Renae over at Life Nuturing Education wishes I would finally get around to this meme she tagged me with over two weeks ago, so her wish is my command!  I am to share five wishes for things I’d love but do not need and five wishes concerning my spiritual life.  The challenge for a mentally overactive Gemini like myself is narrowing the lists to five, but this evening I will try my best to present my heart and spirit’s most entertaining wishes.

Starlight, star bright, I wish I may:
1. have a thousand dollars a month to spend on nothing but books for myself and the kids.
2. invent a truly self-cleaning kitchen and successfully market said invention to fund the aforementioned book budget and allow time for reading the material purchased with it.
3. use a sizable chunk of the remaining profits from this kitchen venture to help my husband build our environmentally sustainable dream home.
4. pour most of the rest of the funds into my children’s college savings plans so they can attend any school in the world they choose and graduate without looming student loan repayment stalking them through their early adult years.
5. totally blow any remaining money traveling the globe with my husband and children as the icing on our homeschooling cake.

I wish I might:
1. find the self-discipline to truly commit to the development of my meditation practice.
2. remember that every step along the path of motherhood is an opportunity for amazing and blessed spiritual growth.
3. empower my children with the courage to strike out and discover their own spiritual paths, even if they diverge from my own.
 4. begin outwardly living my path by actively working to further the work of love in my community.
5. look for and find the truth and beauty in the everyday world around me amidst the often overwhelming ugliness and pain.

Have some fellow bloggers make more wishes tonight!
1. Merriconeag almost always has something beautiful to share.
2. Wendy never fails to delight me with her Well Mannered Frivolity.
3. Stephanie at Throwing Marshmallows might just throw a few of her own wishes our way.