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I went to Zumba last night and was glad to get out of the house and off my sofa after being a shut in due to Tin’s flu (that I have been fighting off as much as possible). At the end of each Zumba class comes a moment when everyone circles up to say why they are grateful or what they are challenged with and I must admit even though I could open my mouth and cry me a river, I seldom feel the spark to share when in these groups.

Yesterday, though, one of my fellow Zumba sisters said she had been reading my blog and for that I am grateful. Yes indeed, very grateful. A few months back, another Zumba sister came up to me and told me she had been reading my blog and it touched me so much I started crying and actually couldn’t even speak to her about it, even though I was grateful then as well.

I think we all hear those affirmations or inspirations that tell us to keep doing what we love and our creations, our babies, will find their light of day. A fellow blogger was referring to my new website as my new baby and so they are, these endeavors that I have nurtured with my every fiber.

This morning, I’m again recycling an inspiration that I clipped during one of the rough patches and offering it up here. It’s one that I came across not at a particularly low point but definitely at a questioning intersection of my life. One of the notions that I have worked hard to overcome in my life is the question of guilt. How much of what I have taken action on has influenced a negative reaction from the universe.

Guilt is not something that people really pay attention to as much as say fear, greed, envy. But Guilt ranks up there with one of the most useless emotions we could possibly harbor. We all possess a keen ability to kick ourselves in our own bums, repeatedly, for past mistakes, but when the coin is flipped and those mistakes are viewed as opportunities, it changes the experience. A friend and neighbor said to me at a birthday celebration I was having, “May your mistakes of the future prove to be more interesting than your mistakes of the past.” That’s an outright license to make one or more and a far better approach to living than closing up like a pillbug and feigning defeat.

A friend wrote me this morning her own affirmation: the abundance of the universe is mine. I am safe. So here’s today’s message – put your faith in the affirmative and recognize that you will make mistakes but they will light your way to a more rewarding journey:

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