The seed is planted…

Yesterday, I had a lesson that planted a beautiful seed within me.

When it was happening, I felt like I was wrong.

Like I was weak.

Like I was overly-sensitive, over-emotional, a cry-baby.

(Germinate – 6X6 canvas collage/paint – July 2011)

But you know what ?

As I came, through I realized that I am not weak, over-sensitive or over-emotional.

I have realized that I am compassionate, intensely loving, highly sensitive to the suffering of others, and empathetic.

I am a Sensitive.

Sensitives feel, see and know what others do not. This is your power and your gift to the world.

As a Sensitive you represent the future.

You will teach those who have closed down their hearts and who fight for power over others that there is another way to thrive.

You will teach collaboration as an alternative to competition.

You will demonstrate transparency and authenticity over concealment and deception.

You will embody compassion as an antidote to conflict.

You are the heroes, the teachers, the way-showers.

Your journey starts with self-acceptance, loving yourself exactly as you are and seeing your sensitivity for what it really is; a gift and tool of healing and transformation.

You are a teacher.

Your time is NOW.

You are the potential creator of what this planet is in desperate need of……..LOVE IN ACTION.

(Kimberly Jones – Energy Whisperer)

I am done seeing sensitivity as a weakness, in others or in my Self !

I know the power of Love and Compassion.

I am going to let it Shine, no matter where I am.

If that makes you feel a little uncomfortable, then maybe you need to look inward and examine your Loving Core to find out why.

I am pledging to myself and my world, that I will fiercely put Love into Action

wherever I can in this One Precious Life.

This seed is firmly planted.

Now just watch it grow !

Big, big Love to you, Beautiful Ones !

Haiku My Heart Friday–Sunflower Girl

Imagine the Strength

Growth from seed to tall flower

We have it within.

 

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I am feeling strong today.

Know why ?

Because I feel really loved.

Isn’t that why we are here ?

And when we feel Loved, we radiate more Love back out and keep the whole thing constantly a-flowing…

Like I said, Powerful Stuff.

 

I am going to use my Powers for good today.

And fill some more people up.

It doesn’t cost me anything at all.

In fact, I get paid back for giving it all away…

Ten-fold.

 

Have a super Loving Friday, Powerful Ones.

Here in the Gallery of Broken Hearts

Two day, two page spread in the art journal.

So in love with Twinkling H2O’s paints as a final layer on top of InkIntense Water color pencils and Neo Color crayons. That, plus my white paint pens and my India Ink and dip pen is all I have been using to get the colors that I want these days…

I would be lying if I said this was an easy, breezy weekend. It has actually been kind of a hard one, in spite of some really great moments in the midst of other things. A lot of loved ones in my world were hurting, and it made me hurt too.

Had to keep turning to what I love to do, to stay inthe moment as much as possible and just coast. Seems to be the theme these days for me. But you know what ? It is all bad at all.

This weekend, what I loved the most was spending some time with a dear girlfriend, doing lunch and shopping a bit.

I loved snuggling and sharing gratitude with my Husband, our nightly ritual on good days and bad .

I loved losing myself (and finding myself) in my art making process, in color, in music, in this moment.

Now, I am going to go out and get some sunrays as it is warm and bright in NH today. The ice is melting away big time…

Got to keep my strength up, Beautiful Ones ! There is a whole lot of loving work to do !

Do what you love today.

Big Love !

(The title of this post comes from the lyrics of this Ingrid Michaelson song that I love and that fits me today. I just want me, and you and all of us to be okay...)

Rise Up and be Thankful

"Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful." ~ Buddha

It would be so easy to give into the fear, into the worry, into the "bad" stuff. God knows, there are enough choices of bad stuff to choose from if that is where you want to go ! But to rise up and be thankful in the face of all that, that is where it takes real courage and real strength. Trisha at Boffo Panda has real courage and real strength and shows it. So many other powerful women and men I know, in BlogLand, and in my own tighter circle have it and show it.

I am going to summon all my strength and courage today and show it. I am going to rise up and find the beauty and love in this hurt world today and celebrate it and be oh so very very thankful for it.

It will take strength and it will take courage, but guess what ?

I have it in me.

And know what else ?

You have it in you too.

Talk about things to be thankful for....