Hello there

I sit writing this to you in the dairy lands of Berry NSW, Australia. I am here on my birthday retreat.

Another year is about to begin and I am preparing to step across the threshold into my new year.

I am comtemplative and extremely grateful for the way my year has unfolded. The trials were small compared to the gains and wisdom they returned and as the first year of my nine year cycle, it has shown the promise of things to come - deeper peace, greater sense of my mission and purpose and an opening to the LifeSource that reveals to me the next steps.

There has been less tears and pain, and when they have come I have known they will pass and reveal their gifts.  There has been much love, laughter, joy and appreciation for the world I live in and myself than ever before.

Such a thing can happen within the passing of a year. Blessings are numerous and have been counted.

Some of them I enumerate here:

Creatively I have had a bumper year  -  the publishing of my anthology as a poet - Blessings Vol.1.

The rebuilding of my coaching business including the support mechanisms - website, products and tools

The start of my mission movement for peace - The SMILEY CARDS

Painting for joy, dancing in happiness - these are creative expressions for myself and their nurturing feeds my soul so deliciously.

Work is in a state of transition- as I move from what I needed to be doing  to what I choose as a LifeSource choice  and in time the transition will be made effortlessly and with grace.

On the personal front there has been growth as well, but possibly the most profound growth has been within as I have released old beliefs and made way for new. This is a continuous process and one I make time for daily.

I sit here in deep admiration of the jacaranda tree I can see through the window. They have flowered late this year. Usually by this time of the month they are all but over.

From October onwards I start looking for them - these trees with their curved arms out to the world, their bell shaped blossoms covering the tree and carpeting the ground in a rich blue purple.

As I drive around in sunny Sydney, these trees stand out like large purple umbrellas in a sea of green trees and as I took the journey to Berry this morning it was like each tree was waiting on the highway to say 'hello' and mark the road clearly to my destination.

These trees give me such joy and yet I own not one - which makes me wonder what True Wealth may really be about....

As i sit here in this lovely cottage, looking out at the jacaranda tree and am fully present in this moment of life, my heart can only be gladdened and full.

My life is prosperous on so many levels thanks to the LifeSource.

Wishing you the blessings of a full heart

Till next time,

Melody

p.s. if you wish to stay at the lovely cottage I am currently in please go to: www.berryorchard.com.au/