Successful Spirit May Newsletter May 2014 Volume 1 | Page 7

Connection Point

with Deborah Vaughan

Spring has finally arrived in Niagara!
Yesterday, I was driving my car and stopped for a moment to look at a beautiful fruit tree bursting with delicate pink blooms on one of the concession
roads. In the next few weeks all of the vast cherry, nectarine, peach, pear
and apricot orchards will be blazing with glorious blossoms, a sea of colour
as far as you can see.
As I stood there admiring the colour and the beauty of the blossoms, it
struck me how the cycle of nature flows. Even after the harsh and bitter
winter, the tender green leaves have still come out and the blooms have followed. It has flourished and will offer pollen to busy bees and a place for the
sparrows to nest.
And, I started to count the blossoms and simply lost count.… What an abundant tree! Come Fall it
will be laden with fruit.
You know, we can take a lesson from the fruit tree - or anything that grows, really. It has a cycle
and a season. For much of the past few months, it has been quietly building the energy to produce
the beautiful blossoms.
The same can be said for us in our life. We spend many years growing, learning, experiencing life.
We travel down many paths and learn many lessons that serve to help us along the way. And then,
when we are ready, our season comes and we find our blessings and abundance.
Sometimes we may feel a little jealous of others who appear to have more than us or for whom
success has apparently come easily. What can happen for one can happen for all. We'll never fully
know the struggles or the challenges that another has experienced. We can only speak to our own
journey. If you are feeling a disconnect, a lack of money, or happiness or friends or satisfaction in
your life, then there is a very simple thing you can do.
Take time to look at your life - where you have been and where you'd like to go. Think about your
life a week from now, a month from now, a year from now... How would you like to feel? What
would you like to be doing? What would bring you happiness?
This little visualization is a very powerful way to create the life you want. Because I know three
truths - you are on this earth for a purpose and that purpose is good. You have everything you
need to achieve that purpose and you are meant to prosper and be blessed.
So, today take time to look at a flowering plant or tree. See the magnificent of that life abundantly
expressed. And know that you are meant to blossom and flourish too. And, just as that fruit tree
gives me such joy just by its being, so too are we all blessings to one another just by our presence in
the world.
An affirmation for your day: I am richly blessed and empowered to be a blessing in the world today.