Taking time for Thanksgiving

This week I feel like I have been pushing and pushing and pushing (and pushY!).  I have been knocking on doors with no answer and calling numbers with no pickup.  I keep asking questions but getting no answer.  I am waiting for news that eludes me.  I will blame this all on the current Mercury Retrograde affecting our solar system.  My Leo astrology for mid November through December until the week of Christmas suggests that I just lay low and allow time to catch up.  I know in my heart that things will pick up speed soon.  I should never feel the need to push anything.  In fact, I ought to consider it a blessing that I have more free time to write, more creative (non-paying) tasks to occupy me and more people needing a volunteer hand.  Here I am!  Choose me.  I always dislike when I am overlooked, so maybe it is time to spend a bit of my mental strength on others in need.  Plenty of volunteers are needed everywhere right now.It's time I give and give and give.

THANKSGIVING, the act of giving thanks, not the meal...is a spiritual period.  It should happen often...like daily.  But if it is only once a year, it should be embraced.  I am extremely grateful for the wonderful and blessed year 2011 has been to me personally.  My life has literally transformed since January 2011, transformed.  I am nowhere near the same person I was then and I am no where near doing the things I was doing a year ago. My life has expanded and I feel closer then ever to my dreams and personal goals.  I can see them coming to fruition...in the distance.  I am not there yet.  Hence today's frustration...why am I not there yet?????  I suppose it may be because without gratitude in my heart and without giving of myself I cannot get there.  I cannot receive until I give.  So what shall I give?  I have so little materially speaking.  I do hope for better times to come (soon) monetarily.  I want to use my money to serve my greater purpose in life.

Thanksgiving, giving thanks.  I feel gratitude for the kids, and my (Salgado) family.
 I am thankful that the Universe has created a gap, an opening and a slight emptiness and yearning within me.  If there was no space, no yearning...what would urge me to keep moving forward?  We fill ourselves with light so that we can shine on others, but then eventually it fades.  This is when we must return to be filled again.  I return each day to my meditation and my Source of light.  I offer first my gratitude and then I ask my Source of Light," Please fill me, please help me because I am weak in my flesh and cannot do the work".  It needs to be The Light in me that does the work.  If it is not from The Light, and I only rely on what my hands can build and what my ears can hear and what my eyes can see, then it will be built...but it will not last.  I have not travelled this path to achieve failure, no.  I have come to achieve great things, and I will achieve them.

Today is a nice day.  But I do not rely on nice to carry me.  It is not enough and will never be enough.  I rely on The Light, to inspire and share divine knowledge and inspiration.  I want to inspire others to use their talents, their strength...to make this a better WORLD. 
If my daughter becomes a famous actor, I expect her to use her fame to help those in need...and not as some side hobby but as her mission and her passion.  She cannot seek to succeed for herself alone.  If I become a published writer and people look to me for inspiration in the written word, I want to use that gift and that ability to change people's lives!  If I sing (and I can), then I want it to be music that inspires people to create, rather than songs that glorify just me or my singing ability.  If I parent my kids, it will always be in a way that leads them to greater self-discovery and knowledge of the world and the Spiritual world and what they must know to live.

So I will spend this weekend of Thanksgiving with the people I adore, and I will allow the pause that I am currently experiencing from many of my creative endeavors, and I will not for one moment feel discouraged, not one.  I will shine.  I wish all of my readers the most pleasant holiday too!

~Namaste~