A favourite Blog of mine is Ali Edwards, not only is she a great scrapbooker, she is inspirational and has really great values which I admire. Last year Ali began a tradition of choosing one word for herself each January, a word to meditate and reflect on, a word to focus on as as she went about her daily life. Last year her word was Play and this year it is Peace.
Here is a little prayer of St. Francis from Ali's Blog, which I loved:
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace,
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
where there is sadness, joy;
O Divine Master,
grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
I love and am inspired by being a Life Artist, capturing life in the form of Art, isn't that what Scrapbooking is all about, preserving life for generations to come and expressing life through creativity.
Today I start the same tradition, this year my word is FAMILY.
Family is something I am always reflecting on. What is Family? Is Family always blood related? What constitutes a Family?
I am the youngest of six girls born eight years after the fifth (my poor father, rest his soul) my mum's first born was a boy whom she lost at six month's then six girls! Do you think they were trying for a boy!!
My father passed away when I was seventeen, my sisters are much older, my mum is now 82. My family are my life long friends and their three grown children and we live in harmony (another word I thought of having! so many words to choose from). I am a sole parent of two boys.
So once again I ask "What constitues family?"
