Vibration, frequency, life, love, all ingredients in the recipe of the soul and it's journey. Some days it's sprinkled with challenges, some days good ole fashioned fun. The days sprinkled with challenges can be overwhelming and we might choose not to face them. The fun days we might ride along with them hoping they never end. At the core of each experience our core beliefs. They are a big part of our foundation and some of them allow us to love freely and some hold us back from experiencing the gifts that life has to offer. Awareness of self and the choices we make are based on our beliefs. To be in the space with awareness of this all is such a gift. There have been many years in life when this awareness of self and chosen beliefs were not an option for me to see. These times exactly what they were supposed to be and through those lessons I learned so much. All the laughs, tears, growing pains, lessons, have brought me to this space as I exactly am. I've described myself before as "a fabulously complicated jigsaw puzzle piece, with stunning colors, wildly serrated edges, oceans of emotion, mountains of possibilities, worlds of talent, and complex energies always looking to be in service to others and self." As I was saying, so many lessons, so much love and loss and it's all perfect. At one point I shied away from using that work "perfect". It gets used so often in a space of judgement. As of late I've come back around to embracing it as everything is perfect. Everything is exactly as it's supposed to be and the sooner we see this and have an awareness of it we can exhale.
I know that I haven't written weekly at the blog like I'd intended back in January. As I've written in past posts I'm 100% okay with this and do not judge myself for it. I accept it as it is and it's all perfect. I've been exactly where I'm supposed to be enjoying the experience I'm supposed to. Not all of them rosy and rainbow coloured but all of them healing and allowing me to live out the actions of life and be present. Falling into the ebb and flow of life and trusting it. Loving it. Growing and allowing. Letting these words flow onto the screen not judging or editing them. Knowing all is well. Embracing the pull of the "mind monkey" calling to distract and try to tell me "how it should be done" or "what I should be saying". Knowing that the quilt of my life is growing and changing and myself being okay and embracing. Knowing that the direction of my "career" is shifting and I'm becoming more and more in service to others as my toolkit grows. I'm paddling with the flow uncertain of the waters ahead, even more uncertain of the direction but knowing all is well and I'm exactly where I'm supposed to be. Believing and trusting that things will become clear as they are meant to. My trust unwavering and for that I'm eternally grateful. Paddle, paddle, paddle, flow, flow, flow, breathe, breathe, breathe, love, love, love. Soaking up the waves as they crest and fall in love with life and the journey. As always sending love and aloha your way as you navigate the waters of your journey. xxoo Jodi
ps - the photo I'm using this post is of my cake pops. It gives me such joy to create these and the Love Blossom cake pops are such a special creation. Big love to all our loved ones who are watching from above. We miss you but know that we are always connected.
Take a second, when asked to think of a clover patch what comes to mind?
For me I’m instantly brought back to my childhood. Sitting in my grandparent’s backyard and searching the three leaf clover patches for four leaf clovers. I’m also brought back to many a park watching my dad play baseball and sitting in the grass looking for those four leaf clovers. When I think of these times I remember how my mom taught us to look for them. Now I smile as I realize she was teaching us to be patient and have hope. I grew a belief that possibility was everywhere. Perhaps she was finding a way to slow us down and teach us quiet but when I check in with my gut I know it was the first thought I had. Hope, patience and possibility. Many would look at a patch and think there’s no way a four leaf clover would exist in there. Yet, I believed differently. I would spend that time present and grateful for the gift of grass and the possibility of the four leaf clover enough for me to sit and look. For hours I’d look, whether or not I found one didn’t matter. Patience, hope and possibility where others would just see a waste of time and effort now sit with me as foundational values that grew in me.
These past couple weeks I’ve been working on a job site removing an old deck and preparing it for a new one. The yard is a beautiful big one with many clover patches. I’ve found myself in times when I need a break called to sit in the clover. Feeling the breeze on my face and soaking up the moment I’m in and just being. Allowing myself to be brought back to past times as a child and following threads of that along to where I sit now as an adult. So many moments where patience and hope were necessary when I had no answers. Where I was searching for my next “four leaf clover”.
I have recently found another “four leaf clover” that I’ve been patiently waiting for, hoping for. Walking the lessons of love and relationship these past adult years knowing they have been exactly what they were supposed to be and I’m grateful for them. Even the painful ones brought me closer to where I am now and I accept them and don’t ever wish to change them. The hope and patience that was always there yet sometimes disguised has brought the gift of love - my four leaf clover so to speak. I’m grateful and embrace the gift and lessons it is meant to be.
This post isn’t a long one as I ask you to sit in your space and see if you’ve ever searched for a “four leaf clover”. What beliefs has it instilled for you? What memories do you have? Is there some other process you did” as a child that is similar to this?
My photos in this post are the clovers I found yesterday. I was tired and needed a break and said I’m going to look for some four leaf clovers. In that small space of sitting I found four of them. I wrapped them in a blade of grass to make a bouquet and gave them to my "four leaf clover" as I smiled in my heart…hope, possibility and patience.
This is where I sign off, thanks for having patience with my regularity of my posts. I've had to flow in those ocean waters and allow it all to be what it's to be. You may have noticed I have strayed away from posting on Mondays but will possibly find my way back to it. Until then I'll visit your inbox as often as I can and I trust you are all well and contently searching for those four leaf clovers in life. Always so much love and aloha, Jodi xxoo
Aloha and welcome back. I've taken a much needed hiatus from writing the blog. I've missed you all of course and hope that come next week, I'll be flowing in the waves of the ocean again with my thoughts and words. It has been a great exercise in NOT writing the blog for a few weeks for many reasons. I won't bore you with all of them but I do want to thank you for waiting patiently for me to get back online. Hopefully in this time you have worked through some of your own lightning storms and weathered some new lessons and perhaps put some old ones to rest. I felt this photo was fitting as it was taken during our first storm of this year. There were so many amazing bolts and we managed to catch two of them in succession. The second one being the bigger of the two and my fav. The pictures were created from a video and it was really neat to see the timing between the two bolts as well as just how quickly they came and went.
I've been in my own "storm" of life these past weeks yet it's been a whirlwind of such goodness. Good weather and great sailing on the ocean waters of life so to speak. I'll leave that there for now knowing that these next few posts will possibly share some of these lessons and perhaps resonate with your lovely selves.
Until then this is just a quick aloha letting you know I'm still here and am still ready to write, write, write!! For those of you who reached out and said a hello asking if I was still blogging, thank you. It was lovely to hear from you and I look forward to our next contact. So much love and aloha and Happy May!! xxoo Jodi