Appreciate What You Have

Last week I almost lost my cat. I have 2 male cats who I (used to) let out into the back yard, where they would wander for a few hours and then faithfully come home. But no, last Tuesday, my one cat, Merlin didn't return home, when he was supposed to. He didn't come home the next morning either, nor that night. Nor the next morning, where I was now in a panic. All this time, I was also having to deal with ordinary life, but I was very distracted. All my guides told me it would be OK; as did my various animal communication friends. And finally after 4 days of worry and walking the neighborhood calling his name, and posting signs and visiting shelters, etc., Merlin came home--a bit skinnier, but none the worse for wear. And my world was again happy and joyous and in balance.

And here it is the Fourth of July 2006 and we live in a wonderful country that thousands seek to live in every year because it is a country full of freedoms. And after last week and now this week being such a patriotic week, the song lyric about the big yellow taxi comes to mine: "...don't it ever seems to go, that you don't know what you've got til it's gone....big yellow taxi came by last night and took away my old man....".

So my question is: What don't we realize that we don't know what we have til it's gone? What does it take to truly appreciate what we do have?

It took me for my beloved Merlin to get lost for days, to make me really appreciate having him in my life. His purr delights me and he can sleep by my side for hours comforting me with his mere presence.

And on this patriotic week of the Fourth of July--the week we gained our independence, I am very appreciative of my life as it currently is--free to be what I truly am-- a loving creative source. And I can do that because I live in a country which allows me the freedom and resources to be that free individual.

I also appreciate my family who came to visit this weekend and my friends who also came to call. I appreciate my health and technology that allows me to type this message to the rest of the world.

Look around you this week and appreciate what you have. Maybe it's not everything you want right now--but I bet that if you lost what you do have, you'd appreciate it then. Don't wait until that time--appreciate it to today--so you don't have to say: "...that we don't know what we've got til it's gone....".

Give thanks...appreciate...be grateful...and let the universe know that you hold joy for the things you do have in your life...and watch more come to you as a result...

Happy Fourth Everyone and God Bless America.

With Love and Light,
Blake