Come Alive

Don’t ask what the world needs.
Ask what makes you come most alive, because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
~Howard Thurman

My Journey Of Hope series got put on the back burner due to the server crashing at Divine Digital, an issue we’ve been overwhelmed with for two weeks now. We are setting up a new home and getting the servers and products moved over so it may be still a little bit more time before that transition is complete. Meanwhile….I will blog!

I saw this quote in my email box this morning. As I took a sip of my HUGE cup of coffee and tried to get rid of the sleepy cobwebs in my head, I realized that “hey, I need to come alive!”

Now, don’t get me wrong. I’m alive now. I’m breathing and doing all the living things I’m supposed to be doing. What caught my attention was the statement or question “What makes you most come alive?” Powerful question. Especially early in the morning when my brain is still stumbling around in yesterday.

“What makes you come alive?”

This is what I’m thinking about today….

So I’m going to make a list (because I like lists, even though I”m not a list person when it comes down to it):

My “Come Alive” Things List

1. Hugs and chocolate milk kisses from my boys.
2. A quiet morning with nothing but me, my coffee and my thoughts.
3. Music that makes me tingle inside and warms my heart.
4. Music that makes me dance.
5. Reading books to my boys and sounding out the voice of each character.
6. Creating something from pixel to pixel that ends up beautiful.
7. Photographing my world and everything and everyone in it.
8. Swimming laps in a pool with nothing to do but process my thoughts.
9. Good books that keep me awake all night just to finish and leave me sad that there is “no more book.”
10. Meeting new people and learning the journeys they’ve traveled to get to where they are today.
11. Old friends met in unexpected places.
12. Conversations that appear out of no where with strangers I know I was destined to meet.
13. Someone to hold my hand—I don’t get enough of that.
14. Taking a walk on the beach at low tide while in Cape Cod….when it seems as if you can walk to the edge of the world.
15. Finding peace and quiet in the midst of chaos.
16. Faure’s Requiem….gets me every time
17. Being amongst creative people, not necessarily artists, just people with creative minds.
18. Watching the Pink Panther and Tom & Jerry with my boys….
19. Finding someone IN someone that I never knew existed…
20. Pink Bubble Gum ice cream from Baskin Robbins.

This is just 20 things that make me come alive at this moment. I’m sure if I made this list every day it would be totally different. But the sun is up, one child is up and my coffee is almost gone. Time to meet the world and see what comes alive today in my life.

How about you? Do you have a “Come Alive” list?

Make one. Then go out and meet the world.

Best,
Cyndi