90-Day Summer Simplifying Challenge ~ Day 81 {appreciation}

“Appreciating what you have little of is easy, Rebecca. Appreciating what you have lots and lots of takes a spiritual master.” says my Tut from the universe today.  Read my 90-Day Summer Simplifying Manifesto!!

A Recovering Magpie’s Appreciation

I am learning appreciation. I am learning to value my life and my days as the 90-Day Summer Simplifying Challenge winds down. How different I feel from the day I began this journey. I am more open to the beauty around me. Before I had s much around me, I could not enjoy any of it.

{Coming clean} I was not fully living in appreciation!

My Summer Simplifying Challenge

It took a while to understand the beauty of letting go. My soul was ready long before my mind. I was blinded by guilt and by the power of loss. I was so deep in the grip of grieving for things I had lost, I could not appreciate the things I had left.

The Summer Simplifying Challenge has changed that perspective. I am learning to live with less and to be blessed by less. I have much to be thankful for…this beautiful home with its amazing kitchen, the lake and the trees, my career. Today I am blessed as I always have been. I just enjoy it more now.

How deep I was buried, I may never fully understand. It was a place of fear and mistrust. I was holding on so tightly that my body ached at the effort. After a while, I could not open my grip to release the things I no longer needed or wanted. It is like I was stuck.

The baby steps of my  Summer Simplifying Challenge taught me to let go slowly. To gently open myself to the possibility of letting go. I did not have to let it go all at once. Gradually I found I could let some things go. Eventually I looked forward to letting things go. It was within the small, no pressure moments I found the strength to live more simply…an actually enjoy it.

I am still letting go and creating the space for more goodness to move in. At one time, I was looking at my stuff…the stuff I really love at one point, and feeling trapped by it. I was seeing things I would need to wrap, place in boxes and lift when the time came to move again. The was no joy in that…only dread. The dread far outweighed any pleasure I received from these things. That was the moment I knew that I had to9 change and had to let go.

 Today’s Accomplishments

1. One box, sorted and things placed into the ‘outta here’ boxes!
2. The house is clean and orderly.

Today’s Setbacks

1. None.

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