Feeling Blessed

I just got off the phone with Tammi Brown, a singer I have in the "Altared Christmas LIVE" show I am producing in a few weeks.
Nothing special about the conversation - just confirming a rehearsal we are having soon, but when I hung up the phone I noticed that I was grinning like like I had a schoolboy crush.

You see, as I work through the nervousness of putting on a show, I am constantly reminded that I am getting so much positive energy for my work. I feel so truly blessed - feeling that I am able to receive that which I ask for, and hoping... hoping that I am able to return the same energy back to others.

It's as if though I have been hiking up a long, long trail; wondering how long it will take before I get to a level spot where I can enjoy the view I had heard so much about. Suddenly I round a corner and there before me lay an immense vista, so beautiful I cannot help but smile at.

That is where I am at now. Smiling, but still aware that I must be careful not to slip backwards, or worse yet, off the trail entirely.

So many people have come through for me in regards to this show. Business people I know have easily offered to purchase ads for my program, and a couple have offered support in the form of money with no strings attached.

The show is already sold out, due mostly to the wonderful people of the Santa Cruz Ukulele Club. It seems thay rather like what I do and are willing to pay to see me do it. It is an odd feeling for me to experience, but I better get used to it fast, as not having faith in myself will be what could send me slipping off that path I mentioned earlier.

It's all good I remind myself, as I sip on a Chai at the Bagelry in Soquel, CA.

I am on my way up to Tim Prince's Ridgetop Recording studio to give him the final mixes of a CD I am producing for Celina Gutierrez, another blessing I have been given this last year. This is the first of what I hope are many recordings I will be part of in the coming months. It is really an enjoyable process and is really what I have always wanted to do.

So, wherever you are, whatever you are doing - allow yourself to smile at what you are given, and if it is something else you want, then smile with the realization that you are able to begin that journey right now.

There is a beautiful vista ahead of us and a whole life ahead to wander into the valley and explore.

Blessings.

Rhan Wilson