Find Bliss

 

Do you feel the empty spaces? 

 

This is the time to hold onto that space to see what comes in between. 

 

The in between is where I have been able to find bliss. 

 

Can you see this today as I have given space between writing and reading this time around? 

Let’s go forward now like the empty spaces between the leaves on this favorite plant. 

 

This green is also one of the colors that bring clarity and joy.

 

As we go into the quest to find bliss, consider what it can bring to you. 

 

I have heard that it is a phrase that can mean supreme happiness or utter joy. 

 

Listening to your heart is another way that bliss has been described. 

 

The heart is the key for me as I sit in this space. 

 

It has led me to the center of myself before so I will trust it this time, as well. 

Sitting in this empty space is like being among the leaves of this plant. 

 

Do you see how they go up with bits of space even here? 

 

The deepest colors are in the middle where the best support is and then the leaves support the one next to it as growth continues. 

Search for a way to find bliss.

Perhaps as I search for a way to find bliss, I get to look at my center and find another way to grow. 

 

Could it be not only to look for the moments that are exciting but also to find ways to get to deep happiness. 

 

For me it is about three things. 

 

I love that! 

 

Being outside on a mountain, with a friend and creating. 

 

The many ways this can actually look in my every day is what brings joy to my life. 

 

It comes back to the color of the plant and one I will see in my first of these three things. 

 

Green is the color where I find bliss. 

 

This deep base that you see popping above the rim of the pot. 

It is also in the trees on the top of my favorite mountain with the tallest trees. 

 

Planting my feet next to pine needles and a bed of leaves before skipping rocks across a small lake is where my breath comes back. 

 

Green is in all shades that surrounds me in a room in our home, popping up in ribbons this spring and that one sweater that pulls me near with a grand smile. 

 

My friend that reminds me to look up is the next step for me. 

 

Wait! I have many of these and one that certainly brings on the belly laugh with deep conversation. 

 

Friends can bring the search and ability to stretch, like the lovely leaves I love here, to look beyond what I can see. 

 

Think about that friend that can do that for you. 

 

Did you smile when they came to your mind? 

I love that there may also be other thoughts flowing through you as friends come to your mind. 

 

Here is what I find myself doing when that happens to me. 

 

Do that for someone else. 

 

Say hello. 

Send a text. 

Remember that day. 

Take over flowers of bright yellow and green. 

Bring it all together. 

 

I know! Can you imagine if we all took what our friends bring to us and then shared it with one more person? 

Sharing then finding bliss.

That could be sharing then finding bliss for even more around us. 

 

What a powerful thought!

 

Now, this is the last piece that I realize is not final. 

 

Creating has been a part of me that has been mysterious for years.

 

I go to craft fairs to buy what is created and displayed on pegboards and under beautiful lights. 

Traveling over the mountains I love to look at every item is what I have done for decades. 

 

Then I found that creating is also about what we make around us. 

That space that may feel empty to some is what I can fill with energy and words sometimes. 

 

I found that when I walk into a space that may need something, I can ask a few questions and help people. 

 

That is creating, as well. 

 

Do you know you can find your bliss by asking the questions on your own?  

Here is what I’ve found.

It is when I do all of these things that I begin to find bliss. 

 

Moments of my true joy have come from going through growth above the line that was more than I thought possible. 

 

Doing it to create joy and resilience is part of true bliss for me.