We miss the flowers from trying to reach our destination

I remember once being in a training session and hearing the following quote

"We sometimes miss the smell of flowers from trying to reach our destination. We have to stop to smell them."

This is what I am doing today right now stopping and smelling them.

I am lucky blessed and affirmed in so many ways. I have a beautiful amazing loving stunningly georgous partner who loves me beyond love. I have an amazing career supporting young people to be better than they think they are. I have an amazing circle of friends who support me and in times of need I can ask and receive help from.

I am looking out my window in my beautiful home as the mist falls gently on the Ochil Hills these same hills that William Wallace and Rob Roy McGregor walked upon.... steeped in history. I have so many blessings in my life and I want to thank the God as I understand God to be and the universe for all that has come and continues to come into my life.

My Life today seems like a planet away from the life and career I once had in Ireland. I was selected to become a priest and I believed form a very youg age I was "called" by God. From the time I could walk to my Damascus event when I fell from the horse of my life as I thought I knew it my life was mapped out planned and plotted.

When I left the priesthood I became homeless, no longer welcome, an exile, and immigrant,  friends I thought I knew fell away only Andy my one true friend stayed close and for that I will be eternally grateful to him for that.

This was indeed a dark time in my life the darkest I have ever experienced. I went to the cliff edge and considered the possibility of jumping rather than sticking it out. Something within me compelled me to stay on terra firma and despite the pain, the heartache, feeling at times totally alone, I stuck it out and began to build a new life.

I am glad I have because today I have so much love support friendship true friendsip of a lasting kind with an ever growing network of contacts amazing life experiences, happier memories.

The point I make is this pain will pass and there is always light in the tunnel and I share this story with you not to brag but to enable you through my own witness that this is true. Just believe

Stop and smell your flowers today