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Welcome to e-Gifts December 2008 Edition Welcome Friends to our December edition! Here we are - December has descended upon us. Our theme for the
month is FORGIVENESS. With forgiveness comes healing of all. It
is a good month to end the year with forgiveness to prepare us
for all that will come in 2009. Our book of the month, oh wait,
you guessed, is actually both of our books again as we did two
in one last month so let them last through the holiday season.
We have received a great reception with our books and amazing feedback
and we are so grateful! Thank you! Thanks for your continued love and support! May
you have a beautiful holiday season and happy New Year! FEATURE STORY Holiday Wrap UP! And then it hit me! I just really wanted to write from a place of gratitude about the year and how grateful I am for all the love and support in my life. I recently went back to Denver and then NY and Philly and did some book readings and events. I started reading my book about living in the moment and realized, wow I am still doing it...I have just had the amazing accomplishment of writing and releasing not 1 but 2 books and I haven't stopped to jump up and down for joy and truly celebrate the accomplishment! Wow, how amazing and what an amazing gift it was and is to have our book to open up and remind me...even now after it has been written, it can still serve as a tool and reminder of how to stay present, live in the moment and truly appreciate all that life has to offer. That is the gift that is the book! Since that time, I have really slowed down a lot to relax, sleep, be, spend time with friends, have fun and celebrate! Yippee! What do you have to celebrate this year? What have you accomplished but not taken the time to acknowledge and honor yourself for your accomplishments - no matter how big or small - stop and give yourself a pat on the back, brag to a friend...do something! But most importantly, find time this holiday season to love yourself and spend time with the people you love and care about and cherish your time together and celebrate your wins together! I am so grateful for all that I have accomplished this year, but most importantly for all the friendships, acquaintances and people I have met! Thank you for being supportive and loving during a huge transition in my life and for showing me what unconditional loving really is. Thank you for inspiring me and encouraging me to be me! And most importantly, thank you for being in my life! May you have a beautiful holiday season!
Pilar's Ponderings
So you get to choose. What will you choose this holiday season and for the upcoming year? Can you make a commitment to choose living with positive intention, focusing on love and peace? Will you be for-giving or will you be for-getting? That is the simplicity of life when it seems to get chaotic and uncomfortable, that we have a choice and in our lives we can choose to forgive ourselves first and through that process we may also forgive others. To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness.
What did I learn? How did I grow? Who am I becoming? As I pondered
the topic for this month, forgiveness, the concept of transformation
comes to mind. You may have heard, to forgive is to 'give as before'.
To give as we did before we forgot how to give from a place of
pure love. The part about forgiveness that we often over look is,
forgiveness begins in us. If we begin first by forgiving ourselves,
and loving ourselves, everything outside of us is instantly transformed.
It's not that the 'other' person has changed. We have changed.
As we let go of wanting to hold onto the pain of whatever we are
feeling, we open the door to forgiveness. True, we always have
a choice. To hold onto the past. Or to let go and live in the present.
Our attachment to unpleasant past events, can harden our heart
and shut people out of our lives. A lifetime of this can leave
us lonely and alone. Today is a new day! It's the... "first
day of your life" or "carpe diem" (seize the day)
expression you have probably heard many times, possibly without
really hearing or understanding the power or intent of the words.
Our transformation exists in our choosing to forgive first, to
love first and to live fully. Finally out...check them out!!!
OUR BOOKS ARE FINALLY OUT AND THEY MAKE To Order Your Books or to Take You to Our Book Websites to Learn More... BEing the Present 101 Ways to Inspire Living and Giving
by Pilar Stella & Cynthia Aliza Blake AND
A Kids Book Blessed by The Dalai Lama, Archbishop Desmond by Pilar Stella illustrations by Maris Cummings
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