I took my blog from yesterday and turned it into an opportunity.

I decided to trust…not to just write about it…not to just think about it…but to actually do it.

I took a leap. I threw myself out there.

I took a deep breath and did something that I have never done.

I didn’t know what to expect. I had no idea what may be happen.

I will admit that I didn’t expect the best and I didn’t expect the worst but beyond that, I didn’t know what to expect.

I was met with kindness.

I was greeted with encouragement.

I was given good advice.

I was given a gift.

I don’t trust easily.

I took a chance on trust and I was not disappointed. I was not pushed away. I was not treated with disdain or disgust or ridicule.

While this person would probably never treat me like that anyway, it is what I’ve come to expect from people as a whole. And as I’ve been reminded, people cannot be lumped into a generalization. Each person is who she or he is and must be taken on her or his own merits…not on the basis of what I’ve experienced from a majority of people in the past.

It sounds easy. It’s not. Each time I speak, I have to remind myself that this is something new and I have to treat each person as if I don’t have a past to draw negative experience from to affect how I deal with this person.

Acceptance is a two-way street. I think it is similar to how I talked about trust yesterday. You give acceptance, it will come back to you. It blossoms from there.

I felt acceptance yesterday.

I feel that acceptance today.

My heart feels lighter today.

My spirit feels more free.

I feel open.

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Maya Angelou wrote, “When we cast our bread upon the waters, we can presume that someone downstream whose face we will never know will benefit from our action, as we who are downstream from another will profit from that grantor’s gift.”

I have been gifted with bread cast upon the water and sent down the stream.

I am profiting from this gift.

As I toss my bread upon the waters, who knows who will profit downstream?