I can have peace

I gave a total of $35k to various charity organizations in 2015...because I believe in them, I believe in what they are doing, I believe in their message, I believe in being generous, I believe in the ripple effect, I believe in helping others achieve their goals, I believe in making a difference in the world where poverty is at the lowest level and where the basics of basic needs doesn't even exist, I believe that giving of your time, energy and money are all aspects of philanthropy, I believe giving from the heart because you want to is very important beyond the fact it is one of God's commandments...

You may judge me for making this statement, you may believe I was trying to buy their love, you may feel I am boasting about my giving, you may believe I am proud of what I was able to do financially, you may believe that I am trying to prove a point, you may think that I think that I am better than you, you may believe that I should have taken care of my own needs (like buy myself a dishwasher that has been broken for 5+ years instead of giving money to someone else), you may believe that I am all about show, you may believe that I should not share these things with you, you may believe many different things about this statement...

I can have peace in the midst of being attacked for what I believe, how I live, what I say and what I do, knowing that I live an authentic life, to the core of who I am, because of the values and things I believe are important. I can have peace because I know that I am not trying to live my life to please you but to be a servant of the one who has given me so much. I can have peace as I seek direction and wisdom from the one who promises to give it to me if I just ask. I can have peace knowing that I have a financial budget and whether I make more or less money, my charity activities will be in alignment with that. I can have peace knowing that last year I was able to exceed some of my philanthropy goals I set because my business had it's greatest year ever. I can have peace knowing that as I follow my heart in supporting charities that are making a difference that I am doing what God asks of me to spread more love and to give back. I can have peace that even if you disagree with what I believe, how I live, what I say, and what I do, I ultimately give account to God for my life and that responsibility and accountability is mine. I can have peace that God knows my heart and He knows why I gave $35k to charity and He will take care of the outcome of these efforts, I don't have to worry about their results. I can have peace that the energy you put out in life will come back to you and the results speak for themselves. I can have peace knowing you can create your own life and live it the way you want. I can have peace that even in the midst of criticism, condemnation and judgement, because I know that if you spent more time focusing on your own philanthropy efforts instead of criticizing mine, you might have more love, joy, peace, harmony and contentment in your own life, and this would fill your heart with more blessings and gratitude then you ever dreamed was possible.
#TheSassyVoice #TheLifeOfMisty #Generosity #Charity #OutOfTheHeart#LoveOnPurpose #PursueYourDreams #TheReasonsBehindTheWhy

I'll let you open the door, I promise...

I'm still learning...a lot...surprise.

About me. About life. About how to let go. About how to love deeper. First and foremost, myself.

When you have spent 40 years taking care of yourself, from a young age when you were the one to grocery shop, cook and take care of the family when your mother got Hepatitis C when you were 10, to living on your own for 20 years and whether that was changing a tire or doing repairs around the house or moving furniture, there are some things ingrained in your mode of operating that you never think twice about.

I am used to doing it myself. Always. Period. On Everything.

This means when a man is walking behind me, I don't think to let him get the door. If my suitcase is coming off the baggage claim, I get it. I have lifted it up 7 flights of stairs when I stayed at hotel that didn't have an elevator, what's picking it up off the baggage claim dispenser? Nothing, so why would I wait for one of my guy friends who came to pick me up at the airport pull it off? I honestly don't think anything when I do these things. I just do them. It isn't to prove something. It isn't to make him feel less manly or not be able to show an action of chivalry, it's simply because I wake up every day and don't think of anyone else doing my tasks. If it needs to be done I figure out a way to do it. Period. If it requires muscles, I find the strength to do it, a bit at a time until I get it done or I hold my breath and do it in one feel swoop because I don't believe in being a wimp.

Yet, the truth is, I was never taught to ask my Dad for help, because the answer would have been first a sound of irritation, frustration for me interrupting him, and annoyance because I was such a bother, and then secondly, he would have asked if it could have waited because he was always busy at his desk in the middle of something. If there was a remote chance that he didn't respond that way then my mother was upset because I didn't ask her if I could ask Dad for help or she would say that we could do it ourselves and didn't need help. She simply controlled everything. Pssssssttt, yah, a bunch of hassle and it left you wishing you had died trying to do it yourself. So I learned young to not ask for help and just do it. With a grateful heart.

I got this reminder again yesterday, I do what I always do, get the door myself as I exit the office of a friends business. And he said: No Misty, really, please let me. I laugh and say I am sorry, I truly didn't mean to do it on purpose.

But the truth is that sometimes, I just wanna cry. I wanna learn to be better at this. I wanna learn to allow myself to be taken care of. I wanna learn to let someone else share the load with me. I wanna learn to not have to do it all myself. I wanna learn to ask for help. I wanna learn to not feel like I am an irritation or frustration or annoyance to you. And deep at my core, I don't want to be thought less of for asking for help.

I know I can do life alone. I am not afraid of doing life alone. I left that scary fear September 1997 when I moved to Texas being told I would die within 2 Years. I faced that fear and more, so doing life alone doesn't scare me.

But I also know the value of doing life together. And this is what drives me to want to work on me.

I get these are my own internal issues, but I share because we all have life's experiences that shape us to be who we are. It may be a lifelong process to get to the point that we overcome them. But I am committed to doing that. I believe in healing one layer at a time and I accept that my childhood wounds follow me every single day. I know they have created me to be who I am. I am blessed to the strong courageous, generous and loving person I am today because of the tough days I have faced.

But even more then that, I am grateful for my guy friends who continue to show me every day that they love me for me and are patient through each layer that I work through.

Thank YOU. Thank YOU for being a tool in my life. Thank YOU for showing me what a relationship looks like. Thank YOU for being kind to me in spite of my flaws.
#TheLifeOfMisty #MyStory #LifeLessons #OneLessonAtATime#MyHealingJourney

the unfriended wall

Imagine if you could "unfriend" people in real life with whom you disagree just as easily as you unfriend someone on Facebook.

As a society we are finding it way too easy to "unfriend" people who disagree with us, cutting off discourse, compromise instead of finding ways to live with each other. We think we are creating boundaries, when in reality we are just making unhealthy walls.

We aren't practicing ways to show love, kindness and compassion on a foundation of grace.

When we realize that love heals everything, we will then know what it takes to have a successful life with loving relationships.

How will you show love today in a relationship that hurts? 

How will you say I'm sorry in a situation that's messy? 

How will you extend more grace? 

How will you forgive? 

How will you restore connection?
#RelationshipsMatter #LoveOnPurpose #ShareInEachOthersLives#TrueFriends

Christmas Reflections

My 1st Christmas was 2014. My dear sweet friends, Miki Aaron and James P Aaron (along with Amanda Moseley and Jonathan Aaron) wanted me to experience the day with them and to show me how they did Christmas. They wanted me to celebrate Jesus and our friendship all in one. I was nervous. I was concerned I was doing the wrong thing. I told them I would join them for theirs but I didn't want gifts. I got sick and couldn't make it. But still took over my Spinach Artichoke Dip for them to enjoy and I left them gifts under their tree while they were out feeding the homeless. You say you didn't want gifts but you left them gifts? Yes. It's a crazy mess that you have to process when you come out of a cult and performance based foundation and the threads of things you have to work through run deep, but the reality is, I felt I couldn't receive, I could only give. They honored me and when I was better, they had me come over and showered me with a late Christmas...ohhhhh and yes, they gave me gifts. 

My 2nd Christmas was 2015 with my boyfriend. I gave him 12 Gifts for the 12 Days of Christmas. I created a fixed dollar amount I was going to spend on Christmas and I bought as many people as I could gifts. I had a pile of gifts in my living room to give and it made me freaking happy!!! I had my first Christmas stocking hung over the fireplace mantel. I had lighted garlands and wreaths in my living room and on my front door. I went to many Christmas Parties and Christmas Concerts and Christmas Events and embraced Christmas fully for the first time. I loved every minute of it all.

This is my 3rd Christmas. I am doing 3 Christmas Parties (all the others I am saying NO to because I do not want to be as busy and on the go as I was last year, along with the fact that I want to be fully intentional in all aspects of the Christmas Holiday and this year, less is more for me). I'm late with my planning and ideas, but I know I will make it memorable. I wish I could tell you what it means to be doing this again this year...

I know no matter the questions you have about Christmas, God still is with you and He wants you to love Him and others every single day. No matter whether you have family to celebrate it with or not (I don't), you can still create an amazing and happy Holiday. No matter if all the peeps you love and have considered your true close friends support you or have turned on you and become an enemy and are against you, rejected you, blocked you, condemn you, judge you, and won't love and be loving and if necessary, forgive you, your Holiday season can be filled with love and loving people. No matter if you feel the Holiday Spirit or hate this time of year because it stresses you out and you dislike all the consumerism of it, you can create the life you want and be intentional in what you make this season to be in your own life. No matter if you feel obligated to give gifts or don't want to give or receive any gifts, you can create a special day with amazing memories.

Love shines through.

Love is the healing action.

Love is needed.

So...no matter whether you celebrate Christmas or not...I want you to feel loved. I want you to be able to close the year reflecting on LOVE, having lots of GRATITUDE, and embracing all the ABUNDANT BLESSINGS we each have!

I want you to know that I value you and appreciate you in my life. Today. For who you are. For the gift you bring to the world. For letting me share in your world in one small way. Today, I say please enjoy the #2016Christmasholiday and #CelebrateLife, #EnjoyTheJourney because #LifeIsBeautiful!!!

if you cannot...

If you cannot forgive yourself for a mistake, a decision or an action, you won't be able to forgive others.

If you cannot love yourself for who you are, you won't be able to love others for who they are.

If you cannot give yourself grace in the moment, you won't be able to give others grace in the moment.

If you cannot accept that what happens is for you, not to you, and that it is all for your good, you won't be able to accept all that happens in life.

If you cannot remove performance of your daily activities as being what defines you, you won't be able to let the performance of others not define them.

If you cannot love without conditions, you won't be able to accept love without conditions.

If you cannot see things differently or through another perspective, you won't be able to accept others differences or perspectives.

If you cannot let go of and face your fear, you won't be able to live without fear.

If you cannot work through conflict or always avoid conflict, you won't be able to grow through or resolve conflict.

If you cannot get outside of shame, guilt and regret, you won't be able to live without shame, guilt and regret.
#TheSassyVoice #Reflections #WhatYouResistPersists#CreateTheLifeYouWant #LiveIntentionally

Gratitude 12.06.2016

Today, I am grateful.

For you.

For the challenges and pain that I am currently facing that help me to reflect deeper and to connect with My God.

For my employees who truly care about me, my clients, and learning a trade to help each of them to earn a living to create the life that they want.

For the chance to have another opportunity to give back to For One Another Foundation, Inc, to share their message, what began their journey, the facts about how much of the world doesn't live with Clean Water and how we can make a difference.

For increased strength after having a long sick spell.

For my story.

For the way God created me to be vulnerable in a way that scares some people and draws some people closer in a connection and friendship.

For those who invest in me, share nuggets with me, who press me to grow beyond myself.

For a chance to show more love deeply, more fully, more openly, those who are judging me, who refuse to work out issues, those who have shoved me out, whose relationships are based on performance.

For this year and it's theme of permission and the lessons it has had for me.

For unconditional love.

For another day to live.
#TheLifeOfMisty #BeGrateful #HaveGratitude #Reflections

some people will...

Some people will accept your vulnerability, some will shun you for it.

Some will want to know your story, others will not be able to handle it.

Some will want your gifts, others will feel you are are trying to buy their relationship or their love.

Some people will love you unconditionally, others will love you conditionally.

Some people will desire a connection at all times, some will only connect with you when the relationship feeds their need.

Some will believe in you no matter if they get hurt, some will only believe in you when they agree with you and it doesn't hurt.

Some will say that they are for one another, but others will actually live out being for one another.

Some will be willing to work through anything and everything because they know every bit of conflict only brings a stronger connection, some will push you away when conflict comes because they don't want to become closer connected.

Some will say that forgiveness is important, others will live that forgiveness is important.

Some people will see things through another perspective, others will only see through their perspective.

Some will inspire you to be a better version of yourself, others will be the reason you become a better version of yourself.

Some will say they believe in love and that love never fails, some will actually love live in action and show you that love never fails.

Who will you be?
#TheSassyVoice #BeDifferent #LoveOnPurpose #ChooseLove

Prayer 12.05.2016

To my amazing God, who is my life!

I pray today for each of us to have the strength to face the challenges ahead of us. With joy. With hope. With anticipation. I pray that we do not loose heart in the battle. For you, are with us!!! What more protection, guidance and options could we want? We already have the ultimate of all resources with us!!! May our perspective be enlightened as we move forward opening the present of today, Monday, December 5th, 2016.

Help us to feel your presence in each moment of the day. Help us to connect to our heart. Help us to look at ourselves as you see us. Help us to welcome these challenges because through them, we get more connection, more results, more faith, and can experience more love.

Your Daughter endeavoring to live more fully aware of you each and every day,

Misty Gilbert
#LettersToGod #PrayerChangesLives #PrayForOneAnother #PrayerWarriors

My dear Misty

My dear Misty Gilbert,

I have promised to never leave you or forsake you. Why do you act like you are all alone? I see everything. You don't have to act like I am not aware. I know more then you give me credit for. What if you tried to see it from my perspective? What if you remembered that I am in control? What if you realized I have already won this battle?

I know it hurts. It hurts like hell. Your heart has been punctured yet again, driving the wound deeper. Making you question things you shouldn't. Making you doubt and loose your strong courageous heart. You know the truth in these dark days you are facing. Will you seek the light in me? Or will you turn your face to the darkness? I have promised to guide you. Will you give me a chance?

You sing worship songs that you trust me, that you love me, that you believe in me. Will you walk this out? Not just in music but in your daily life, with courage? Yes, I am asking you to have more courage then you have had to date. Today, in the midst of challenges, in the unknown, I want you to believe you are loved.

What if I want to see your faith in action? What if I want to see you be brave? What if I am asking you to be bold? What if all of this was preparing you for the next Chapter that I want you to walk through? What if you really, truly, believed that I am in control of all things? What if you took hold of these truths to a greater level? What if you didn't hold back?

Will you let me love you? Will you let me show you how much I care? Will you give me the place I want in your life? Or will you shove me out? I don't make empty promises to you. I have never let you down.

Quit letting people take you back to somewhere I took you away from.

Quit letting people put you in a box you don't belong in.

-Quit letting other peoples opinions of you define what you think, how you feel, what you do, what you say, and how you live!

I am working a deep beautiful amazing and marvelous plan in you. Will you let me perfect this in you or will you let them destroy you?

I pray today that you will go forward, with more courage, more love, more hope, and more determination to fight the good fight, to be all in the game, to not be discouraged, to pursue me with your whole heart because I am for you and have never been against you! I honestly LOVE YOU and don't need you to prove anything in our relationship.

Love God
#Prayer #Pray #PrayForOneAnother #PrayerWarriors #ThePowerOfPrayer #PrayerChangesLives

Yes, We are Funny Humans

I reflect often on a speech given by Sean Stephenson this past September 2016 at Personal Growth Summit. When he is asked what is your favorite animal, he replies: Humans. He said we truly are remarkable and yet we are funny individuals.

I agree.

We get frustrated when something we buy isn't full to the brim because we don't feel we got our monies worth. But we also get frustrated when we open it up and it spills everywhere.

We feel we are stifled as teenagers that we don't get to do the things we want to do and feel we have a right to do. Yet, when we get the opportunity to do these things as adults and get these "rights", we let them control our lives, ruin relationships, and then they create chaos and wreck havoc on our lives when we don't keep them in balance.

When we don't have money we want it. When we have money we don't appreciate it or aren't grateful for it. This really goes for anything. What we don't have we want. What we have we don't want.

We say we believe love never fails. Yet we live most of our lives doubting in love, shoving away love and looking for love to fail us.

But what would it be like if we truly thought about how we lived our lives? What if we reflected on our own thoughts? What if we evaluated our own actions?
#Reflections #TheHumanRace #BeDifferent #CreateTheLifeYouWant#LiveIntentionally

Will you take the High Road?

I had a strategic business partner of a client who is working on a project along with me that deleted my 3 emails sent November 15th. They refused to open or read them because they "didn't know me". When I contacted the individual 3 days later to try to follow up and learned of this, I asked why they would do this when my client was copied on the email also, there wasn't any links or suspicious attachments in the emails, the emails were a simply request for data and to set up a meeting to talk. I wanted to know why would they not at least inquire instead of just assume I was spam or a virus? I was told this was their policy. Period. They asked me to resend the emails and I did.

2 weeks later, I still don't have what I need nor have I gotten a response to the 3 original emails that were resent. I sent a 3rd email to follow up. My client contacted me this morning after getting the email and let me know that because I questioned this individuals business processes 2 weeks ago, they refused to get me what I needed or work with me on the project. I said, wow, I am sorry, I had no clue that trying to learn how someone does business would create such a ruckus. What can I do? My client asked that I please contact them and apologize even though this shouldn't be necessary to create a business relationship, and the person got their feelings hurt and shouldn't have over a simple question, and to try to help them understand my perspective that in 20 Years of being in the Industry I was just shocked at how someone would run their business like this and it was something that has never happened to me before. From my perspective my email subject matters were detailed and specific, not suspicious, and I was trying to learn and understand how they operate and how to connect in the future as we jointly work to fulfill their accounting needs.

I did this. I called, said I am sorry I offended you. I am sorry you got your feelings hurt. I am sorry I made you upset. Can we work this out? Can we try to solve this problem? I don't want to have to do double work. I don't want to have to recreate 4 to 5 years of data. We had a 35 minute conversation and we are back on track!

I share this with you to help remind you that:

Sometimes you have to do things that don't make sense. 

Sometimes you have to see it from someone else's perspective. 

Sometimes you have to apologize and try to mend hurt feelings even if you never intended to hurt someone or they shouldn't have taken offense to a question. 

Sometimes for the sake of the relationship you have to take the high road and go beyond the circumstances and connect. 

Sometimes it takes time out of your work and production to share in another's life and help them see you are trying to achieve the same results they are, that you are fighting with them not against them. 

Sometimes it takes courage to be the person who can help them see that they were acting like a little child. 

We all are a work in progress and it helps if you remember that you have acted like a little child or a brat or a bitch or a witch or hurtful no doubt once before with someone and that the only way to repair anything is to be kind.

How will you choose today to be kind?

How will you live out your life to be courageous, be generous, be loving?

You have a choice.
#RelationshipsMatter #ThePowerOfChoice #BeDifferent#ShareInEachOthersLives

What's wrong with: How Can it Get Better than this?

There is a phrase that runs around the coaching circles, especially from some out of Utah, that is frequently used after something good has happened, they ask:   

How can it get better than this?  

The idea around this phrase is to invite more good into your life, that things can get better then they currently are, that this isn't even the top, so don't stop here, there is something better.

I must admit, I am not fond of it. 

I would like to share with you why and get your thoughts.

I believe God has designed us to live an abundant life.  That means when we are fully living connected to Him, seeking Him daily in our interactions with each other, our thoughts and things of concern to us, each day is going to be better than the last.  Because He is building our life.  One piece at a time.  The things we are experiencing now, can't compare to the future.

I believe God wants us to have hope for the future, to believe that the things ahead are better then what we have now, but I do not believe that means that we aren't grateful for the beauty in our life at this current moment.  For when we are truly grateful for the good we already have in our life, that alone allows us to embrace our current life fully.  We aren't longing for more good.  We are thankful for the good we have.  We aren't seeking to one up the good we have.  We aren't challenging God with, this isn't enough, bring on more, we are thankful for the part He already has brought to our life and we let what He has filled our lives with overflow our hearts in the moment.

This isn't heaven, the ultimate good will be made complete then, but we are able to enjoy all the things He has given us here and this should be enough.  We shouldn't be longing and begging for more good.  We have it good.  Here and now.  We truly do!

Lastly, God promises us that each day is a brand new day, full of blessings, and a clean slate.  Our yesterday's are not held against us.  Our future's are not held against us.  We are loved in this moment just as we are.  We have to prove nothing or have nothing we have to get.  We are complete just as we are.  There is nothing, absolutely nothing, better than that! 

How can we be more grateful for the good already that God has bestowed upon us and given to us freely?

you've hurt someone too

When we realize that we have all hurt people, there isn't one of us who hasn't hurt or offended someone, you then understand that the only way to counteract that is to love. You choose to love. 

Be kind. 

Say I'm sorry.

Pray for them. Pray for you. Encourage them where you can and where they let you in. If they shut you out, don't get bitter. Let them go. But still love.

In the end, loving people will love people.

This is a choice. To work through conflict, disagreements, hurts, no matter what. To love. 

#BeLoving #LoveOnPurpose #ChooseLove

Your Look On Life

You have been trained to look at life as though you will always have speed bumps and struggles. That you have to be afraid and live in fear. That you can only handle so much. That you will always get disappointments. That you can't trust others. That love is hard. That there are limits on well being, love, and that life is such a challenge.

Have compassion for yourself.
Have love for yourself.
Have grace for yourself.

For the life experiences that have trained you look at life this way. For the life experiences and circumstances and people that have molded you to believe this is all there is to the journey. For the choice you have to push beyond this and have gratitude and appreciation.

You get to choose love.

You get to choose gratitude.

You get to choose trust.

You get to choose appreciation.

You get to choose to believe you are not alone.
#TheSassyVoice #CreateTheLifeYouWant #LiveIntentionally#LoveOnPurpose

Prayer 11.22.2016

Dear Lord,

Today as we reflect on our lives, I pray that we will realize that life can sometimes be like a game of Checkers or Chess (or really any other game), we have to take time to contemplate the next move. We have to consider options. We have to decide what we feel we should play. We have to decide how we will show up. We have to make a plan, plan our plan, and be committed to our plan. We have to ultimately have a vision of where you want to go and the end result of the game so you can create each play in the game.

Let us not forget that in every moment, we have to ultimately act. We can talk all day about a plan, but action is what creates results. And through action we show the world our choice.

We have to trust that we will know that you will guide us into which move is right. We know that it is through making decisions repeatedly and being disciplined that we get results. We also know that you give us a choice to choose. We have freedom in this power you give us. Help us to make the play that you want us to.

Sometimes we have to position ourselves for a loss so we can have a bigger or better or more important win. Sometimes we get crowned King or Queen. Sometimes we conqueror everything in our path. Sometimes we loose it all. Sometimes the things we loose aren't nearly as important as the energy we give them. Just as some of the wins we really want aren't nearly as important as we place them to be.

Sometimes we feel the whole play is taking too long. Sometimes the whole outcome unravels and happens all very quickly. Sometimes we see what is coming and sometimes we are blind sighted. But in all of this, your timing is perfect, and we need to realize that you are the master of the game. We can't let the game determine the outcome of our enjoyment of it.

We are told that those who win are the winners of life and those that loose are the losers of life. Yet, in reality, the score doesn't matter. You've covered all the wins and all the losses. Help us to not get stuck in the wins or the losses but to enjoy the game.

Help us to see each person on the team who is fighting with us to stay in the game. Help us to appreciate all the players, not just the ones on our team but the ones fighting against us, for they help strengthen us. They help us become better in the game. They help create the character inside of us to play the game. They show us what we need to learn to be a better player. They also make us see what is possible in ourselves when we can't see it. Help us to take the blows that are dealt directly at us and be a champion. Help us to remember that we are always being watched.

In all of this game of life, you are always with us, in every move. We do not have to be afraid. We do not have to have worry. We do not have to be discouraged. You give us hope. You give us strength. You only ask us to believe in faith. To trust you. And above all love you and your players.

Today as we continue to play our game, may we be more devoted to focusing on being intentional in our connections, relationships and time with each other. May we be the arms and feet of you to all those who come into our game. May we forgive. May we give grace. May we treat each other the way we want to be treated.

May we make more choices to love in spite of the pain we have experienced in life. May we choose faith over doubt. May we share more truth and light. May we choose love. May we never loose heart in the game and always stay focused.

In your loving and powerful name I pray, AMEN!
#PrayForOneAnother #PrayerChangesLives #BeAllInTheGame#LifeIsAGame #PlayWell #ThePowerOfChoice #CreateTheLifeYouWant#LiveIntentionally #LiveIntentionallyInFreedom

Thankful. Today.

Today, I am thankful.

Thankful for My God who walks with me through every storm, challenge and dark day of my life.

Thankful for My Circle of Friends who have been praying for me.

Thankful for my bed, my down pillow and cozy comforter that have allowed me to sleep lots and work on being healed.

Thankful for garlic tea, lemon tea, peppermint tea, green tea, and all other herbal teas that bring warmth to my throat and body.

Thankful for understanding clients, strategic business partners, charity partners, my coach and each of my friends that have had to deal with my canceling of all plans for days on end. For their grace in understanding I just couldn't do it. For being patient with me when this had a ripple effect on their schedule too.

Thankful for a house that is quiet and peaceful.

Thankful for another day to do nothing.

Thankful for a friend who is able to use my The Lantern Fest: Dallas ticket for today in which I was going to send off 1 Lantern for all my Gratitude and 1 Lantern for Dreams for the Future. This will remain on my want to and wish to do list.

Thankful for the growth in my own life to say no and take care of me.

Thankful that I have no feelings of guilt for taking care of me. This is a new experience and I am appreciative of all who have worked with me to bring me to this place in my life.

Thankful for the resources in Probiotics, Acidophilus, Vitamins, Immune Defense Emergen-C, Dayquil, Nyquil, Collidal Silver, and whatever else I am forgetting in my extreme regimen.

Thankful for Fresh Squeezed Juice.

Thankful for you and that I get to do life with you.
#TheLifeOfMisty #Thankful #HaveGratitude #BeThankful#ExpressYourThanks #LifeIsAGift #ShareInEachOthersLives