THE COIN

The ground beneath you is unstable, threatening to collapse beneath you, but you have NO fear because you know that it NEEDS to for you to rise to the NEXT level of your life. Your eyes are OPEN to see the outstretched hands above you, knowing now that there ARE those who care and WANT to see you move FORWARD in your life, who want to walk WITH you through life, not because they want something from you, but because they SEE you and “get it”. They get WHO you are and understand where you have been, knowing where you are GOING, desiring to be a part of the NEW life that God is opening up and creating for you to step into.

You need no one to tell you what you want, because you suddenly REALIZED it, waking one morning to find that everything had CHANGED, that little voice in your soul whispering truths you had until now tried to deny to yourself, thinking that if you ignored them, they would go away and be less real, but now, knowing that they are NOT, nor wanting them to disappear, READY to allow them opportunity to GROW and FLOURISH in your life, the one you are stepping INTO.

You know now that you are NOT alone. You know now your HEART. You know now what you SEEK in your future. You know now that you are READY. This is YOUR time, to take a chance on something you would never have risked for before, to give yourself more room to GROW and OPEN your soul to the wonders He has waiting for you. There is no better time than NOW. LISTEN to that inner voice, ACCEPT and reach for those outstretched hands, and LET yourself live life the way you were always INTENDED to.

Words: © Rosie Chee

The first thing that popped out to me with this memory was the word "disconnect". Even the piece itself, the image I chose to accompany it, despite knowing how I felt and the event that caused the expression of emotion this was re words, immediately to mind came this sentence from Brene Brown's "Daring Greatly": "Even if we choose to stay out of relationships and opt for disconnection as a form of protection, we're still alive and that means vulnerability happens.". There is that word again - DISCONNECT[ion]. For some reason, even before the full moon last week (and seeing what had been written about what it "meant"), I had felt it on my soul to reread this book (the first time was back in 2015, when I bought it after the K-Do Alliance photoshoot, which was a true example encompassing a lot of what "daring greatly" is-another story), and opened it again that night. I do not believe in coincidences, and going through it again, with almost every part of it, something comes to mind of words exchanged or events occurred this year, moments and people so much as to that day or the one before in what reading "on", making me realize so much and speaking deep to my soul. Every time you read a book, you "see" something new or understand more or perspective re enlightenment changes, I believe (at least for me, and sometimes I see things that did not before, or the same things I highlighted in the past resound, albeit for different reasons), and this is no different. The difference though, is me; I am more AWARE OF ME than I was when I read this in 2015 (which was really only just at the beginning of my "awareness awakening", one might say the true cusp in discovery of "feminine bloom" and path to awakening the "goddess" that was later birthed in moonlight and started walking in and owning her power...but I digress)... EVERYTHING about now is making me look hard at myself, ask myself "why", as I challenge the "rules" (not what one might think, and certainly very different to societal expectations, particularly those re "norms" mentioned in this book) I had made for myself and dared think of what it would mean to "allow" myself a life that might include everything I had once created "disconnect" from. ESPECIALLY as this year started out so uncharacteristically, consciously choosing (even if unconsciously "daring greatly") to throw aside everything that I would normally have done for reasoning as simple and as complicated as "new year" and "time for change", etc. and being open to, that small but ultimately big decision snowballing through 2019 right up until this moment, the epitome of everything "DARING GREATLY" is about and on it speaks. Even the quote posted re "memory" three years ago ("Some people are just loners. It's that simple." - Jimmy Callahan, The Wedding Ringer) jumps out at me with the challenge: But is it? IS it that simple? Or is it simply how you have chosen to be because of something that not even you were truly aware of until you began to question it? Looking back at this week, everything that has happened - NONE of it is INsignificant, and NONE of the people my soul has dared to "dare greatly" with are either... NO more disconnect. Not from me. Not for them. Life's too short. They're too precious. EVERY MOMENT MATTERS...

Words: © 2019 Rosie Chee

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

"I live at the edge of the universe like everybody else." Indeed. We all do. The only difference is whether or not we are brave enough to step off the edge and see what lies beyond. Because not everyone dares so greatly. Not everyone is willing to step, or dive, or fall, as it may be at times. Not everyone wants to discover what lies beyond what they have been told, or can imagine beyond what they have seen. I dare you, in 2018, to challenge yourself, to face your fears and dive inside any mindsets that may have held you back from the "impossible", to be willing to live a life outside of your comfort zone. I dare you to not just live at the edge of the universe, but to run recklessly to the edge and jump off of it with arms wide open, and embrace the life that is waiting. I dare you, as I dare myself, to live life, and to live it daring greatly!

© 2018 Rosie Chee​

Photo by: Rosie Chee

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

RESTORATION

You once took
Me
from myself
and I'm
Here
to take me
Back.

If nothing else
I
deserve that.
You
to let me
Go.

© 2015 Rosie Chee
 

"Bloom Again" by R. M. Drake, published in "Black Butterfly"