me with gratitude? Where in my body do I notice the nexus of joys seen and felt? Can I choose to live in the blessing of gratitude, the love borne of harmony, the light from seen beauty? It is up to me.

Today, I know what I choose. I set my intention to focus on the good, the positive, and the actions I can take which move me closer to Serenity.