Keep them safe, keep them whole, keep them joyful, keep them , just keep them safe for at least tonight that we may sleep….God forbid they should be safe forever, that just wouldnt be fair now would it? Anyone who has ever loved anyone understands the peace in knowing our beloved are safe. This realization didn’t dawn on me until I had a child. Once you have a child your mind is plagued with all kinds of thoughts about what could go wrong. I won’t bore you with details but we all know the power of the mind and anyone who understands the laws of attraction knows not to put energy like that out there, so may I recommend omega-3s, anyway back on track,…safety.

That invaluable commodity much like health that we tend to take for granted. You know that thing women barter their whole lives for to secure for their children?
I’m not trying to scare anyone this isn’t about women, this is about the greatest gift we can give to another.
You ever wonder how you can pay someone back? Someone who did something so amazing for you that you know you felt you could never pay them back? Did you know there’s a very simple way that you could pay them back? Its so simple you’ll be shocked. Get ready for it, it comes in the smallest package, you’ve heard it a billion times, you just never really INNER-stood it.

Take care of yourself.

See, safety is the greatest gift that you can give another. That is to responsibly and persistently keep yourself safe and warm and healthy and happy…that all your loved ones need not worry or stay up late at night in torment worrying whether you are fed warm or loved.

My grandmother always thanked me… For being safe, for being content, for feeling well and being happy, and she would often tell me to thank my husband too. I never realized then that my simple stable status quo was a gift to her, or that if i were negligent in procuring it, it could cost her tears and worry, stress and more gray hair…because when we love people, we don’t sleep well at night knowing they’re in agony or heart broken, or lost,confused, desperate or alone.

Take care of yourself.

It’s like one of those statements you don’t even hear. It precipitates a onversation you won’t even remember, like “how are you?” “I’m well!” Oh,so glad to hear it!” You just don’t give it much attention, it’s a motor memory, requires no thought. And it’s polite society that would be perturbed if you told them the truth about how you were doing because let’s face it we don’t take care of ourselves not until we’re absolutely forced to. And maybe I’m wrong maybe you had amazing parents that taught you how to do that,
But the rest of us, we just learned how to get used to politely lie with a smile on our face.

There’s a lot of meaning in it, words we don’t speak about often, such as self-care and self esteem, unconditional love and not having lack mentality, confidently manifesting our dreams… these are words we don’t talk about often, or about ourselves. When we say take care of yourself, it’s so easy to feel as if those words just roll right off our back, aint nobody got time for that.

I was diagnosed at 19 with an advanced case of rheumatoid arthritis and that I would be on drugs for the rest of my life to treat my disease, and that I would never be able to drink alcohol with the rest of my crowd, you know my peers, those folks in the in club who went skiing in the winter and camping in the summer and did all those sports that I would never be able to do again if I hadn’t already? So at 19 I had the lack of wisdom to be angry at people who told me to take care of myself.

But time and the birth of my daughter taught me that when people take care of themselves they don’t just take care of themselves they take care of everyone. You don’t have to worry about them. You don’t have to stay up all night worrying that they are eating or sleeping or being abused in any way, or taking risks that might endanger their children their homes or their lives.

And that is a gift! A priceless gift! But now that I know that the quality of water and air are in question, now that it’s evident profit drives our elite, not knowledge expansion or compassion. Now I will forever ponder my ability to provide the basic essentials like clean water, air, or basic shelter, to my child, much less, her offspring.

And the perilous instability of societal services like hospitals, supermarkets and firefighting facilities looms as large as a tsunami off the coast,

So why does it take so so long for us to realize the gift we deny ourselves and our loved ones…

e lack of wisdom to be angry at people who told me to take care of myself.  But time and the birth of my daughter taught me that when people take care of themselves they don’t just take care of themselves they take care of everyone.   You don’t have to worry about them.   You don’t have to stay up all night worrying that they are eating or sleeping or being abused in any way, or taking risks that might endanger their children their homes or their lives. And that is a gift!  A priceless gift!  But now that I know that the quality of water and air are in question, now that it’s evident profit drives our elite, not knowledge expansion or compassion. Now I will forever ponder my ability to provide the basic essentials like clean water, air, or basic shelter, to my child, much less, her offspring. And the perilous instability of societal services like hospitals, supermarkets and firefighting facilities looms as large as a tsunami off the coast, So why does it take so so long for us to realize the gift we deny ourselves and our loved ones… Why do we not teach each other how to give the gift of safety?