Never forget the blessings in every day. Never forget the truth in the love that you have. Never forget the smile that sometimes has to be searched for.

Words: © Rosie Chee

YOU. My soul does. They say that everyone has someone who makes such a difference to them that life becomes distinct in "before" and "after" their entrance into. For me, that someone is you. Who would ever have guessed that the first night we rambled in conversation would turn into a connection so significant that anyone who knows either of us would not argue the change we make to and in each other. You knew before I did, when my heart changed towards you, no longer able to imagine life without, nor wanting to. Not just a smile, but peace being in your presence brings, rare calm to the constant chaos of my mind, and alone with entirely relaxed, as my soul softens into the safe space of you.

Words: © 2019 Rosie Chee

Christmas is already well into back home, but barely just crept into right here. Whether there or here, with loved ones or in solitude, the spirit and significance of Christmas glows just as much as the smile thoughts of those loves cannot help but bring irrespective of presence, and light up energy like the brilliant golds or glistening blues of Christmas lights, beautiful in both summer and winter. Despite experiencing extremes in emotions with events since last Christmas past, being here in this moment, today, still breathing and fighting, means choosing to keep my heart and soul open, allowing such experience to create even more change and embracing new softness that now can be recognized more truly as strength. Taking it day by day, sometimes survived barely by that smile tucked away, even before this Christmas begins leaking sunrise into the world here, I choose to consciously continue allowing love, much like the sun during the day, to grow in strength and power of warmth and light. My wish and hope for all, even as day turns to night and leaves this Christmas behind, is that not only today but every one moving forward, will stay alight with the glow in the spirit of Christmas.


Words: © 2018 Rosie Chee

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

THERE IS ALWAYS A SMILE

You might wake to sunshine or rain. Your first thought might be one of joy or despair. Your heart might be light or crushed. No matter how you wake, it’s the start of a brand NEW day.

Another day is another chance: To make the changes in your life that you want to see happen and bring about, to look for the light in the darkness and the hope in the torment, to KEEP going even if you feel like you cannot or do not want to, to find a SMILE and to give ANOTHER that blessing.

No matter how you wake, there is ALWAYS something out there to smile about. Always someone who can make you smile simply by thinking about them. Something that can happen to you that will make your smile grow wider and bigger. Something that can amaze you so much the memory of that smile imprints on your heart forever.

No matter how you wake, the thoughts in your head, what is going on in your life, remember that there is ALWAYS going to be a smile tucked away, even if you think not. You just have to shake your head, close your eyes and reopen them to look at the world in a different light, from a new perspective, see the beauty and let it touch your soul, having faith in the hope that your dreams are on their way to becoming tangible.

© Rosie Chee

UNLEASHED

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

THE GEMINI WOMAN


The Gemini woman smiles as she falls apart. You hurt her and she moves on; she forgives, but she never forgets, and once her trust has been torn, it may as well be broken, because very few broken things in her world ever get mended, and she does not bother to fix many of them, having the attitude that some things are better broken than together. No matter how precious that trust once was to her, she will do her best to try and forget, even if she can’t, only because if she always remembers she allows it power to destroy her all over again; even as she appears strong and invulnerable to the world, her demeanour a mask of coldness and strength, her heart an icy stronghold that does not seem to have any holes in it, her mind closed with a passion of fury, even as icy and fury are nothing close to what is truly going on inside her. She will smile when she looks at you, take part in life with you, but there are tears in her soul, falling with every painful smile, every look in your eyes, every word she speaks, knowing that you do not know and do not want to know and will never know, just having your own perspective on who she is and why she does what she does. She knows that people do not want to know the truth of another’s soul and so she is a chameleon for every person that crosses her path, a different creature for every man, even as every face she shows is an aspect of her and not a genuine mask, for she is a woman with many personalities, like a diamond in how multifaceted she is; but also like a diamond, albeit rough at times, in how she appears and comes across, for not everyone will see her sparkle and shine, but only glimpse the promise of the beauty that she could be.


© Rosie Chee

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY


GO, LIVE LIFE

Life is short and it is oh so very PRECIOUS. EVERY moment counts and every second matters. Everything you DO has cause and effect. Everything you SAY lingers in a heart or mind or time. Everything you ARE can change the world AROUND you.

SEE the world for what it is and then WORK on making the one YOU live in the way you WANT it to be as much as you can effect and have “power”. As you strive to become the BEST you possibly can, encourage OTHERS to their potential alongside you, showing them that there is ALWAYS hope and NOTHING is “impossible”, that life is a dream to be imagined and made REAL.

LIVE life as you strive, ENJOYING the “moments” that will become memories, GRATEFUL for the blessing of those kindred souls who journey with you and have come to mean more than you ever might have thought. As you open your heart and let your soul SMILE allow yourself simply to “be”, EMBRACING all that you are and will become, INVITING the future and opportunity for GROWTH, inspiring movement and momentum of vision and promise.

EVERYthing has PURPOSE. Every “chance” is a gift given, a mystery to unravel, a wonder to behold, a blessing to be shared. Every NEW day is another day to unlock potential, change in ways that might have once been unfathomable, experience the amazing in the “normal”, make a DIFFERENCE as only YOU can. RECOGNIZE it and take control, even as you let Him “lead”, understanding that every day is His gift to you, your “second chance” to live a life of choices that will create positive example to INSPIRE courage and “risk” in others to LIVE their lives as COMPLETELY as possible as well.


© Rosie Chee

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

MOON MAGIC

There is magic
in the moon,
in the shifting pull
of the tides,
how its siren calls
to my soul
as if it were
a lover
from a lifetime ago,
intimate in knowing
the depths of me,
sinking me into a spell
I gladly walk into,
making my heart smile.
soul feel peace,
like I am returning
to where I belong.

© 2015 Rosie Chee

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

YOUR LIGHT

There’s a certain joy in knowing that you are able to make someone smile or shine a little bit of light in their darkness, to be able to make a difference no matter how small or insignificant it might seem in another’s life. There’s something that happens in one’s soul when they “feel” a glow in another and know that they have “helped” with it. There’s a spark that can be “relit” when we “give” of ourselves when we have little left to give, simply because in the unselfish act of desiring happiness for another, there is something that still has hope and can be “revived” to life within us.

Not everyone will ever experience that joy or change or spark, because not everyone is “built” the same. But those that do, acknowledged or not, understand and continue to strive to make a difference regardless of the darkness they might be battling or the storms they themselves traverse through, for the greatest blessings in life are often  those times when we find ourselves challenged the most. For on the flipside of “death’s” coin is life, as death is not the end nor is it final, and although everything done cannot be undone, it can be reworked and “remade” into something else entirely.

© 2015 Rosie Chee

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

FIERCE

Never look at the “size” of a person and assume you know what they are made of or capable of being. Sometimes the most amazing things come in shapes and sizes we would never expect. And sometimes the fiercest of creatures are those we underestimate or overlook.

Just as a single smile can hold the light of the world in it, so can a creature so tiny be the most courageous you might ever encounter. As a single snowflake can indicate a coming storm, so can the smallest sting be the most dangerous you could ever receive.

Soul and heart are the TRUE measures of a person and you never know who they are until you get to know and understand them for just what they are and represent. The rarest souls can lie inside those we pass by every day, the most beautiful hearts hidden behind guarded interactions.

Learn to “see” with your SOUL, to connect on a level beyond the tangible. When you can do that, the world opens up in so many more and different ways, multiple dimensions of thought and living, enlightened to the real beauty of life.

© 2015 Rosie Chee

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

BEST DAYS

You may have had some AMAZING days in the past – days that will always be memories that you look back on with a smile in your soul. You may have had some UNFORGETTABLE days in the past – days that will forever be imprinted so deep on your heart that you will remember even at the most random of times. You may have had some BEAUTIFUL days in your past – days that made you feel so full of love and hope and joy that when you reminisce you can almost taste those feelings all over again.

But . . . The BEST days of your life are yet to COME!

There WILL be MORE amazing and unforgettable and beautiful days in your life . . . In your FUTURE. Those days are going to be even MORE wonderful than the ones you have ALREADY had. Not because they have yet to be, but because they hold PROMISE of the future, of what that future IS and will be. They give you something to look FORWARD to, even as you live in the NOW and allow yourself to be fully present in the experience of TODAY.

LIVE LIFE COMPLETELY . . .

© Rosie Chee

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

HEALING

Let go so you can grow. You might have thought you had let go, your smile so bright and happy of late, before one moment happens that pulls it from your soul like the darkness snuffing out the light of a candle. Letting go is never-ending, day by day until your soul’s smile remains unaffected no matter what.

Focus on what will heal you. It has been a long time coming, a process you thought almost complete until that moment. Yet, you know that when you think of it there is no more pain and you can smile at the memories and that which once caused great hurt and destruction. Focus on you here and now.

Release your soul into the wild. Allow yourself to do the things you might have always stepped back from. Take the risks your heart might have desired but your mind always fought and so you never dared before. Free the bounds that might hold you back from experiencing all of life’s wonders waiting for you.

Live, play, love and let life. Let loose your inner child again to roam free without thought through the landscapes of life. See the magic in the smallest things and revel in the beauty of a simple smile. Let your laugh echo, the sound of joy and delight in the beauty of life’s surprises.

Trust it all to work out. You would not be who you are now without where you have been. You would not become the person you will be tomorrow without the choices you make today on what you will leave and what you will take with you as you step into it. Let yourself truly heal and see what miracles can happen.

© Rosie Chee

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

LIFE UNFOLDS...

Sometimes you have to stop trying to CONTROL everything and just let it HAPPEN. Let go of the fear, the hesitation, the “what if”, everything holding you back from enjoying the moment and the blessings God is giving you. Your heart appreciates the newfound freedom you have found, the joy discovered in the most unlikely of places, the surprising smile glowing in your soul, so stop questioning it and just move WITH it.

There is no rhyme or reason to many things in our lives, yet there is always a purpose to the chaos, a method to the madness, a trigger to the happiness, and if we just ACCEPT that it is happening, eventually we will understand, even if it takes a lifetime to realize. Life OPENS up when YOU do, when you allow your soul to open up to the possibilities waiting out there for you, the dreams you never dared to dream.

Everything in its time, in HIS time, always perfect, just what you need when you need it, even if you don’t KNOW that you need it. Stop running and just LET it happen, allowing yourself room to learn and grow, UNFOLDING your heart and soul the way a bud slowly opens when it wakes to the world, cautiously at first, but then fully, embracing the seasons and what may come.

© Rosie Chee

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

BE YOURSELF

It can be hard to realize that to be truly HAPPY you must be YOU. You – as you ARE, in your ENTIRETY. No hiding aspects of yourself away, but letting the world know by seeing how BRILLIANTLY you can glow – the way you have let others see you glow and the way you unconsciously glowed before from the touching of another soul against your own.

In that time you were happy – completely and unadulteratedly HAPPY. You were FREE to be you, with those who only longed to see more of the soul you had started to let peek out at the world. Somehow, between then and now, it ran away and hid again, and now you have to STOP that and let it back OUT – you need to OPEN up your trembling heart to the winter frost to find the sun and its warmth.

NO more hiding. No more shying AWAY. You have so MUCH potential inside you. You have so many DREAMS, so many HOPES and plans for the future. Let them OUT. Give them VOICE and see that there IS support – there are those who want to see your soul bloom like it did once before, and grow beyond that to FLOURISH.

Just be YOU. Not what the world wants you to be. Not what others want you to be. Not what you think you should be. Just be what you ARE and be UNashamed of it – do not forget your beauty, your wings, your UNIQUENESS and everything about you that stands you apart from anyone and everything else. Let your soul back out and simply let yourself BE.

When you can do that, KEEP on doing it. LIVE your dreams. Let the joy of refinding the passion that had slipped away infuse back into everything you do. Let the smile in your soul sparkle from the depths and light the smile of another. Give yourself permission to FLY again and GROW ever more into the person He intended you to be. Let the HAPPINESS become a way of life again.

© Rosie Chee

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

7 RULES OF LIFE

Your past is your PAST. Living in the past does no one any good. Lest of all YOU. You have to ACCEPT that what happened happened and LEARN from it. Let it GO. There is a reason it is now in the past and is no longer your life. There is a reason you are not where you WERE. Let it go and make PEACE with it so that you can move FORWARD.

Others will think many things about you. Some right, but most wrong. What others think is based on their impressions and what they THINK they know, for few will know the true soul of you, only those rare precious allowed inside to see the unpolished diamond that you are. What the world thinks does NOT matter. It is what YOU know you are that does.

Not everyone heals the same. No experience is the same and no one deals with similar experiences in the same manner. We are all human, but although we are “the same” we are NOTHING alike. The only thing “the same” is TIME, and even that takes on different meaning for hurting or grieving souls. Sometimes all we can do is allow time what it needs to try and heal the wounds in our soul.

Your life is YOUR life. It is YOUR journey. You have no right to compare your life to anyone else and vice versa. You have no right to judge anyone else and vice versa. You may experience similar things to others, but your experience is NOT their experience. Learn to look PAST what something LOOKS like to what it really IS and then you will begin to understand others and their worlds a little more.

Thinking can be a curse. OVERthinking can cause a mind to become stressed and create such a frenzy that becomes sleepless nights and time lost worrying over something that might not even be. We all have questions. Sometimes we need to learn to let those questions GO, for the answers we do not “need”, and should we know them, cause far more damage than not knowing them.

So many expect that someone else or something is what is needed to make them happy. They do not realize that happiness is not something that can be gained from an EXTERNAL source. Happiness must begin WITHIN you, deep down in the recesses of your soul and be allowed to spring forth, spreading light. Happiness comes from a soul at peace with the world and itself.

No matter what happens or how things appear, whether your day starts rough or not and you have to struggle or can flit easily through, sometimes a SMILE can change everything. Sometimes it is YOUR smile. And sometimes it is the smile of another that sparks your own. It might take effort, feel like you might crack if you try, but in the end, a GENUINE smile is beautiful and can change your entire day.

Smile. Live. Laugh. Love. TODAY.

© 2014 Rosie Chee

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

BE YOURSELF

It can be hard to realize that to be truly HAPPY you must be YOU. You – as you ARE, in your ENTIRETY. No hiding aspects of yourself away, but letting the world know by seeing how BRILLIANTLY you can glow – the way you have let others see you glow and the way you unconsciously glowed before from the touching of another soul against your own.

In that time you were happy – completely and unadulteratedly HAPPY. You were FREE to be you, with those who only longed to see more of the soul you had started to let peek out at the world. Somehow, between then and now, it ran away and hid again, and now you have to STOP that and let it back OUT – you need to OPEN up your trembling heart to the winter frost to find the sun and its warmth.

NO more hiding. No more shying AWAY. You have so MUCH potential inside you. You have so many DREAMS, so many HOPES and plans for the future. Let them OUT. Give them VOICE and see that there IS support – there are those who want to see your soul bloom like it did once before, and grow beyond that to FLOURISH.

Just be YOU. Not what the world wants you to be. Not what others want you to be. Not what you think you should be. Just be what you ARE and be UNashamed of it – do not forget your beauty, your wings, your UNIQUENESS and everything about you that stands you apart from anyone and everything else. Let your soul back out and simply let yourself BE.

When you can do that, KEEP on doing it. LIVE your dreams. Let the joy of refinding the passion that had slipped away infuse back into everything you do. Let the smile in your soul sparkle from the depths and light the smile of another. Give yourself permission to FLY again and GROW ever more into the person He intended you to be. Let the HAPPINESS become a way of life again.  

© Rosie Chee

 

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

LIGHT UP THE WORLD

You were created for a PURPOSE. Your life has a MISSION. You were born to LIGHT UP the world. You were meant to make a DIFFERENCE.

You are UNIQUE. You are different from EVERYONE else. You stand ALONE in your gifts and abilities. You and only YOU can shine the light that resonates from your soul.

Smile. Laugh. Love. Live.

The glow of your smile can shimmer over any heart, filtering in down into the darkest of crevices, and spark another glow that could become a powerfully burning flame in the world. The sound of your laughter can pierce even the most distraught heart and turn on a smile that could become the next light spreading hope in the world. The way that you love can touch a heart once thought ice and long dead of all emotion and feeling, and create a desire to step out into the world again. The life that you live can be the example that someone else needs to know that everything will be ok, no matter what their world looks like now.

There is something IN you that has tremendous power for GROWTH. Not only for YOU, but for OTHERS. Live your life as a shining EXAMPLE of what a MIRACLE is. Light up the world with your smile. Light up the heavens with your laughter. Light up the souls around you with your love. Light up all that you can with your life.

You were created for a purpose. Your life has a mission. Make the most of who you are and what you have and the time you exist in to FULFIL your destiny of “light”.

© Rosie Chee

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

KEEP TRYING

So you “failed”. You got let down. You were disappointed. That’s life. It happens. The world is full of imperfect people. Including you. That’s not reason to beat yourself up over it. It’s in the past now. So let it go. See the lesson. Learn it. Move ON.

KEEP TRYING. You might “fail” again. But you also might succeed. And that is why you take the risk. Because if you never try you can never succeed. If you never try you can never fail. And if you never fail you will never learn. Without learning you will not move forward.

HOLD ON. Sometimes hope is the only thing that keeps us here. Even when we feel like giving up. Sometimes all we need is that one thing to keep us going. That one dream. That one hope. That one spark that burns no matter how dim or bright in our soul.

ALWAYS BELIEVE. You might be the only one. But you won’t always be. Not when the world “sees” you. Not when they see you make things happen. Despite all the odds stacked against you. When they see that something higher drives you. When they see that you will always keep on going.

CHIN UP. You’re a fighter. You’re a warrior. You won’t let them “win”. You won’t give them the satisfaction. More importantly it’s not about them. It’s about you. What you are made of. What you have within you. What truth lies in your soul. The only thing you have to prove is to yourself.

KEEP SMILING. Life goes on. Whether we stand of fall it does not matter. But every time we fall we need to get back up. We need to look up at the stars and see ourselves there. We need to reach within and find the strength to try again. We need to remember the good we have and keep it close.

So you “failed”. There is still beauty in the world. There is still hope. You’re not the only one out there who is has failed. But you can decide whether or not you will be one of those who allow themselves to be defeated or one of those who refuses to accept defeat. Because there is still another day to get it RIGHT. 

© 2014 Rosie Chee

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

LIGHT UP THE WORLD

You were created for a PURPOSE. Your life has a MISSION. You were born to LIGHT UP the world. You were meant to make a DIFFERENCE.

You are UNIQUE. You are different from EVERYONE else. You stand ALONE in your gifts and abilities. You and only YOU can shine the light that resonates from your soul.

Smile. Laugh. Love. Live.

The glow of your smile can shimmer over any heart, filtering in down into the darkest of crevices, and spark another glow that could become a powerfully burning flame in the world. The sound of your laughter can pierce even the most distraught heart and turn on a smile that could become the next light spreading hope in the world. The way that you love can touch a heart once thought ice and long dead of all emotion and feeling, and create a desire to step out into the world again. The life that you live can be the example that someone else needs to know that everything will be ok, no matter what their world looks like now.

There is something IN you that has tremendous power for GROWTH. Not only for YOU, but for OTHERS. Live your life as a shining EXAMPLE of what a MIRACLE is. Light up the world with your smile. Light up the heavens with your laughter. Light up the souls around you with your love. Light up all that you can with your life.

You were created for a purpose. Your life has a mission. Make the most of who you are and what you have and the time you exist in to FULFIL your destiny of “light”.

© 2013 Rosie Chee

2013 | Day 26: BE THE EXAMPLE

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

BE THE EXAMPLE

People look up to you. You inspire them. They see you and are motivated. They talk of you and are awed. It is an honour and a privilege to know that you can have such an IMPACT on others. Therefore in everything that you do, make sure that you are LEADING BY EXAMPLE.

Your smile of ENCOURAGEMENT, even if you are in the most intense pain, can pick up another’s spirits and help push them through the day. Your words of KINDNESS, even when you are feeling the most unexpected betrayal, can allow another to see forgiveness and let them know it’s ok to feel the way they do. Your laughter can create a sound of HAPPINESS that echoes all around you.

BE THE EXAMPLE that life is wonderful, even when it’s not. Show others that there is so much to look FORWARD to. Let them know that no matter what happens there are always BETTER times ahead. Life right now is what you MAKE of it. So determine that it will be GREAT and show others that no matter what is going on in the present, it WILL pass, leading by EXAMPLE and doing only what YOU can do.

© 2013 Rosie Chee