Tag: happiness

The One and Infinte, Unconditional Love – 11.11.16

My son and I holding a rainbow together in the symbolic representation of the one and infinite, Unconditional Love 🌈💖💕💕

Kindness and compassion starts at home. So this year, as a family, we decided to sponsor a child in need by joining up with a great cause, a program created by the daughter of a beautiful and very special friend, called “Hope on the GO.”

Hope on the Go is a holiday donation program, and this year the program has selected 6 children to be participants of this holiday program.

I allowed the kids to make their selection and together we chose to sponsor a two year old baby girl.

These children have primarily come from Central and South America. They flee their country of origin to escape abuse, abandonment, generalized community or gang violence, and seeking safety and protection. They are very vulnerable and need our help.

The minors selected have undergone tremendous hardships in their lives, have a history of trauma, and very limited financial means.
The goal is to give each of them a medium size box with new items / presents (shoes, clothes, toiletries, and age/gender appropriate toys or electronic device).

My desire is to show my kids the importance of compassion and kindness. To teach them not only these values, but to appreciate just how very lucky they are every single day.

Therefore in December, we plan on visiting the child we are sponsoring to deliver her box of goodies.

A follow-up story to this will be posted to describe the magic resulting from the event.

For more information on this program, or if you would like to participate by donating items you may comment below.

~gg

Happiness the biggest illusion of all? 10.13.16


Sometimes I wonder if we actually create are own realities,
Or if we simply learn to see colors where none truly exist.

Could it be that some of us have trained ourselves to see the beauty in everything so that we may simply bear to live our otherwise boring lives full of society based rituals and mundane routines?

 Have we learned to truly enjoy every breath taken? Or have we simply learned to freeze time by converting that one special moment lived into an eternal memory; only a minute within a 24 hour day lived, with the remaining 1,439 minutes of fast paced nonsense spent, and already forgotten. 

All but to rush into bed just to relive that one minute memory, but in a dream.
Could it be that we’ve only become complacent and feel happy simply because we made up our minds up to be? 

Is what we tell ourselves once we’ve learned to love ourselves simply another illusion?

Are we truly the special ones that can transmute darkness into light? Can we truly bring a glimmer of light in the darkest of places, always enchanted by the magic we see in the everyday things?

The optimists, the game changers, the ones that smile through the tears.

Is this true happiness, or simply a coping mechanism?

This is why we must be led by our hearts, and allow ourselves to feel. Feel everything, feel it all, but then address those feelings. Analyze them. Don’t let them leave you and be forgotten without truly understanding where those feelings came from. 

Connecting the heart (our leader) with our minds (our guardian) is the only way to break through the illusions.

Only then is when we can truly find authenticity; true happiness.

~gg