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The Gift

by Taru Fisher on December 26, 2009

My son, Matt

Have you ever received a gift from someone you love that absolutely takes your breath away?
Has this gift helped to ease years of the pain you felt over something you had to do, but has haunted you ever since you did it?
Have you ever received the gift of absolute love and understanding?

This Christmas I received a gift that did all that and more, and moved me to tears. My youngest son, Matt, gave me a scrapbook he had made, a scrapbook filled with pictures of me, my sons, and my husband. It was filled with quotes and one in particular brought home to me just how much he understands my pain:

“Children and Mothers never truly part – Bound in the beating of each other’s heart” — Charlotte Gray

I keep re-reading this book of love and acceptance, and each time I do, I am moved once again to tears. Many, many years ago, my then spiritual teacher told me as I cried upon sitting in front of him, “Don’t hold back the tears; tears open your heart”. My heart is bursting open with love and gratitude for the gift this scrapbook has brought to me.

Thank you, Matthew, for showing me such love and understanding.

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Finding Gratitude

by Taru Fisher on December 22, 2007

Gangaji

I realized I hardly ever notice what I have to be grateful for — I’m generally focused on what’s missing, on what I need to get or achieve, on feeling lack instead of fullness. So tonight I will list some of the many things for which I am grateful.

– I’m grateful for the warmth of the little electric heater by my feet; that I am not cold, but warm and cozy even though it’s very, very cold outside.

– I’m grateful for the absolute loyalty and love of my little dog, Max, who follows me everywhere and makes me feel like I have some purpose for being here.

– I’m grateful for my husband and his beautiful guitar playing in the next room. It makes him so happy to play and I love seeing him smile and laugh.

– I’m grateful for the love of my three sons, who love me even after I hurt them deeply by my absence when they were growing up.

– I’m grateful for my friends who have so much faith in me and who encourage me to fulfill my highest potential — who give me their truth, their love, their time and energy.

– I’m grateful I found the most wonderful photographer, Diane Varner,  whose digital photography can bring me to tears of wonder and joy.

– I’m grateful I have the means to eat, to have shelter, to listen to beautiful music, to play with my digital camera and my computer.

– I’m grateful I’ve had all the experiences I’ve had — the challenges, the imagined suffering and pain, and the opportunity to use these to continue to learn and grow.

– I’m grateful for the time I spent in India at the Rajneesh Ashram and in Oregon at Rajneeshpuram, and for all the amazing people I met and loved, and even those who were the most difficult to be around, for they taught me so very much about myself and my capabilities for forgiveness.

– I’m grateful I found my last spiritual teacher, Gangaji, experiencing THAT in her presence in 1996 and seeing no separation between myself, others, and this planet.

– I’m grateful for my coaching clients, their faith and trust in me and the journey we are on together to create lives of passion and purpose.

– I’m grateful I found the NLP and Coaching Institute of California and Tim and Kris Hallbom — it changed my life in ways that are still being revealed and rid me of the last vestiges of my attachment to my old stories.

– I’m grateful I have a warm bed to get into now, and great books to cuddle up with as I make my way into delicious sleep.

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