April 15, 2025 - You Deserve to Enjoy Things & to Be Happy

Yesterday I talked about making time to take time to enjoy Spring and let it renew you and help you feel refreshed. Yesterday where I live in Michigan it was 62 degrees out! A real "heat wave" for sure! Today we may make it to 42 degrees - which "warm" one day and cold the next is normal for Spring in Michigan. But, I was very happy to be able to get outside for just a bit to enjoy the warmer weather and saw daffodils, hyacinths, and violets all blooming - it made me so happy to see these colorful signs of warmer weather and Spring! It won't be long before my tulips and lilacs are blooming, and what could be better than tulips and lilacs?!

Well, it does not take a lot to make me happy for sure! One other thing I saw outside yesterday was another of my favorite flowers - dandelions! Yes, I love dandelions! I know many people think they are just weeds, but I love them! I love their bright yellow color - especially after a colorless winter - and I love how children are able to pick as many as they like and no one tells them to stop picking the flowers! When my grands were younger I often received many bouquets of dandelions because they knew how much I loved them - I loved the flowers, too, but especially and most certainly loved my grands - and always will!

You may be wondering why am I talking a second day about Spring and flowers? Because they are things which make me happy and I want to encourage you to find things which make you happy and enjoy them. You deserve to be happy. You deserve to be able to be renewed by a lovely day and flowers. You deserve to enjoy things. Big things and things as simple as a lovely Spring day and flowers! You are an amazing person and you deserve to be able to feel happy and amazing!

Tomorrow I want to talk about some very serious things, but today I want to focus a bit on encouraging you to just make time to enjoy simple things like a warm Spring day and flowers - or whatever it is which makes you happy. I want to encourage you with the truth of how you deserve to be happy. You deserve to be able to enjoy things.

So, again today, I want to send you another virtual "hug" - You matter. You deserve to be loved and are loved - I love you! You make our world a better place - we need you in this world. I hope you have people around you who tell you these things, but if not, please let me be someone who does. Yes, I say this every day, but these words are true and will always be so. You will find the video at this link.