Had no idea “ease grace and joy” would feel so easy, graceful and joyous!
June 8, 2011 by Marguerite Orane
Filed under Featured Posts, Practice
“Ease grace and joy” has been a recurring theme in my blogs and in my life over the past 2 years. I moved to Canada from Jamaica using it as my mantra, and have continued to use it as I settle in to my new life here. I have written at least 7 “Free and Laughing” posts on it (see links at end of this post).
Typically, “ease grace and joy” is hurriedly uttered in moments of dis-ease and discomfort, when something seems to be overtaking my life. I tack it on at the end of an affirmation, an exhale, a declaration of some desired good yet to come. I state it more as a wish than an actuality.
Last Monday in the early afternoon, as I sat on the patio at my neighbourhood coffee shop, sipping a Café Mocha and reading a book, I realized that my life was actually FEELING easy, graceful and joyous. I noted that of late I would find myself at the end of the workday having completed everything I set out to do for that day, or at least everything that was really important. I find myself naturally arriving at appointments early. And I submitted a proposal last Thursday that I had promised a client on Friday ….. 24 hours early! Quite a difference to my normal habit of submitting proposals with 24 seconds to spare!
Frankly, I had no idea that “ease grace and joy” would feel so easy, graceful and joyous! This is taking some getting used to. At first, I worried – why did I have all this “free time”? Time to walk the dogs and sit in the park in the evening, enjoying the lovely Toronto weather. Time to sit and read, rather than catching moments on the subway and at bedtime. Am I being productive? Am I forgetting to do things? Am I neglecting important stuff? Then, I realized that TRUE ease, grace and joy could ONLY be easy, graceful and joyous. Anything else are empty words, wishful thinking and unfocused action.
Now, do I still have challenges? Yes I do. But somehow, they seem to be in perspective and work themselves out, with little of my usual dis-ease, ungrace and lack of joy! Today I float through an easy, graceful and joyous day – easily, gracefully and joyously!
July 17, 2009:
https://freeandlaughing.com/?p=185
Oct. 7 2009:
https://freeandlaughing.com/?p=590
Oct. 8 2009
https://freeandlaughing.com/?p=605
December 1, 2009:
https://freeandlaughing.com/?p=757
Blog post – April 14, 2010
https://freeandlaughing.com/?p=955
July 16, 2010:
https://freeandlaughing.com/?p=1073
March 30 2011
https://freeandlaughing.com/?p=1302
It’s in your DNA, my darling…with your family background, I would expect nothing less. May your positive attitude continue to ‘infect’ all of us who come in contact with you.
Love to Carole and family.
Pauline
Thanks for this timely reminder my sister. Sometimes we forget that life is to be enjoyed, not endured.
One Love
Ease, grace and joy. Bwoy, I tell you, lately the are just concepts, very abstract concepts at that. Thanks for reminding me that to feel ease, grace and joy, we have to be free of dis-ease, be graceful and joyous, and the being of it, is our doing of it. There is no other way.
Thank you Pauline. It’s my life purpose to “infect” everyone in this world with the healing power of laughter – and freedom!
“Life is to be enjoyed, not endured” – so true. And we must always remember that enjoyment/endurement is simply our choice, one that we are capable of making every single moment.
Love and blessings to you
Marguerite
Yes Carol. I realise that “ease grace and joy” is external. BEING easy, graceful and joyous is an inside job, and that’s always where the power lies
Love and blessings
Marguerite
The programming to work hard for everything has distorted the Divine coding. It’s so sad that when contemporary life with its many fabrications piled on top of our legitimate duties to keep us mechanically busy, has caused us to lose the plot. This post is a call for repentance and release.
KLao
You are so right about the programming – from we born “Life is hard and then you die” is what we are told. “Work hard and you will succeed”. “You have to suck salt”. All the things that move us away from the ease, grace and joy that come so naturally to us as children. “Mechanically busy” – working hard and accomplishing very little ….
Have an easy, graceful and joyous day!
Marguerite