Retreat to Peace
Retreat to Peace
Festive Reflections: Weaving Together Joy and Tradition in Troubled Times
The holiday season often wraps us in a quilt of contrasting emotions, which I know all too well. My own festive recollections are tinged with shades of past hardships; yet, they've led me to appreciate the nuanced beauty of this time of year. Join me as we traverse the landscape of traditions and the search for meaning amidst the twinkling lights and chill in the air. In a year like 2020, when the world turned inward, we find ourselves grappling with our perceptions of celebration and reflection. Together, we'll uncover the treasures hidden in life's simple moments and how they can illuminate even the darkest of winters.
Then, let's warm our hearts with stories of kindness that echo through the frosty air, like the one about a family whose Christmas was reborn through an act of unexpected generosity. No guests are needed when the narrative is rich with personal tales of compassion, from sending holiday greetings to soldiers healing from wounds of war to honoring those who've served with solemn wreaths. It's a discussion that goes beyond the festive façade, urging us to craft our own meaningful traditions and kindle the flame of togetherness. So wrap up in your favorite blanket, sip some hot cocoa, and let's revel in the joy of creating special memories that resonate with the spirit of the season.
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Speaker 1:We know that we're living in some crazy times and we know that the world is changing. So let's create a bridge as we travel through one another's countries, removing all the labels, coming together as one people, finding our home in this one world. And as we do this, this is why our signature talk today is so important. Today I actually am coming to you just one-on-one. I don't have a guest speaker with me today, because I thought what I would do would be something a little bit different. We know that we're in the throes of the holiday season and it's interesting because as we go through the holiday season, people, especially this year, are really grappling with this idea of celebrating the holidays and what that looks like, and I thought what I would do is to share a little bit of insight around how I grew up and what happened with my holidays and how I turned things around so that it didn't feel so jarring. I guess Right now, with the holiday season, people are reminded of old traditions, people are reminded of things that they did, such as gatherings, things that they did with loved ones who had passed. They are reminded of a time that's gone by and, for a lot of people, that can put them into a state of depression because they are mourning the loss of someone. As we sit here today, in this holiday season, in the year 2020, and as we are getting ready to embark on a brand new year, 2021, I thought it would be really great to come and just form this intimate space and where we talk about how these old traditions have helped to shape us into who we are.
Speaker 1:For myself, when I was growing up, christmas was a time that was a reminder of a lot of trauma for me, and for years and years and years, I would dread the holiday season. There were many reasons why I dreaded the holiday season. One was because of the reminder of the trauma. Two, because it was always a disappointing day for me. This is also a day that I really didn't even understand why we would celebrate, because people around the world were in celebration, but I was never given the insight to understand why we were celebrating. So for me, it just was very confusing. The time was confusing because it just didn't make sense, like we would celebrate my birthday. That made sense, but I didn't understand the back end of what the traditional holiday season represented.
Speaker 1:When I think about that, I am also reminded that there's children around the world right now that are probably in a similar space. There's a lot of children around the world right now that are also living in a space that I lived in, where the adults that were in their life didn't want to celebrate the holiday. So for me, the holiday was a reminder of someone who was not all in, were all present into this idea of celebration. It was a reminder of the constant barrage of attack, the verbal attacks, the bah humbug, the grinch that we see portrayed during the holidays. But it was a constant attack and I didn't even understand why, because, again, I was too little to understand that this is something that personally they were struggling with. It had nothing to do with me and as children. I think that is again a space that a lot of children are living in and don't fully understand that this really is a space that the adults are living in and as much as it's affecting them, it's the adult ownership of that particular piece of it that they're facing and, unfortunately, the child is facing in a different set of circumstances. So, as Christmas season came along and the holiday season came along, year after year, what I found myself doing is really gripping my fist in a way that was like, oh, here we go again, this is another cycle, this is another episode of something that's going to happen. That's really bad and just really put me in a space that you know. I didn't even understand why I was being put in that space, like I didn't do anything to put myself in that space, but it was. It was the cause of somebody else's problem, and then they were taking it out on me For years and years and years. It was like the celebration really wasn't that much and that was okay, and I didn't even understand fully the gift of giving in the season until I was an adult and much older and could rationalize some of the things that we as adults experience.
Speaker 1:So, as we embark into the season in 2020, I think the gift of the season that we've all experienced is that this has been a year for us to just slow down.
Speaker 1:This has been a year for us to face the things that we haven't been able to face for a very long time. For people that have been doing their work on the other side of this, they're going to have the gift of the freedom of not having that weight that they've been carrying for a long time, the people who haven't done the work. Unfortunately, they'll still be bearing that as we go into a new year. But the gift of 2020 has literally been the one where we've been allowed to slow down. We've been allowed to slow down and reassess and reevaluate a lot of things and really remove the things that aren't working for us. Give us an opportunity to embrace the things that are working for us. I know so many people this year that have crossed my path and have literally said that it's almost like there's this shedding that's happening with people and there's a shift as far as relationships.
Speaker 1:There's a shift in far as far as understanding the person, that they are on a deeper level and with greater clarity than they've ever had before. And for people that are living in the darkness the people that are living in the darkness that are still grieving the life that is no longer I really, really ask you to try to remain present in today and look for things that are going to help get you present. So, look around the room and look and mean five things that you can just mean right away. What are five things that you can touch, what are five things that you can smell Like. Literally give your attention to where you are in this physical space in this moment, and people that are suffering with this anxiousness of what's 2021 going to bring again, try to just remain present. There's so much circulating around the world in regards to various things, whether it's the vaccine, whether it's continuation of lockdowns. You know the virtual schooling that people are doing with their children. There's a lot of things that people are going through, but what I really, really want everyone to come home and do is just really get yourself centered. Get yourself centered and in a space where you're really taking care of yourself. You're detoxing all of the negative stuff that is being bombarded onto you. Before 2020 and the pandemic hit, people were dealing with a lot of stress. People were dealing with running from the stress that they were feeling and when the pandemic hit, it was like they were forced to shuffle their entire life and and their stress actually had increased because it magnified. And the gift of that has been people just really really re-evaluating everything. It is that they have and that's been very, very good for a lot of people. The flip side of it is there's a lot of people who have gone into a state of suffering and a lot of people have gone into this place of darkness. So in the short time that retreat to peace has been up and running with Dream Vision Radio, I mean, we've seen the suicide rate around the world increase pretty rapidly, and this is why I do what I do. I take this sacred space and try to really put it out into the world in such a way that someone, whether it's man, woman or child, can really resonate with a message that somebody who's already walked into this space can communicate and help them to pull out of that space, the time that we live in right now is changing, and we don't know what things are going to look like in six months from now. But what we do know is that we have to take care of ourselves and we have to take care of what we can control right here, right now, today. Everything else we just have to let go and really be surrendered to the fact that things will be okay.
Speaker 1:This holiday season, this Christmas time or whatever holiday that you're celebrating around the world. It really is a time to settle into a state of appreciation, a state of gratitude, a state of really recognizing the simplest things in life that maybe you've taken for granted, and maybe just recognizing the people in your life in such a compassionate way and in such a loving way that maybe you've taken for granted. This year, the gift of the season really is in the smallest, littlest things. It literally is the touch of someone having a hug from someone you love, having the minutest little thing of gratitude, whether it's Mother Earth, whether it's just recognizing that you're not alone, that you're surrounded by guardian angels and earth angels and God. Recognizing those things is the biggest gift that you can give yourself and it's something that you don't have to look to anybody else.
Speaker 1:When I was growing up and I was living with a parent who despised the holiday season and then turned that despise and outwardly projected it onto the family, it took a long time to recognize that my gift in the season really came from me. My gift in the season was in my love, and just love that I portrayed into the world. Each and every one of us was born from love. We are God's light, we are God's love and each and every one of us have that responsibility to share that with the world. That is the greatest Christmas gift that you can give is your love, your gratitude, your appreciation. As I grew older and became a mother and really started to embrace the idea of the holidays, this funny thing happened to me. It literally put me in a place where I realized that I could undo my past. I couldn't do my past just by my thoughts, just by valuing what it was that I had within myself and give it to my children, give it to my community, give it to the world.
Speaker 1:It took many many many years before I outwardly acknowledged this because, I have to be honest with you, I'm very humble and I don't tell people when I do things. So I had a special friend that I had met 23 years ago and she was going through some really difficult times. She was heading into a divorce and she had two little girls and literally I saw the hardship that she was going through and when she took her family to church I took it upon myself to drop off a few Christmas gifts for her and her girls so that they could have a small Christmas. I know it wasn't much, but it's what I had. I know it wasn't much, but it was what I had and it was something small and gracious just to let her know she wasn't alone, her girls weren't alone and that there was someone out in the world who did care, someone who was showing her that there was other people side by side and would walk with her and help her along the way. I later learned that I had been dubbed the Christmas angel and I thought that was very endearing and for several years, until things got better for her, I would continue to do this. So every Christmas Eve when they go to church, I would scoot over and drop off some packages for them. The Christmas angel had gone to live on in other ways. So as the girls get older and as my friend goes on her journey, they find unique ways to literally take what I did and turn it into something that they too can give back to someone else. And what I love about that is that excuse me, when you're going through difficult times, there's always someone who can relate to it, who understands it, who can help you. But sometimes it's just a matter of asking. Sometimes it's a matter of just reaching out and saying hey, you know what I could use a helping hand.
Speaker 1:When Christmas, we had our entire family coming and all of our Christmas meal was prepared in a freezer sitting down in the basement. I had prepared for weeks all kinds of food and had prepared it as such that, literally, I would just pull something out and defrost it and use it as I needed, so that I didn't have to spend all of my day in the kitchen but could actually spend time with my family. Well, excuse me, when the kids were little, I don't know who it was, but somebody had gone down into the basement and I guess they were looking for Christmas cookies or something I'm not really sure, but they left the fridge or the freezer door open that day and by the time that I recognized that there was something wrong, all of the food had defrosted and all of everything that I had made had to be scrapped and literally thrown away. And for me in that moment it was really a stunning moment because I'd spent days and days just preparing Christmas cookies and breads and lasagna and all kinds of food so that, like I said, I wouldn't have to stay in the kitchen when the family was there. And I'd called the insurance company and I'd asked for the insurance company to help me and they said well, you have a $500 deductible that you would have to pay for us to replace any of this.
Speaker 1:And I just remember this sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach because here we were a young family, we really didn't have a whole lot of money and I had been laid off from work and there were a lot of things that had happened and just moved. There was a lot of things that had happened. And I just remember thinking how are we going to pull this off? We've got family coming, we want to do our very best and they were traveling. So it wasn't a situation where they were across town, it was a situation where they were driving for hours to come and visit for the holiday. And I told the woman on the phone from the insurance company. I said I really don't know what to do and I just started to cry because I felt so deflated, just absolutely deflated. And she asked me. She said will you guys be home tomorrow? And I said yes and she said okay, don't go anywhere because we're going to stop by at one o'clock. And I really didn't understand what was happening at the time. I think because I was so caught up in you know, I've got these small children, I've got this family coming like. There's so many things. My head is just really really spinning.
Speaker 1:And the next day at one o'clock, the insurance lady and her staff from the insurance office had shown up with a Christmas ham and a multitude of bags to feed the family. And I literally just remember breaking down crying, just so appreciative of this act of kindness that these ladies put together as the kindness of their own heart, just knowing that we were a family in need at that particular moment. But the greatest gift was really when we were all saying goodbye and I hugged this lady and I said thank you so much, like you'll never know how much I appreciate this. And later that night I had been putting my son to bed and he says you know what, mom? He says you're the luckiest person in the world. And I said, why is that? And he said because you just got hugged by one of Santa's angels. And I thought, wow, like the fact that he recognized that there were other people in the world that were just, you know, earth angels and giving. You know the kindness of their heart, just giving. And he put those pieces together and we saw the gift that was given and received and he felt the love from that. It was so abundantly beautiful and just really really made an impact on the entire family.
Speaker 1:And it also made an impact in such a way that it reminds every single person that there may be your time, there may be your time in need, where you too may need to ask for help. Or maybe you've already been in those shoes, maybe you understand what it's like to ask for help, because I've had been gifted the experience of living in an environment where, literally, the holiday season was awful because, because we're in the holiday season, we're going to make your life a living hell, because I experienced that. I know the other side and I know what it's like to turn it inside out and I know what it's like to give the gift of giving. The gift of giving is far more joyous than the gift of receiving. My children were given the gift of receiving that day when we had that Christmas meal delivered to our home, and it gave them so much insight into what that felt like. What it felt like for the person that they may see that is homeless, or what it felt like for the person who is a struggling parent with little kids, or someone who's just down on their luck, someone who's sick, someone without family. It gave them compassion.
Speaker 1:I have repeatedly, over and over with my family, sought out ways to put that love back into the world. When I have an opportunity, I take it and I use it and I present it. When I hear there's a family in need and if I know I can help them, I find a way to help them, because I know what that feels like to be on the other side. Every year I take all of my cards that I have not used and I write them out to wounded soldiers that are recovering in a veterans' hospital. Every year I send the cards out and I've done this for years and years and years and I never told anybody.
Speaker 1:Recently, I finally told somebody. I was speaking to a man that had served in the military and he had shared with me a little bit about his friend who was in a veterans' hospital and talked about the hardship that he was facing. He was alone, without family, away from his family, because there was this big distance. Really, what this did is this created a space where this soldier was really really struggling with where he was in that particular time in his life. And I said well, I have a confession. I said I actually write out all of my leftover cards and I send them to the veteran hospital and I write messages to the soldiers.
Speaker 1:And this man six, three, whatever. He is tall foot tall and just a big guy and he too is a veteran he just started to weep and he said you have no idea the impact that that makes on the soldier. The mere fact that you're taking the time out to write a message to let them know that they're not alone, it's everything. And you're a total stranger and you're doing this out of the kindness of your heart, not because you have to, but just because you want to. And when he told me this and I saw the look on his face and I saw him tear up and try to fight those tears from streaming down his face, it really gave me this sense of compassion around this population of people with greater insight than maybe I even thought I had.
Speaker 1:So slowly my secret got out that I'd been doing this for years and people have said over and over thank you for doing that. But I don't say that it doesn't have any kind of acknowledgement of what I've done. It's the complete opposite. It's more about looking for the smallest ways to make an impact on someone else's life, looking for ways that are really going to help boost someone else up. It doesn't take a whole lot to do it, but it does mean something. Today, not only do I do the cards for the veterans, but I also take time.
Speaker 1:In every single year I go to the military cemetery and lay the Christmas wreaths out on the graves with hundreds of people, thousands of people that do it end to end across the country. The first year I did it, I went with anticipation of what it would feel like thinking I'm doing something special for someone who's passed and maybe it's a World War I or World War II vet or someone who's fought in one of the wars. But the astounding thing to me was when I got to the military cemetery. It literally was at the entrance gate that you saw these magnificent flags that literally are lining the street to go up into the cemetery and there's just piles and piles and piles of wreaths that are stacked on top of each other and all of the white headstones that go for acres that are just lined up. And when you look across you see the white headstones and by the time you leave you see these beautiful white headstones with the Christmas wreaths and the big red bow. And it just moves you because hundreds and thousands of men and women that have served the country have just been honored by total strangers. And every time you pick up a wreath you go over to the headstone and you say the person's name and if you have a prayer, you say a prayer and you lay the wreath.
Speaker 1:And it didn't hit me until I heard someone say I am so filled with gratitude that you've done this for my father or my son or my uncle or whoever it was that was in their family, because they were on the other side of the country and couldn't be at that cemetery to physically, in person, honor their loved one who had passed, who had served the country. And I thought, oh my goodness, because for me, one of the reasons I do it is that I don't live nearby the cemetery of my grandparents, and my grandfather served the country and that was something for me that I felt was so powerful, was just, it was a way to connect with him but do something for other people. So when I heard this, it was astounding because it was like I get it. I really get it, because somebody else is doing the same thing for me in a different place. But then, as I started to look around and walk the cemetery, all of a sudden I come to an area that is new earth, that has been unearthed and brand new graves are there, and then you see the families that have shown up to honor their 20-something year old son or daughter who is buried there, and it just brings you to your knees because you're reminded of the fact that even in this holiday season, someone has lost someone they love. If you're hearing this and you have anyone in your life that you have a connection with that has lost someone. Keep them in your heart, in your prayers, reach out to them, make sure that they know that you're with them, that you're thinking of them, because this is a difficult time.
Speaker 1:This holiday season, look for the light, and when you can't find the light, then you be the light. You take that opportunity to be the light in someone else's world. It's so important that we're there for one another and in this holiday season, the gift of just getting inward into your own heart space and learning more about yourself and taking care of yourself is the greatest gift that you can give yourself. And the greatest gift that you can give to another person is love. Give them love. Give them the pure appreciation of recognizing them exactly as they are and loving them. This holiday season may be joyous. May it be abundant in love. May it be everything that you envision, because that's the only thing that you need is one another in love. Everything else it's a bonus. Everything else is a bonus.
Speaker 1:I look around and I see so many people caught up in the web of the hustle and the bustle and they have to do this and they have to do that, but who says you have to? Would it be okay if it just got simpler? I have chosen to take this holiday season and make it simpler. I've chosen to make it simpler for a variety of reasons, because one I think it's important that we recognize the simplicity is a gift For years and years and years, these traditions that we've lived by. They may or may not have worked. Maybe they've worked to give us memories, but did they work to give you the love that you feel, with simplicity? Only you can answer that. Take a step back and just think about the gift of the Christmas season, the gift of giving, and what your gift of giving really is about. For people struggling with their relationships, the holiday season is so, so stressful for a lot of people. But what if it didn't have to be so stressful? What if you could find a way to work with your family, with your partner, and just come to a place that it's okay for it to be, exactly the way that it is, however that looks.
Speaker 1:I have one Christmas tree that I put out every year and it's filled with homing ornaments that my children and I made when they were young or they made in school. They tease me for putting it out, but there will be a point that they're going to understand that that tree is so special to me because it is the simplicity of just having a little ornament that brings me back into a place in time when they were two or three or five or eight, whatever age they were, and it just gives me so much warmth in my heart because that's a memory that I'll always have and it's so special. But they don't like their ornaments because as adults they see them and they think they're childish and they weren't made very well or they didn't do a perfect painting or whatever it is that they did. But that's just it. It's perfect exactly the way that it is, because that's what they did, that's what they had. So all those parents out there, when your child gives you a gift, hold it and know that that was what they had, no matter what it is. And it's so special. It's so special because it's from them, it's from their heart.
Speaker 1:This time, this season, is an opportunity also to make new traditions. It could be as silly as you've spent days and days and days working on making Christmas cookies, or maybe you've spent days and days and days and you just haven't been able to do too much. But there's something, a blessing, that comes from a moment, and then that little insight into that blessing can start to form a tradition. Let me give you an example. So when my children were small, and as I already shared, I would spend a lot of time in the kitchen baking Christmas cookies. And for some reason I had to bake a variety of Christmas cookies because I wanted to recreate some of what I experienced in my home with my grandparents. So I wanted to have some of those traditional cookies that my grandmother would make, and I tried to keep that tradition up through the years.
Speaker 1:Well, my son, christmas morning, he wakes up and he says Well, we get to have those Christmas cookies now, right. And the first thought I had was well, I told you, I had to wait till Christmas. It's Christmas and traditionally, yes, we would wait until later in the day to have Christmas cookies. But then something said to me no, it is time to have those Christmas cookies. So when he was four years old and he asked that question, everything changed, because it came a new tradition that every single Christmas morning from that point forward, when everyone was doing the traditional things, we would have our Christmas cookies and that's how we started our day, and I just love how that tradition started, because it was something that was unique to our family.
Speaker 1:So, wherever you are in the world, whatever it is that you're doing for your holiday, it's okay to embrace the simplicity of the holiday, it's okay to embrace new traditions and, even though 2020 has really rocked us and really shaken things up for everybody, we'll remember the ones who have passed. We'll keep them close in our heart, we'll honor them, and it's okay if things look different this year, because things do change and maybe this is the start of something new for everyone. Maybe gone are the days of this crazy expectation that you have to do everything a certain way. A lot of people around the world, as they're reevaluating themselves, their lives are changing. I know a lot of people who have separated from relationships and maybe things are harder, but again, take the simplicity and use that to be something that can be helpful to you and your family in getting through this period of time.
Speaker 1:The holiday season is so special. It's one where we are appreciative, generous, loving, and for those people that don't experience those things, like I experienced as a little girl, it starts with you. It starts with you. Go within you and use all of that to help someone else as we go into the coming week. I know 2021 is exciting because it means that we're embarking in a new space and we're going into new beginnings, and I will be uploading a very special recording with a very special human. All of everyone that I've recorded with has been amazing, but this one's going to give us a little bit of insight on this term called New Earth. For some people, they don't really know what that means, but it's going to be a special, special moment.
Speaker 1:As we go into 2021, plan for what it is that you'd like your life to be like. Continue to do the work that you've been doing in 2020. Continue to live in your space of love and gratitude. Continue to seek out support if you need support. Continue to detox any negative stuff that's heading your way. Detoxing is so, so important. As we go into 2021, retreat to Peace will be offering actual retreats that will give people an opportunity to escape from their world and be part of a healing platform and do some of this healing work. I'm very excited about this because I just know that there's so many people who really, really want to wrap their arms around more of this and have more insight into this, and I'm excited to be able to offer that to you. Continue to work on your healing toolbox. If you're looking for the healing toolbox, the website wwwretreattopeacenet is where you can find it. There's additional resources there for distance healing. There's additional resources there for oils oils, or something I use every single day as part of my routine. There's additional resources there for detoxing your environment. If you're in an environment that's heavily exposed to toxins. There's additional resources there for a lot of things, so please feel free to utilize them and be part of a community that is really working hard to get into space where they are living with that abundance of peace.
Speaker 1:If anyone is in a space where they can help someone this Christmas season, this holiday season, take the opportunity to do that. Take the opportunity to find ways to do that, because it will be the greatest gift that you can give yourself. Live a blessed, blessed holiday season, make it merry, make it bright, make it everything that you want it to be, and live in gratitude and love. And wherever you are in, whatever stage of life, you do get to decide what it looks like and how it feels. So show up. Show up and do something special. Do something special. I would love to hear more about what you did. That was special.
Speaker 1:I shared some of my stories with you, but I would love to hear some of yours. You can write to me at retreat2peaceloc at gmailcom. I would love to hear your thoughts. I would love to hear about your traditions, maybe traditions that you've changed, maybe new traditions you've made. I would love to hear from you about the show. If you're enjoying the show, I would love to hear whatever it is that you have for feedback. So, continue to be part of this amazing world community, this global humanitarian effort to bring the world together in a safe healing space. Continue to do that inner work and, of course, if anything is resonating with you and maybe it can help someone else, please, please, please, share these messages. Share these messages with your community, share them with the people that you know that can benefit. But take the time to do this special work for yourself, because I know firsthand you're worth it and every single human being on the face of this planet is here for a reason and I'm so excited about that. So I ask you my retreat to peace listener, if I were to pick up your earth angel feather off of the ground and you had a message to the world. Be what would it be? If you would like to share that, you can also write to me as well.
Speaker 1:I hope this holiday season is nothing but joyous, abundant and filled with love and light and, as we go into 2021, I'm excited to start the new year off with you and I ask you to continue to be with me as we continue on our journey of sharing messages to help heal the world. Thank you to each and every one of you on behalf of myself. I'm filled with gratitude and that is such a short amount of time that you all have joined me on this platform to be part of this special community. From the bottom of my heart, I thank you. May this holiday season be abundant and joyous for you. This is Catherine Daniels, with Retreat to Peace. That's all we have time for today and, as always, live your authentic life in peace and retreat to peace. We'll see you next time.
Speaker 1:This is Catherine Daniels, coming back with a message of gratitude and appreciation for Retreat to Peace and the launch of Retreat to Peace to be a humanitarian effort going out into the world space, being in a place where, literally, it can help other people heal. I am so filled with gratitude for the love and support from DreamVision7 Radio. Deborah, you and your staff have been amazing and instrumental in helping me to launch a program that is so vitally important in a world stage that is really changing at a rapid pace. I thank you and I love you for making me feel at home with your family. Thank you to my personal family for all of your love and support and the extension of my family To Claudia, to Lisa, to Diane, lauren, beth, ann, olivia, jackie, chelsea, manish, jeff. There are so many people who have loved and supported me through this journey and through this process, and without your love and support I don't know that I would have had this into the space that it lives today, and I am so filled with gratitude for you and for being part of my life.
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Speaker 1:Thank you so so much for being part of this special journey with me. I am just filled with gratitude for meeting each and every one of you and allowing me to interview you and have this experience with you. Each and every one of you has given me insight to things that I didn't even know, but, greater than that, you've given insight to a world that needs you more than ever. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. May the end of 2020 be joyous and blessed and, as you journey into 2021, may you continue with many blessings, much love and gratitude. This is Catherine Daniels, with Retreat to Peace. Give your authentic life and peace and we'll see you next time. Thank you so much.