Well how cool is it to be celebrating ONE year with the blog!?
I remember wanting to start a blog back in early 2011 and to be here now is pretty incredible.
I pulled my daily card from the Super Attractor deck and it reads “When I truly surrender my desires to the universe a mighty force of faith can set in.” Perhaps, this is the theme of todays blog.
Surrender.
How many beautiful days has our Divine Creator called on us to awaken and we proceed about our day as if our dreams are impossible? We function but do we flourish?
The blog was a dream of mine but beyond writing it has helped me organize my thoughts, emotions and pushed me to create, to be fluid in the language of my life and soul.
And you know what I find so beautiful about this past year? All of the ways in which I have failed at blogging. All of those failures now serve as richness in my garden from which I know I have room to grow and improve myself.
I am not at all the same person who began this blog last year but I am incredibly grateful for that version of myself because all I really needed was for her to plant the seed.
Too often do we allow failing to crush our voices, dampen our confidence and suppress our ability to create. Maybe, it is the perspective we have of failing that needs to be adjusted in order to surrender and have faith in the creation of our lives.
A blog, seemingly small but what can grow from this through my love, consistency and attention?
Since this blog began and honestly in the weeks leading to its launch it has forced me to push out all of the thoughts, behaviors and excuses that couldn’t align with the vision I have for this space and the sister projects like the vlog.
It has been a journey of making time when I felt like I was taking time away from my family. I have had to not only get comfortable in front of the camera but to love the person I was capturing, to see beauty in myself.
Honestly, that has been an overarching theme in my whole life at the moment. Am I still beautiful? Have I ever been and what exactly makes someone beautiful?
How do we grow into someone who is confident with their energy in a world in which not only do we have to cultivate that confidence on our own but without anyone to validate it for us or teach us how to hold it?
Going further, any creative journey asks that we release ourselves from blame, whether it is blaming others, our wounds, or ourselves.
It takes self-discipline, action, powered by passion to guide us as we return to our core remembering that whatever it is that we dream of as being possible.
This space once felt like something nice to dream about but I never took any action in creating it, always putting it off into the future until the day that said future arrived but not a moment before I finally decided I’m going to do it and I need help.
My mother says that I was born nine days “late” (back when due dates where still a thing), but I would like to create a new story one in which I arrive on time, prepared, peaceful and PRESENT.
I want to extend my appreciation to each of you that takes a moment of your day to meet me here and read my words. Thank you for being present as I celebrate myself, failures, successes and all of the life lived in between!
I hope that this will serve as a small but mighty reminder for you to have faith in yourself and whatever it is that you are still dreaming about.
I love you!
