Thank you all so much for the love, hurrahs, support and joy over the last few days… here, on the facebook, ethereally, email-ly, face-to-face and heart-to-heart. {And a special shout out to Brandi of Dandelion Seeds for being my blog post publish fairy while I was away – you are a treasure!}
We are very very blessed and filled with love.
I want to also give voice to something I have learned about love. It’s a pretty huge lesson. It took years for me to understand this:
Love is *not* just like a romantic comedy movie. You see, I used to believe that love would be just like that, and it’s not. Romantic comedy movies aren’t able to show lovers as they really are – two vulnerable, fragile souls who are working on their stuff – fears, baggage, personality. Love is a lesson everyday. Love is a journey. There doesn’t get to be a point where it’s a Happily Ever After. It’s more a choosing Happy Every Day. Love is a journey, and it can be our greatest teacher. So my love advice is this… have courage, and have hope. Love isn’t always the easy path, but with spirit and consciousness, it can show us the way to our highest and deepest selves.
To celebrate love, I wanted to take a little photo miander through some of my favourite love photos…
Our favourite place to be… by the fire…
Five years ago, when we first moved here, on our first snow day.
Our journey to India, to Taj Mahal last year…
One of my favourite photos of us 🙂
Our birthday picnic three years ago…
Beside Uluru, the most sacred place we have known…
Us the evening of my inner marriage ceremony. I knew Chris was even more incredible when he understood my need to marry myself before I could marry another. In the afternoon, I had gone to a ceremonial rock with my three goddess sisters and committed to love and honour myself. We returned, and he had made us a feast of sushi and lasagne and sangria… and we proceeded to have the most glorious night of laughter and nosh and friendship and love..
Standing on the riverbed of the Murray river on our roadtrip to Adelaide earlier this year…
And soon I’ll be able to share even more love photos!
I just won a photo shoot with Zhoosh Creative Photography which is the most divine timing possible… in two weeks my love and I will be having an engagement photoshoot with Robeccer at our special rock… the same place I had my inner marriage 🙂
L O V E,
Leonie
