Today, it began to press upon me how important it is to share about what is going right in our lives. This is especially important where we think there are significant reasons for that. What help can I be to you, dear reader, if I don’t share what good is coming to me from living this philosophy? So it’s time to talk about how my life has changed for the better.
Then I invite you to reflect on what’s happening in your life. You are welcome to comment here, or you can open your heart to be heard and answered. You certainly will be, as our teachers promise.
From simple things to fairly complex ones, what happens in my life now is different than before. I attribute that to a pattern of thinking that has emerged. Knowing how loved I am and how little it serves me to judge or blame others, rage, endeavor to control what’s going on, or worry quite so much, has wrought some big changes.
What I am learning to be true in this philosophy brings a needed sea change within me. These were evident immediately. Turning from negative thinking and embracing what is positive, but more important true, as I am learning from the philosophy, brings about a fresh perspective that affects every aspect of my life.
So, I have a made a start with a list: I rest more deeply. Meaning and value come out of challenges. I let go of fears. I experience happier outcomes. The hardest things become easier.
Some items on my list appear simplistic: I rest more deeply. Yet, that’s a function of greater freedom from worry and feeling supported along the way, drawing needed energy and hope. What can be more important to our core experience than the ability to feel good and hopeful? Imagine how our experiences, following upon that rest, must bring improvements and benefit those who are in those moments with us.
Meaning and value come out of challenges I experience, no matter how scary or bleak they appear initially, so that I experience happier outcomes. In this way, I can let go of fears more easily. I can keep going, even in the face of perceived adversity. This is confirmation that I am heard and responded to, and that my life is truly of value.
The hardest things become easier. I grow and my wounds are salved. This gives me courage and the faith I need to keep going and embrace new opportunities to learn and grow.
Experience-sharing is a great way for us as adults to learn, and it’s hard to compete with good practical examples. I hope you will also share with others in your daily life. Examples from our lives can be a beacon for others! —Deborah
Field notes from Deborah
I look out now, I see birds busily digging for worms and insects, and I watch them through my field glasses and read about them. They perch near my window and seem to look at me. Perhaps they are happy I am writing for the Teachers. I feel they must know it and want to get in on it, too … visiting my yard, working and singing to help inspire me. Our dear friends, the robins, have returned again to rear their young on our fence, snuggled into a fantastic nest of leggy interlaced twigs arrayed like those woodland wreaths I see in floral shops, that take the magic of wreaths one step further — as if celebrating all woodland things! That is what I mean. I am taking it one step further, too.
From Deborah: As the latest chapter in our new work (which we are currently writing) is titled: Bittersweet, I can say I found our return home from our travels to the islands of the Outer Banks to be just that, happy but redolent with that misty sense of missing something. I imagine that I missed that sense of adventure of what will happen next. I missed the freshness of a morning somewhere else so far from my home. Now, after reading what Our Teachers have posted: 
