Joy, smiles & happiness!

I hope you are all enjoying this 2nd week of Advent. Last night the 3 day Parish Mission with Sister Anne Smollin concluded. I hope you took advantage of this wonderful opportunity to be inspired by such a terrific speaker. I want to share a few things I learned from Sister Anne this week:

4 Ways to bring healing & happiness to your life:

• laugh (put it in your day! Get a laughing buddy)
• cry (crying gets toxicness out of us)
• yawn & stretch
• touch (we need 4 hugs a day to survive & 12 a day to grow)

10 Commandments of joy & humor

• be yourself
• laugh at yourself
• have some fun every day
• smile
• make mistakes
• look for surprises
• stay open
• forgive
• relax
• celebrate everything we can

These are just a few nuggets of the wisdom she shared with us. I took pages of notes each night. As some of the teens who attended said to me, "Sister Anne rocks!"

blessings,

Kelly