* * * H E A R T W I N G S I S T E R S * * *

on wednesdays and thursdays each week i 

head to the hospital to do volunteer work 

for the program Art for Healing.

i feel so blessed to be able to do this each week ... 

to hopefully make a patient smile, create something with them, laugh, let them know they are seen and heard, 

bring a sense of calm and release from whatever 

has landed them in that hospital bed.

i have had countless patients say things to me 

that will stay with me forever, 

lessons they may have learned, 

realizations they have had.

and i myself have had many realizations 

in my time spent there...  

i have realized as i go from room to room 

in the hospital how easy it is to take

our health for granted.

  i have realized that truly our health is one 

THEE single most important things.   

i have realized that all the material things of this world 

have very little, if no meaning, 

when you are lying in a hospital bed.  

i have realized vanity goes out the door when all 

we want to do is feel better.  

i have realized that if we do not have our health 

we truly cannot enjoy those we love and 

love the way we would like in return.  

i have realized life is short ... 

we never know from one day to the next 

what this life may bring our way.  

i truly have new perspective and a much 

deeper level of gratitude for each day that i wake up 

feeling healthy, no aches, no pains, no sickness.

please share with me ... what have you realized lately?

peaceandlove,

kolleen