Posted in Community, inspiration, tagged belonging, community, Inspiration, Judith Duerk on July 25, 2022| Leave a Comment »
How might your life have been different if there had been a place for you? A place for you to go…a place where you were nurtured from an ancient flow sustaining you and steadying you as you sought to become yourself. A place…to help you find and trust the ancient flow already there within yourself…waiting to be released…
How might your life be different?
Circle of Stones: Woman’s Journey to Herself – Judith Duerk
Create and offer that place for others.
Posted in Community, Healing, inspiration, tagged A Charlie Brown Christmas, acceptance, belonging, Charlie Brown, self acceptance, self love, unconditional love on December 16, 2019| 1 Comment »
Good morning! I love you and…
ACCEPTANCE
Standing on the back of our toilet during the holiday season is a spindly little fake tree based on the Christmas tree in A Charlie Brown Christmas. In the movie, Charlie Brown, who was entrusted with the job of finding the perfect Christmas tree, couldn’t help but fall in love with the saddest, weakest tree on the lot. Touch it and this tree, barely more than a branch, would drop needles. It was hardly what his friends were asking for but it’s certainly what Charlie Brown brought home. Charlie Brown’s heart could see the value in that little tree. He could see beyond the surface to what was lovable in the seemingly unlovable.
You too are lovable in the seemingly unlovable. All those parts of yourself that you’ve tucked away into boxes and dark corners never change your inherent beauty or value as a living part of this breathtaking Universe. You are here and you are meant to be here. Just like that tree, may you come across a living Charlie Brown (or 2…or 3 million) who looks past what you think is unacceptable, who wraps you in unconditional love and brings you home.
You belong.
And I love you!
Tabitha
Posted in Community, Healing, inspiration, Nature, tagged belonging, interconnection, nature, recognition on December 14, 2019| Leave a Comment »
Good morning! I love you and…
BEING SEEN
Once when I was on retreat I went for a solitary walk of the grounds. It was a silent retreat and it had been a while since we had spoken (or read, or written) a word. Sounds and colours become so much more crisp when your voice has been silent for a while. We were learning to drop down into a deeper place, connecting with each other in different ways.
Along the way I heard the sharp whistle of a chickadee. Suddenly this adorable puff of feathers fluttered out from the shelter of the trees and stood on a branch looking at me. In that moment, something came over me, something I cannot explain. It’s like I was cracked open and could feel everything with my heart. In that moment I really understood that I was seen. I wasn’t the only one doing the seeing. The birds saw me. The grasshoppers and crickets. The deer. The blades of grass and trees and cat tails, in their own ways. Right there on the path, with the tiny black eye of the chickadee on me, I knew that all of creation saw me. What I perceived was also perceiving me.
Those times when you feel small, inconsequential, even invisible, know that you are seen. The entire Universe knows you’re there and feels you. You absolutely belong.
Have a most gorgeous day!
Love,
Tabitha
Tabitha Kot 