TODAY I CELEBRATE

Today I celebrate with open arms.

I celebrate choice in behavior and in response.

I celebrate the irritations—the rubbings against.

I celebrate the busyness that comes with a full life.

I celebrate being able to create a space of stillness while in the busyness.

I celebrate the stress and exhilaration of deadlines converging and choices toward simplicity.

I celebrate my humanness—my flaws and my perfections all packaged in this creation of me.

I celebrate planning and creating and preparing for a life event.

I celebrate love in its newness, fresh and full and

I celebrate love that is sculpted in the day-to-day and the bends of the journey.

I celebrate thoughts that flow from pen to page.

I celebrate poetry.

I celebrate this holy season and my faith.

I celebrate this slow-to-become spring that allows the earth to long for newness.

I celebrate the ambiguities and the not-so-easily solved.

I celebrate with arms open.