These words came into my mind this morning as I did my five-minute morning meditation and prayer. Just five little words: “Today is a new day”, words that hold so much promise, hope and encouragement …… also a challenge.

Think for a moment of all that you can accomplish in a day, all the opportunities that will cross your path in one day, opportunities that will present themselves in all kinds of ways and in different aspects of your life. The career and financial opportunities, we are usually quick to see. But are we able to see opportunities for personal growth and transformation that present themselves to us everyday? Are we able to think outside the box with respect to our everyday experiences and appreciate the new lessons that we can glean out of each moment and each encounter in the day? That is the challenge in these five words.

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Did you know that your connection to your child is much deeper than a physical heredity of the DNA? The connection between you and your baby is physical, emotional and spiritual already before birth and into the first few years of life. You must have noticed that when you are stressed, anxious, angry or depressed, your baby does not sleep as well and often cries for no apparent reason. That is because your mood, emotions and thoughts affect your baby or your young child.

Once you know, this it helps to look at what is going on with you that you may not be consciously aware of when your child is irritable or moody for no good reason. Taking the time to work through your own angst will often bring immediate relief to your child. Try it and see for yourself how well and quickly it works!

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I recently read a newspaper article about the sea lions at the piers in San Francisco. Around Thanksgiving the sea lions started leaving the pier in droves and by Christmas all 1500 sea lions that normally lived in the waters of pier 39 were no where to be seen. The sea lions have been San Francisco fixtures for the 20 years that I have lived in the Bay Area, and probably for long before. They are probably the pier’s biggest tourist attraction and are fed by the tourists in spite of signs asking them not to feed the sea lions. According to the article and interviews with marine mammal scientists in the area, such an exodus has never happened before. At least, not in living memory. The scientist who was being interviewed suggested that the sea lions must have left in search of food, and that this was not an unusual phenomenon that all 1500 sea lions would vacate their territory all at once in search of food. But it appears that no one knows where they went. But then the reporter reminded the scientist that the sea lions were constantly and well fed by all the tourists. So why would they need to go anywhere else in search of food?

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As the year 2009 draws to a close and we approach the threshold of a new year, we can take a moment to look back over the year. It has been a very difficult year for almost everyone. Many are out of work or saddled with debt, schools are overcrowded and understaffed, the number of homeless persons is alarmingly high and charities are receiving fewer donations to care for an increasing number of people. There is hardly anyone who has not been affected in one way or another by the economic crisis.

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