I share a poem I received today via email ... it's one of those show stopping... take a big-deep-breath-in ones that make you want to live your life a lot bigger. I also found it so close to my heart resonating so clearly. I believe the greatest thing I could do with this right now was to share it with you.
love Denise xo
YOUR LIFE IS YOUR CANVAS
Your life is your canvas.
You are your own greatest creation.
Don't you remember
how when you were little
you knew in your bones you would be able to do anything?
Anything that was really yours to do?
This is our chance, right now.
To move out of the place
of victim and into the place
of creating our life as if we could do anything with it.
I know you feel trapped sometimes
I know you don't see the way through
I know the mountain is so big
that needs moving.
But I also know this...
Our life is our art.
You are art.
You are the one with the brush
and the one with the colors.
Your emotional landscape
is the place to create your life from.
This isn't about it being
ALL GOOD
and there being no mistakes.
This is about continuing to
create even when you feel like you are on fire or
underwater with no way to catch a breath.
This is about opening your
heart to love one more time.
About risking being hurt,
again.
About moving the cage of
the body off and dancing
your hips back to life.
About moving the grimace
of your mouth away and kissing
kissing the very air in front of you.
This is about an inquiry
into how to be in love with anything
and anyone even when you feel
so all alone. I know you feel so all alone
some days. So do I.
But there is one thing I know for sure,
that you are with me and I am with you.
The red thread of connection
between is as strong as ever and if you
close your eyes you will see
I am your companion for the journey.
Fellow seeker on the path of life
looking to make art out of the past
and make the future into our own
greatest creation.
I once thought, not so long ago
that the best of my life was behind me.
I now know that is a lie I told myself.
It is my decision for the best of life
to be in front of me.
Will you choose with me?
Right now will you CHOOSE?
See my hand extended reaching for you.
We can do this together.
We can open to love again.
Open to light again.
You don't have to get rid of your
fear first, or your pain.
There is a divine spark
at the end of God's finger
lighting the pilot light of your
heart right now.
I see itI! I see it!
Come with me...
Come with me...
Come with me...
to the other side of the
scars of the heart.
Come with me
and together we will
paint our new legends
over cups of steaming
tea and use as much
gold paint as we feel
we need to make the world
glow again.
~ Shiloh Sophia
love Denise xo
YOUR LIFE IS YOUR CANVAS
Your life is your canvas.
You are your own greatest creation.
Don't you remember
how when you were little
you knew in your bones you would be able to do anything?
Anything that was really yours to do?
This is our chance, right now.
To move out of the place
of victim and into the place
of creating our life as if we could do anything with it.
I know you feel trapped sometimes
I know you don't see the way through
I know the mountain is so big
that needs moving.
But I also know this...
Our life is our art.
You are art.
You are the one with the brush
and the one with the colors.
Your emotional landscape
is the place to create your life from.
This isn't about it being
ALL GOOD
and there being no mistakes.
This is about continuing to
create even when you feel like you are on fire or
underwater with no way to catch a breath.
This is about opening your
heart to love one more time.
About risking being hurt,
again.
About moving the cage of
the body off and dancing
your hips back to life.
About moving the grimace
of your mouth away and kissing
kissing the very air in front of you.
This is about an inquiry
into how to be in love with anything
and anyone even when you feel
so all alone. I know you feel so all alone
some days. So do I.
But there is one thing I know for sure,
that you are with me and I am with you.
The red thread of connection
between is as strong as ever and if you
close your eyes you will see
I am your companion for the journey.
Fellow seeker on the path of life
looking to make art out of the past
and make the future into our own
greatest creation.
I once thought, not so long ago
that the best of my life was behind me.
I now know that is a lie I told myself.
It is my decision for the best of life
to be in front of me.
Will you choose with me?
Right now will you CHOOSE?
See my hand extended reaching for you.
We can do this together.
We can open to love again.
Open to light again.
You don't have to get rid of your
fear first, or your pain.
There is a divine spark
at the end of God's finger
lighting the pilot light of your
heart right now.
I see itI! I see it!
Come with me...
Come with me...
Come with me...
to the other side of the
scars of the heart.
Come with me
and together we will
paint our new legends
over cups of steaming
tea and use as much
gold paint as we feel
we need to make the world
glow again.
~ Shiloh Sophia
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