Hope Rising

(There's a song that goes with this post. Click here to hear it.

It came to me whilst I was sitting at my piano last week...)

I can feel it, 

the changing of the seasons,

 a lightness in the air, 

a quickening of the senses

As hope rises from despair...

This year feels like the turning of the tide for me. I turned 40 right at the beginning of the year and as they say life begins..

But it really does begin, whatever age you are, because life begins afresh each day, with the rising of each new dawn.

I had the most wonderful start to the year with amazing birthday celebrations, first with my tea party for the ladies and then the most wonderful family gathering last weekend for which my sister surprised me and my twin brother with an impromptu visit from America for less than 24 hours to wish us a Happy Birthday and join us for dinner. So amazing!

My health is stable, my consultant said last week I have every reason to be optimistic about the future. Isn't that wonderful? 

The thing about love, (like the love that has been lavished on me recently), is that it lifts you, and carries you to a place where anything is possible, and the horizon becomes a clarion call for all the hopes and dreams of your life rather than an impossible destination. 

Hope does that too. It changes perspective.

Here are some of the horizons I gazed at last year, with the song of my heart ringing in my ears.

So here's to the new horizons that each day brings. May they call you to the promise of all that you are.
Much love.

xxx