It’s Holiday time again, and many of us are searching for the perfect gift. I’ll let you in on a little secret of mine—I’m only looking for the perfect gift for myself. My gift giving is mostly limited to my family members near and far, and is really just exchanging money. It’s nice and I don’t want to stop it, I like the gesture. But the truth is, this year I’m delighting in the gifts I’m giving myself. There are the material gifts, like the zoom lens for my DSLR camera, the books I want, clothes, and whatever else (no, not an iPad, tempting as it may be). But most important is the most hard-won gift, that of inner quiet. I’ve struggled a lot the last 3 years, with the divorce and associated bad feelings, negative self-talk, and the monumental sense of loss. I’ve really turned a corner with all of that, and finally feel that I am moving on. It’s a great relief. So my hope for all of you is that you too can find some inner peace and quiet. It’s time to make peace with who we are, what we have and haven’t done, and to realize that we are works in progress, and that the greatest growth we experience comes from difficulty and failure, not from “success”(whatever that is, and however you define it). I’m taking time to give thanks for this life, for the simple joys, and for the difficulties, because they have taught me so much and have helped me to grow in ways I never would have without them.
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