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COMING JUNE 2013

 



 

 

 

My life after moments are all about recovery and its many challenges, life happens, and sometimes we get swept with the tides or we survive by riding the waves. After my walk with illness I experienced a slew of unexplained emotional bouts, through my close walk with death and depression. 

This blog and book series of life after moments is meant to share my stories and encourage others to share their own in hopes of healing one another through confession and acceptance. This blog is raw filled with an emotional truth that may be hard for those to bear. However it holds the promise that through my Lord and Savior, all is possible. I am here to share these bouts of despair to show proof to these words. I have come a mighty long way Ladies and Gentlemen, join me in resolution, healing, and rejoining life…now living.

 

Living... 

I am living,

I am singing,

I am dancing,

I play the piano,

My fingers tap the keys passionately;

I play the guitar,

I am playing to the beat of my own drum

I wrote the music, the lyrics, I run the show,

Seductively my fingers strum the strings of my guitar

My soulful voice hums an echo across a stage of dim lights

I am painting 

I am painting the trees, the skies, and the wind

I am painting my future as my feet sit in wet sands

The colors of each season pass as I grow

Creatively, remarkably, catching the very essence of life

I am living...

 

 

I am Living...

With each inhalation I focus on peace,

Understanding… growth;

A new day has come,

I am introduced to positive change;

I embrace the sun’s rays;

I bathe in its warmth;

Growing young as I become wise…

 

Upon exhalation, I let go;

I let go of that fear

My hurt and my pain

Negative arrhythmia

Skipped exam by palpation

Left lives to live their own damnation

Nothing but whispers in the wind;

My ears have fallen deaf upon…

 

My Life After...

In the hours before my 30^th birthday I had an epiphany. I stood in the mirror, naturally and embraced the essence of life. I pulled back some of the skin around my eyes. I searched for lines and wrinkles, skin blotching, and age lines around the corners of my mouth. I found nothing out of the ordinary.

 Except the battle scars from the fight…

 I smiled as I gently traced the remnants of my healed cuts. Life is happening. I stood as a living breathing participant of it.

 Life after disease, after abuse, after good and bad relationships, after economic growth and disadvantage…

 Life honestly after is a rollercoaster…, I am rising to the occasion in acceptance of those things I can’t change. However making steps to change those I can. What will you do?