We despair over the unknown and yet it is there that we are free . It could cage you
if thats what you choose or set you free to be
in this moment here with me .
We surrender to fear and like an expert jewel thief it robs us of life . It’s not the fear that guides and protects , but the one that steals your heart away .
We live so as to love and to love means to risk it all . Mind , heart and soul .
We despair over the losses of our loves . The family , friends and the ones unknown to us that are suddenly gone from life .
Left to our worries and left with our kind thoughts of hugs and laughter and of days shared in sunshine and in rain .
We touch each other’s existence and must remember that it is so much more . It is not in judgement that lifts a life but in kindness that an eternal thread lives on .
In this moment here with me your life will live on .
Her charms are never ending . Her power to delight an eternal story of love .
She challenges us and gifts us all at the same time .
The Earth and her inhabitants share breath as one .
And the when spirit feels stretched beyond the imaginable allotment of pain she soothes us .
She soothes us with a light rain calming and delicate .
she soothes us with the joyous brightness of the sun warming and exciting .
She soothes us with the wildness of thunderstorms and setting our own wildness free .
She gifts us with so many things .
Every moment , every breath
Dear Earth
I thank you .
It was a dream . Fierce and empowering . Walking away from a tumultuous ocean with the sounds of waves coming from behind . There was no need to turn and look . It was an occurrence repeating since the beginning and before the idea of time existed .
Far enough away that the crashing and rolling of the ocean waves was faint and soothing . Taking long , slow breaths and looking upwards to the evening sky brought lightness to an otherwise heavy heart . There was an infinite hope held in that sky . The unending existence of the planets and stars . All of the dreams and wishes sent upwards and being held forever in the sky .
The joy that is life is in every small detail taken in by your heart and what is held in your heart will travel amongst the planets and the stars for all of time .
via The Promise
To slay the sins and transform them into the light of new life ,
First wholly embraced and owned and recognized with sorrow .
Knowing the darkness and weeping for the light to live ,
sorrows for the dark heart
and
joy for the light to follow . 
via It’s New
The quietness is new .
Moving well beyond early morning darkness and into the afternoon .
The songs of birds now have a captive audience with the roaming and wandering of humans now curtailed .
It is a quietness that will speak right to the heart .
And surrender to it and the mind will follow .
The quietness is new .
A stay from busyness has arrived and with it a new freedom … in the new quietness .
‘NEW DAWN’ 11×14 chalk pastels 2012 Donation to Bailey Boushay seattle
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