Have a Nice Day

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When a person can see clearly the pain of lost purpose within another, they are gifted. Even if they don’t know the exact definition of such. When they have compassion for those in this way, they are gifted, even if it doesn’t come across within another’s perspective. This is love in action and being a vessel of such also. Have a nice day from Bon Jovi is a representation of this. The manifestation for abundance journey can be filled with feelings of lost moments within impoverishment. Knowing how to break free of generational poverty or impoverishment in any way is strength from choosing to look for the quietness of empowerment within you and trusting it.

I’m going to share a little about myself.

When I was 15 years old I chose to be an Engineer. Neither of my parents went to University and at the time my family was considered living below the poverty line. My adopted father rose up and chose before this moment to get his GED and become an aircraft maintenance engineer. He changed his life to help lift the family above that societal line. He did this because he was following his passion for planes.

The fear though when it was time for me to leave home, was if the loans would be paid or if I’d get a job after being debt ridden. I wasn’t kind in this moment, and did swear at him determined leave and live my dream. Before this I had a teacher try to encourage me not to choose engineering because a man in a Canadian university had held an engineering class hostage and shot the women intentionally. Needless to say, I was determined in that moment my dad chose to tell me no, to not let any man prevent me from becoming an engineer.

It was an f-bomb for those curious.

One he did not like at all, but chose to walk away to cool off.

The engineering degree was a success in a few different ways and we broke free of a few poverty mindsets by choosing careers and jobs we didn’t feel were work, because we loved being there and at home.

Have a Nice Day

The rebellion is not the intention and if I had of known I would have handled things differently. However we did have struggles in the family dynamic and generational where their was lost purpose and limited abundance in many ways. My compassion for knowing things could be different for my parents and wanting it to be was there. I also had enough compassion left over to want change for my future also.

My family saw this and the Lord was good along the way, because the fear of no job after graduation was not. I had multiple job offers before graduating and went to finish my last semester with no worries about what was to come.

I always told my kids growing up that if you love what you do, it won’t feel like work.

This is because I knew what this looked like:

My daddy lived the lie, that’s just the price that he paid
Sacrificed his life, just slavin’ away

Oh, if there’s one thing I hang onto
That gets me through the night
I ain’t gonna do what I don’t want to
I’m gonna live my life

Shining Like a Diamond even in Uncertainty

The diamond energy when there is Light flowing through it, is precise and exact in design. This is the same with Love. I didn’t know what life may look like leaving home, I just had to leave and figure out how to shine enough to love my life even in uncertainty. The path was clear and I was confident I could do it, until that first math class where I discovered the rural school education was not the same as what my city classmate learned.

The Lord worked His Light A LOT that first year and the years afterwards for me to step into a pathway I felt comfortable walking. The uncertainty was there for a bit when I waivered and tried to explore Education to become a teacher, but realized the timing for such was off. It would have been easier for me to get into Education from High School, rather than from University.

Near the end of first year I had to select my discipline. This is when I was Guided to lean into my comfort zone and explore the angles shown to me. I picked and found my flight plan.

Shinin’ like a diamond, rollin’ with the dice
Standin’ on the ledge, I show the wind how to fly

“Showing the wind how to fly”, well I did. The wind I hear from my mom and both fathers was to not to get the degree within my dreams. I showed the wind how to fly by graduating on the Dean’s list and having a job waiting for me before I finished my degree.

Rollin with the Dice

Dice to me in this song isn’t about gambling with your future. It is about flowing with uncertainty; the uncertainty of what the Lord may have available within abundance. When you stand on that ledge of uncertainty, you don’t know what could be. It is a boundary the generations prior maybe didn’t know about or didn’t know how to show in way you could perceive.

During covid there were two challenges prevalent, other than illness, death, and the call to face that in any way. The first was not being busy and not knowing how to deal with a void in any way. The other was the pressure parents had working from home or away from home with no child care possible.

The uncertainty within those many, many months grew anxiety and fed it. When exploring how to rise up from this, I was shown a die. I began picking activities out of the norm but acceptable and gave them a number. I rolled the die and we did the activity. There was uncertainty, yes, and the brain didn’t freak out in fear because in a game we are okay with not knowing.

The same can be true within getting comfortable with uncertainty along the road or pathway for abundance. You have fun and don’t grab onto something intentionally forcing the direction, it is allowing the flow of life happen.

No Lost Abundance

I’ve talked a lot lately about the damnation aspects of the manifestation for abundance journey, and while many may feel this is lost abundance, the Lord shows me there is always a way to rekindle the abundance it just may not look exactly the same. We just need to be willing to sit with this within our heart and notice the inspirational action when it arrives.

We’re livin’ in the broken home of hopes and dreams
Let me be the first to shake a helpin’ hand
Of anybody brave enough to take a stand

The magnitude of nurturing abundance is real. If you are choosing to help yourself and any others, many are called to step up to help that happen in many different ways before, during, and after you find the seed planted within your heart to explore.

If the struggle is real, keep leaning into Guidance. Others will find their way, or the Lord will find others who want to walk a path to meet your dreams in some way also.

When the world keeps tryin’ to drag me down
Gotta raise my hands, gonna stand my ground
Well, I say, hey, have a nice day
Have a nice day
Have a nice day

Stand up, noticing what don’t want in your life, raise your hands and give it to God. This is a let it be moment where you let another live their life, and you smile and say, have a nice day. Loving the boundary you honored for both them, and yourself.

More to my Story…

Before I started University the boy I saw at a dance in Grade 9 met me at a door as I arrived at a party after graduation. I had moved after Grade 10 and had a single dance with him on the last song of that year’s graduation. I arrived home early in the morning from the dance, and moved that day away from my home town growing up. After grade 12 I was back home visiting and my best friend came by and begged my mom to let me go to the party with her. My now husband met me at that door and wouldn’t leave my side. We began dating and within three years we married in University and had our first child in University also.

My grandmother worried and told me so. She worried I’d quit University being married. Some worried I didn’t know love. When I gave birth my professors worried when I wanted to write my exam on time. I gave birth during spring break and my first exam was when my son was a week old. He slept, I studied. I was the first undergraduate engineering student to graduate with a degree at the University I went to.

If you don’t think you can follow your dreams within love, you won’t.

Don’t let other push you around, show them how to fly. 

God will pull you out of hell, raise your hands.

See them. Love them for whom they are.

Have a nice day.