Soulbyte for Tuesday April 22, 2025

-Artwork © 2025 Jan Ketchel

Can you go a day without desire? Can you go one day without needing anything other than what you have? Can you sit still and just be? Every time you think to jump up and get something, to order something, to buy something, to look something up, to call someone, to text someone, sit still instead and just be. Let the urges pass. Let the needs and desires dissipate. Let the world around you pass by without your needing anything except its stillness, its air to breathe, its time to just be.

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

Soulbyte for Monday April 21, 2025

-Artwork © 2025 Jan Ketchel

Arrange your thoughts today as if you were making a shopping list. Keep the most important ones at the top of your list and the less important ones at the bottom of your list. Attend to the important ones, one by one. Ask for help as you tackle what is most troubling to you, as you work through your list and give your attention to what is bothering you or to what needs attention. Then forget about your list and just be present with the day as it unfolds. You might even notice that what you were so concerned about is no longer of much concern at all. Perhaps everything on your list is of no real importance. Use this experience to free your mind of what it thinks it has to do. Let each day show you what is most important rather than relying on your mind and your intentions, your firm knowing of what you think must happen and must be done. Spend more time paying attention to what you are being shown and you will soon see the needlessness of too many thoughts and too many lists. Just be.

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

Soulbyte for Friday April 18, 2025

-Artwork © 2025 Jan Ketchel

After going through a period of change, whether rough or mild, the result is the same. Sit and take a breath. Sit and settle into restful calmness. Think upon what has been accomplished and with gratitude give thanks for safe passage through the period of change that was so necessary. All change is necessary but it may not be clear that this is so until much later. Sit awhile and give thanks for what you have gone through and how it has changed you. No, you are not the person you were before, and that is good!

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

Soulbyte for Thursday April 17, 2025

-Artwork © 2025 Jan Ketchel

Under the best of circumstances life would unfold without worry, you might say, but that is not the best of circumstances at all. That would be a life of no consequence, no challenge and thus no growth. Challenges offer growth spurts. When difficulties arise, it is far better to face them than to avoid them, for they are like doors opening to something new, stairways to something better, pathways to new life. Challenges and difficulties in life are the opportunities to grow, to change, and to embrace something new and exciting. All change comes out of such opportunities, at first seen as annoying interruptions but soon seen as just the right thing at the right time.

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

Soulbyte for Wednesday April 16, 2025

-Artwork © 2025 Jan Ketchel

Do not argue with the gifts you receive but accept them graciously. If you can’t figure out what they mean or why you personally have received them give them time to show you what they are for. Sometimes it can take a whole lifetime before truth is realized. Sometimes the answers you seek are right in front of you but you don’t see them, just as sometimes the one thing you are so attached to is actually trying to tell you to let it go. Ask for clarity, but also be ready for it once it comes, even though it may not be to your liking.

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

Chuck Ketchel, LCSWR