Yesterday was a wonderful day...
But today is too.
May we not wait to celebrate life on our birthdays. May we celebrate each day we are given.
I know some days we feel weighed down and other days we feel like we are floating on a cloud.
How can we celebrate both?
I invite you to join me to...
Pause. Breathe. Pray.
May we see that each day we have is a gift from God. May we celebrate the view from the clouds but also use that time to prep our hearts for the plateaus we all stand on and the valleys we all go through. And in the valleys may we seek, give thanks for, and be open to the lessons we are learning there so we may live more wisely on the plateaus and cloud moments in life.
Every day is a gift🎁 May we celebrate others lives, and our own, by choosing to live out love today, no matter whether we are on a cloud, plateau or in the valley.💕🙏💕
With love and hope,
Shawn
I'm 40!
🎉Today I get to be 40🎉 Woohoo!!! What a gift💝
I wanted to invite you to celebrate with me!
How?
I believe in giving we receive so I am asking you to celebrate with me by purposefully living out love today.
Give a smile, lend a hand, a listening ear. Write that text, make that call, pause to listen to the person beside you. The gift you give doesn’t have to involve money. Whatever you do, let it be from your heart. Give your time, your energy and if you choose to, use money; make a donation or buy a little something for someone you know, or don’t know😊 As much as the thought of you purposefully living out love today makes my heart smile, my hope is that it would make your heart, and the other person’s heart, smile too.
Feel free to share with me how you choose to live out love in a PM or if you post about it, tag me in your post @shawnelizabethgeorge or use#liveoutlove.
Let’s see if together we can get at least 40 hearts smiling today by purposefully living out love for God💕😁💝
Thanks ahead of time for celebrating with me💞🙏🎉
With love and hope,
Shawn
Go Vote
May we always do what we can, when we can, from where we are💕🙏💕
With love and hope,
Shawn
Be a Vessel of Love
My cup is full. This weekend I have been poured into by so many (for my upcoming birthday this week🤫). From a quick get away with friends, dinner last night with my parents, sisters and their husbands, to a family hike today, I am filled to the brim💝
I am so full of love and joy all I want to do is love on others.
I share this with you because some of you may be feeling full too yet others of you may be feeling empty (please know I’ve been there too).
No matter where you fall on that spectrum today, I invite you to join me to...
Pause. Breathe. Pray.
If you are feeling full like I am currently, may we take this love and joy and pour it towards others through our words and actions so others can experience the love of God through us. Yet if you are feeling empty, I hope that someone pours love your way, and you receive it, even if it’s in the simplest form such as a smile.
And for all of us, may we always remember there is a source that will fill us with love, anytime, anywhere, and that is God. May we allow His unfailing, abundant love to be poured into our hearts so we may be full, lacking nothing. And with that fullness may we be a vessel of love, pouring into others hearts throughout our days💞
With love and hope,
Shawn
P.S. and if you’re wondering how to get that love from God, when I started my journey to live from the inside out, I simply asked God if he was there and went from there😊🙏💕
Wisdom in Nature
No leaf has ever said to another, “I am better than you” nor has one tried to harm another.
No, they grow together, beside one another, and they fall together. And our world is more beautiful because of their differences. Even after they fall, they provide richness to our soil for more goodness to grow in the future.
May we see the wisdom nature provides us, and put it into practice ourselves.
With love and hope,
Shawn
Have a "Fort Nite"
Last night I had a “fort nite”😉 with my youngest and slept under my dining room table.
Why?
Because loving someone else isn’t always comfortable. You show up and you do things you don’t want to do because they want to do it. You let go of your desires to share in theirs.
Yes, I woke up a number of times throughout the night and my body is a bit achy this morning. But I will get more sleep tonight, the aches will heal but this memory will last forever.
I share this with you in case sometime someone you love asks you to do something that doesn’t interest you. I invite you to join me to...
Pause. Breathe. Pray.
And choose to say yes on the outside even if on the inside your answer is no. Lay down your comfort and desires to show up for them. A simple choice like this will speak volumes into our loved ones hearts. They will know we are there for them, and only them, and it will be a memory captured together for a lifetime.
With love and hope,
Shawn
Send Love
On my morning walk with Georgia I saw these kindness rocks someone scattered along the trail, as they do every season💝
I share this today because I want to remind you that there are people sending love and kindness to others in this world.
I hope you’ll join me and...
Pause. Breathe. Pray.
May we give thanks for the people who choose to send love to others. And may we too choose today to be someone who will live out love towards others💕🙏💕
With love and hope,
Shawn
Do What Matters Most (in the end)
As he laughed with his friends, he didn’t realize I was soaking up every moment beside him💝
My to do list and work I had planned yesterday are waiting for me today. They are always waiting for me. The opportunity to be a chaperone for my son’s first grade field trip won’t always be available to me.
I share this with you today in case you are in you are like me and can get stuck in your habitual patterns with your schedules and routines.
I invite you to join me to...
Pause. Breathe. Pray.
May we take a step back from our routines/schedules and ask ourselves if there is someone we need to show up for today. May we lay down what can be done tomorrow and show up for that person today.
And may we give thanks for these moments and memories, that in the end we will remember more than what was on our to do list today anyways💕🙏💕
With love and hope,
Shawn
It's the Simple Things...
This was my Friday night. I sat beside my family, I listened to them laugh and made another memory simply being present with them.
There are so many opportunities for us to get up and go places together, and there are so many experiences I look forward to having beside my crew. Yet my favorite place with them will always be our time gathered together at home; around our table, in our family room, or in our yard.
I share this with you today as a reminder that the small things make a big difference in our relationships.
I invite you to join me to...
Pause. Breathe. Pray.
May we enjoy the experiences we get with our loved ones outside the home. Yet may we always make time for the simple moments that bring such joy to our hearts and build strong relationships, like a low key Friday night on the couch.
With gratitude and love,
Shawn
The Survivor's Pause
This is my current reality.
I am back in Boston for the day. Another three month check up which includes chest ct scan, head and neck mri and meetings with my surgeon, radiation oncologist, oncologist and my obturator doctor.
A friend asked me yesterday how I was doing with this day on the horizon.
My response?
“I just am.”
What does that mean?
I don’t walk overconfidently into these appointments expecting I will definitely receive good news.
Yet I don’t walk in dreading that I will be told that I have cancer again. I know fear and worry won’t make the truth unfold any sooner but when they call my name, which they naturally do, I whisper back that they aren’t welcome with me at these appointments.
So I lay on the tables during the scans, I move from one chair to another, and I wait...and wait...and wait...
I share this today because this isn’t just my story. I write these words for every cancer survivor out there whose life gets interrupted every three, six, or twelve months for a day, or a week, when our lives need to pause for our scans.
We are reminded that cancer has been part of our story, and we hope it remains part of the past.
Yet the truth is we don’t know the outcome until it is spoken to us.
So we wait doing our best to show up for life, but that looks and sounds different for all of us.
What can you do for us?
Pause. Breathe. Pray. And simply sit beside us, whether near or far, and just be with us. You don’t need to try and make it better. Just walk beside us listening to our hearts if we choose to speak and accept our silence if that’s what we have to offer. And those messier moments of us being on edge, please don’t take it personally. Instead please meet us with great love and compassion as it’s what we truly need. We would really appreciate that.
And to every survivor waiting...
Please know you are not alone and you are being wrapped in love as you wait💕🙏😘
With love and hope,
Shawn
**I just received my results and my scans are clear💝 I am extremely grateful yet I know someone received the opposite results today so I hope you’ll join me in keeping those who have to fight (again) in our thoughts and prayers💕🙏💕