Hi there

The best days are the ones that unfold unplanned. When things just fall into place easily. Those are Diamond Days – and today was one of them.

Mark and I had earmarked the day as our Golden Boot day together. In Gray-speak, that means a trip to the Golden Boot in Maidstone – a brilliant shoe shop that caters for people with big feet – where Mum treats son to a pair of BIG shoes. A great family business. Great shop. Great selection. Great customer service.

Mark found not one but two pairs of super-cool shoes – HUGE shoes – and by noon we were back out in the blue-sky sunshine.

“Let’s go and see Oma. Surprise her.”
“Let’s take her for lunch – she’ll love that.”
“Let’s see if Steve and Sheila want to join us.”

Yes, said Oma.
Yes, said Steve and Sheila.
Yes to the Bredhurst Bell.

By 1pm we were all there, enjoying a surprise lunch together.

It’s so easy in the Gray family. No fuss. No fluster. Just a straight-up YES, followed closely by my treat. We argue more about who’s picking up the tab than anything else.

YES – so Mark got to see his Oma and uncle before heading back to the States.
YES – and I got to spend a Diamond Day with my family.

And YES, it got me thinking about that word.

Because if any one of us had opted for NO instead of YES today, we’d have missed a Diamond Day altogether.

No often comes from habit – from caution, from past disappointments, from laziness even, from a desire to stay exactly where we are. It’s the default setting. Safe. Predictable. Quiet.

But yes is no harder to say. It costs the same breath – and yet it carries possibility.

Yes says: I’m open.
Yes says: I’ll try.
Yes says: Let’s see where this goes.

So often we say no, not because we actually want to, but because we’re afraid of change, of effort, or of being seen. A yes makes no promises – it simply allows movement. It lets life flow instead of stall.

Mum didn’t hesitate. Neither did Steve. It was a chance to see Mark – and to be together – and they grabbed it. That old truth: don’t just say I love you… do I love you.

Diamond Day.

Love and Clarity,
Barb x x x