Fear of Living Joy – A Twelvemonth of Self Love

10. Day 3: Home, Sweet Home

Eva Lisle — Sun, 04 Jan 2015 04:03:33 +0000

We arrived on New Year’s Day in San Fransisco after traveling for over seven weeks. I was never so glad to see a shuttle and slept the whole way home after partying rather late into the wee hours on our last night in the UK, New Year’s Eve. All the poetry, songs and anthems for home ring completely true after being away for so long. Even though we had a brilliant, lovely trip in every way...

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9. Day 31: Fear Not, LOVE Now, Fun Revealed

Eva Lisle — Wed, 31 Dec 2014 13:54:31 +0000

I am just waking up on New Year’s Eve in London, I received a “Happy New Year!!!’ message and happy faces photo from long time friends in New Zealand and my peeps back in California are not quite to bed on Dec 30. In a moment such as this it seems quite obvious that NOW includes both past, present and future. NOW is replete with everything everyone needs in any given moment, everywhere.

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9. Day 30: Penultimate Joy

Eva Lisle — Tue, 30 Dec 2014 21:10:12 +0000

Today is the day before the day before our last day……it was our great joy to spend the day with a dear friend on his way home from Antwerp. I am so full of love, amazement and wonder after our day at the Victoria & Albert Museum that I can barely think or write. To have loved ones, beauty and time to enjoy both is heaven on earth. Suffice it to say the marvel, beauty, mass and variety at the...

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9. Day 29: What I Have Learned From Taking 7 Weeks Off

Eva Lisle — Mon, 29 Dec 2014 13:45:50 +0000

What have I learned from taking seven weeks off from our normal daily life? 1. There is no such thing as taking off from daily life. (life and the dailiness continues, just differently) 2. Life continues too, abundantly 3. The trip really began when we allowed ourselves to think it was possible (this began in intention over a year ago, in reality over six months ago) 4. It all started with this...

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9. Day 28: Joy Is Maintenance & Logistics

Eva Lisle — Sun, 28 Dec 2014 21:24:44 +0000

Have you ever noticed that no matter how fabulous everything is it all comes down to the basics of eating, resting and where the nearest toilet is. Just ask any event planner. We have truly had the most incredible trip in every way, AND we can still fall to bits in want of a toilet (or the 30 pence to pay to get in) or a drink of water or a place to sit down after miles of walking.

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9. Day 27: 34 Years Of Living Joy

Eva Lisle — Sat, 27 Dec 2014 13:31:23 +0000

I never knew that one of my biggest “accomplishments” would be to have been married for a long time. I had an inkling this would be so at 10 years when we celebrated our anniversary in Quetta, Pakistan with Army friends from around the world. 10 years of marriage is quite the milestone, especially in the military. Then at 20 years we celebrated having only recently arrived in USA. At 30 years new...

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9. Day 26: Joy Is Relaxing

Eva Lisle — Fri, 26 Dec 2014 13:06:36 +0000

We had one of our most relaxing days on Christmas day yesterday. There is zero public transport on Christmas (and also very limited on Boxing Day) so felt no pull whatsoever to go out for any reason. We luxuriated in pj’s all day, starting with coffee and Christmas cake and finishing with port from Fortum & Mason’s. We talked, laughed, colored in our fancy coloring books from the Derwent Pencil...

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9. Day 25: The Joy Of Christmas Presence

Eva Lisle — Thu, 25 Dec 2014 13:07:22 +0000

This holiday to England has been all about presence. Presence with our own hearts, presence with each one we were privileged to spend time with and presence with what gifts life brought to us each and every day. Christmas Presence is that time when we all join together in that beautiful presence of love that is always within us. We have met numerous people who celebrate Christmas and the deeper...

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9. Day 24: Silent Night, Holy Night

Eva Lisle — Wed, 24 Dec 2014 13:39:30 +0000

Our plan for the day included lunch with some BNI Connect friends, a carol service at St. Paul’s Cathedral, dinner and the West End play “The Play That Goes Wrong”. It also ended up including letting the maintenance guy in to repair the washing machine, grocery shopping for a Christmas Cake and walking for miles. The thronging crowds reminded me it was also one of the last shopping days before...

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9. Day 23: Tidings Of Comfort & Joy

Eva Lisle — Tue, 23 Dec 2014 13:40:27 +0000

On this very busy, full day leading up to our delicious celebration of Christmas let us take time to breathe and extend much love to our thoughts. What instantly came to my mind was the carol “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen”. I just started singining, humming really, this hymn to my teaming thoughts of “Why can’t I get the washing machine door open?” to “Where will we have Christmas lunch?” to “I...

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