What a special day this is!  A day set aside to remember the occasion that marked the beginning of this celebration and the bravery of our nation’s early settlers.  As well the companionship and support of those native to this land.

A day as well, to remember all the good and wonderful things that have come our way over the past 365 days since last we sat down to a sumptous meal with family and friends - pausing to remember.

Over the past several days, we’ve talked a lot about gratitude and thankfulness.  Yesterday, I was praising and thanking all the way home from the southside of Indy after sharing most of the day with two awesome women and our wonderful webmaster. 

I still marvel at how God puts us together!  I am always in awe of what some would call “coincidences” that aren’t that at all.  You stop for coffee and the person next to you strikes up a conversation and before you know it you’ve gained a new friend - a business associate - a mentor!

I sometimes scratch my head and say, “How do you do that, Papa?”  It just simply amazes me!

As I reflect this day on those amazing moments of the past months (years in some cases), I feel energy!  I feel and know in my inner being, that there’s ‘movement under the feet’.  Remember, I talked about that sometime ago.  That we can feel ‘movement under our inner feet’ and just know that good, wonderful, GREAT things are afoot!

Yes, they are!  For all of us.  For women who are coming into their own.  Women who want more than what they now have - not so much in terms of money - but in terms of personal and professional fulfillment.  Women who’ve passed the threshold from one major life season to a new and hopefully, more exciting one.

There is something exhiliarating about growing in wisdom, maturity and stature.  Letting go of what always seemed so key to our success - so important to being like and accepted.  Moving into an attitude that says, “I like me just the way I am and I’m comfortable in my own skin!”  And growing ‘chronologically more mature - ‘ain’t’ so bad after all.  (Excuse my use of slang!).

I call it “puttin’ on a different set of clothes” - a new way of looking at me and my world and your world.  A way of saying, “I like you just the way you are - how can I help you find out where you want to go and help you get there!”

The movement or “rumblin’” beneath the feet is women moving from one season to the next in tandem with each other. Sharing similar values and common challenges and looking to each other for the support, mentoring, encouragement and empowerment we need to get there.

And then we CELEBRATE!  As we do today.

Celebrate where we’ve been; how we got there and the place to which we have arrived.

After all, isn’t that the essence of the holiday we commemorate today.  THANKSGIVING DAY!

Have an awesome one and be richly blessed as well!

  Linda