Encouraging messages on serviettes
A colleague recently shared such a beautiful tradition they practice as a family. Their children have a habit of writing encouraging messages on serviettes and putting them on the dinner plate before dinner. I thought this was such a wonderful little habit. It鈥檚 not only heart-warming, but allows for a different perspective when we feel too close to challenges and problems. Having children鈥檚 perspective does not only provide a bit of much-needed humour, but their perspective of things and in life is something we ought to remember as well. Not all of us here would be living with little humans so I though I would send you some encouraging reminders, through Rupi Kaur鈥檚 words, taken from her collection of poems, The sun and her flowers and also from Cheryl Strayed鈥檚 collection of quotations, Brave enough.
when the world comes crashing at your feet
it鈥檚 okay to let others
help pick up the pieces
if we鈥檙e present to take part in your happiness
when your circumstances are great
we are more than capable
of sharing your pain
- community rupi kaur
This isn鈥檛 a spotless life. There is much ahead, my immaculate peach.
- Cheryl Strayed
We don鈥檛 reach the mountaintop from the mountaintop. We start at the bottom and climb up.
- Cheryl Strayed
this is the recipe of life
said my mother
as she held me in her arms as i wept
think of those flowers you plant
in the garden each year
they will teach you
that people too
must wilt
fall
root
rise
in order to bloom
- rupi kaur