Eat. Pray. Love.

I'm sure most of you have at least seen a commercial about the new movie, Eat Pray Love, starring Julia Roberts. You know the movie with the preview about her eating gellato with a tiny spoon, and petting the trunk of an elephant. Yeah its all coming back to you now :) . A woman needing to find inner peace and happiness goes searching around the world for a year hoping to unlock the secrets of life that have so long eluded her.

Well we had trouble staying locked into "Liz" and her journey. We made it over halfway through the movie and received a text that my aunt may not make it through the night. Without hesitation, all of us girls, my mom, soon to be aunt (as of tomorrow), cousin and cousin in law left the theater and met all of the guys outside to head to the hospital. I didn't see the end of the movie, but I do know that there is so much around us wherever we are to have made a much better movie.

Eat. Pray. Love. Wow how truly groundbreaking is that concept. I celebrate the fact that  I get that opportunity daily. Here is how I got to experience that today...

Eat: Enjoyed eating with my uncle and his fiance along with my mom and cousins tonight at Pasta House in Mt. Vernon to celebrate the upcoming wedding tomorrow. After we had spent the day getting their home ready for the big event.

Pray: Surrounding a dying woman and brushing her hair back, praying for comfort, peace, healing, and understanding for the rest of us. Praying with her kids and praying that they will have the strength to tell their kids about how their grandma isn't suppose to make it much longer because the cancer is back. Praying and thanking God that I have the family and friends to surround me with.

Love: The center of my day was full of that! Gosh how very selfish do I become that it causes me to forget what love I have wrapped around me daily. Its absurd how ungrateful I've been! I have so many blessings I never want to take for granted the breif wisp of time I have on this Earth. Everyday is the first day of the rest of my life. I don't want to be laying in my hospital bed thinking, I should have Loved more.

I want my heart to wear out because I've cared too much, because I've laughed too much, and because I've cried with others too much. I want people who know me to see something greater in me, see God's love. I want that desire to help others just continue to stir and overflow into the channels that weave and mold my life. I want to always have room to Eat. Pray. & Love with more that I thought a person ever could.

"This is the message you heard from the beginning: We should love one another." 

1 John 3:11