I am enough

“You have to find a mother inside yourself. We all do. Even if we already have a mother, we still have to find this part of ourselves inside….You don’t have to put your hand on Mary’s heart to get strength and consolation and rescue, and all the other things we need to get through life — you can place it right here on your own heart. Your own heart….All those times your father treated you mean, Our Lady was the voice in you that said, ‘No, I will not bow down to this. I am Lily Melissa Owens, I will not bow down.’ Whether you could hear this voice or not, she was in there saying it….When you’re unsure of yourself, when you start pulling back into doubt and small living, she’s the one inside saying, ‘Get up from there and live like the glorious girl you are.’….She’s the power inside you, you understand?….And whatever it is that keeps widening your heart, that’s Mary, too, not only the power inside you but the love….And when you get down to it, Lily, that’s the only purpose grand enough for a human life….Not just to love, but to persist in love….This Mary I’m talking about sits in your heart all day long, saying, ‘Lily, you are my everlasting home. Don’t you ever be afraid. I am enough. We are enough….”

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I am alive

I sing to soothe my soul and to find the beauty in the music all around me.
I talk to engage with other people and to exchange different energies.
I dance to allow my body to find the beauty in the music all around.
I read to envelop myself in a world that is yet to exist.
I write [...]

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new beginnings….part 2….

HOW????
I am left with this question ringing in my mind upon further reflection on my post and just on the things that people do and say….how do we get to that point in our lives where we no longer recognize ourselves? how do we get so far away from ourselves that we don’t know where [...]

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I feel like a butterfly…

I feel like a butterfly…or rather a caterpillar growing into a butterfly.
I remember in 5th grade, in Ms. O’Neal’s class, we watched caterpillars grow into butterflies. We got them in one of those kits that you order and had them in a glass case with branches and everything. I don’t remember all of the details [...]

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