Namaste

This is a word commonly used to pleasantly greet someone, and not uncommon to be used as a good bye as well. I've heard and read many different variations of the meaning. I bow to you, I worship you, Peace to you… and so on. I've concluded you can use it how ever your heart sees fit. For the purposes of this blog, I'll use them all.

I last wrote 8 months ago… I had no idea it had been that long. I feel as though I built myself a cocoon and have been living in it unknowingly. I recently went to a butterfly garden with a friend of mine; in utter amazement I watched them flutter.. I watched them eat and watched them play. As I looked on, I couldn't help but begin to wonder about the lives they actually live. I started to wonder if a caterpillar knows it's going to turn into a butterfly at any point before it actually does?? I wonder if that caterpillar really knows why it's building that cocoon? Does it have any idea how long it will be in there? Does it know what color it will be? What runs through the brain of the small larva as it takes it's last conscious breath and fades off into it's future?

Over the last 8 months, pieces of me have transformed. My mind restored, my body rejuvenated, and my soul reconnected to the source of… everything. Looking back at my previous blogs, I could see and feel the change coming just didn't know exactly what the manifestation would be. All my predictions, all my lessons learned and my reflections pushed me through a time when ultimately my heart would begin to open for the world to see.

They say you're not supposed to ever help a butterfly out of it's cocoon. They say that pushing through that hard shell provides the exercise it needs to be able to use it's wings. I've never felt more like that butterfly.

Namaste.. to the old and the new...

...nothing more; nothing less...

I explained to a friend of mine tonight that some days just go by. Some days unfold and don't surprise me, don't shake me or break me. I know that God is always there, moving and teaching me in my experiences, but more often than not, it's a quiet movement that I can't see until later when I've looked back over my week, month or year. Every once in a while, I'll actually feel the movement as it is happening; today was one of those days. It's days like these where I can actually see my growth before my very eyes, the physical and the mental. I'm excited about the unknown and the known that await me in this new year. I look forward to being all I say and believe I am; beautiful, intelligent, disciplined, hardworking, trustworthy, kind and loving. I look forward to being all that I have been called to be. Not out of doing or saying, but just being. Not working toward a goal but letting my goals be achieved and completed then revealed in my moment to moment actions and thoughts.  I will be fasting with the other members of Kingdom Life Ministries for the next 40 days, and though I've looked at this upcoming fast for the last month or so as an opportunity to work hard and get things accomplished, I can now see this as an opportunity to rest, relying on nothing but the power of god in me to excel in whatever I set my hands to do.

Short and sweet… Walk in your blessings and know that you are.. nothing more; nothing less. True to you is true to God.