DECEMBER 2025 – Reflections and Gratitude at Year’s End

Looking Back on 2025

And here we are at the end of another year! It feels as though we only recently welcomed in 2025, and yet the months have flown by with remarkable speed. This year has been one of the swiftest I have ever experienced, filled with both achievements and important lessons. As we step into December, it is an ideal time to pause and reflect on all that has transpired over the past 11 months.

Taking Stock and Embracing Stillness

If you, like me, still have a few unfinished tasks on your list of ‘Things to do in 2025,’ which you may have written around this time last December, consider taking a moment to pause. Allow yourself a deep breath, or two, and enter into a still, mindful awareness of the present moment. In these pauses, we create space for the extraordinary—whether you call it miracles, coincidences, or simply blessings. The act of stepping back and being present can often lead to wonderful and unexpected outcomes.

Celebrating Accomplishments and Practising Gratitude

While there may still be tasks waiting to be completed, it is important first to appreciate all that you have accomplished so far this year. Recognise the privilege of what you have been able to do and experience. For a change, perhaps just this once, let go of thoughts about anything you are not grateful for. Instead, focus on the people, moments, places, and experiences for which you feel true gratitude. When you dwell on these, you will discover an abundance of good and wonderful things to reflect upon.

Carrying Gratitude Forward

Allow your thoughts and feelings to linger in gratitude throughout the rest of today, and carry this same sense of thankfulness into each day left in 2025. By embracing a space of gratitude, you open yourself to more—more of everything that matters. Gratitude is the key to unlocking success, health, peace, joy, life-expanding relationships, healing, and hopefulness. Let this attitude accompany you as the year draws to a close and welcome all the possibilities that gratitude brings.

Reflections by ~ Lady Dawnecia Palmer DHW OBA AFP WMA ACHH, Dec 2025

‘OPEN AND READY’ – A POEM FOR JULY 2025

As July opens up its summery portal

I am sensing its warm invitation to venture into its secret garden to the unknown

Yet there is a familiar sort of expectation in the air,

Somehow I cannot help thinking that this is nothing but all our collective outage upon the universe

Our yearly wish into the ether around this very time last July .. “this time next year..”

And so it feels like the planet is responding. Certainly, something is brewing.

Are you a part of this great expectancy?

For those of us who are leaning towards spirituality it feels like an inner earthquake towards a brand new kind of awakening.

The tide is in, the waves are rough, the T’s uncrossed, and the I’s are still not dotted

Nevertheless, I am hopeful, my soul is quickened, and I am in readiness for whatever is eminent.

I am wide open, with an upward onward steadfastness that says, ‘I’m ready, Here I am.’

Are You?

'OPEN and READY, a personal summary of the times' ~ written by Lady Dawnecia Palmer, July 2025

Happy JUNE! A time for Renewal, Great Expectations and Hopes Realised!

June, the beginning of Summer Months for 2025

Why not make it a prediction for overflowing Blessings, Peace and Love!

Even as the seasons change so can we. We get the opportunity to fine tune our mindsets and chance to renew our expectations.

In other words, we get to hope!

I have heard it said by a few that we should not hold high expectations lest there come about disappointments and therefore sadness.

The truth about these sort of statements is that they are really untrue. For instance, the persons writing are themselves ‘expecting that you the reader, would respond in a certain way, therefore proving that in any case ‘expectation’ is here to stay as long as you are breathing; it is either behind, in front of or by your side. Either way ‘expectation’ is always around.

So, I encourage you today to start by expecting huge amounts of blessings your way, so that if only a scrap comes your way, you would have at least gotten something. This is how to work it….Go for your expectations in a large way. Only know this, great expectations demands the same great levels of efforts. You cannot simply expect and then go to lie down or sit down like a couch potato all day and expect the thing to appear as if by magic. What effort did you put in? Did it match the level of your expectations?

Set your expectations high, so high, that you hit it out the ball park of your imagination, and stick to it, come what may, see it through, until you stop breathing, by which time you would not have known that the thing you expected did not happen. Live each day in full expectancy of reaching, attaining higher, larger, better, wiser.. and so on.

Expectancy will not hurt you. What hurts is to give up and to give in. But expectations bring in the big guns I call hope, and hope the scriptures says never makes of a person a fool. For it is only a fool who gives in whilst he/she still breathes.

Another thing to note to do with expectations, is that it must not be too confined, or constricted. You cannot hem in the process, you have got to allow room for manoeuvre, for the thing expected. There are many routes in the unseeable sphere, the realm we term the miraculous, here expectations have a party, as it goes to work on behalf of your requests.

Sometimes just as expectation is about to bring about the bounty requested, it sees and feels the doubts and fears, these restrictions constricts, and delays are imminent. At this juncture the persons gives in or gives up, broken, disappointed, and feeling abandoned. And so they blame their expectations never noting the number of times they had dug up their seeds sown in hope, then they replant it not realising that they have now repositioned the timings thereby lost opportunities. And so they dig it up again, and again, and before you know it, frustrated they give up, never learning, and worst, never owning that which they expected. It is more likely that you will succeed in seeing your expectations in your lifetime, if and when your efforts are in harmonious relativity to your expectations. Here I advise, do not give in, do not give up.

In closing off this section, I wish for you a very successful and productive June. But it is entirely up to you what you desire to have, what experiences you wish to have, and what you wish to express throughout this month. We might well resurge our dreams, take a long vacation from doubts, visit warm bright inner realms where hope beans brightly, where spirits sores, and laughter is the corner stone and centre pillar of the body temple.

Happy June to you all!

Blog was composed and submitted by Lady Dawnecia Palmer. DHW OBA AFP

March 2025

Spring is in the air! Signs of darker days slowly disappearing giving way to lighter mornings, blue skies, fluffy white clouds, and longer brighter evenings too.

These brighter days lifts our moods, the buds set ready for bursting, reminders for us to hold to promises and hope for better days ahead. And with such hopes our visions and dreams gets refuelled and reignited.

March is the 3rd month of the year, named after Mars, a Roman god of war.

In the Northern Hemisphere, March is the beginning of spring.

DID YOU KNOW?
March always starts on the same day of the week as November and February in common years. And that March will end on the same day of the week as June.

The birthstones for March are aquamarine and bloodstone. And the birth flower for March is the daffodil.

A few more interesting facts about March: Daylight savings time begins in March, and for 2025 it falls on Monday 31st. Saint Patrick’s Day occurs every March 17th, and is celebrated in many western countries to commemorate the day Saint Patrick died.

March

Phases of the Moon: 6:

14:

22:

29:

Holidays and Observances: 4: Carnival / Shrove Tuesday / Pancake Day,
17: St Patrick’s Day (Northern Ireland), 30: Mother’s Day

Starting 2025 with Pray and Hope!

Dear LIFE, we call God, Source, Creator, Lord

Thank you for bringing us through every life circumstances to this present moment.

And even though there has been some really tough, difficult times,

Looking back, there has also been some amazing moments too.

And so, at the very start of 2025, earmarked as ‘LIFE Blessing You Year’

We surrender our supplications, and offer instead our praise, in great expectancy for an outpouring of your promised provision and care.

Looking forward, we ask that when darkness or dangers peruse us, and the road we are on seem rocky and void of hope

Help us. Lift us up. Cause our faith to be renewed, and our hopes restore. Let not fear or doubt overtake us, and continually set reminders in our path

To remind us each day, that Thou art The way, The Light, and The Life.

In Thy kindness, love, and compassion, Lord, please hear our prayer. Amen Ameen, Ashay.

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Prayer composed by the Reverend Dr Palmer, Matriarch and Spiritual Leader  LU LIFE CHURCH, global spiritual community portal. January 2025

DECEMBER 2024

December, beginning of winter, twelfth, and last, and first of the three coldest months of the year! December solstice marks the shortest day north of the equator and the longest day in the south. Yet, despite the damp, darker days, shorter evenings, and much darker nights, it is still a special time of the year.

For it is at December that the Christmas tree goes up, with its bright, sparkly lights, and jingle bells songs; the warmth of fireplaces, and the delicious scent of spiced hot-toddies.. of cinnamon, cloves, lemon mingled with rum, brandy or whisky.. fills the air around pretty Christmas Markets stalls usually held in the centre of many downtown this time of year.

It has long been acknowledged that though December is not really the authentic time period that the boy Jesus was born, nevertheless, it is the month that has been designated on the calendar for us to commemorate his miraculous birth, and the wonderful stories these offers us.

Christmas stories of angels singing in he highest, as well as of them coming down to earth to speak with humans. They tell of wise men and astrologers seeing a new star appearing in East, and travelling out with their precious gems of gifts gold, frankincense and myrrh, to offer to the new king.

And it is this Christmas Story that give the narrative for the endearing nativity scene, where we see Joseph, and a young mother and her child neatly tucked in warm swaddling clothes lying in a manger in a stable, along with angels, shepherds, and animals. A Saviour to earth has come. And it is these stories which creates the backdrop for our carols today.

December, there are beautiful festive lights everywhere in lands far, and near. It is the season for shopping for presents, exchange of gifts, visiting with loved ones and friends, eating grand, and more than usual merriment.

December, represents a time when things of nature sleep, hidden within roots, boughs, clouds, and buildings as well as the realm of soul. And within the hush of this hidden dark there is also an unfolding, as the planet, nature and species, having turned inwards, unveil a freshness so that out of the dark and hidden appear new inspiration, new directions, and hopefully for us humans a deeper understanding of what was, what is, and what could be.

Christmas Blog by Lady Dawnecia Palmer, December 2024

October 2024

“Smile and the world will smile with you!

Hi there! Have you heard the saying ‘What you sow is what you reap?’ What sort of seeds have you been sowing lately? Seeds of hope or seeds of fear and gloom? Sow a smile, reap a smile!

Did you know that fear has a knack of crippling a person inside? When this happens, it can also wipes that smile away so that the person begin to look and feel downcast, their countenance changes drastically, and their face becomes less attractive.

What this means is that a person’s persona is less inviting, and instead of the world smiling for you, it may feel as if you are being shunned. But this isn’t necessarily the case of being shunned or disliked or even unappreciated.

Instead you may find that it could well be the case that because you are no longer the smiley, hopeful magnetic energy any more, there are no sparks to draw or attract the same, and as such life then often begin to feel heavy and burdensome, and your face no longer smiles.

Here some may say they have good reasons for feeling low, and for not trying to raise a smile. But understanding how the dynamics works between the vibration we are emitting and how this equates and determines the frequency we pull towards ourselves, can be an surprise eyeopener for many. And for most as soon as they realise this simple truth, they tend to make more effort to try and raise their vibrations.

Raising one’s vibration helps to create new hopes and even revive old ones, given upon. Here, I invite anyone who has lost their smile to think about something that gives you joy, however simple that may be. You can also go out in nature and look for something to admire and sit with that feeling for a while. Or treat yourself to something that makes you feel good about yourself, this does not have to be anything expensive. Play some upbeat music or watch a wholesome light-hearted comedy. These ideas often works to encourage one’s self to smile again, to feel better, and in some instances to laugh out loud.

It none of the above appeals, you could try reaching out to encourage someone that you have not seen or spoken to for while, with the intension to uplift them with an encouraging message that you took time to compile. And more often than not, this method has been known to uplift the sender.

Lastly, can you think of at least three other ways that you could use to encourage someone else to use to encourage and uplift a person who has lost their smile?

‘Smile and the world will smile with you’ was specifically penned for the month of October, a season when the clocks go back, and more and more people is suffering from SAD, and the days get shorter, colder and darker.

~Written by Lady Dawnecia Palmer

SEPTEMBER 2024

September signifies CHANGE, the passing on of bright, dry, hot, sunny, summer days and nights, towards a darker, wetter, cooler, duller weather, in most parts of the world.

But change is not a bad thing. Change can mean opportunity for something new and fresh, for growth and transformation to take place, in and around us.

Are you ready for change?

Each September we get to commemorate World Awareness Days as well as National Celebrations and Holidays. September 2024 is World Alzheimer’s Month.

Below are just a few I have chosen for you: 13th World Sepsis Day, Roald Dahl Story Day

15th World Lymphoma Day, International Day of Democracy

16th Male Cancer Awareness Week

17th Constitution Day

18th Adult Learners Organ Donation & National Eye Health Week

20th National Fitness Day (UK)

21st International Day of Peace, World Alzheimer’s Day, World Gratitude Day

26th World Contraception Day, European Day of Languages

27th World Tourism Day

29th World Heart Day, World’s Biggest Coffee Morning,

Find it here: Awareness Days in August, 2024

Bright, Sunny, Cheerful, Summer, Sunflowers and Poppies, Flower Shows, Vacation, Beaches, Sandcastles, Spades, Flipflops, and Picnic Fun, are just a few words that quickly comes to mind when I think about August. I love this month, placed in the middle of the season, where we get to remember and celebrate great National and International Awareness Days.