Life, Love and Peace

Life is changing fast these days with the economy still struggling like the little engine that could. The news has become something we want to hear, but not really. What we really need, is more love and more peace.

A childhood friend of mine lost her dad the other day and it reminded me once again, that we love is everlasting. My dad's been gone for many years now, and yet his love I cling to and feel it close to me so much. His birthday a few weeks ago, he would have been 70. That's so hard to believe and I wonder what he would have been like at 70? Still funny, generous, silly, and tough. He'd be asking me a lot of questions right now and urging me to always, give more, love more, be and enjoy more - find the passion of life. That was dad. And when you lose a parent, their inner core seems to be left with us, probably from all those years of teaching. I thought of my friend's dad, I remember him when I was very little always with a big big smile on his face, and working around the yard, i remember how much he loved his family, he was a true family man.

If life is changing fast but the goal of life is to be the best person you can everyday, and for me, serving others helping them achieve goals and reach for their own gold star, then why the need for peace and love too?

That's what we leave our family with. The love we shared, the joy and encouragement we were and are, what we give, we leave behind. Patrick Swayze has left behind a long and lasting love. His soul mate, his wife, will feel him all the days of her life. He was a model for commitment to true love, inner goodness, and who doesn't want that as their legacy on this earth.

I pray I can leave this place and those I've encountered with more love and peace than they had before. I wish gold stars for all of us, and a life of, well, all the peace and joy you can muster.

Peace