Wind Chimes

Accountability often isn't popular, perhaps in part because of the misunderstanding of our innate value.  We are not intrinsically flawed; we are whole, perfect and sacred human beings made in God's image who possess individual gifts, goals, paths and opportunity.  When we make mistakes or poor choices, none of these have any bearing on our elemental worth.  The comprehension of such opens up a freedom and safety to understand thoughts and motives, embrace accountability and see it as an invitation to seek better parts of ourselves.  To gloriously go forward with purpose and might rather than throwing up deflecting walls of blame is to be powerfully grounded and to yield to the blessings of learning curves and the acceptance of self.  Love is.

- This Carman Girl

Secret Garden

Sometimes we can be tempted to fortify the safety of untouchable but have come too far by right of knowledge, to slide back into what we know will only delay full joy.

 

- This Carman Girl

 

 

Champagne

Our struggles are only the reflection of the possibilities of our perfection. How beautiful is that? To see the tidal wave and know that this could be an opportunity to surf and soar. That the cascades of whitewater streaming around and through us can either drown our ambitions or awaken and define inhibition.

Cleansing. Exhilarating. More. 

- This Carman Girl

 

 

Summer Laughter

What we desire is a direct reflection of what we think we are worth. When we feel vulnerable, desire shifts towards validation, material goods or even self-sabotage. When we sit within wholeness and contentment, our desire no longer seeks, but reaps. One pursues, the other receives.

 

- This Carman Girl

 

 

Open Road

Sometimes we lock ourselves into boxes of our own making. We think because we have committed to a course that it would be somehow representative of failure if we don't see it through to completion. But just as perceptions of life, people and love shift, the commitments and decisions we make also shift.  They need to shift.  Everything is growth in action, nothing is stagnant.

What may have felt right before doesn't necessarily mean that it wasn't. Rather, it may have been that what we learned in the process of exploring the choice, was what made that choice correct at the time and not for its conclusion. Life is a continual shift on awareness; it's being able to avoid being bogged down by our own concern for doing it "correctly" or worried by the opinions of others looking on.

If we created it, then we can shift it. If we have learned, then we have become - no matter how that progress was processed. Painful development doesn't mean we were wrong, neither does joyful attainment mean that we have necessarily arrived into a higher plane of wholeness or living. Learning is learning no matter how it comes and is only compromised if we fail to tap into the feelings that would shift and then lead us to the next destination.

So I say, let go of what right looks like. Instead, ask yourself - What did I learn? How do I feel? What about myself is stronger and what did I find in allowing myself to be vulnerable?

Don't place so much consequence on exactness but trust in the awareness that will never fail you. Don't stare longingly at the fork in the road you may have passed by virtue of a mistaken sense of obligation. Put the top down, shake out your hair, flip a U-turn and head to the next bend in your metamorphosis.

It's waiting for you.

 

- This Carman Girl

 

 

Broken

Denying faith in favor of the popularity of enlightenment is to choose the destructiveness of ego over the peace and power of God.

- This Carman Girl

Great Expectations

Preservation of our language isn't about overt displays of intelligence; in every way possible it is the central conduit of life - how we act, what we dream, how far our drive takes us and what we can achieve.  Language - any language of its own accord is an art form; it has the ability to weave tales, capture interest, share emotion and find synergy.  I wish that every single teacher could share the excitement it is and the power found within the building of sentence, thought and expression.  There is nothing like it.  Our children don't need dumbed-down versions of classic heroes nor rap-style messages to engage their interest.  They need us to show them the power of sound and how the alliteration of such can indeed influence life and outlook, satisfaction and connection.  To not just read, but do so voraciously.  To not just think, but be lost in contemplation.  To not just dream, but to have the means and the voice to get there.  To Speak. Write.  And Do. 

 

- This Carman Girl