Angels All Around

I want to write a quick blog tonight to thank my devoted angels for protecting our baby girl and me yesterday. I was on my way to work like every morning, waiting at a stoplight when boom, I heard a loud noise and everything in my car lurched forward! Someone had just rear ended me. Because I was at a stoplight, thankfully it was at a low speed. But I immediately went into Mommy Mode and held my belly, praying our baby wasn't injured. I didn't feel any pain myself, only concern for my little miracle growing inside. After exchanging information with the guy who hit me, I called my husband and while on the phone felt the wonderful gentle kicks and pokes of our baby girl! Qué alivio! What a relief! She's moving! We still decided to call our midwife who recommended going to the ER to make sure the baby and her placenta were okay. 

We spent 3+ hours in the hospital and I signed the first paperwork as a parent, giving consent to monitor the baby's heartbeat and activity. The nurses were impressed that at only 24 weeks they could hear her heartbeat so clearly. She moved around a lot too which made me feel even more relieved. After monitoring for over an hour, they sent us home to rest. Only after getting home did I really start feeling sore but with a very grateful heart that our baby girl is healthy song wasn't affected by the accident. 

Our angels were truly watching over us and lessening the impact of the crash with their gentle wings. I know not everyone believes in angels but I have had them with me making sure I'm safe my whole life. I believe that my grandparents who I never had the opportunity to meet because they passed in a tragic car accident when my mom was only 16 are always with me. And in the past 5 years I have gained more angels. 4 close friends and my other grandma on my dad's side. I know in my heart that they are with me still, just in a different form. I consistently see hummingbirds, which are symbols from the after life, along with feathers and pennies appearing out of nowhere. I also notice when it's 11:11 and see these numbers frequently, which are said to be signs from the angels as well. 

So this post is dedicated to my angels and my baby's angels. We are forever grateful. Thank you for watching over us and softening the impact of the crash yesterday. And for all you do that we aren't even aware of yet. :)

I trust life because I know angels are real.

 

 

 

Blogging From The Beach

This last year has been quite a year for changes. I changed jobs twice, my mom had a serious medical emergency, we moved again, we lost a dear friend to cancer, and I became certified as a life coach. Many ups and downs but a lot of lessons learned about resilience and perseverance. Patience and trusting. 

These past few months--really this past year--I haven't been as dedicated to my writing. Sometimes I think I might even be blocked. Creativity has flown in other ways though, through collage and photography mainly. I also miss creative movement. But I have done a lot of nature walking. 

Survival mode only gets you so far, and then you have to take time to regroup and focus on thriving again. So this afternoon I'm revisiting one of my favorite sights by the sea. Where I began my journey into blogging about wellness 2 years ago this very month.

In celebration of these past two years, I know I must be gentle with myself for all the beautiful and challenging changes in my life. I trust that as I bounce back from each change, my rebound grows even stronger and quicker and I can get back to feeling grateful for being alive.

And I pray that through this gratitude for life, my faith in my own inner-resilience will expand and blossom. As will my ability to trust in the inherent goodness of this amazing universe.

In a way, our day-to-day lives are like looking through a rolled up piece of paper and only seeing a very tiny piece of the greater, more expansive universe that makes up our lives. And at the same time, we can experience the most awe-inspiring beauty in that tiny piece which is our right-here-right-now moment that we're living in. Of course not all moments will be filled with that much wonder and beauty but the more we accumulate and take notice of, the better and more joyful we'll feel. 

You can almost imagine those art posters that were popular awhile back that were actually made up of very tiny pictures which created a beautiful larger picture as your view got wider. That's kind of like our lives, huh? I trust that the bigger, more expansive and beautiful picture is truly made up of these tiny beautiful and resilient/challenging moments that make up our lives. It helps put things in perspective and also helps give meaning to the everyday moments we live each day. Every moment matters and forms a tiny part of the greater picture of our lives. Even the ugly moments matter. They may not feel very pretty right now but with a little distance, they'll help form the most amazing image. No judgment, just tiny pieces of our painting that we call life.