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@sheba2011

Uh, uh………what happens if I can’t?🎄🎁🎋

@shoelady60,

Let’s get this party started. 😘💕😎

Say when. 🤣

Club Sheba Holiday Edition

@oodiebom,

I would like to borrow this and share with all who read this thread. 💕

@sheba2011

I’m sure we will have snow for Christmas, this will take a while to melt. Jake had his spa day today so he is all shined up for Christmas.🐶💙 I have a haircut tomorrow so wrapped my stylist’s gift and I dropped off my friend’s gifts for her/hubby and children on their porch this afternoon.🎁 So I am good to go. Didn’t shop that much this year for obvious reasons. I do have to file a claim with UPS for an order I never received, ugh.😣 Hopefully I can get a replacement or refund without a lot of trouble on my part.

No plans for the weekend. Normally we are running around to parties so I will just party at home. Stay safe and warm by your fire.🔥

Sheba, glad your niece is doing well and enjoying CA. Numbers in LA are growing so much every day. Some people here are collecting snacks, and cards and so forth to drop at local hospitals, for the employees. I was going to go to 1 store yesterday and decided to skip it, with the stay at home order, decided to be safe than sorry.

My husband decided yesterday that we should hike somewhere we haven’t been before. Locally.
We somehow ended up on a different connecting trail, and went up hill for most of it. I loved it but hubby was hoping for a easy 2 miler.

Have fun playing games tonight and have a great weekend everyone!

Performing Daily Ceremony

Having daily ritual or ceremony in our lives is very important to keep us connected to what really matters.

When we perform or participate in rituals and ceremonies, we enter into a state of mind that is different from mundane consciousness. Ranging in significance from bedtime stories to weddings, ceremonies and rituals are acknowledgments that an event or period of time has special meaning. As a result, they can have the effect of drawing us into the moment, inviting us to pay closer attention and tune into the subtle energies that are always present but that often go unrecognized. In addition, as we perform the same actions we have performed before and will perform again, we immerse ourselves in a river of continuity that extends back into the past and forward into the future.

Many of us have distanced ourselves from rituals that may have seemed too constricting or too attached to an organized religion we have chosen not to follow. However, we can reclaim the practices of ceremony and ritual to good effect, imbuing them with our new consciousness, and we do not have to wait for a big event to do it. We can engage in daily practices that include ritual and ceremony, reminding ourselves throughout the day of the sacredness of this life. In fact, if we look closely, we will see that our days are already made up of rituals, from the time we wake up to the time we retire. So we do not need to change anything except our perspective to imbue our day with an air of ceremony.

Most of our daily rituals revolve around nourishing and cleansing, both of which have always been sacred acts. With this in mind, we may pause before each meal, close our eyes, and say a silent thank you to the universe that provides. If we want to get more elaborate, we can light candles or bless our food. Similarly, as we wash ourselves in the morning and evening, we can choose to see the grace in this act of cleansing and purification as we release what has past and prepare ourselves for the new. We can be as simple or as complex as we like, so long as our attitude is one of reverence for this sacred moment in this sacred life.

@kittengirl,

Thinking of you during this difficult time it’s hard for me too. Sending Kitty Hugs. 🌹