| Volume 1 #4 | January 2006

 From Soap Bars to Raisin Boxes...

Encouragement can be found in the most unusual and unexpected places.

Raisins have always been one of my favorite foods. I often buy them by the small boxes and take them with me to work for a snack before lunch. Lately, I've noticed the inside flaps of these raisin boxes contained inspirational thoughts or sayings. I've torn off a lot of those flaps and stuck them around my computer monitor where I can see them each day.  People have asked what the wing-like things are that I have all over my monitor, and I invite them to read some of these. They are usually quite surprised to find they came off of a box of raisins. "Healthy foods, healthy thoughts" is how I look at that one.

Not long ago I bought a 4 bar package of soap. To my surprise, I found that the individual wrappers had inspiring sayings on them—written in English and French! Cleansing thoughts on cleansing bars...makes rather clever sense as well.

I also remember buying a bottle of milk once and noted a saying on the side of the bottle that said "for those who fall somewhere in between." I ruminated a bit further on this on one of my website features called "Periodic Ponderings", found in the spiritual section of www.wendyv.com .

Encouragement and inspiration can be found in many places...the expected as well as those from out in left field. The challenge is to keep ourselves open to finding them and applying them to our lives.

I hope this coming new year is an inspiring and encouraging one for you!--Wendy

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