The Promised Photo

 
Here’s Wendy with one of the dolphins I wrote about yesterday–I’ll be posting other pictures as we go along. 
As I write this, Button, my 20 year cat, is on my lap, doing his best to keep me from using the keyboard.  🙂  He’s a lovey old guy for sure, and he sure likes attention.  When I meditate mornings and evenings, he’s always there to help out.  
Yes, I have finally managed to get into the meditation habit, and I can’t say enough about the benefits.  At first, it was really hard to sit still for 30 minutes–as many of you will recall, I have a walloping case of ADD–but now I actually look forward to the experience.  I’ve been practicing pretty much every day now for a couple of months.
I’m almost at the end of The Course In Miracles, too.  Took me the better part of two years, but I was in no hurry to be finished.  I plan to go back through it again, this time using some study guides I’ve been keeping on hand for the purpose.  And I’m on Day 74 of the 40-Day gratitude journaling project I told you about a while back.  (For more information, see Melody Beattie’s book, “Making Miracles in Forty Days.”)
Here’s one thing I’ve learned about miracles: they are not necessarily spectacular, parting-of-the-Red-Sea, burning-bush type things.  Often, they involve a simple shift in the way a person thinks, a reminder, a sudden idea.  I don’t know about you, but all my life, I’ve thought of miracles as huge productions with casts of thousands, and I think I’ve overlooked plenty of them along the way.  One more reason why it’s a good idea to keep a gratitude journal.
🙂