Dream Life

                                   it takes enormous strength to carry our burdens. but we cannot underestimate the strength it  takes to admit when they have become too heavy. surrender is not weakness. it's knowing when enough is enough. it's feeling and honoring what you have and have not been called to bear. show yourself the same grace that in a fraction of a heartbeat, you would extend to someone else. the last thing we need is a world full of people who are barely hanging on. find some shelter and stay for as long as  your soul requires it. this journey was not meant to be taken without setting your bags down and stopping to rest for awhile.

                                      Some days are hard. and when they are, i allow myself to feel whatever it is that my body asks me to feel and i respect the time it needs to fumble and flounder and fall a little. some days i am swallowed whole by things too big for me to hold. and so i set them down. i rest, knowing that even when i cannot slay the beast, i can lay aside my sword for a moment and work on protecting my spirit instead. some days my heart beats like thunder inside of my chest. it is heavy and loud. and relentless. it does not listen to the part of me that wants to silence the storm. and so i take my eyes off of the noise and fix them on quieter places. on music. and art. and heaven. and trees. and i show myself grace in the dark. even if i am shaking my way through it. because some days i still haven't caught my breath from yesterday yet.

                                             Life is just a stepping - stone A pause before we make it home A simple place to rest and be, Until we reach eternity, Everyone has a life journey, A path to take with lots to see God guides our steps along the way, But we were never meant to stay. Our final destination is a place Filled with love, His majesty and grace Today we celebrate the life of a loved one Who has gone before us, the race he has won. His journey has now ended. His spirit has ascended Calming the great reward with God, our lord.