Meditation in movement

Today, I finished a 15 hour road trip from Oregon to California. It may not be a typical opportunity for prayer and meditation, but it was the most amazing experience that I have had in a long, long time. As the sun rose on the California hill, I prayed prayers of love and gratitude for such a perfect journey for me. I am so full of, well, should I dare say 'enlightenment'? Maybe a  more culturally acceptable term would be insight. This should take several entries.....

For one week, I am on a unique journey and today's entry will focus on the fact that exactly one year ago today, I gave birth to someone else's dreams.........the baby that I pushed from my body on December 7th was not mine and I was anything but close to living my dreams. In fact, it seems that my whole life not only went on hold for this, but went in a tailspin that is only recently coming to stillness. For two years now, my life has been so fully impacted by the choice to be a gestational surrogate that I have had to completely re-set who I am and where I am going. THIS is the gift to me. This is what has moved me toward the direction that I would like to go........

And now, tonight, in this lovely hotel room in Launa Hills, I will lay my head on my pillow and know that life is good......it is Very, VERY good.