MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

CRIMSON DARK

I walk in blood
upon my soul
night as black
as day grows dark;
wings folded above my head
to frame the moon
as she rises red.
Crimson stain
seep through my heart
tears of ice
bleed cracks
that tear apart
the soul
trapped within
this fragile shell
of blood and bone.
And walk alone
upon this night
towards the light
I seek to find,
hope the only
drifting spark
guiding through
this endless dark
with faith that night
will lift from thee
and with it finally
set soul
Free.

© 2015 Rosie Chee

Art by Sydney Chan

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

NOT SORRY

I'm not sorry for being me. I'm me for ME. No one else. Those who do not understand, cannot or will not accept that do not matter. Others' opinions on who they think I am or what I should be are just that - opinions, and have no relevance or hold no sway over my decisions.

I'm not sorry for the life I choose to lead. I know my purpose. I know for Whom I live. I know what is and feels right for me. Those who "disapprove" or seek to bring negative energy to my light have no place in my life.

No, I'm not sorry for being me. I am who I am and I will never stop being true to myself.

© 2015 Rosie Chee

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

LIVING FLAME

“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.” – 2 Corinthians 5:17

Sometimes it takes more than once; multiple “lifetimes” to create the best version of self that can possibly be, even as we continue growing and evolving with each “resurrection”. Every experience contributes to the being we are and become, but not everything is necessary to be taken “with” us into the “new” and there come times in our lives when we must leave behind all that was for all that will and could be. We must “release” the old so that the “new” can live in victory.

As a phoenix rises from the ashes of its own flames, having grown through burning “hell”, purified by heat and pressure like a diamond, so must and do we. Everything cold and dead or that no longer serves purpose in our lives with forward progression and momentum must be removed and let go of, the fire within that burns so bright separating itself from anything that would drag it down or hold it back from burning brighter and flying higher.

Find peace with your past, but let it shatter far beneath you as you rise on fiery wings to soar above the ocean, through the heavens, in the midnight sky, as another glowing flame spreading light in the darkness. Let everything ice burn and melt away with the heat of the passion and life that flickers and roars for freedom, and hold nothing back from the heat. Let the cold, hard prison that once “captured” you break as the fire burns it from the inside out, the world seeing the soul inside rise and shine.

Everything of “old” has been transformed; weakness become strength, with passion and heart renewed. The “new” has different feeling than what was, even if there are similarities in appearance, for the inner change, the evolution of soul, the spark that lights the fire now was created from the “death” of what “made” the new, the flames clean and bold and free from the dust and smoke of yesterday.  Burn as you were always meant to, a living flame, as an example.

© 2015 Rosie Chee

 

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

LISTEN

Listen to your soul. Feel your heart. Act on your intuition. Believe there's a reason. Where are you led? What or who calls? Why does it persist? There's always a reason.

Sometimes you just have to take the chance. You have to take the risk. You have to take that first step. You have to find out why you are drawn so to wherever or whatever or whomever.

You have to know that your soul does not long for something without purpose. Your heart and mind might be able to lie, but your soul cannot. Your soul always speaks truth. You just have to pay attention and know when to listen.

© 2015 Rosie Chee

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

SELCOUTH

Life isn’t about finding heaven in someone else. It’s about learning to first see it in you and being able to share it with others. That’s how you make a difference. That’s how you shine your light. That’s how you truly let yourself begin to live. It all starts with you. And acceptance, approval, forgiveness, love. When you can do that, understand how amazing you are, what a gift you are to the world; then you can make the world a better place, simply by being you and true to you in what you do. So never forget it. And never let anyone take away your light. Never let anyone tell you otherwise. You are beautiful. You are special. You are incredible. You are amazing. You are simply YOU. And THAT IS enough.

© 2015 Rosie Chee

"FREE SPIRIT"

Photo by Gary Miller

 

 

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

SURROUNDING ENERGY

Anyone who wants you to dilute who you are, or asks or expects you to change for or around them is not someone you need to be with. Everyone, even you, is sensitive, and that is not a “bad” thing, but if who you are hurts of offends someone and they cannot handle or “deal” with your personality, then you need not be in their presence.

You should never have to “dim” yourself for anyone and anyone who thinks you should is negative to your energy. You will feel it, yourself retreat, a tension and aggression that will frustrate you and ultimately “drain” you. When your energy becomes drained, YOU become drained and you cannot live life as fully or make as much difference or the difference you want if you are not “charged” or your energy is “muddied”.

Take a stand for you. For your truth, which you have always spoken, even if others have not believed it until they believed it. Just be yourself, as you are. Realize your power. Take notice of the effects and effecting change the way you desire and need it to be, to change your life so that you can be your best you, to make the most difference and impact possible.

© 2015 Rosie Chee

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MOVE FORWARD

Moving forward is a CHOICE. You can say, “But I’m not sure what to do” or “I don’t know if it’s the right thing”, but at the end of the day there is always going to be some uncertainty and trepidation about stepping out of your comfort zone and entering an area that might be alien to you. Sometimes it takes time to set things in motion and plan, but once you know you SHOULD, you need to move forward as soon as possible, for your own wellbeing.

You do not have to know everything about everything in your “new” circumstances. Sometimes there is going to be a lot of unknown until you actually take that first step of faith, the “trigger” that propels revealed “knowledge”. Not everything is always going to be completely 100% “this is what is going to happen and this is how it will be” though and that’s ok. You do not have to have it all planned in order to move forward.

You know when it’s time. Your SOUL does. You have known for quite a while. And sometimes you wait a while before acting because you are unsure and don’t want to be “impulsive”, having “security” before moving forward. But the truth is that there is never truly ever going to be “security” in anything and therein lies the beauty of it all. Life is a journey, an experience, a “great unknown” and you will never find out if you do not take the risk.

LISTEN to your soul, those whisperings that linger and never cease. Sometimes those persistent and insistent murmurings are the gentle nudge of God, wanting you to leave where you are because there is nothing left for you there or something “better” for you elsewhere. What and where and when may yet not be completely clear, but the longings in your soul and the tugs at your heart are not without reason or purpose.

Some things you cannot plan. Some things you can only know and experience by DOING. Sometimes the greatest and most memorable moments in life are the ones that catch you unaware and might never be able to be if you do not take that first step FORWARD when you feel instinct move you. Have faith that there lies ahead for you great and wonderful things. Trust your instinct and Him and know that you do NOT have to have it all figured out to move forward and on with your life.

© 2015 Rosie Chee

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

BE STRONGER

There is strength and then there is STRENGTH. One is seen and one is DONE. True strength is not always seen but exists despite anonymity, persevering because the one who bears it KNOWS and that is all that truly matters.

There are days when you wake and wonder what and why. There are moments and events and circumstances where understanding eludes you. Regardless, “strength” keeps going, keeps moving forward, no matter the pace, because it trusts in something bigger than can be seen.

Every day holds potential for GROWTH. Everything is “designed” to make us stronger and better equipped to “deal” with whatever may come. Accept that, embrace it, and just keep on doing “you” the way it is “right” in your soul.

True strength needs no recognition, even as it empowers and inspires, albeit not always even knowing it. Regardless of anything external, know yourself and be at peace with it, letting your life be your “example” and your actions be your “words”.

© 2015 Rosie Chee

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

THE MAGIC OF BEGINNINGS

It’s the dawn of a new year, a new era, a new age. It’s the time for a fresh start, a clean slate, a new opportunity, a BEGINNING. It’s the moment to let go of everything that has gone before, accepting that it has moulded you in experience to be part of your testimony, but that it no longer has any power over you or in your life; no strongholds that it can hide in to ambush you at a later date. It’s the day that you EMBRACE the destiny that awaits you.

Your soul knows when it’s time, the start of a new year or not. It may have known for a while and yet you still found it clinging to remnants past, but now it’s time to walk AWAY from all that; everything that has caused destruction and despair and tears. It’s time to step into something NEW, full of opportunity and the promise of dreams, with renewed hope for a wish your heart has long held onto, the glimpse of your reality a dream no longer so far out of reach.

You KNOW and your soul rejoices, flooding final healing through your being much as the ocean washes over the shore and leaves the sand smooth and unbroken. The light that spreads through your essence is from the lifting of the darkness of everything that was “tainting” your soul - the burdens you took on that you should never have, the hurts that wounded you far more than you ever would admit, the toxic people you had let into your life - forgiving yourself and releasing it all.

TRUST your soul, those whispers in its depths, and know that it only wants what is best for you, instinctively already knowing what you need and what must happen for it to be. There is a magic in your soul that wants to be let out, given life with your first breaths of the new dawn and the aspirations that whirl inside your mind. Every “new” beginning is another evolution of your soul, one step closer to the ULTIMATE you, even as you always seek to become better and never should want to stop “becoming”.

© Rosie Chee

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

WHO YOU ARE

There are so many people willing to tell you who they think you should be and what they think you should do. IGNORE them. The ONLY person you should be listening to when it comes to who to be is YOU. YOU are the one who lives with your SOUL. YOU are the one who has to live YOUR life. YOU are the one who has to like who YOU are. Because YOU are the one who has to live with you ALL the time and be ABLE to.

In this day and age, being “different” is either sin or celebrated, hated or adored, as “fads” come and go and society changes on a whim. Regardless, who you ARE is NOT a “fad”, and unlike fashion, which “trends”, with often only the “highest” in society showcasing it, YOU are ALWAYS “in style” and NO one else will EVER be able to “be” you, no matter how hard they might try to, once they see you and realize just HOW special and precious your “one-of-a-kind” is.

You are “YOU”. Simply “YOU”. There is no other “label”; no way to describe you aside, because there are no words that can explain the depths and facets of the ever evolving creature that you are. One can only understand once they have known you, a privilege rare few have ever truly been allowed, but that more in the future will be given the chance to, albeit an opportunity still only “offered” a special select, because, even though the world now knows “of” you, you are careful whom you “share” yourself with.

The world will call you many things. Crazy. Mad. Genius. Dreamer. Weird. Strange. Different. You should be FLATTERED. You stand OUT. Everything the world “calls” you because you are YOU is what makes you IRREPLACEABLE. Everything about you, from your flaws to your quirks to your mind to your heart and soul, is BEAUTIFUL. And it is the greatest PRIVILEGE in the world to “simply be you”; as you are, without requiring explanation. Accept it. Embrace it. Love it. Be it. Be YOU.

© 2015 Rosie Chee

 

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

"LISTEN"

You cannot help BUT know when you're with kindred spirits and free souls. For your OWN soul feels freedom and revels in the joy. It LIVES life breathing happiness and spreading light as it glows from the inside out.

THOSE are the people your life wants and needs to "walk with". When you’re together the world has no choice but to sit up and take NOTICE because there is a “magic” that happens in those moments. LISTEN to your instinct for it will always “lead” you true.

© 2015 Rosie Chee

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

THE BEST DREAMS

Dreaming when we are asleep can be wonderful, but the BEST dreams happen when we are AWAKE, for when we are awake we are truly AWARE. We can fully APPRECIATE the magic of the moment and know that it is REAL, not just something in our subconscious we desire.

The best dreams are not the ones we “sleep” but the ones we LIVE. They are in the choices we make each day, the chances we take, the risks we open our souls for because we want to believe in something, faith and hope that there is MORE out there than what we “see”, knowing that BETTER days are coming because our actions today are CREATING them. WE are creating the reality we will live in, the dreams that will become our future, even as they might be real in our NOW.

The best dreams are the ones that we do NOT let slumber, but seek to let see light of the morning sun rising gloriously upon, the ones that we smile in in REAL life. Life itself is a “dream”, a “story”, a “fairy-tale written by God’s hands”, and “happily ever after” DOES exist, but only because we CHOOSE to make them HAPPEN. They say the most “dangerous” people are those who dream when awake, for those are the ones that CREATE their dreams, while the “sleeping dreamers” are satisfied with keeping theirs “fiction”.

Why NOT make your dreams your REALITY? NOTHING is impossible after all; especially when the dreams placed on your heart have rested insistently on your SOUL, consuming you slowly for what seems like a lifetime. Decide TODAY – are you a DOER or just a “wannabe” dreamer? Do you have what it TAKES to RISK it all now for what you want in your FUTURE? Do you DARE stop saying “I wish” and start ACTING?

Remember, the BEST dreams are the ones we choose to LIVE and when we live the life we love, we love the life we live!

© 2014 Rosie Chee

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

SOUL LONGINGS

Your soul longs to SHARE the world with someone, whether you are conscious of it or not. It longs to experience the wonders and delights of being ALIVE with a soul that desires similar – if not the same – to its own. It longs to walk up the mountain of life with their twin soul, a COMPANION, knowing it is not alone in the vastness of the universe. It longs for someone – or something – that will ACTIVATE the passion inside it and bring OUT the sparkle, make its light shine BRIGHTER, increasing the depth and breadth of it, filling it to OVERFLOWING so that it can share that passion and light with others.

Your soul longs to SHARE adventures with someone. It longs to laugh and love as it lives WITH a soul that makes it smile – sometimes for simply no reason other than it is there – and remember how GOOD life is. It longs to bring JOY to the life of their twin soul, HAPPINESS so complete that both souls might wonder how they had been alive all the time without the other. It longs for someone – the right one – that they can help GROW, a MUTUAL respect and understanding, sharing the same dream and vision, moving TOGETHER towards a future that holds more than they could possibly imagine.

Your soul LONGS to share itself with another. A soul that ACCEPTS it where it is at now, non-judgemental about its past, hopeful about its future, and WITH it in the present, realizing just what it has been through, understanding where it wants to be, and how it is a BLESSING now. When your soul discovers that other soul, it understands in its depth that everything is RECIPROCAL and strives to bring out the BETTER part of its twin, giving what it can with love and desire, accepting with a smile the gestures of comfort and care, knowing that God always gives gifts with a purpose, and that it is where it is right now because it is MEANT to be.

© Rosie Chee

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

UNREPEATABLE

YOU ARE UNREPEATABLE. Not just for the fact that no one else can ever be you, but because, whether you know it or not, acknowledge it or not, there is something about you that has its own ”magic”. There is a magic about you that cannot be emulated or replicated by any soul other than your own, for it belongs only to you and you alone can “wield” it.

YOU ARE UNREPEATABLE. You have a light within you that no one else can hold or shine. Your light springs forth from the dreams in your soul and the hope in your heart, cast just the way it is because of everything that you have experienced and the darkness that it has had to manoeuvre around. Your light can never be lit in another soul, even though it has the power to spark alight the light of another soul.

YOU ARE UNREPEATABLE. Your life, although like any other life does, holds value, even though not everyone, sometimes even yourself, will see and appreciate that value, nor get a chance to know it. Your value is priceless to those who love you and you can never be replaced, and for some, you will be one of the rare treasures cherished forever in their heart and soul.

YOU ARE UNREPEATABLE. The words you speak, the way you say them, the sound of them on your lips, the song from your heart, no one else can say the way you do, utter such a melody as you. There is a magic about the way they fall from your lips and some will never forget what they hear as long as they live, and you may never know how much you can affect them.

YOU ARE UNREPEATABLE. Your life is an example, you an inspiration that others look up to, look to for guidance, for “light”. You are a motivation, even if you do not know it, and your life through your actions speaks volumes to other souls who might be needing the very thing that you are not saying. You touch more lives than you know, so never ever stop being you and doing what you do!

© Rosie Chee

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

AMAZING THINGS

Sometimes we move through life so fast we do not give ourselves room to think, let alone breathe and “smell the roses”. Sometimes all the hustle is to cover up the fact that we are aching, the bustle to keep ourselves occupied from thinking. Sometimes we simply do not realize what we are doing until we suddenly stop for a moment and realize.

When we move so fast we can miss the things that are there for us, sometimes waiting, sometimes knocking on the glass, sometimes chasing after us, sometimes simply looking for the right moment. We might miss an opportunity we passed by so quickly we never even knew it was there. We might miss the stranger who could have become someone important given half a chance. We might miss what deep down we are truly seeking in keeping busy.

When we stop and allow our mind a moment of stillness we can hear that knocking, the pursuit, that little whisper inside telling us truths we might have been “running from”. We allow not just our mind rest, but our body too, allowing it opportunity to refresh as our soul renews. We can see what we’re doing to it and determine the steps to “right the wrong”.

Pausing, if only for what seems like a moment can be enough. It gives life a chance to “catch up” with the amazing things that it has been desirous of for you, the blessings He wants you to have, the opportunities that call for you alone. When you stop and rest you allow all the amazing things meant for you to finally reach you and when that happens, you can see your life start to change in new and different ways. Perhaps some you might not have thought to want or have again.

© Rosie Chee

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

IMAGINE REALITY

In your head. In your heart. In your SOUL. EVERYTHING dreamt or thought can become REAL. It might not be instantaneous or always in the way that you might have thought, but it CAN be made a reality. YOUR reality. If you really want it and are willing to WORK for it.

We are not given dreams for NO reason. Our soul does not have its deepest longings without PURPOSE. Our heart does not love like it never has before with just ANYone. Perpetual thoughts and ideas do not spin through our minds always without a WHY.

Not all dreams are born of imagination, but some are. A dream is a VISION and a vision takes thought and time and creativity to take it from a simple status of desire to manifestation. A vision starts out as a single idea in one’s mind, but can become so much MORE, the ripple of ocean wave spreading across the world.

EVERYthing you can imagine can or is real in one reality or another. How you choose to live your life, the actions you take, the steps you make, will determine whether that will be your reality in THIS reality. But first you must BELIEVE it is possible and embrace the sacrifice required to make your vision become.

The fulfilment of a dream takes hard work and SACRIFICE. Many will attempt to dissuade you from your path, but you must choose to IGNORE them and soldier on, even if they once were your nearest. You may give up one life for another, but do so willingly, knowing that in the end it will all be WORTH it.

© 2014 Rosie Chee

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

SOUL DANCE

You know what: Life is short. TOO short NOT to chase your heart or take the risk on something or someone you can’t stop thinking about. Who cares what the world might think? It's YOUR heart, your happiness, your future, your POTENTIAL. So let loose your soul to dance in the rain and have companion souls join you, beside you or to their own tune, each of you creating a beautiful melody no one but those who “see” might understand.

If you want it, SAY so. Forget timidity or fear. Put aside "what ifs" and "buts" and set yourself out there where you can be SEEN. Yes, you might be vulnerable, but in vulnerability you open yourself up to an abundance of blessings you might never have thought could be.

You want to let your soul dance? Then LET it dance. And pull those you wish to dance with alongside you, feel the magic in the moment and make it last a lifetime not forgotten. Hold onto the moments granted, for you know not when they might be gifted again.

Life is too short to be spent in hesitation, wondering, wanting but never doing. Before you know it the moment could be gone and you never know if with it with it your chance for something great or “once in a lifetime”. So, LISTEN to your heart. OPEN up your soul and set it free to DANCE throughout your life with a smile in its step and a glow that spreads light wherever it reaches, rippling through life making the difference that only YOU can make.

© 2014 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

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ALL SOUL

Your soul has traversed the darkest dimensions, slowly returning to the light, emerging to let itself glow again in the world, albeit like a shy bud warily opening to the winter sun, wondering if the frost will melt or try to kill it while it is vulnerable. It has suffered the deepest heartache possible, pain over and over, because it was naïve and wanted to believe that it could trust the “love” claimed, now left wondering if all words are anything but emptiness, promises only promising time waiting until they are broken.

The very first love of your soul returns, causing mixed emotions because of everything that has happened, the desire to embrace it again strong, but instinct whispering caution stronger, knowing that unless any words spoken can be backed up with action, nothing has changed, even as everything has changed, and there is no place in your life for any ambivalence. Only surety has a future in your future and anything that cannot prove its truth is not sure, requiring weeding with everything else toxic.

The darkness of your darkness has been banished, almost as if it knew you finally realized its pure motives, not the actions that almost perfectly matched the words and would have been believed had there not been unrest in your soul and you not known the truth behind the words leading to the actions. You strive to keep it from you, not wanting to give it any more power than it has been recently allowed in your life, seeking only to take from the experience instinct leading you in the same way as it is for your first love.

The life that you live now you want free of clutter, cobwebs that can become tangled mazes seeking to throw you off course, devils disguised as angels wanting only to wreak havoc on any peace, negative wanting to drown anything flourishing, winter wanting to take over summer light and create a world of endless darkness. You know what life you want and you are strong enough now to take control of its creation, finally realizing your true strength, not the illusion of it you had before.

You might be in one of the hardest parts of your life’s journey, but you are definitely coming “into your own”, despite thinking you had already, older and wiser than even when you endured the deepest heartbreak and most complete destruction of soul, a warrior recreated and transformed from the terminator, a phoenix reborn through the hottest of hell’s fires, now part machine and part human but all soul, with the power of that soul and its attitude softness carved into hard edges, a true heart still its essence.

© 2014 Rosie Chee