We’re off to the Big Apple tomorrow for a theatre spree. Seeing shows galore. Seeing dear friends. House-sitting in a luxurious apartment for friends who are in Paris. We never do this. Never.
It’s not because we’re workaholics either. It’s because we love the lives we lead. I am happy as a clam writing and seeing clients. I don’t need to go on vacation. In fact, if you’ll note my title, I’m still not going on vacation.
The reason is because I do not lead a life which requires that I vacate it! For that is what vacation means. Actually, I really don’t want to vacate my life.
So instead, we’ve adopted the Britishism, “going on holiday.” Which is how the Brits go on vacation.
Holiday, etymologically speaking, is a portmanteau word. Holy Day.
How will we make our time away from our usual routine holy?
We will leave space in our time schedule.
We will be sure to eat consciously.
We will sleep late.
We will see those people and do those things that we want to see and do.
We will indulge ourselves.
We will skip daily email.
What this has meant is that I have had to “write ahead” my blogs for this week we are away, and to arrange for a wonderful dear one to post them for me. Thank you, Kasey!
Making our time away holy will be the challenge and the gift. Living in a different place for a week will bring us a different perspective on ourselves and our lives. I hope we come home rested, energized and ready to swing back into all the projects we so enjoy.
One of the ways to guarantee ongoing enjoyment is to view one’s doingness from a different place, a holy place, and that’s why going on holiday is so very lovely.
We’re back next Wednesday more whole than ever …
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Dr. Susan Corso is a spiritual author, speaker, and counselor. An omnifaith minister and the author of God’s Dictionary (Tarcher/Putnam 2002) and The Peace Diet, she has had a spiritual counseling practice for more than 25 years. She has been an intuitive since childhood.
Susan’s blogosphere writing may be found at Seeds for Sanctuary, Ode Magazine and The Huffington Post, and Beliefnet. Her website is SusanCorso.com
One of her favorite occupations is writing spiritual fiction. She is the author of The Healing Mysteries of Mex Stone under the pseudonym Shulamith Burton. The audiobook of the first in the series, Oklahoma! Hex, came out in September 2008.
Susan is the founder of Sanctuary and ten-year author/publisher of a free e-newsletter, Seeds. As a professor at the accredited College of Divine Metaphysics, she teaches and ordains ministers.
Susan has been published in magazines, online magazines and newsletters including Business Ethics, Beliefnet.com, Ode Magazine, Science of Mind, Napoleon Hill’s Think and Grow Rich, New York House, Q-Spirit, Self, and Winning Ways. She is the author of several tape series. Susan also writes for the theatre: The God Show, I Would Never, Fight or Flight, and PeaceWomen.
For many years, Susan was an organizational consultant and motivational speaker guiding nuclear scientists as well as entrepreneurs into their life purposes. Some of her former clients include Westinghouse Hanford Company, Mary Kay Cosmetics, Gila River Casinos, and the American Nuclear Society, among many others.
Today she functions as Chief Spiritual Officer for corporations. She lives in one-sixth of a Victorian house outside of Boston, with her beloved spouse, director/actress/teacher Sheriden Thomas, and the spirit of her familiar cat, Charles of the Ritz.
Her mission in life is peace.
Great Susan,
Intenters will be looking forward to a half dozen holy blog posts upon your return.
(To multiply the following blessing, read aloud.)
Let us daily increase in: wisdom, love, gratitude, reverence, healing, peace, joy, happiness, laughter and prosperity.
Blessings X 10,
Ed
LOL! Thank you Ed!
Dr. Susan Corso
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