A walk with Lulu ...

"Take the first step in faith, you don't have to see the whole staircase. Just take the first step." Dr Martin Luther King Jr.

I awoke early yesterday morning, the sounds of "Zzzzzz" still coming from the children's bedrooms and my snoring husband *smile*. Lulu seemed a little more pesky than normal - if that is possible for a 7 month old dalmatian - so I decided to walk her while the family still slept.

It was as if my walk with Lulu was all planned - I had not realised how much I had missed spending time with her alone in the spectacular peace and beauty of the hills - the past four weeks the children have been non stop "chitter chatter" all the way up the hill - all the way across the hill ....

And all the way down - not that I mind too much - but oh - yesterday was Heaven *smile*

I started to head down a wooded pathway that I do not know and so slightly hesitated knowing I did not have time to get lost ( a common occurrence) as the children would wake soon - but before I turned away, a snowy white feather caught my eye ..

So I followed - and there was another one, and another, and another ...

Every so often there would be another white feather guiding me forwards - I could not see where I was heading or where the path would end up - it did not matter, it was as if this walk was meant to be ...

At the top of the path the view was breathtaking, the sun could be seen shimmering on the ocean in the distance, not a cloud in the sky, crimson red poppies in the fields of corn - so very beautiful -

I understood completely that the pathway was a reflection of just how easy life can be if we so choose ..

We only need see the steps for today and trust them and walk them - we do not need to see or know the end of the "journey" ...with trust and faith and most importantly patience all will be perfect and all will be guided.

I am so pleased with the children this summer, it was hard for them in the first couple of weeks to break a pattern of old and of excitement to be free from school but I stuck to my answer -

The question they kept asking was "what are we doing tomorrow" -

And my reply was and still remains "lets do tomorrow - tomorrow, and for now just enjoy today."

They have calmed down considerably being in the "present" - phew - as we have 3 weeks of holiday still to go - and the demands and rushing around has dwindled to almost nothing -

Life is simple it is only our thoughts, emotions, demands and most of all our expectations of ourselves, others and life that make it hard -

So just trust and do today, today .....