Shining Thru

Bliss full reunion with your arms

Loving touch and gentle kiss

Passion explodes as the day goes on

Night time comes to loving embrace

Love and trust reassured in your eyes

Eyes so bright with love and life

The soul pouring forth

Delight and joy spilling forth as we unite

Together there is happiness

Only joy and laughter and love

Treasures of the heart, breathe in soft and strong,

Clear and smooth they glide into your soul.

Crystals glisten from the depths of inside

Shining through your eyes, bright and clear.

The happiness, laughter, and most of all love.

The treasures….The things that bring you to life…that make you shine

The things that make life worth living.

Things that make you brighten no matter how hard life is at the moment

No matter what kind of day you have had…these are the things of importance.

The things we should remember, always.

What is life without the love and comfort of someone close to your soul?

Someone who’s love you can feel and breathe?

The person who completes your thoughts, laughs with you, and loves you?

These are the treasures too quickly forgotten.

I wish we could all slow down and remember the things that really matter in life…the little things that sometimes get taken for granted.    Sometimes we deserve to take some time off from work and all of the every day stresses to just simply enjoy the gifts of love and friendship….the gifts of nature’s beauty, and the time we are allowed to spend in it all.  I think that as the younger generations continually get use to instant gratification, the things that really make life worth living are being left behind…first children today are losing the appreciation of hard work and responsibility….what will it be next?  I wish we our society pressed upon everyone the true treasures of the heart instead of material goods and casual sex appeal.  I wish we could tell them that there is more to life than fitting in…I wonder if these are things a person needs to learn for themselves as they grow up….or if society really could change the goals of our youth if they pressed things in the media other than what they do now.  I have to believe that the media is very effective in making young people think about certain things…thinking some things are more important than others.  I just hope that in the process of growing up the younger generations will figure out their own set of priorities instead of the ones that people and the media set up for them.  I hope they are able to find the true treasures of the heart.

What is a Dream?  Is it something that occupies your mind while you are sleeping?  Or something that you fear or loath?  Maybe it’s something that you secretly hope for, maybe something that you openly hope for…???  What is it in our being that makes us dream?  Is it the mind, experiences mixed up and coming together, maybe to a blurrier vision, maybe to a more acute vision….Or is it the heart and soul, ideas that your mind has yet to recognize that brings them out of you? 

Some people think of a dream as a life goal, like the American Dream, which is a lie, but I’ll save that for another time.  Some people are so set on what they want to do in this world that they focus all their energy on achieving it.  For some people it’s simply finding someone to share their life with and love and be loved…for others it’s a career choice, some business adventure that they have always “dreamed” of having.

I think that there is a difference between dreams at night and day dreams.  Day dreams (fantasies), I think are sparked by conscious thought…something that has happened, something that you know you want and your mind is driven, focused on it, even when it’s focusing in the background of everything else.  Dreams that happen at night acknowledge thoughts that don’t always get recognition during the day.  Sometimes they are obviously connected to something that has happened that day or that week that has been on your mind, sometimes you don’t know where the dream came from.  Sometimes even thoughts you have only had in dreams seem to make sense when you wake up, but sometimes they seem scattered and disorganized.  It really makes me wonder what makes us dream.  Are the scattered thoughts, bits and pieces of desires or fears we haven’t recognized yet?  Or are they simply a mixture of everything that is going on in your world?

I think that we have all heard that “eyes are the window to the soul.”  I think that there is a lot of truth to that old sang.  However, I also think that there are a lot of windows to the heart, mind, and soul if we know how to look for them in a person. 

Eyes do generally give away a person’s emotions probably more than anything else.  You can sense their mood change; you can see the sadness or the passion when you look into them…but what about the other ways that people open up to others?

People’s behaviors can say a lot to someone else, maybe not even the person that they are talking to but someone just people watching.  It’s interesting some time to see if you can guess what people are thinking or what kind of a person someone is that you have never met but see interacting with others. 

Sometimes I have to remember that body language can speak a lot louder than any words.  Some people take it very personally if you stand or sit a certain way while talking or listening to them.  Body language is another clue that lets us know what a person is thinking or feeling, despite what they say to us.  For example, if I get nervous or anxious, I will be tapping my foot under the table, or something like that.  People who know me really well, know that when I’m stressed out I generally clean and bake.  I’m not sure why, but I think we all have our  tells.   

Isn’t it strange what some people will find romantic is the same thing that will turn another completely off???  I also think that it is strange that some things will turn you on, make you happy, or make you curious, and you have no idea why.  For example, I absolutely love the song by Matt Nathanson:

I miss the sound of your voice
I miss the rush of your skin
I miss the still of the silence
As you breathe out and I breathe in

If I could walk on water if I can tell you what’s next
Make you believe, make you forget

So come on, get higher, loosen my lips
Faith and desire in the swing of your hips
Just pull me down hard
And drown me in love
So come on, get higher, loosen my lips
Faith and desire in the swing of your hips
Just pull me down hard
And drown me in love

I miss the sound of your voice
The loudest thing in my head
And I ache to remember
All the violence, sweet
Perfect words that you said

If I could walk on water, if i could tell you what’s next,
make you believe, make you forget

So come on, get higher, loosen my lips
Faith and desire in the swing of your hips
Just pull me down hard
And drown me in love
So come on, get higher, loosen my lips
Faith and desire in the swing of your hips
Just pull me down hard
And drown me in love

I miss the pull of your heart
I can taste the sparks on your tongue
I see angels and devils
And God, when you come on
Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on love
Sing shalala love
Sing shalala love

Come on, get higher, loosen my lips
Faith and desire in the swing of your hips
Just pull me down hard
And drown me in love
So come on, get higher, loosen my lips
Faith and desire in the swing of your hips
Just pull me down hard
And drown me, drown me in love

It’s all wrong
It’s all wrong
It’s all right
So, come on, get higher
Come on, get higher
‘Cause everything works
Everything works in your arms

I’m not exactly sure why I love this song so much, but I find it one of the most romantic things ever.  I think that part of it has to do with the melody as well as the lyrics themselves.  I don’t think that this song would be quite so powerful if it was not done with the melody and instrumentals that accompanies the lyrics.  I find the song almost hypnotizing.  It seems to have a deep meaning, something that my mind can’t even comprehend.  It’s amazing how some things can do that to you.  If you’ve ever been in love or been touched this way by something than you might know what I’m talking about.  Love is another one of those things that you can just feel…you can’t think about it because your mind doesn’t always comprehend the depth of the feeling….

Certain things just touch your soul and you have no idea why.  It can be anything from the look in someone’s eyes to a butterfly, or a painting or song…a poem…a sunset…anything.  And it’s going to be different for everyone.  Some people feel that way when they see a new electronic toy, or a new video game, or a car….it all depends on the individual.  At any rate I hope that we as a society never lose that, no matter what does it for you.  As long as we have souls that can be reached some how, we will be ok.

Love is the only magic the heart knows

Your words, look, and touch, stir the passion

The inside of my soul quivers at the thought of you

The power of this feeling cannot be helped

The passion and the love stir something deep within

Something I never knew existed and doubt I will ever see again