This weekend the word “celebration” surrounded me as I celebrated in planting the 48 Pansies and 8 Cyclamen I rescued from discount doom knowing spring is around the corner and watched the Bumbles and butterflies arrive keeping me company. I also had three people on my mind with birthdays, all on the same day so they were in my thoughts wondering how they were celebrating their special day.
What if they felt no passion or joy to celebrate their birthdays this year. What if they just don’t enjoy celebrating a birthday? How does the joy we feel inside to celebrate our birthday relate to the celebration of the love we have for ourself? Does it relate at all? So, this morning I was inspired to search on the words “love is a celebration” to see what the universe had to share with me. We enjoy celebrating moments in our life in our own ways. Some of us like to celebrate by our self and that makes us happy, some with a red carpet roll-out and gigantic party, and some of us like that perfect surprise party to celebrate.
However you celebrate, that warm, fuzzy, full of love feeling is something we should still feel inside our being, right? If we are in a space of love within wouldn’t everyday feel like a day of celebration? That desire and hunger to celebrate and enjoy life? Whether it’s a birthday, a football game, a concert, whatever the day is and without putting a label on it, shouldn’t Love be cause enough for celebration everyday? So, with Birthdays on my brain, spring in the air and love in my heart, the search was on for “Love is a celebration.”
Well, the universe answered with Marisa Donnelly’s, Self-Love Is Celebration
Marisa’s article gave me another perspective on the questions I had for my continued journey in self-love this morning. I know we learn from each other and what resonates with us from someone else’s journey helps us grow in our truth. It may be one word, one sentence, one paragraph or the entire article that connects with us but that connection can be pivotal in our journey. We are here to share and seek out new experiences to help our self and each other grow. I was grateful to find Marisa and for the words I connected with in her experience.
Birthday or no Birthday. There is no question in my mind from everything I have walked through – it is absolutely a celebration everyday when you choose the path of self-love. Are you going to always feel like celebrating? Well…you might feel like you are up to your knees in thick, heavy muck and you only moved your big toe about a centimeter ahead but in my book…YES – that’s cause for celebration.
YOU are enough for celebrating choosing a journey in Self-Love. You may not have as much ooompf to throw the confetti and blow the horn on the Big Toe days and if you don’t have a cheering section around you to remind you how much you SHOULD celebrate YOU, it might be a bit more challenging to put on your favorite party outfit for that party of 1, but I encourage you to do it. Celebrate you. Set that table for 1.
So, take whatever words speak to you, if any from me or Marisa’s article. Celebrate and enjoy exactly where you are, your accomplishments and where you want to keep going. I will blow out that birthday candle with the most enthusiastic, full of love, joyful, passionate, eye squinty smile you can imagine and tell you that I celebrate you in your journey. Your journey in self love is a celebration everyday. May you keep taking action on your truths and be fearless in Love.
M.A. Schmid
