Home being beautiful!

Just before I left for the Maldives I taught a beautiful 11 year old girl to meditate. The other girls in Year 5 had been giving her a really hard time, and her Dad, who had found so much clarity and joy through his practice, asked her if she’d like to learn to meditate.

It was a very special course. She asked me questions that no other adult had asked me in my 9 years of teaching.

This week I got to watch that beautiful little girl deliver a speech at a regional competition. The title of her speech was, Today is A Gift, That’s Why it’s Called The Present.

She’d gone from counting down the days that she’d leave Year 5 and begin Year 7 at a new school, with new girls, to coming first in her year at school by delivering a speech about what a gift today and each and every day is.

She shared my story in that speech, and what it had taken for me to learn that lesson, and then pass that onto others.

And here she was, delivering that same speech and lesson, to a room full of her peers, parents and teachers, with confidence, joy and from her heart.

She didn’t make it through to the finals next week. But after telling her parents she wouldn’t be going for school captain or house captain or any other representative positions for Year 6, because no one would vote for her, she’s now putting her hat in the ring and delivering a speech to her school for those spots next week.

Her Dad thanked me so much for going along to watch her, and I told him today is a gift, and that’s exactly how I wanted to spend some of that day. What a joy it is to see her thriving in such a short amount of time, when not so long ago she was counting down the days of her life.

I know that feeling. And I know how possible and how quickly it can all be changed around. How we can go from feeling like we are barely surviving our life, to thriving.

Jai Guru Deva.

Thank-you to all our great teachers xxx