Heaven on Earth

Would you look at that, we already have a second post. I'm as surprised as you are.

This may go a little long, but I promise if you bear with me, we'll get there.

This morning, as some of you may have seen, I posted a photo on social media along with a sweet little quote I found recently. "Heaven on earth is a choice you must make, not a place you must find."

I wholeheartedly believe those words. Inside and out. Your slice of heaven, your nirvana, could be absolutely anywhere. It could be here in this very moment if you'd just close your eyes and remind yourself of how lucky you are to exist as you do. I think so often we get caught up, snagged and tangled on unfortunate happenings. We blow them out of proportion. The stupid, silly things.. They don't deserve your lasting attention.

The setting for the picture above is the sidewalk I walk every morning to get to my car. It's a busy street. I have to park a block away from my house, and while it makes carrying a full load of groceries home a little difficult, I don't choose to focus on that. I choose to focus on how dreamy the dewy, lush, green grass looks in the morning as the brand new sunshine bounces off of it. Every morning I walk that path really slowly. Taking in that scene. I'm positive that photo exists on sidewalks across the nation. I'm positive there are other people enjoying a view like that, like I do.

I took myself and a car full of my belongings across the country two months ago. I was thinking I would be gaining my "heaven on earth" by being in Colorado. In some ways, I have. I see more of the natural world, I am having more adventures, I am constantly out of my comfort zone. But I didn't need to do that to be happy. I was happy. I am still happy.

What I am trying to get at here is the simple truth that where you are right now is the perfect place to be wonderfully happy. Where you are right now has all the same abilities of providing you with joy as another place you may be dreaming of.

Because your happiness, your heaven on earth, it's something you create. Something that comes from within you. Something you can bring on every journey you ever go on. You can take it to the grocery store, the DMV, dinner at your in-laws, and that mountaintop. Your heaven on earth is yours to provide for yourself. No one else, no other place, could ever be as reliable as you can be for you.

Choose to the view the world like you would that daydream you drift in to when you need an escape.
Choose to see the world, as the world you wish you could create.
Choose joy, and continue to choose it every day.
I love you.




** Disclaimer:
I'm as guilty as the rest of the world for daydreaming about another land like it might solve all my problems. I do it daily. The key is to come out of the dream reminded that you can make your life whatever you'd like it to be. Your heaven on earth is yours to create, and no one else's.